Thanks Patricia Richards Whitehead! Funny and Accurate

Observations on Growing Older



~Your kids are becoming you ... and you don't like them.

But your grandchildren are perfect!

~Going out is good.

Coming home is better!

~When people say you look "Great",

they add "for your age!"

~When you needed the discount you paid full price. Now you get

discounts on everything ...

movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them.

~You forget names ... but it's OK

because other people forgot

they even knew you!

~The 5 pounds you wanted to lose

is now 15 and you have a better chance

of losing your keys than the 15 pounds.

~You realize you're never going to be really good at anything ...

especially golf.

~Your husband is counting on you to remember things you

don't remember

~The things you used to care to do,

you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do

them anymore.

~Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair

with the TV blaring than he does in bed.

It's called his "pre-sleep".

~Remember when your mother said

"Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"? Now you bring

clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident!

~You used to say,

"I hope my kids GET married."

Now, "I hope they STAY married!"

~You miss the days when everything worked

with just an "ON" and "OFF" switch.

~When GOOGLE, ipod, email, modem ...

were unheard of, and a mouse was something

that made you climb on a table.

~You used to use more 4 letter words ...

"what?"..."when?"?

~Now that you can afford expensive jewelry, it's not safe to

wear it anywhere.

~Your husband has a night out with the guys

but he's home by 9:00 P.M. Next week it will be 8:30 P.M.

~You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it.

~Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?

~What used to be freckles are now liver spots.

~Everybody whispers.



~Now that your husband has retired,

you'd give anything if he'd find a job!

~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet,

2 of which you will never wear.

~But old is good in some things:

old songs

old movies

And best of all OLD FRIENDS!!



Love you, "OLD FRIEND!"

Send this on to other "Old Friends" and

let them laugh in agreement!