Feeling old(ish)

• "I think we can keep you out of bifocals for another 2 years."
• "I see some tiny cateracts. Just wanted you to know they are there, but you have 20 years or so before we need to do anything about them."
• "If you are going to wear your contacts to work, get some +1.50 reading glasses."

murchmb said:

I'm 42. My 40th birthday came and went with a really nice party and no strong personal feelings about the milestone or the time that has passed since. That changed yesterday.

I went to the optometrist for the first time in 7 years. I was a contact lens and eyeglass wearer with a light prescription. When my lens prescription lapsed and my glasses fell off the tank of my motorcycle somewhere on my 12 mile drive home from work, I went on with life looking through two uncorrected, slightly farsighted eyes. After the usual vision test and staring into a variety of expendive machines, I walked out of the office with three things ringing in my head:

• "I think we can keep you out of bifocals for another 2 years."
• "I see some tiny cateracts. Just wanted you to know they are there, but you have 20 years or so before we need to do anything about them."
• "If you are going to wear your contacts to work, get some +1.50 reading glasses."

Bi-focals? Reading glasses? Cataracts? I might as well make an appointment with Dr. Jellyfinger and see what he has to say about my prostate.

My apologies to members who have already reached/surpassed these milestones. Just a little bummed that the aging process has finally hit home mentally. Mid-life crisis here I come.

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murchmb said:

I'm 42. My 40th birthday came and went with a really nice party and no strong personal feelings about the milestone or the time that has passed since. That changed yesterday.

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Bi-focals? Reading glasses? Cataracts? I might as well make an appointment with Dr. Jellyfinger and see what he has to say about my prostate.

My apologies to members who have already reached/surpassed these milestones. Just a little bummed that the aging process has finally hit home mentally. Mid-life crisis here I come.

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Groundhog said:

Here's a little anecdote from work that made me feel downright ancient.....

As some of the regulars here know I'm a "public servant" by profession. The other day my squad was out working a crime scene. Through security video we discovered a "vehicle of interest" involved in the incident under investigation was a late 70's to early 80's blue Chevy Monte Carlo with T-tops. This info was passed on to 2 of the uniforms on the scene for the purpose of getting the description out city-wide. Both of them looked at each other and back at us with quizzical looks, and one asked ......"What are T-tops?"

I just walked away feeling very, very old.

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Groundhog said:

Here's a little anecdote from work that made me feel downright ancient.....

As some of the regulars here know I'm a "public servant" by profession. The other day my squad was out working a crime scene. Through security video we discovered a "vehicle of interest" involved in the incident under investigation was a late 70's to early 80's blue Chevy Monte Carlo with T-tops. This info was passed on to 2 of the uniforms on the scene for the purpose of getting the description out city-wide. Both of them looked at each other and back at us with quizzical looks, and one asked ......"What are T-tops?"

I just walked away feeling very, very old.

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Groundhog said:

......"What are T-tops?"

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BigFish said:

Reminds me of a time a couple years ago when I took my 1968 Camaro in for an oil change instead of doing it myself. The younger kid didn't know how to open the hood. (I was watching him through the glass from the waiting room) He was sitting in the driver's seat pulling on the emergency brake release and couldn't figure out why the hood wasn't popping open. He went and got another guy and they both tried pulling the brake release. They finally came and ask me if I could come out and open the hood for them. When I reached under the front of the hood and popped it right open, their expressions were priceless. I chuckled all day.

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murchmb said:

I'm 42. My 40th birthday came and went with a really nice party and no strong personal feelings about the milestone or the time that has passed since. That changed yesterday.

I went to the optometrist for the first time in 7 years. I was a contact lens and eyeglass wearer with a light prescription. When my lens prescription lapsed and my glasses fell off the tank of my motorcycle somewhere on my 12 mile drive home from work, I went on with life looking through two uncorrected, slightly farsighted eyes. After the usual vision test and staring into a variety of expendive machines, I walked out of the office with three things ringing in my head:

• "I think we can keep you out of bifocals for another 2 years."
• "I see some tiny cateracts. Just wanted you to know they are there, but you have 20 years or so before we need to do anything about them."
• "If you are going to wear your contacts to work, get some +1.50 reading glasses."

Bi-focals? Reading glasses? Cataracts? I might as well make an appointment with Dr. Jellyfinger and see what he has to say about my prostate.

My apologies to members who have already reached/surpassed these milestones. Just a little bummed that the aging process has finally hit home mentally. Mid-life crisis here I come.

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blackfoot said:

I love T-tops. What are you doing, hiring 15 year old rookies? No, I am getting old too. I am only thirty. I am too young to be old.

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Groundhog said:

They were both 25 years old!

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Muirtach said:

Dang. I am a few months off of 30 and that makes me feel old. Would probably make my almost 22 yo brother feel old as well.

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