You Know You Are Old When

[BackRoad]

YKYO when it's 9am and you're still in your bunny slippers scrolling through a tractor forum...

 

[masseyrider]

remember when a book of matches and a ten spot were the required tools to "tune up" the car or tractor?

The strike pad was used to abrade the points, the book was the gaping gage (near enough to .015") and the ten spot, dipped in gasoline, was used to clean the points as the bills are as close to lint free as one can expect.

I recall doing a roadside "tune up" on my MG Midget after it stuttered to a stop on US 1 about 20 miles south of Stuart FLA.

Ran Perfect after!

Using a matchbook cover to adjust the solid lifters.

 

[JethroB]

You're old when you sit on the toilet and you let go of your bag because you fell asleep and the cold water wakes you up.

Two guys peeing off a country bridge.
Bubba - “Boy this water is cold.”
Leroy - “Deep too.”

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Smacked your bag…..too funny!
Nails in or nails out?

Thank GOD his claws were in...mostly!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

You're either really short or your bag hangs really, really low.

High jumping cat.

 

[Runner]

Reminds me of that classic book "Tiger Between the Sheets" by Claude Balls.

 

[Oaktree]

I read that male urine discourages moles. So, when I see a new mole hill, I push a garden stake down to get near the tunnel and leave it for later. Then when the dogs get me up at night to do their business, I irrigate the mole tunnels. Supposedly the moles do not like the smell of male human urine (sorry ladies). So far it seems to be working. I will report back later if I have long term positive results. Meanwhile the dogs are at the door, so I need to go (in more ways than one).

I haven't noticed any deterrent effect on the moles around here. Supposedly it discourages deer and some other wildlife. I have my wife's OK to pee around her flower gardens, especially in the spring when the deer like the fresh sprouts. It seems to help keep raccoons away from the vegetable garden & compost bin too.

 

[Oaktree]

And despite getting up to pee at the same time every night for more than a decade, I'll bet your wife feels some compelling need to ask, "what's wrong?" every bleeping time you get up to go to the bathroom.

No? Just mine?

Nope, not just yours. Then again, it's rare enough that I have to get up in the middle of the night that it's understandable that she might be concerned.

Why do people continue to sleep in the same bed into old age.
When you're young... yes.
But you reach a certain age sleeping separately doesn't mean you don't care for each other.

I hope we never get to that point. I'd been single for a long time when I met my wife, sleeping together isn't something I want to give up.

 

[orezok]

Nope, not just yours. Then again, it's rare enough that I have to get up in the middle of the night that it's understandable that she might be concerned.

I hope we never get to that point. I'd been single for a long time when I met my wife, sleeping together isn't something I want to give up.

Married 35 years tomorrow and have never missed a night together.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

About 10 years ago my wife started sleeping in another bed. She said I sounded like a teakettle boiling over, a loud snore, moan, fart, repeat.
I had her sleep next to the window in case extra terrestrials, Bigfoot or the boogie man ever showed up.