With age priorities change conversation at work last night.

[Duncanpup]

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Some of these guys I’ve known for probably twenty five years as in we’ve all worked together at other union freight companies that went under.

And this late in the game we’ve all ended up here. I just straight worked yard last night jockeying and going on lunch in break room were two guys I worked with at Red Star years ago.

They both just got in from north Jersey turns and in our conversation today the topics were.

Driver 1- Hey man why you eating up yard jockey Dunc instead of running the road.

Me - Oh man I’ve been sleeping for shit my cpap machine broke waiting on new one. Been using it seven years just best not to drive I can stay awake just dragging.

Driver -2 you got sleep apnea man you’re skinny as fuck Dunc.

Driver -2 I hear you guys I slept for shit yesterday myself I’m constipated think I’m gonna take some Dulcolax today get me moving.

Driver -1 saying to driver two does Dulcolax help you sometimes I get bound up.


Now my point is all three of us are ages late fifties early sixties and our conversations years ago in our youth was hey well especially to me hey Dunc you wanna hook up after work drink some beer.

Or I’m gonna go home and beat the school bus in reference to alone time with your wife before schools out.

Today at our ages we talk of upcoming retirement options Constipation meds and cpap machines.

[Joinfortmill]

1. Lol

[Luciferous]

2. My coworker and I had a long

conversation about hot flashes last week 😂

[twodogsbarking]

18. Power surges.

[Luciferous]

20. 😂

[KS Toronado]

3. At least you're not talking about hospital stays.

[Best_man23]

4. Or comparing how many and which prescription medications you're taking

On the CPAP front, I feel you. Was diagnosed with sleep apnea in my late 30s, had the UP3 surgery then, and went on CPAP about 6 years ago.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. Bran muffins, I'm tellin' ya

If I’d taken Dulcolax, I’d have to hit the pasture and squat in Bessie’s neighborhood.

[2naSalit]

6. Funny...

The things that actually change with time.

I'm retired but I have two younger sisters with whom I talk often and our conversations have gone, in the past few years, from what we did at our professions and whether we're buying a house and their kids, etc to "watch out sis, this hereditary thing I have, you're going to get it too" and their grandkids... how we're all looking like our mom in not so favorable ways now that we're getting old.

[70sEraVet]

7. Wait till the 70's get here ---

Telling my neighbor a story, then seeing the look on his face telling me that I told him the same story last week.

[Historic NY]

14. "Stop me I told you this before"...become a familar refrain these days/

Who the hell can remember?

[2naSalit]

21. I'm almost there...

I call it the glide path to 70. I have a couple friends who are repeat story tellers, it happens.

[lonely bird]

8. Welp...

As my mechanic says “It is better to be seen than shown”.

Yeah, the age and medical crap sucks. Oh, this med has stopped working so we better try this one. Instead of waking up refreshed, you wake up with pain. The hips hurt or the knees.

[calimary]

9. Well, dem's da breaks.

Aging is inevitable and not for the faint-hearted. That’s pretty much what I’ve learned, anyway.

[MOMFUDSKI]

10. Yup. That is life.

I’m 76. You kids don’t even know the HALF of what your conversations are gonna be like! As a kid I loved doing cartwheels. Told my husband recently that if I tried one now I might could die.

[Niagara]

11. Hahaha, Duncan!

[Prairie_Seagull]

12. You are still working and thinking about alone time with the wife.

and you were wise enough to recognize the difference.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. greetings and welcome to the aches and pains net at 0900 on 15 kc all calls are welcome

afib time and back and forth to the outhouse here .

[Historic NY]

15. All the youngsters will be saying this in their 70s if Republicans change retirement

age for SS .

[spooky3]

16. LOL! My tennis buddies conversations go like this:

“Have to get my hip replaced next week.”

“Oh no…do you need to borrow my toilet riser?”

“I’ve heard hip surgery isn’t nearly as bad as knee surgery.”

“It’s not…I’ve had both.”

“Can you give me the name of your physical therapist?”

“Anyone else switching to pickleball?”

[multigraincracker]

17. Never say this at a Senior Center or

Assisted Living home “hi how are you doing”. You’ll end up spending all day getting a complete medical report.

[Wounded Bear]

19. Aging is not for the faint of heart...nt