For all my aged contemporaries!

Dec 25, 2009
269
American 26 & MFG Challenger 12 American 8.0, Challenger 12 Lake Pepin, Wisc.
Everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt doesn't work. :D
The gleam in your eye is from the sun hitting your bifocals.
You feel like the morning after and you haven't been anywhere.
Your little black book contains names only ending in M.D.
Your children begin to look middle age.
You finally reach the top of the ladder and find it's leaning against the wrong wall.
Your mind makes contracts your body can't keep.
A dripping faucet causes and uncontrollable bladder urge.
You look forward to a dull evening.
Your favorite part of the newspaper is "20 Years Ago Today."
You turn out the lights for economic reasons rather than romantic ones.
You sit in the rocking chair and can't get it going.
You knees buckle and your belt won't.
You regret all those mistakes you made resisting tempations.
You're 17 around the neck, 42 around the waist, and 96 around the golf course.
Your back goes out more than you do.
Your pacemaker makes the garge door open when you see a pretty girl.
The little old grey haired lady you help across the street is your wife.
You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there.
You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet.
You know all the answers but nobody asks the questions.:D

Hope you all have a good day sailing tomorrow. I am still land locked and will be for a while yet. But we are working on her.....:D

Tom...:D
 
Oct 18, 2007
707
Macgregor 26S Lucama, NC
Tom, I disagree. I'm getting older but I don't... uh, what was that you said again? -Paul
 
Jun 2, 2004
5,802
Hunter 37-cutter, '79 41 23' 30"N 82 33' 20"W--------Huron, OH
Children "looking" middle-aged? Hell they are middle-aged. All this time waiting for my ship to come in and my dock has rotted away.
 

zeehag

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Mar 26, 2009
3,198
1976 formosa 41 yankee clipper santa barbara. ca.(not there)
dang and i thought the old woman in the mirror was my mom.......
 
Dec 2, 1997
8,820
- - LIttle Rock
16 Things It Takes A Lot of Years to Learn

1. Never, NEVER... under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a
laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
(This one is very important)

7. Never ever... lick a steak knife.

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

13. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to a waiter, is not a nice
person.. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

14. Your friends love you anyway.

15. Never be afraid to try something new. .Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

16. Thought for the day: Men are like fine wine . They start out as grapes; and it's up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
 

DougM

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Jul 24, 2005
2,242
Beneteau 323 Manistee, MI
Like someone else, I keep waiting for my ship to come in. Evidently, it sank!
 
Dec 7, 2003
14
- - Houston
May I add a couple to the list of you know you're old when:

1.) Your doctor, your dentist, your chiropractor, your CPA, your lawyer and everybody else on your payroll is younger than you are.

2.) Getting out of bed in the morning feels like the 4th quarter of a football game when you're down 28 to 7.

3.) Day sailing feels like a full contact sport (preparing to sail and stowing afterward I should say).

4.) This year's bottom job takes 3 months. 2.5 months to get up the energy to start and 2 weeks to finish. When all I'm doing is wipping off the bottom with alcohol and applying another coat of Micron Extra.

5.) Your wife has some place to go for the evening and you don't care where she's going as long as you don't have to go.

Kind Regards,
JonBill
 
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zeehag

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Mar 26, 2009
3,198
1976 formosa 41 yankee clipper santa barbara. ca.(not there)
peggy--that is priceless!!!!!!! thankyou!!!!!
 

Alan

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Jun 2, 2004
4,174
Hunter 35.5 LI, NY
Priceless!!!!

:D:D You guys are fan-****in'-tastic!!!!!!!!!

I'm not lookin' forward to them days.;)...but it beats the crap of the alternative.:eek: