Monday, April 20, 2009

Old Age

A good friend just sent me this email. Do you think she is trying to tell me something?

Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked,
'How old was your husband?' '98,' she replied.
'Two years older than me'
'So you're 96,' the undertaker commented.
She responded, 'Hardly worth going home, is it?
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Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman:
'And what do you think is the best thing
About being 104?' the reporter asked.
She simply replied, 'No peer pressure.'
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The nice thing about being senile is
You can hide your own Easter eggs.
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I've sure gotten old!
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,
New knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes
I'm half blind,
Can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine,
Take 40 different medications that
Make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
Have bouts with dementia
Have poor circulation;
Hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.
Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92.
Have lost all my friends. But, thank God,
I still have my driver's license.
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I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape,
So I got my doctor's permission to
Join a fitness club and start exercising.
I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors.
I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But,
By the time I got my leotard on,
The class was over.
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My memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
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Know how to prevent sagging?
Just eat till the wrinkles fill out..
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It's scary when you start making the same noises
As your coffee maker.
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These days about half the stuff
In my shopping cart says,
'For fast relief..'
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THE SENILITY PRAYER :
Grant me the senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
The eyesight to tell the difference..

9 comments:

Maureen said...

So what was the person who sent it to me trying to say. Maybe she sent it because I'm going to be a grandma in November?

Mom said...

Being a gramma does not make you old! Being a gramma is just wonderful. I should know. I'm excited for you. Your man is going to be the cutest grampa ever.

rosemary said...

I like the wrinkle cure one....

Joan said...

I'm with Rosemary...I seem to have the wrinkle cure down pat. Pass me another portion please...

Middle Child said...

So good...will definately forward this...

Sling said...

I like the driver's liscence one.
I'm pretty sure that person lives in O-Town.

Cazzie!!! said...

Absolutely priceless.... now what was it I was about to do? Old age creeps up on us all :)

Unknown said...

Thanks for the good laugh this morning! God willing, I'll eventually get that old!

Mom said...

Maureen, I'm having trouble with my memory and with technology