The perks of old age

And you can ask the slightly awkward questions at work (why do so we do things this way, etc) and can honestly answer what do you think of me as a manager in appraisals as you don't need references and not after promotion

I'm 67. I don't really feel like this. I refuse to say this is the last time I replace something etc.
Although like Lemongrove I do take advantage and exaggerate the bad memory.

Enjoyed and shared with friends

I so agree MOnica, and this kind of thing however tongue in cheek is what gets older people stereotyped.

A friend of ours once said that he was as regular as clockwork and goes to the bathroom at 7am every morning, the problem was that now he’s retired he doesn’t wake up until 9.......
I hope he was joking.

What a desperately sad stereotypical view of old age.

Someone said to me recently "the downside of retirement is you never get a day off"

Apart from items 1 and 2 you could put a negative spin on all of these!

ie. can’t run anymore, always have to go to bed before 9 pm, can’t eat after 4 pm because I get indigestion, thank goodness for health Insurance because I’m ill all of the time.
Etc.

Thank goodness I have more time to do things, I have to because I seem to have 2 speeds, dead slow and stop!

Growing old isn’t for sissies.....

I like being offered a seat on trains and buses. And no longer needing to bother what I'm wearing - I can put on clothes with colour clashes or even go out in my slippers, and nobody is bothered! I like getting 'concessions' on prices everywhere I go too.

If I had financial security it would change my life, still trying to achieve that and still have not lost hope

sorry typo I meant to add I remember saying to my mum that I couldn't wait to be her age as then I would not have money worries anymore

Getting more respect from people

Getting offered a seat on the bus

Not having the stress of feeding clothing your children

going on holiday for as long as you want

being free to go where and when you want to

having time to do the things you couldn't when you were younger "I can't wait to be your age because then I won't have any money worries"' she looked at me with un certainty and she was right .. still have to worry about money and my security just as much as I did then I don't think she had the guts to point that out to me but I think she was thinking it.

That would be telling lemongrove I do have four pairs of glasses though for variety you know

All mirrors lie

Being Scottish I was always lead to believe as a child that sex were bags of coal kept in a bath!

I hope you take more excercise than that BBbevan ?

Ha ha ha! Glad my eyes won't get much worst - blind as a bat already!

Great list .

I take my glasses off for sex

Depressing, if true.

Don't know if this really a perk, but if call down to my husband to run upstairs to make love, he replies "make up your mind. I can't manage both"

The list made me laugh.

No point in buying anything with a 25 yr guarantee.

Very good list.?
Other perks, concessions and blaming bad memory for forgetting to cook supper or iron shirts.

I have had my house refurbished and everything I have had done or bought is "for the last time".

I laughed out loud at some of these-no.9.

Very funny

Singing along to elevator music made me laugh out loud, it sums up a simplistic contentment. Us war and post-war babies are very easily pleased.

No 7 - my friend's DM used to to say 'that will see me out' if she bought something new.

I found myself saying it the other day .....

No 12