I got bi-focals back in early '03, and now I think I need stronger ones. I’m only 45, too! I haven’t gotten use to reading with 'em, either. sigh
I’m already on Zantac (for the GERD)… there’s the stiffness in the joints, too. Luckily my partner is progressing about the same with me.
It’s amusing when we got our respective pair of glasses mixed up and couldn’t figure out why our vision was so bad that day. sigh
Hah! Why, I remember when I was a boy, people knew how to be old! My neighbour had thick glasses and used a cane for years, and he was only 17! The kid across the street was born bald! Kids these days! Grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble…
I got a letter encouraging me to join the AARP when I was in graduate school! Last week, I got a letter from some place that sells hearing aids. I’m not even 30 yet…
Computer manufacturers need to use fonts larger than Flyspeck 3 for serial numbers and activation key stickers. Even if your eyes are still youthful and verdent, getting around the back of the machine to read the goddamned label can be nearly impossible, so you wind up trying to read it from three feet away, at an 80 degree angle.
One day, the computer industry is going to get his with an age-discrimination lawsuit that will make the tobacco settlement look like peanuts.
that should be “get hit with an age-discrimination…”
I think it starts with a “J”, doesn’t it?
Well I’m already an AARP member becaue Cindy’s age qualifies us. That I won’t complain about as I saved a bunch of money on my car insurance. Yeah, screw you gecko!
I don’t have stiffness in the joints…yet. However, when I walk out of a room, my knee pops so loud it sounds like a rifle shot. No kidding…my boss will gasp and say, "What was that?
It was my damn knee popping is what it was. He should know that sound. He’s over sixty! I’m still young (44 dammit!) compared to him! He shouldn’t even hear it!
Oh and for you young’uns: I started getting AARP letters before I turned thirty. I don’t know what their hurry is.
It’s one of my pet peeves. It’s just bad design. I’ve seen several Motorola products, among others, that use insanely small fonts for the product’s serial number, which is needed to activate the device. Other companies often use typefaces that make it difficult to distinguish between similar characters, like B and 8. This is entertaining when you have to type in a 50-character activation code to install a piece of software. It isn’t that difficult to use a reasonable font size, a legible typeface, and a restricted character set that doesn’t contain characters that are easily misread.
Boy, I hated that. Used to be able to read the microscopic print on the back of an integrated circuit chip. Now I need the magnifiers. I’m still not officially old though as I don’t have bigtime ear hair. When the Doper walker races are scheduled, lemme know-I’m ready! 
Wow. I haven’t heard the word “geezer” before.
None of my friends seem to know it either.
My grandma seems to recall it being used a long time ago… before the war.
The first one.
Did I tell you how when I was camping last year I couldn’t see the registration card? Yes, terrible, it was. Not the camping, but the registration card. I couldn’t see the damn thing.
Yeah, they say the memory is the second thing to go.
The first is the uh …, some other thing that um, you know, goes before the, um, first thing that goes.
Was I going somewhere?
Hey! get the hell off my lawn! (rotten kids, grumble, mumble, grumble)
(46 next month and almost ready for reading glasses)
A geezer, huh? If you learn a little falconry, you can be a codger!