Do you feel your age?

[Gob]

Truth hurts eh?

[rubato]

Not my pain this time. Only yours.

yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

LOL!!! Oh dear....

Ouch!

[dales]

Never gone to a HS reunion. Always looked forward rather than back.

More fun that way.

yrs,
rubato

Never gone to one, either.


I might go to my 50th (with a paid escort in her 20's) and look at all the reactions (erections?) from those 68-year old horny old bastards!

[oldr_n_wsr]

I've gone to my HS reunions. I'm still good friends with people I met in high school. We had a pretty small class only about 140 of us. The last one was our 30 year reunion back on 2006 which happened to coincide with the HS's 50 anniversary. Got to see many of my old teachers. It wa a whole weekend thing. Many other classes had informal get togethers also that weekend.
I had a great time in high school. Many good memories and friends were made there.

[Jarlaxle]

The most annoying thing for me about my age is that my eyes are starting to fail, and I have glasses for reading and close-up work.
I used to have excellent eyesight, and find it really annoying to have to be looking for my glasses just so that I can read the fine print on a food package
It killed my enjoyment of sewing (can't thread my sewing machine without a lot of cursing, and can't focus properly on handsewing - the glasses annoy me and I feel like I'm always still a little bit 'out' in my vision)
It also killed my emjoyment of jigsaw puzzles. I haven't got the acuteness of vision that I used to have, even with the glassesn on, so I have to plod slowly along on the puzzles, whereas prevoously I used to be able to see some very minute 'something' in a puzzle piece that helped me to place it very quickly - even with endless blue sky I could find the very very slight colour difference that meant I knew which part of the sky i was looking at. The last couple I did ended up being more a 'job to finish' rather than the enjoyable hoppy they'd always been. Same with my sewing - it became more a frustration that a peaceful relaxation.
So that very much makes me feel my age, I think - I envy my children their still-perfect eyesight.

See your optometrist. At a guess, you need a new set of lenses and/or your current glasses do not have them "centered" (the lenses are not squarely in front of your eyes). It might be as simple as the frames not fitting your head properly. My first pair had that problem...reading gave me a headache because the lenses were not straight. Having worn glasses for a while (about 6 years now), I don't notice them unless I'm NOT wearing them.

[Jarlaxle]

I quit going to reunions because I was depressed that I might look as bad as the other old bastards in my HS graduating class.

Candidly speaking, as a group they (we) look awful.

One thought that sprang up as I read some of these posts is that it is sad that I lacked the resources to do a lot of things I wanted to do when I was younger (exciting travel and vacations), and now that I have the resources those adventures would be too strenuous or dangerous for me to try them.

Do it anyway! My uncle took up snowboarding after retirement. This year...hes considering skydiving. He still rides his motorcycle & wanders the country (his words) with his Airstream.

[Jarlaxle]

Never gone to a HS reunion. Always looked forward rather than back.

More fun that way.

yrs,
rubato

Never gone to one, either.


I might go to my 50th (with a paid escort in her 20's) and look at all the reactions (erections?) from those 68-year old horny old bastards!

My friend went to his last reunion with his then-fiancee--a beautiful green-eyed redhead--and with him driving a (rented) Corvette. She wore a dress that nearly got her arrested...the skirt is long but slit to her thigh on both sides, the neckline is open to almost her waist in front, and it's completely backless. (Liz saw it and wondered "how the hell does that thing stay up?") Yeah, some people seemed a little envious.

They're now married...and yes, she still fits in--and wears--that dress.