[Artemis]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

You know you're old not when you're turn gray but when you are totally gray. For me, I have a whole head of hair but there's nothing left to turn. It's 100% gray. My wife tells me it looks good. I'm choosing to believe her instead of worrying about it.

You could coin it differently: from turning "salt and pepper" to "silver".

[Dang3r]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

You know you're old not when you're turn gray but when you are totally gray. For me, I have a whole head of hair but there's nothing left to turn. It's 100% gray. My wife tells me it looks good. I'm choosing to believe her instead of worrying about it.

You know whats the real problem between grey or silver hair in opposite to a bald head is?
Yeah, you're be able to dye your hair but you can't dye nothing, Im out

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Dang3r

You know whats the real problem between grey or silver hair in opposite to a bald head is?
Yeah, you're be able to dye your hair but you can't dye nothing, Im out

I have a full head of hair but I secretly want to be bald. Why?

Here's why.

Many years ago I was having lunch with some colleagues, one of whom was a beautiful woman. During lunch, a bald guy walks by our table. This beautiful colleague turns to me and whispers, "I'd love to rub the top of his head".

[M_Six]

When you can hurt yourself multiple ways just doing a load of laundry.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Artemis

You could coin it differently: from turning "salt and pepper" to "silver".

Got a little silver around the temples, but mostly a light brown.

[Dino GT]

Originally Posted by M_Six

When you can hurt yourself multiple ways just doing a load of laundry.

How do you hurt yourself doing laundry?
I don't do laundry, except turn the machine on whenever my wife asks me, but I don't think my wife ever got hurt doing laundry

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Dino GT

How do you hurt yourself doing laundry?
I don't do laundry, except turn the machine on whenever my wife asks me, but I don't think my wife ever got hurt doing laundry

I give myself a backache bending over and putting clothes and things away in dressers and a chest of drawers. It's that way of bending over when you're not bending all the way but just enough to give you a backache at that half way point.

Ouch! Old back complaining. lol

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Dino GT

How do you hurt yourself doing laundry?
I don't do laundry, except turn the machine on whenever my wife asks me, but I don't think my wife ever got hurt doing laundry

Dropped a sock on the floor. Bent over to pick it up and hit my head on the washing machine. Then I reached into the washing machine to grab some stuff to toss in the dryer and I slammed my knuckle on the center drum of the machine. Just general klutziness, I guess.

[Dino GT]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Dropped a sock on the floor. Bent over to pick it up and hit my head on the washing machine. Then I reached into the washing machine to grab some stuff to toss in the dryer and I slammed my knuckle on the center drum of the machine. Just general klutziness, I guess.

Lol, I'm not laughing at you, it's just funny the way you describe it. That sounds like something you'd see on America's funniest home videos

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Dropped a sock on the floor. Bent over to pick it up and hit my head on the washing machine. Then I reached into the washing machine to grab some stuff to toss in the dryer and I slammed my knuckle on the center drum of the machine. Just general klutziness, I guess.

Not sure this is age-related

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Dropped a sock on the floor. Bent over to pick it up and hit my head on the washing machine. Then I reached into the washing machine to grab some stuff to toss in the dryer and I slammed my knuckle on the center drum of the machine. Just general klutziness, I guess.

I think we all have those klutzy moments. I know I do and I end up laughing at myself for being such a klutz.

[M_Six]

Yeah, it seems to happen to me a lot. I can hurt myself doing the simplest of things.

[Dang3r]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I have a full head of hair but I secretly want to be bald. Why?

Here's why.

Many years ago I was having lunch with some colleagues, one of whom was a beautiful woman. During lunch, a bald guy walks by our table. This beautiful colleague turns to me and whispers, "I'd love to rub the top of his head".

Man, that must be the rum talking

For myself: Bald since mid30s and problem is and was, that my head looks much more older than my soul feels. Thats an internal problem. But for public Im just looking old, and thats the real tragic for me.

[3.0L]

... the larger-than-life folks are crumbling all around us. Raquel Welch passes away. Bruce Willis is diagnosed with dementia. Baseball Hall of Famer, Tim McCarver, passes...

Very depressing.

[TheDavidE]

My Knees..!

[JJ 911SC]

You remember that when you were in school, the "drills" were about Nuclear War not some Wako that has a gun

[Dino GT]

....If you remember when you could get a car like this for 500 bucks.

[shawnhayes]

When switching over brake rotors takes more than an hour per side. And you're sore for a week afterwards.

Shawn

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Dino GT

....If you remember when you could get a car like this for 500 bucks.

I remember walking down the street in L.A. when I was 13 and passed by a Plymouth dealer. On the lot they had a brand new Road Runner that went for about $3000. I remember thinking to myself “what a car, but damn that’s a lot of money.” How things have changed.

PS - man, did I ever lust over that car.

Looked something like this:

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by Esteban

I remember walking down the street in L.A. when I was 13 and passed by a Plymouth dealer. On the lot they had a brand new Road Runner that went for about $3000. I remember thinking to myself “what a car, but damn that’s a lot of money.” How things have changed.

PS - man, did I ever lust over that car.

Looked something like this:

Assuming this was around 1968 (year of the pictured car), that $3,000 is worth $25,790 in 2023.

You don't get much for $26K todays.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

Assuming this was around 1968 (year of the pictured car), that $3,000 is worth $25,790 in 2023.

You don't get much for $26K todays.

Yes, was 1968. Walked by this particular car several times, always stopping to look for a few minutes.

Found this on the web:

"If you find one of these vintage Plymouth muscle cars in “fair” shape today with a little work needed to get it back to former glory, you can still expect to spend $20,000 and $30,000. According to Hagerty, a Road Runner example in pristine shape will likely go for more than $75,000.” Aug 31, 2020

That was from 2020, so I imagine a pristine example would be worth more now.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

... the larger-than-life folks are crumbling all around us. Raquel Welch passes away. Bruce Willis is diagnosed with dementia. Baseball Hall of Famer, Tim McCarver, passes...

Very depressing.

Several years ago my father-in-law perished at 90.

Whilst still among us, I frankly asked him whether he experienced approaching 90 difficult to cope with.

He replied that age-related physical issues didn't bother him much (it's an inevitable part of ageing), unlike coping with gradually losing all his friends of the past as time moved on - last man standing, outliving the rest.

He didn't disclose much about his early days leisure times, but hundreds of photos of many decades ago inside a drawer of his old desk locked with a key, as well as notes and phone numbers in old agendas inside that drawer, show that he had enjoyed life to the fullest in different places with friends before getting married. But he remained rather discreet about it, not talking about it. It was 'his' past.

I wonder how often he retreated to his chambers, quietly closed the door, cautiously unlocked the drawer of his desk, singled out a couple of pictures of his Facebook-avant-la-lettre and quietly beheld/stared at those 1950s/1960s scenes, recalling and reliving inside his mind joyful 'the world is my oyster' events of those days with friends, maybe shedding a tear over a lost friend featuring on those pictures.

My mother-in-law has only limited info: some people on pictures and names in agendas she recognizes - about some others she has no clue at all.