You know you are old if:
Your hair is growing in your ears and not on your head
Every artist you listen to is dead
The last movie you saw was “African Queen.”
Old ladies open the door for you.
Your socks don’t always match
You have a record collection
Your first new car cost $1,750 and your new 13” color TV cost $550.
You have to think about how to get up from the couch
You keep saying that the dog farted
Your son just retired
You can recognize the songs being played in department stores
You sign along to the songs in the elevator
You sleeep in your bathrobe
Your other half keeps introducing you as “the older black guy”
You were going on a Walk for Alzheimer’s but forgot where it was
You start calling your dog “dog”
You think Catfish Hunter is someone who lived in the Okefenokee swamp
You start liking brussels sprouts
You keep asking your other half to call you so you can find your phone
You put ranch dressing in your coffee and cream over your salad and couldn’t tell the difference.
You went to buy new corduroy trousers this winter and the clerks had no clue what you were talking about
Your eyebrows have dandruff
You have to tie a belt to the end of the bed to pull you up in the morning
You have started driving faster so you won’t forget where you were going
Your son is a grandfather
All your living heroes are dead
The president is younger than you
Your doctor hadn’t heard of the Supremes
Naps are now called senility snoozes
You thought Taylor Swift was a fast seamstress
Your car keys keep hiding from you
You need to add on to the bathroom sink to hold your prescriptions
You need to set off the alarm to find your car at the mall
The twinkle in her eye is from the reflection of the sun
They start putting one candle on your birthday cake because of the fire hazard
You think “atrophy” is what you won playing tennis
When they say “smoking hot body” you think of cremation
Farting is a walking aid
Your children are middle aged
All of your favorite TV shows are reruns
People come to visit and admire your antique furniture
The smoke alarm goes off when they light the candles on your birthday cake
I stopped my other half from cooking. She must have thought I was a god when she kept placing burnt offerings before me
Your love tattoo looks like a turnip
The smoke alarm battery needs changing and you go around your house spraying for crickets
You have been there and done that but can’t remember what that was
You enjoy Mondays
People say you are aging gracefully and they mean you are slowly looking worse
When Mao said that the longest journey begins with a single step I don’t think he meant going to the bathroom
Milk used to be delivered to your front door
You mother used to buy her chickens at live kill shops
Someone told me “Have a good weekend.” I thought it was Tuesday.
Your grandparents had an outhouse (with Sears Roebuck catalogs and corn cobs)
You remember when Joe Biden had hair plugs
When asked “How are you” you have to think before answering.
One great thing about having a partner your age is that she thinks you still look good
You remember when 17” was a big screen TV
You always take a nap after lunch
You remember when a refrigerator was called an ice box
You think a photographic memory means you can remember every photograph you have ever seen
The commercials on the TV shows you watch are mostly for EDs or hair loss
You remember when girl’s basketball was half court
When you get lost you can be found by a trail of used Kleenex.
You gave up golf because you could never remember where you hit the ball
Holes in the knees of your jeans used to mean you were poor
A night out means sitting on the front porch
You need to remember things like “76 Trombones” or else you will forget your age
You remember when a gallon of gasoline cost 99 cents
You go looking for something and halfway there forget what you were looking for
You can remember the name of your first grade teacher but not that of your next door neighbor
One of your favorite singers last released a song 20 years ago
You have outlived your life expectancy
You suffer from CRS but can’t remember what that stands for
Your parents’ grandparents were all slaves