SpinnerBait_Nut
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"You Know You're Over The Hill When... "<br /> <br /> 1. You find yourself beginning to like accordion music.<br /> 2. You're sitting on a park bench and a Boy Scout comes<br />up and helps you cross your legs.<br /> 3. Lawn care has become a big highlight of your life.<br /> 4. You tune into the easy listening station...on purpose.<br /> 5. You discover that your measurements are now small,<br />medium and large...In that order.<br /> 6. You light the candles on your birthday cake and a<br />group of campers form a circle and start singing Cumbaya..<br /> 7. You keep repeating yourself.<br /> 8. You start video taping daytime game shows.<br /> 9. At the airport, they ask to check your bags...and<br />you're not carrying any luggage.<br /> 10. You wonder why you waited so long to take up macrame.<br /> 11. Your Insurance Company has started sending you their<br />free calendar...a month at a time.<br /> 12. At cafeterias, you complain that the gelatin is too<br />tough.<br /> 13. Your new easy chair has more options than your car.<br /> 14. When you do the "Hokey Pokey" you put your left hip<br />out...and it stays out.<br /> 15. One of the throw pillows on your bed is a hot water<br />bottle.<br />16. Conversations with people your own age often turn<br />into "dueling ailments."<br /> 17. You keep repeating yourself.<br /> 18. It takes a couple of tries to get over a speed bump.<br /> 19. You discover the words, "whippersnapper," "scalawag"<br />and "by-cracky" creeping into your vocabulary.<br /> 20. You're on a TV game show and you decide to risk it<br />all and go for the rocker.<br /> 21. You begin every other sentence with, "Nowadays..."<br /> 22. You run out of breath walking DOWN a flight of stairs.<br /> 23. You look both ways before crossing a room.<br /> 24. Your social security number only has three digits.<br /> 25. You keep repeating yourself.<br /> 26. You come to the conclusion that your worst enemy is<br />gravity.<br /> 27. You go to a Garden Party and you're mainly interested<br />in the garden.<br /> 28. You find your mouth making promises your body can't<br />keep.<br /> 29. The waiter asks how you'd like your steak...and you<br />say "pureed."<br /> 30. At parties you attend, "regularity" is considered<br />the topic of choice.<br /> 31. You start beating everyone else at trivia games.<br /> 32. You frequently find yourself telling people what a<br />loaf of bread USED to cost.<br /> 33. Your back goes out more than you do.<br /> 34. You keep repeating yourself.<br /> 35. Cafeteria food starts tasting GOOD.<br /> 36. You refer to your $2500 stereo system as "The Hi-Fi."<br /> 37. You make it a point to attend all the RV shows that<br />come to town.<br /> 38. You realize that a stamp today costs more than a<br />picture show did when you were growing up.<br /> 39. Your childhood toys are now in a museum.<br /> 40. Many of your co-workers were born the same year that<br />you got your last promotion.<br /> 41. The clothes you've put away until they come back in<br />style...come back in style.<br /> 42. All of your favorite movies are now revised in color.<br /> 43. The car that you bought brand new becomes an antique.<br /> 44. You keep repeating yourself.<br /> 45. You find this list tasteless and insensitive.<br />Have a good weekend people
<br /><br />I'm not over the hill yet, but I'm cresting it and starting to coast that way........when do I start to apply the brakes!..........
