- You find yourself beginning to like accordion music.
- You’re sitting on a park bench and a Boy Scout comes up and helps you cross your legs.
- Lawn care has become a big highlight of your life.
- You’re asleep, but others worry that you’re dead.
- You tune into the easy listening station…on purpose.
- You discover that your measurements are now small, medium and large ….In that order.
- You light the candles on your birthday cake and a group of campers form a circle and start singing Kumbaya.
- Your arms are almost too short to read the newspaper.
- You start video taping daytime game shows.
- At the airport, they ask to check your bags…and you’re not carrying any luggage.
- You wonder why you waited so long to take up macrame.
- Your Insurance Company has started sending you their free calendar…a month at a time.
- At cafeterias, you complain that the gelatin is too tough.
- Your new easy chair has more options than your car.
- When you do the “Hokey Pokey” you put your left hip out… and it stays out.
- One of the throw pillows on your bed is a hot water bottle.
- Conversations with people your own age often turn into “duelling ailments.”
- It takes a couple of tries to get over a speed bump.
- You discover the words, “whippersnapper”, “scallywag” and “by-crikey” creeping into your vocabulary.
- You’re on a TV game show and you decide to risk it all and go for the rocker.
- You begin every other sentence with, “Nowadays…”
- You run out of breath walking DOWN a flight of stairs.
- You look both ways before crossing a room.
- Your social security number only has three digits.
- You come to the conclusion that your worst enemy is gravity.
- People call at 9 p.m. and ask, “Did I wake you?”
- You go to a Garden Party and you’re mainly interested in the garden.
- You find your mouth making promises your body can’t keep.
- The waiter asks how you’d like your steak…and you say “pureed.”
- At parties you attend, “regularity” is considered the topic of choice.
- You start beating everyone else at trivia games.
- You frequently find yourself telling people what a loaf of bread USED to cost.
- Your back goes out more than you do.
- Cafeteria food starts tasting GOOD.
- You refer to your $2500 stereo system as “The Hi-Fi.”
- You make it a point to attend all the RV shows that come to town.
- You realize that a stamp today costs more than a picture show did when you were growing up.
- Your childhood toys are now in a museum.
- Many of your co-workers were born the same year that you got your last promotion.
- The clothes you’ve put away until they come back in style… come back in style.
- All of your favorite movies are now revised in color.
- The car that you bought brand new becomes an antique.
- You have more hair in your ears and nose than your head.
- You wear black socks with sandals.
- You take a metal detector to the beach.