You Know You Are Old When

[Jstpssng]

Or just tell the pharmacy to not use the child proof bottles.

I actually don't have a problem with this type of bottle.

 

[BravoXray]

They also make good cups, for people who take multiple pills at a time.

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Like this...

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Any pill bottles I ever had that were like that had a lid with threads on the top that you just turned over and screwed into the bottle to eliminate the latch.

 

[CalG]

About 15 16 years ago when I was 50, I was running across a store parking lot and decided to jump the jersey barrier they have to separate vehicles from people coming out of the store. I was in midair when I thought "What are you DOING!?!?! You aren't 20 anymore!"

Rather than clearing it I dropped my feet onto the barrier, slowing myself down.
Somehow it kept me from falling flat onto my face from a full jump.

At age 50,

I took up recreational soccer, because I found that I din;t feel comfortable jumping out of the bed of a pickup truck.

At that same time I took the Medical training and joined the mountain rescue/ Ski Patrol at the nearby mountain.

I no longer play the ball game, but still ski 4 days .week all winter.

I've even saved some lives ...
That was 25 years ago now.
Yesterday I "pulled something in my shoulder" while stacking wood in the shed. Today I could not lift my left arm above my waist.

Tomorrow, I hope it's better.. If I can get some sleep...

 

[Jstpssng]

Any pill bottles I ever had that were like that had a lid with threads on the top that you just turned over and screwed into the bottle to eliminate the latch.

That was what Moss posted, which I replyed to.

 

[rontaki]

Some might know this already...

Once you get the pill bottle open, and you're sure there aren't going to be children around, just turn the lid over.

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I keep a cheap wire cutter handy and cut the stupid plastic latch off. Victory against the safety knot-Zs

 

[rontaki]

Did you give a pair to your wife?

How can you tell which one is the head nurse at the hospital? She's the one wearing knee pads...

 

[masscity]

I have these 14" x 20" knee pads, one in the house and one in the shop. They save my knees. Left knee inside was replaced.

 

[WinterDeere]

YKYAOW.... someone asks for a wine highball and you know what they mean.

That’s a term of my parent’s generation (born 1940), I remember hearing it as a kid. But having looked it up at some point as an adult, I never really understood the point of the word, as it literally means “any spirit with any soda in a tall glass”.

Maybe there are regional assumptions, such that it’s always a Scotch and soda in one part of the country, bourbon and ginger ale in another, and even a gin and tonic somewhere else? They’re all highballs, and I’d hate to order a highball, wondering which I’m going to get.

I do enjoy gin and tonic, but you might lose a finger if you pour soda into my Scotch, or ginger ale into my bourbon.

About 15 16 years ago when I was 50, I was running across a store parking lot and decided to jump the jersey barrier…

A former boss of mine was into body building when he was young, and still in good shape at age 60-something, when he wiped out running up a spiral staircase one day. Showed up at work on crutches, and we all took our turns jabbing at him about getting old.

I was probably only in my late 30’s at that time, and I still remember when he looked at me and said, “someday you’re going to look in the mirror and wonder who the eff that old guy looking back at you is.” He went on to explain he still felt and thought of himself as 18 or 20 inside, and seeing the wrinkles and gray hair in the mirror made him feel like he was looking at a stranger.

Breakfast 2 poached eggs and I have not heard of poached eggs in 30 years…

Eggs Benedict! You know, the slightly less healthy sibling, served with ham and Hollandaise sauce.

 

[Oaktree]

In the family home growing up I would run up and down the stairs skipping steps… don’t know when that exactly stopped but I hold onto the banister now!

Most every house I've lived in had low enough ceilings that if I tried to run up or down stairs I'd hit my head. House I grew up in had a very narrow stairway, and the steps weren't all evenly spaced so no running on that unless you wanted to get downstairs really fast.

 

[ultrarunner]

How can you tell which one is the head nurse at the hospital? She's the one wearing knee pads...

I think repeating this at work would lead to hospital termination.

A few years ago a huge floral arrangement was delivered to one of our young nurses… a doctor noticed and ask who died… the nurse said her boyfriend sent them… the doctor said you must be a very good girlfriend…

That banter landed the Doctor in hot water with HR…

Yet the female employees that swoon over firefighters or paramedics always get a pass…