something you older dudes

[Simba]

I discovered the worst effect of ageing was that hair began to sprout from me ears. Ah well, makes a change from the hair that appears on the palms of me hands when the moon's full . . .

 

[DREDIOCK]

i don't so much snap/crackle/pop. what i have noticed, is that the weird ways i need to bend/twist/stretch for my job are still somewhat easy.
 ways that i don't hafta do for work, but used to be easy, are nearly impossible now. hell....i can't touch my toes.

 since i've only recently noticed the stiffness/pain, i've started stretching in the mornings, and evenings. i refuse to get old.

Oh Im not in any pain or really much in the way of stiffness. And while I may not be a speedster running. I can still climb and maneuver up, on and around a scaffold or a tree like a kid on monkey bars.
I just find my body now makes noise after long periods of inactivity.

[DREDIOCK]

I discovered the worst effect of ageing was that hair began to sprout from me ears. Ah well, makes a change from the hair that appears on the palms of me hands when the moon's full . . .

 

Yup.

My eyebrows too.
I hadnt really noticed. I mean. how much time do you spend looking at your eyebrows in the mirror?
One day after trimming my beard my wife said. "Arent you going ot trim those too?"

"Those what?"

"Go look at your eyebrows"

What I saw closely resembled this guys eyebrows



If it were Halloween it mighta worked. But this was in July lol

[Grayeagle]

well.

Came a day when I had just turned 50 I noticed I was havin trubble makin out a speed limit sign (!!) until I got failry close to it.

Been wearing tri-focals ever since when I am not in front of a computer.
Distance vision is blurred without 'em, and for the ridiculously fine print I run into here an there they help a lot.

As for stiff .. well .. if I dont move it, it doesn't take long to lose the ability to move it.
The last 3 years as a Nurse in direct patient care helped a lot ..even had a few comments about how 'strong' I was for my age,
..now after a year out of work and just starting in a desk job again, I walk as much as I can (park on upper floor of garage and walk up the ramps to get there every day ..useda be tuff to do, out of breath an all, now .. it's cake.

I have bone spurs in my shoulders and neck, range of motion sucks, right shoulder gives me trouble now and then, was taken by surprise the other day when I could not 'parade rest' ..my right arm would not do the deed ..so now I am doin range of motion before bedtime about every other day.


Comes down to use it or lose it
I will be 60 soon .. .life will be over I hear ..course I have heard that about every milestone since 20

-GE

[Halo]

No trifocals? Nose hairs?  EAR hairs? Liver spots? Wrinkles?

Probably never drank a nickel Coke either.

Buncha kids. 

[Grayeagle]

umm..

trifocals? -check
Nose hairs? -check 
EAR hairs? -check
Liver spots? -check
Wrinkles? -check
drank a nickel Coke? -check
Learned to drive in a car with a metal dashboard and no seat belts? -check
Paid 25 cents a gallon for gas or less for my '67 Hemi GTX? -check
Got my first BB gun when I was 5? -check
Remembers Pong when it was *new*? -check

-grin-

-GE aka Frank

[bagrat]

nice to hear, its more proof to a theory. a friend of mine told me his uncle who wore glasses began regularly working on focusing exercises for sight and eventually did not need to wear glasses. suppose our eyes are like other muscles the more you train em' the more you strengthen em'. hope one day i dont need glasses anymore, the ladys tell me they make me look smart though