Growing Older - Angst

what got me depress was the progression of spam ads I receive.
at first it was for watches,
then it turn to viagra
then to life insurance
and like yours
to funeral planning services

Send it back to them with the note you're no longer at this address with a forwarding address to the local cemetary.

See if they get the hint that they've "missed the boat" ba doom boom!

I still refuse to join AARP. I qualified a few years ago, right after my 50th bday I get a greeting to join them.

When I was younger I use to see leather chairs for 1700 bucks, big thick mattresses for 2500 bucks... I use to think it was the definition of crazy for people to spend that kind of money on a stupid chair or mattress.... I would buy a car, or parts, or a motorcycle for that kinda' money...

Now that I am 53, the chairs and mattress sound pretty good. Now, I am one of those crazy people....lol...

Getting older Angst?
First were the mailers for hearing aids and assisted living, then solicitation calls for pre-approved medicare support devices to include leg braces, canes and depends to be sent in unmarked, undetected plain cardboard boxes. Solicitation for funeral services is a given!
All the while, I continue to receive calls from a "broken English" solicitor who represents himself as being from Microsoft's support staff wanting me to share my computer with him to "remotely fix detected viruses". Yea, right! Next, its the "I'm from IRS Debt Recovery" and a lawsuit is being levied against me unless I immediately give them my social security number, check routing and account number to satisfy the debt. Then I sit down to watch the evening news and listen to the commentator caution senior citizens of recent scams being conducted as a recently "fleeced" individual is pouring his/her heart out with all money in the bank account being withdrawn.
But the "icing on the cake" was a recent letter addressed to my wife requesting an asset search of my potentially undiscovered "hidden assets" if she furnishes the solicitor my social security number and date of birth. By the inference, I guess I have recently departed or a new scam is in the making.
Isn't technology great that company's can order demographic profiles to narrow the audience to target.
Oh well, need to get back to my Pantera restoration before the sun sets for good.

Hey George, met you for the first time this weekend and must say you haven't anything to worry about! Just like our cars, we may need more care and feeding with age, but can still Rock!

If you need inspiration go see a rock concert! Seeing Mick Jagger or Pete Townsend rip the stage shows you R.I.P. Doesn't have to be soon!

BTW, just loaded Pokemon Go on my phone...gonna try it out!

Dennis

I would just like to say I love reading the banter you guys have with each other, you are so funny it cracks we up. And if there was any special way to stay young it would be laughter and a wicked sense of humour!

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Originally posted by sjdennis:

... If you need inspiration go see a rock concert ...

Dennis

Hi Dennis, I enjoyed meeting you at the Concorso. I'm glad you made it. Your Pantera is gorgeous.

I have a friend who is a rather famous guitarist, he made his name playing surf music. He still performs on stage ... even though he wears a colostomy bag. Claims the bag has only ruptured once while on stage! Also claims the reason he doesn't retire is because he can't afford to. He MUST continue performing in order to earn the money needed for his monthly medical supplies.

Now I'm really depressed.

I feel old when I online has to fill in my birthday, and the box where you choose the year of birth, my year (1960), I have to scroll down further and further to find it!

On the other hand, some say a man is not old as long as he checks out the waitress before he checks out the menu.
Based on that criteria I'm young!

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Originally posted by No Quarter:
I feel old when I online has to fill in my birthday, and the box where you choose the year of birth, my year (1960), I have to scroll down further and further to find it!

On the other hand, some say a man is not old as long as he checks out the waitress before he checks out the menu.
Based on that criteria I'm young!

Hmph. Try being born in the 50's.

When I was about 17, I got an AARP card in the mail. Being the '70's, I found a use for it.

You've got to pretend that it isn't really happening, and just carry on. Essayons.

(BTW, if you no longer check out the waitresses, you belong in a box.)

I was also born in 1960, we have a saying that a man is as old as the woman he feels, think I have got this one right as my wife is 11 years younger!
I wonder what the women sayings are, because if it tends to follow my wife has really drawn the short straw!

Goo9e, always remember that women are allowed to use a yearly age until it wears out, and unlike with us, that may not happen in only 12 months....
Cheers- J DeRyke (older than you)

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Hmph. Try being born in the 50's.

Couldn't do that.

But squeezed in just before them.



Larry

Well,
Its a real treat, age that is?
I go to bed feeling fine and wake up injured?
I eat meals so I can take my pills and there is no buzz?
And finally who every thought you'd be getting it on with grandma, (';').
I still have my pantera and it take's me to a good place every time.

Mark

Raymond & Bob, two elderly government engineers, were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up. A woman walked by and asked what they were doing. We're supposed to find the height of the flagpole, said Bob, but we don't have a ladder. The woman said, Hand me that wrench out of your toolbox. She loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from their toolbox, took a measurement, and announced, Eighteen feet, six inches, and walked away. Raymond shook his head. Ain't that just like a Miss know-it-all woman! We ask for the height and she gives us the length!