when you get old...

[Ken Gargett]

Being a little older, I am very fortunate to have someone call and check on me every day.  He is from India and is very concerned about my car warranty.

 

I choked on a carrot this morning, and all I could think of was, "I'll bet a doughnut wouldn't have done this to me."

 

Nothing spoils a good story more than the arrival of an eye witness.  (Mark Twain)

 

I finally realize why I look so bad in pictures.  It's my face.

 

It only takes one slow-walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that I'm a nice person.

 

Sorry that I'm late.  I got here as soon as I wanted to!

 

It turns out that when asked who your favorite child is, you're supposed to pick out one of your own.  I know that now.

 

It's fine to eat a test grape in the produce section, but you take one bite of  rotisserie  chicken and it's all, "Sir, you need to leave!"

 

One thing no one ever talks about, when it comes to being an older adult, is how  much time we devote to keeping a cardboard box because it is, you know, a really good box.

 

I can't believe I forgot to go to the gym today.  That's seven years in a row, now.

 

If you drop something when you were younger , you just picked it up.  When you're older and you drop something, you stare at  it for  just a bit contemplating if  you actually need it anymore.

 

I like to make lists.  I also like to leave them laying on the kitchen counter, and then guess what's on the list when I am at the store.

 

A giraffe's coffee would be cold by the time it reached the bottom of its throat.  Ever think about that?  No, you only think about yourself.

 

My kids say they want a cat for Christmas.  Normally I serve turkey, but, hey, if it will make them happy.

 

Ask your doctor if a drug with 32 pages of side-effects is bad for you.

 

I relabeled all of the jars in my wife's spice rack.  I'm not in trouble yet, but the thyme is cumin.

 

I just read a book about marriage that says treat your wife like  you treated her on your first date.  So tonight after dinner I'm dropping her off at her parent's house.

 

The best way to get back on your feet is to miss two car payments.

 

I love bacon.  Sometimes I eat it twice a day.  It takes my mind off the terrible chest pains I keep getting.

 

As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I am sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation.

 

Driver:  "What am I supposed to do with this speeding ticket?"  Officer, "Keep it. When you collect four of them, you get a bicycle.

 

I asked a supermarket employee where they kept the canned peaches.

He said, "I'll see," & walked away.  I asked another & he also said, "I'll see," & walked away.  In the end, I gave up & found them myself, in Aisle C.

 

I told my physical therapist that I broke my arm in two (2) places.He told me to stop going to those places.

 

I put our scale in the bathroom corner & that's where the little liar will stay until it apologizes.

 

 

When I was a kid, I used to watch the ‘Wizard of Oz’ & wonder how

someone could talk if they didn't have a brain. Then I got Facebook.

 

 

Do you ever get up in the morning, look in the mirror & think, "That can't be accurate!"

 

 

I want to be 14 again & ruin my life differently. I have new ideas.

 

 

Apparently RSVP'ing to a wedding invitation with "Maybe next time" isn't the correct response.

 

 

A guy walks into a lumberyard & asks for some 2x4s.  The clerk asks, "How long do you need them?"  The guy answers, "A long time. We're gonna build a house."

 

I just burned 1,200 calories.   I forgot the pizza in the oven.

 

Who knew that the hardest thing of being an adult is figuring out what to fix for dinner and doing it every single night for the rest of  your life until you die?

 

I hate it when people act all intellectual and talk about Mozart, when they've never even seen one of  his paintings.

 

Never trust an electrician with no eye brows.

 

So my neighbor knocked on my front door at 3 am.  3AM!!!  Luckily I was already up playing the bagpipes.

 

Instead of cleaning my house, I just watch an episode of "The Hoarders," and think, "Wow!  My house looks great."

 

[helix]

Brilliant Ken , you Rapscallion .

[Glass Half Full]

Thanks for making my day, ...and my 89-year-old father-in-law's day tomorrow when he checks his emails 

[KavalanWhisky]

is the enlarged font size a consequence of getting old? 😝

[SirVantes]

3 hours ago, KavalanWhisky said:

is the enlarged font size a consequence of getting old? 😝

Font, prostate, whatever...

[Ken Gargett]

14 hours ago, KavalanWhisky said:

is the enlarged font size a consequence of getting old? 😝

no, that was how it arrived. i wondered if that meant those were someone earlier in the chain's faves? 

but in line with number 6 on the list, i could not be bothered to change them. 

 

for what it is worth, the RSVP to the wedding - don't try that even in jest. i was living in the states when one of my sisters got engaged. it was just not possible to make it. stupid me said exactly that. you'd think 30 years would be enough for them to forgive and forget. fat chance.