View Full Version : Now I feel old
snccoulter
11-08-2009, 07:15 AM
So I lost my basic old phone the other day so yesterday I went and got a new one. I have been texting a bit more lately so i decided to get one that had a keyboard then i realized i was old. (do you remember when you parents would say make the damm VCR stop blinking or program it for me) well I had to have one of the Airmen an 18 year old that works for me show me how to work the damm phone..
KapitanSparrow
11-08-2009, 07:26 AM
Cheer up! 40 is the new 20, 60 is the new 40, 80 is the new 60 :2thumbs:
Mtnman1830
11-08-2009, 08:15 AM
I didn't feel old until my family physician retired. Our new physician is younger than I am...
On the subject of phones.... I got a new phone about a year ago... It took me a few days to figure out how to answer it.
Ih8grvty
11-08-2009, 08:32 AM
Im 38.
I feel oldest when I get out of bed.
I feel really old when I think about my 19 year old son and how when I was 19 I had a full time job and a baby.
Last night however, I felt like a preschool kid when I got a call from my dad.
"What do you want when I die?"
He is 74 and not in great shape, but thinking about him being dead and gone, makes me feel like a kid, and not in a good way.
snccoulter
11-08-2009, 08:45 AM
Im 38.
I feel oldest when I get out of bed.
I feel really old when I think about my 19 year old son and how when I was 19 I had a full time job and a baby.
Last night however, I felt like a preschool kid when I got a call from my dad.
"What do you want when I die?"
He is 74 and not in great shape, but thinking about him being dead and gone, makes me feel like a kid, and not in a good way.
I cant imagin that. My father has lymphoma (SP) and we are in a watch and wait period. The docs say that it is a slow cancer and there is a really good possiablity that he will go from old age before the cancer gets him. he has been spending as much time with the grand kids as possiable. he cant travel a lot so we send the little ones out to hime for weeks on end. he currentally has my 2 year old as of the 15th he will have had him for 30 days. On the bright side the 2 year old is almost potty trained.
greyhair biker
11-08-2009, 08:39 PM
I had to get texting because of my sons. I had to have them teach me how to text :roll: but now...NOW, I am a texting monster! :haha: ...good thing I have unlimited :nod: .
Oh yeah...I'm 45 :ne_nau:
Steve.. your old.. its ok!
DiscGo
11-09-2009, 06:06 AM
So I lost my basic old phone the other day so yesterday I went and got a new one. I have been texting a bit more lately so i decided to get one that had a keyboard then i realized i was old. (do you remember when you parents would say make the damm VCR stop blinking or program it for me) well I had to have one of the Airmen an 18 year old that works for me show me how to work the damm phone..
:lol8:
RedMan
11-09-2009, 08:38 AM
Im 38.
I feel oldest when I get out of bed.
I feel really old when I think about my 19 year old son and how when I was 19 I had a full time job and a baby.
Last night however, I felt like a preschool kid when I got a call from my dad.
"What do you want when I die?"
He is 74 and not in great shape, but thinking about him being dead and gone, makes me feel like a kid, and not in a good way.
I suggest you go have a long visit and go over this with him. He is trying to deal with his future and its not easy. My dad did this and I sort of blew it off. He died a short while later and I really regret not being able to talk to him about his life and his death. BTW he was 71.
Ih8grvty
11-09-2009, 09:24 PM
Im 38.
I feel oldest when I get out of bed.
I feel really old when I think about my 19 year old son and how when I was 19 I had a full time job and a baby.
Last night however, I felt like a preschool kid when I got a call from my dad.
"What do you want when I die?"
He is 74 and not in great shape, but thinking about him being dead and gone, makes me feel like a kid, and not in a good way.
I suggest you go have a long visit and go over this with him. He is trying to deal with his future and its not easy. My dad did this and I sort of blew it off. He died a short while later and I really regret not being able to talk to him about his life and his death. BTW he was 71.
We talk all the time, on the phone, saw him this last July.
I dealt with it, Im realistic, I know he is going to die. Hes smoked since he was 11, used to drink daily and hard, has had more injuries than anyone else I know, so many pain pills for so many years. Numerous health problems and surgeries... When you think about it, its nearly unbelievable that he made it so long. Of course at 74, he is still riding the bike (an 900 pound motor cycle, not a pedal bike, that sits in the garage gathering dust) and is still, beating the crap out of people.
He has been in Washington for 3 years now, maybe 4? he has been in 4 fights in that time. Seems odd, he was in 4 fights a year in utah living in murray.
It just really hit me hard for him to talk about him dieing. Made me feel like I was a little kid again wondering what Id do after he was gone.
NOT a good feeling.
Course all in all Iv been lucky, he was 20 when his dad died and not too much older than I am now when his mom died. At this poitn I still have both my parents.
Me and him have enjoyed many deer hunts, elk hunts, and fishing and back packing trips together over the last 30 years.
He used to call me at 3 am on my days off "Going to christmas meadows int eh morning, do some fishing, want to come along?"
It was rare I was forced to turn down the invite. We woudl be there before the sun was up, have a smoke and a sandwich in the truck and talk, walk up the trail 3 or 4 miles and fish all the way back to the truck at the trail head before noon, home by 2 pm.
He was there for my first deer, my first fish on moon lake from a boat when I was 3 years old, the birth of my first child, second too.
IF money allows, I will be going up there for christmas, my kids will be coming back a week after me. They have made several trips to stay with him.
Id love to go for a visit, thats not on the afford list currently, but like I said, I am hoping and working towards a visit for christmas.
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