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Originally posted by sig226fan:
....when I was on the "front nine".

What a great line!!!

I’m old. Anyone older than I is frickin old.

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How Old is Old

When I'm 6 feet under.

Groucho Marx said it best:

“You’re only as old as the women you feel.”

When I turned 48 years old in 2020 it bothered me, the first birthday to ever do so. I will turn 50 the summer.

I am active, exercising nearly every single day. I road bike 100 miles week, I lift weights twice per week, I do hot yoga once per week. My weight is as low as it was back in my mid-late 20's. Physically I feel great.

But mentally there is something slightly unnerving knowing that I have more years behind me than ahead of me.

It also doesn't help that my step father died at 55 from brain cancer. My mother in law died at 58 from abdominal cancer. And my father died at 61 from lung cancer. Now that I am getting close to those ages, I think about that often.

So while I do not physically feel old, I know that I kinda am.

Still a bit shocked to find I
share the same age as a LOT
of actual old people...

I was born at the time the cylinder fins
on the Enola Gay were still barely
cooling down

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Originally posted by snoris:
Groucho Marx said it best:

“You’re only as old as the women you feel.”

I resemble that remark.

When young ladies open the door for you and when the grocery store clerks ask if you'd like some help carring things to your car.
.

I was old 5 years ago.
Since I turned 40 I've been working on being as healthy and fit as I can and have since gotten back into competitive shooting, endurocross, and a couple other hobbies from my 20's.
I'll be old again when I'm no longer physically able to enjoy the things I love.

When young ladies open the door for you and when the grocery store clerks ask if you'd like some help carring things to your car.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I just thought they were interested in me.

You know you're getting pretty old when women half your age are pretty old.

I plead the 5th!

This year I turn 75

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:
minimum of one year older then I am at the time the question is asked.

similar but for me it's 5 years older than me

Definitely a moving target. There was a time when I couldn't imagine being 40.

I'm 71 and while scampering up a ladder with a bundle of shingles on my shoulder is no longer an option, I'm generally healthy and able to do a day's work.

My oldest brother is 87 and pretty much fits the same description.

I suspect that's due to modern medicine, staying active both physically and mentally and a reasonable (but not fanatically so) lifestyle.

I remember a conversation with my cardiology attending when I was a fellow at St. Paul Ramsey Hospital. It concerned what to do about a 78-year old woman who had suffered a heart attack. I remember saying "78 is pretty old" and the attending (who was about my age) agreeing.

In the course of my cardiology career, 78 went from being too old for cardiac bypass surgery to being on the young side for a valve replacement. The oldest patient I ever referred for valve replacement was 94; but that's because he was getting married soon; and besides he was built like a tank. He had been a gymnast, and was the guy in the circus who was shot out of a cannon.

Anyway, what we have seen is a major extension not only of life, but of healthy life--but that is extremely variable. If you abused your body with smoking and booze, got massively obese, and also I must add if you did manual labor, then you are likely to have major medical problems at my current age of 77. What I have is the usual old age complaints--gout, kidney stones, add in a little bladder cancer and a bad back. But mentally I am pretty good except for not remembering names. I feel old the day after we take care of the grandkids, but pretty darn young when wrestling with them.

My age here is 73yrs young. Recently was visiting a friend who lived in a senior living setting and was introduced to a young lady resident whos age was presented at 106yrs old....Sure did not look like it and was almost as mobile as myself and friend who I was visiting.......................................................................................... drill sgt.

Everybody's opinion will differ ...

... for myself, old is when dirt was invented.

Or ...

How Old is Old ...

When I'm watching a movie with Mrs. BB61 and she points out that I'm old enough to be the father of the charming female star.

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Originally posted by BB61:
When I'm watching a movie with Mrs. BB61 and she points out that I'm old enough to be the father of the charming female star.

... even Lana Turner ?

Everybody keeps telling me to act my age.

But I don't know how to as I've never been this old before.