Name something that you currently enjoy that you once thought was only for old folks

[Al128]

preparation-H

[Grrr]

Dad jokes.

Or jokes that have nothing to do with sex or dirty words.

[commasense]

Join the club.

[Loach]

@enipla

@RTFirefly

Yeah, I suspect that we’ll be looking for something like that in the not too distant future. My knees are doing fine, but my wife really could use fewer stairs than our 2 story + basement house has. She used to say all the time that she wasn’t going to move again until her next stop was a cemetery plot, but I haven’t heard her say that lately.

Felt the same until I had a hip replacement and lived on the main floor for 3 weeks. There is a bathroom on that floor but requires 2 stair steps from the extra bedroom (it’s also an entry way and a whatever room, guest room is on the second floor). Luckily, it had snowed, and that spare bedroom has an easy outside access to our lower deck. Instead of the two stairs, I did, on occasion just use the door to the outside. So, had some yellow snow.

My wife is much younger than me but due to reasons she is going to have to get a double knee replacement in June. It’s going to be rough. I suspect she will be sleeping in the recliner downstairs for awhile. That’s what I did when I had my back operation a few years ago. We may have to look for a one floor soon.

[enipla]

Yeah, the other reason for us as we age is EMS. Even in the summer it can be hard to get a a vehicle as big as an ambulance up our drive. In the winter, all bets are off. So that’s another issue besides the stairs in our house.

[Tride]

EMS is not THAT far from us, but we bought an AED for the house. I am not, however, currently enjoying it.

[Al128]

@commasense

Join the club.

I can so see a “First annual Preparation-H Exchange” in the cards, here …

[enipla]

9pm - 9am the sheriffs office will only respond to emergencies. But that can take 1-2 hours. No patrol cars\officers on duty during that time, It would be a deputy on ‘will call’. We and most of the county are kinda on our own.

I’ve never called the police, but as we get older it’s something to think about.

[Tride]

The AED was surprisingly affordable. Just sayin. Refurb AED Could save your life.

[Fear_Itself]

Suspenders.

Belts aggravate my sciatica, and I don’t like tight waistbands. Suspenders hold my pants up even if they are loose and comfortable. I just wear 'em under an untucked shirt.

[enipla]

No sciatica here, but that sounds like a good idea.

[Al128]

until you have to hit the john … then you have to undo them (if worn under the shirt) … and redo them …

there IS a reason those fell out of favor 60 years ago

[peccavi]

@Al128

until you have to hit the john … then you have to undo them (if worn under the shirt) … and redo them …

But…but…what do you wear in court?

[LSLGuy]

And where do you put your thumbs if you can’t tuck them under your suspenders while pontificating or harrumphing?

[PatrickLondon]

@mbh

I started feeling old the first time a high school girl called me “sir”.

Now cops and MDs are starting to do it.

You’re only really old, not at either of those stages but when you think they damn well should call you “sir”

[Al128]

@LSLGuy

And where do you put your thumbs if you can’t tuck them under your suspenders while pontificating or harrumphing?

you might take clues from the guy standing to the left in the photo

[Lucas_Jackson]

Lawn bowling… then, I guess I am an old person.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Al128

@LSLGuy

And where do you put your thumbs if you can’t tuck them under your suspenders while pontificating or harrumphing

you might take clues from the guy standing to the left in the photo

Putting your hands in your pockets doesn’t have the same “Now see here, young whippersnapper” gravitas as thumbs in suspenders.

[Fear_Itself]

I use the clip on suspenders. If there’s one one thing us old farts have plenty of, it’s time. What’s your consarned hurry?

[Al128]

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