You Know You're Fifty When...Five signs you've hit the big five-oh. Add yours!
AdairLara
Posted: Jul 20, 07 4:55pm At 50, Ford had invented the assembly line, Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, Frank Sinatra married Mia Farrow, Roosevelt was elected president, and John Updike got the Pulitzer Prize. On the other hand, at 50 Pavlov was just a guy with too many dogs in his backyard, Ronald Reagan was an out-of-work actor, and Samuel Morse had virtually given up on the invention he called the telegraph. Given all that people have done at 50 or have yet to do, there's really no way of saying what's going to happen to us -- yet there are still some telltale signs when you hit the big five-oh. Here are my five. What are yours?
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Posted: Jul 25, 07 4:09pm
6. You have little tricks to remember things, like writing down the location of your car in the parking garage.
Posted: Jul 25, 07 4:52pm
#7 Like writing down the parking garage its self........big malls!!!!!
Posted: Jul 25, 07 4:56pm
8.trying to remember if its ,saturday or sunday! oh!,CBS sunday morning with charles osgood. must be...........
Posted: Sep 6, 08 8:13pm
Man, I do that! I get every other Friday off. Usually I end up working on those Fridays so when I do actually get them off I wake up expecting to see the weekend news and it's not there. There have been several days when I wondered what happened and then I remember that it isn't the weekend.
Duh!
Posted: Nov 9, 08 8:38am
crossing off the days on the calendar so I can rememeber what day it is, now if I only knew what I did with that whatumycallit that you write with!!
Posted: Jul 25, 07 5:04pm
gone fishin all day, with a boat load of fish........and forgeting where the freankin frackin boat ramp is !!(done that last weekend).
Posted: Jul 25, 07 5:21pm
Going into my office or my shop, or anywhere for that matter, and forgetting WHY! your there(keys, pen, whatever!).
Posted: Jul 25, 07 5:30pm
Ok, this the last of my 5.Sorry i had to do this way.#12 knowing in no uncertain terms, i will be better then i was today/on the marrow! dont have to be better then anyone else, just little ole me! and in my case, thats hard enough.:) boy! this is fun stuff!!
Posted: Aug 4, 08 2:55am
Robin, I have the solution!!
...take a pic with you camera phone of the row you're in! Color and letter, so you don't lose the little paper.
(Experience.. shhhh)
Oh and I like Quinn's ans below...it's just the beginning!!!
Happy Monday Robin....(former founding member...:-(...I liked the little yellow dot...)
Posted: Sep 6, 08 7:59pm
Phones have camera's?
Posted: Oct 4, 08 7:06am
Robin, I have the solution!!
...take a pic with you camera phone of the row you're in! Color and letter, so you don't lose the little paper.
LOL, that is a great idea!!!
Posted: Jul 25, 07 5:29pm
9. You start losing hair in the places you want it and getting it in places you don't.
Posted: Jan 15, 08 6:39am
I "find" my hair in the shower drain!!
Posted: Apr 20, 08 2:43pm
I know exactly what you mean. It migrates from your head down to the rest if your body.
Posted: Jul 3, 08 4:30pm
That's not the only thing that "migrates". My brain migrated from my head to my butt. When I sit down on the toilet, THAT'S when I remember where I put my car keys!
...or VISA card, or hair clippers, or purse, or glasses or screwdriver, or ink pen, or cup of tea...
Maybe that's why my butt is so much BIGGER now!
Posted: Apr 20, 08 3:04pm
Amen
Posted: Jun 20, 08 11:07pm
this was so funny and soooooo true......lol
Posted: Jun 21, 08 5:02am
Took the words right out of my mouth. lol
Posted: Aug 17, 08 5:45pm
Yep, that one sux. LOL
Posted: Jul 25, 07 8:16pm
You know you're 50 you no longer think of "depends" as a verb.
Posted: Apr 15, 08 12:22pm
IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE STORE OR MALL YOU KNOW WHERE THE RESTROOMS ARE AND CAN GET THERE IN A NANO SECOND LOL!!! I WAS DANCEING THE OTHER DAY THREW OUT MY BACK WAS NOT DOING ANY FANCY FOOT WORK DANG....LEAVE OUR BODIES TO SCIENCE WHY...THEY WILL NEVER FIGURE IT OUT AND IF THEY DO STILL WILL BE TOO LATE FOR US LOL!
GOT HOME THE OTHER DAY REALIZED MY PANTS WERE UNZIPPED ALL THE TIME I WAS OUT, THOUGHT THEY WERE LOOSE BECAUSE I HAD LOST WEIGHT, LUCKY I WAS JUST AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE NOW THEY KNOW I REALLY DO NEED TO BE THERE LOL!!! LOL!!!
Posted: Jul 26, 07 8:31am
You know you're 50 when you finally start to understand what the heck your parents were thinking
Posted: Nov 27, 07 4:57pm
the arch st louis is great
Posted: Jul 27, 07 1:47am
10. You realize that you have thirty, forty or even fifty of the best years of your life yet to live!
Posted: Jul 27, 07 7:11am
Mick, I love your response. Part of what gave me the idea for TBD was seeing a speaker hold up a measuring tape to an audience of people our age. He asked that if an inch is a year, what is our expectancy? (Most said around 85.) When you look at the tape, and see where you are on that continuum, it can be inspiring or anxiety-provoking, or both at the same time. I am with you.
Posted: Oct 4, 08 7:13am
Whoa, I better start one of those 401K thingers
Posted: Apr 20, 08 3:05pm
Wahoo Mick - yes yes yes
Posted: Oct 6, 08 5:53pm
OMG Mick, You just made my day! I've been thinking in terms of ten years, maybe....I like your realization of forty or even fifty!...I'll take that!....Kay :-)
Posted: Jul 27, 07 4:38pm
I thought of another one. You wear a hat in the swimming pool.
Posted: Dec 4, 07 3:15pm
...and your glasses.
Posted: Oct 26, 08 12:22pm
Been there.
Posted: Jul 27, 07 4:41pm
One more: You are surprised to find yourself thinking about cosmetic surgery...and stunned to find out, when you ask your friends what they think, how many have already had it.
Posted: Jul 29, 07 8:57pm
Here's one
The Doctor sends you
for some tests and you pray to god
that it is just a gall bladder thing.
Posted: Aug 1, 07 12:55pm
Yes! so true. I also find it takes longer to get ready for bed, all the routines, potions and products to apply!
Posted: Jan 15, 08 6:37am
You wish someone had told you about moisturizing your neck!
Posted: Jun 9, 08 7:41pm
So True !!
Posted: Jul 30, 07 9:28am
What is so horrible about buying a glue gun? I've wanted one since I was in college, although I've never actually bought one. (I've also always wanted a chain saw, and it seems unlikely I'll buy one of those, either.)
Posted: Aug 10, 07 11:30am
once you own a glue gun, sticking flowers on a piece of driftwood can't be far behind
Posted: Aug 3, 08 8:49pm
AdairLara - this is absolutely hysterical!! Thanks for the laugh of my night.
Posted: Sep 25, 07 9:32am
I never thought of that, Adair!
Posted: Dec 9, 07 8:46pm
But think of how much fun it will be to gather the driftwood to glue the flowers onto!
Posted: Jan 15, 08 6:38am
I like glue guns, too, Carol!!
Posted: Jan 26, 08 11:56pm
You know you're 50 when ... you begin to finish the statement and the next thing you know you're talking about flowers and driftwood. :-)
Posted: Feb 15, 08 7:55pm
chain saw can be fun! If you need to heat your house!
I don't get a "glue gun" either?
Posted: Feb 20, 08 5:19pm
I want a glue gun! It comes in handy when you do a dumb thing like accidentally ramming your left-side car mirror against a metal thingie when you're punching in security code numbers and the whole darned mirror breaks off -- that actually happened to me last weekend, and if it wasn't for my friend's husband's glue gun, I'd have been up the creek and without the left-hand mirror!
does that count as something that happens when you turn 50?
Posted: Feb 22, 08 11:48pm
I am against glue gun control, but I recognize the growing problem of glue gunfights.
Posted: Jul 30, 07 2:47pm
...you see the digital pics of your recent class reunion that you weren't able to attend and you're sure they must have posted the wrong ones.