I am approaching age 65 far too rapidly. Help me out here.
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Hmm
- Happy Birthday in advance; since I probably will go to bed soon.
- Geezerhood beats the alternative: not-here-hood
- Since from your user name I persume you are female; how about “Geezette”?
- Think of how freeing it is to be a mature adult. You can say whatever you want and when people gasp at your candor you can look them squarely in the eye and say “get off my lawn!”
Time to stop counting.
I’ll be 64 in just under 4 hours PST. Year behind you- for some reason, 65 doesn’t get me (60 sure did!) possibly because I don’t plan to retire until 70. or maybe 67. Get your DEXA scan. Eat tasty things. Enjoy your SD 
Laugh at as much as you can- listen to your heartsong. Oh- and declutter, grin again.
You’re already a geezer, so now just relax and enjoy our birthday.
Geezerhood seems to start more around 60, whether you’re spry or not.
I’ve been a geezer for years, and am younger than you. Embrace it, get the fuck out of my yard, and close the gate on the way out.
Bah!
I just turned 69, and am already dreading my super-geezerhood in less than a year. 70 scares the hell outta me. And each decade goes faster than the previous.
Enjoy being a young 65!
What the heck is a DEXA scan? Is that something they only tell you about at the age 60 initiation ceremony?
I just turned 63. I work on the principle that a geezer is anyone more than 10 years older than my current age (whatever that currently happens to be). So I’m not a geezer, and neither are you.
You Yanks are funny, with the way “geezer” automatically connotes for you, an aged person 
. In British English, the word means first and foremost, an adult male person – with perhaps slight overtones of being not particularly young, and not “cutting-edge”.
in US slang, it implies not cutting edge as well. But the *reason *you’re behind the times is because you’re OLD.
It is possible to be a younger (i.e. 40 yo) geezer; that’d be somebody with an elderly attitude before his/her time. Though we’d probably use “fogey” to describe that.
Wrapping up what I *think *it all means. Geezers are primarily old in age and probably old in attitude as well. Fogeys are primarily old in attitude and probably old in age as well.
Geezerhood is for guys. We ladies are always lovely looking, [for our age].
I stopped counting at 60, but getting over the arrival of my Medicare card required a lot of chocolate.
BTW, I don’t care if you are on my lawn, as long as you’re either pulling weeds or raking leaves. I’m too old for that nonsense.
Happy Birthday Atomic Mama! Go celebrate! There’s an early bird special and a bottle of flavored seltzer water with your name on it out there!
Geezers do not use smilies.
Well, Happy Birthday! And though I got my AARP card for a while but am still far from Medicare, I must agree with many of the fellow dopers in that you should revel in this… and claim every possible Senior Discount offered!
It’s a bone density (osteoporosis) test, covered by Medicare without co-pay once every two years for screening purposes. If you are diagnosed, you are covered for annual follow-up scans to track the effectiveness of prescribed medication.
This! Gimme my geezer discounts dagnabbit!
johnpost of course geezers use smilies. It’s how we show off our dentures. 
I’d like to help, but you won’t let me on your lawn.
Looks like we either lost one, or it was a terrific hangover.
I’m going to bypass “geezer” and go directly to “codger”.