You know you are middle aged when....

[WCGreen]

You get excited about a new paper towel holder....

It's stainless steel and weighted....

Oh Boy!!!!!

[RetroLounge]

1. Hey, I got one of those

with the metal ball on top that screws on to hold the roll...

Hey, I must be middle-aged! :woohoo:

RL

[lizziegrace]

3. RL

It's middle-aged if we live to be 90. I hope we do! :toast:

[WCGreen]

5. Aren't they cool...

Did I mention the no skid bottom....

11.49 at Costco

[lizziegrace]

8. WC

I'd say today was a GOOD day. :hi:

[WCGreen]

17. Buy anything cool today.....

[lizziegrace]

25. Me?

Stopped at an antique store I haven't seen in years. Didn't buy a thing. Just drove. Still need to drive. Lots. So much unfinished business. :(

[WCGreen]

27. Driving is good......

Always helped take my mind off of things....

[lizziegrace]

31. But

I've found it doesn't resolve anything either.

x(

[WCGreen]

35. But it does get you away for awhile....

[Seabiscuit]

80. I'm an old fart and those metal balls still turn me on.

:)

[WCGreen]

81. Ahh..... Ben Wah.....

[Seabiscuit]

92. No, not THOSE kind... :)

[WCGreen]

93. Lance Armstrong!!!!

:evilgrin:

[Seabiscuit]

98. Superman Returns!

The Man (with balls) of Steel!

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid31748.asp

[WCGreen]

99. Here he is.....

I posed for this painting....

Back in my younger days.....


:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

2. When your grapes

turn to raisins.... :hide:

[WCGreen]

4. Thank god I still have the grapes...

[Ptah]

6. The best wine come from old grapes.

jus' sayin'

:silly:

[WCGreen]

7. Well, they do take longer to ferment.....

And when they bubble...

It is far more appreciated....

[lizziegrace]

9. Yes!

It's gonna be another fun night on the board.


:popcorn:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. I think you just might.....

be onto something!

:woohoo:

[Dangerously Amused]

10. LOOK OUT! Save the grapes!

[WCGreen]

16. that is almost as good as the Vitamiginferma........

episode...

[Xipe Totec]

22. Raisins are sweeter

or so I've been told.

[NMDemDist2]

11. ROFL be there, done that one

but mine isn't weighted :cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. It doesn't take much to get us excited......

at this age......

You never know what you'll find at Costco!

Every trip could turn into a treasure hunt......

:hi:

[lizziegrace]

14. Wonder if he got another bag of M&Ms

peanut?

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. One can only hope so, my dear lizziegrace!

:evilgrin:

[WCGreen]

21. Just trail mix....

With nuts....

[WCGreen]

20. I also got some new vitamins.....

Ones that are suppose to protect my postrate....

There ya go...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. It is always good for the men to protect .......

their prostates!

Vitamins work.....

But ......there is another way to provide protection....

Just sayin'.....:evilgrin:

[chaska]

13. But wait, isn't that how you know you're middle class?

I can only aspire to paper towel holders.

...but wait (again), does that mean I'm poor and middle aged? Oh geez, that would really suck.

[WCGreen]

18. Middle class would charge it.....

I paid cash....

[chaska]

24. Ah, I see. Thank God for loopholes.

[caty]

23. When you are in your

50's and someone takes you for early 40's, and that sounds young.

[WCGreen]

26. But I'm in my 40's.....

And people think I am in my 50's....

[otherlander]

28. Well...maybe it's the beard.

:shrug:

[WCGreen]

29. I think it's the white hair......

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. I believe that Will Rogers said it......

Something about having been down a lot of roads.....

And some of them weren't paved.....

Your face is terrific, just the way it is!

[lizziegrace]

32. So is this all we're getting out of this thread??

I expected so much more from all of you. Wasted :popcorn:

:(

[caty]

33. O.K. How's this?

When you can remember the birth of someone, and find out that that baby is now grown and has a child of her/his own.

[WCGreen]

46. That's a sure sign.....

[WCGreen]

34. Actually,

so did I....

Just call me Chris Greenworthy....

[Ptah]

37. I've got your ________ right here:

[Jade Fox]

36. Three words: Slip-on shoes.

Or is that two words? :shrug:

[WCGreen]

38. Two and a half.....

[Sanity Claws]

39. I think I beat you.

I wanted to treat myself to a gift so I went to Macy's and shopped around. I ended up with a frying pan. As soon as I was at the register, I thought that if someone else had bought me a frying pan as a gift, I'd have thrown it at him.
Sigh, the days of treating myself to pretty underwear seems to be over.

[txwhitedove]

40. Miss In-Search, honey, you must have been confused....

just possibly having a brief senior moment that day. Macy's IS for sexy underwear. Wal-Mart, et all, is for frying pans. Write it down cause lists really help at our age.

Oh, may I compliment you on that wonderful dry wit! :hi:

[WCGreen]

42. Pretty underwear is pretty underwear....

When I wear my colorful satin boxers, I feel sexy all over...

[lizziegrace]

43. Okay

name your colors...

[WCGreen]

45. I love the maroon ones....

I feel so randy in them.....

[lizziegrace]

52. Randy huh?

:evilgrin:

[WCGreen]

54. I have a little friend...

Named Randy....

[lizziegrace]

64. I thought randy was a condition

:evilgrin:

[WCGreen]

65. Well....

Just check in to see what condition my condition is in.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. Also need the size......

[WCGreen]

47. Which size.......

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Not THAT size!

:spank: :spank:

You know...waist size!

Or however men's briefs are sized......




:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[WCGreen]

50. Depending on the time of month.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

51. Oh really!?

Men don't have the time of the month!

At least, not the last time I heard!

[Kajsa]

53. LOL ! Hello, Peggy!

How are you ?

I just love this thread!

OK- you know you're middle aged when you can remember

"nickel" candy bars costing a nickel!
milk in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
The 'Howdy Doody Show'

I'll think of more-

I'm getting writer's block- or it's senility.

Yes, what color are those boxers, WC ?:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

55. My dear Kajsa!

I'm good...and also having fun in this thread!

Laughter is a very good thing, IMHO!

:hug:

[Kajsa]

57. It sure is!

It's good to laugh at middle age.

It get's so damn frustrating at times.

:hug: :D

[WCGreen]

58. What, speak louder will ya.....

[Kajsa]

60. ROLF !

:rofl:

[lizziegrace]

68. He said maroon

But I was hoping for Scarlet and Gray for the old Buckeye...

[WCGreen]

89. I'm not welded to the Maroon...

If scarlet and grey can help score a touchdown....

So be it....

[WCGreen]

48. Was it a good cast iron one....

Was it an electric one...

Details.....

[texanwitch]

56. When the music the kids are listening to is a lot of noise.

I reached that stage a long time ago.

[Kajsa]

59. Oh, yes!

Some of it is really static confusion.

Is that what our parents said about rock?

[texanwitch]

66. Yes, to them it was.

I have a niece that is 30 years old and she told me this very thing not long ago.

She said all the current rock music is terrible.

[WCGreen]

69. There is a lot of good music out there now a days....

You just have to look for it...

A lot of sophisticed irony wrapped around three cords, a chorus and a bridge....

[WCGreen]

61. Yea, about the time Rap started to be popular....

That was so not me...

Not so much the music but the suburban kids wanting to look like they were Urban Gangsters and all the anger against women....

I didn't get it...

[Kajsa]

62. At one of his concerts, Carlos Santana

asked the guys in the audience

" please stop calling women bitches"

I just love that guy.

Of course, he's middle aged now, too.

[WCGreen]

67. Yea, but he knows how to get the kids to play in his band....

I love the way he makes the kids better.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

63. Well, Chris......

You have always been a progressive man.....

Even in those younger days......

:hug:

[WCGreen]

71. Thank you darlin'

[Kajsa]

70. Hey, wait a minute! Let's turn this baby around 180 degrees.

Some of the coolest, most progressive people on this planet are middle aged.

In music;

Carlos Santana
Paul McCartney
Mick Jagger
Rodger Daltrey

the list goes on and on.

Middle Age is where it's at.
:bounce:

[WCGreen]

72. Hell, the Foo Fighters are approaching middle age....

[txwhitedove]

73. That's right. Age 50 is now the new 40. We're still young.

[lizziegrace]

74. How could you forget

Robert Plant? :wow:

:hi:

[Kajsa]

75. Robert Plant and

Jimmy Page :wow:

Shame on me! :banghead:

[lizziegrace]

76. It's okay

we all get forgetful as we age...

:)

:hi:

[WCGreen]

79. What were we taking about.....

[lizziegrace]

86. Were we talking?

:shrug:

[lizziegrace]

77. BTW

Welcome to DU!!

You fit right in!

[Kajsa]

78. Thank you, lizziegrace.

I love it here.

There are so many really nice people
to talk to at DU.:hi:

[riona]

82. You know when

you find yourself constantly looking for your reading glasses.

[WCGreen]

85. I had the surgery.....

Don't need them anymore...

[achtung_circus]

83. Middle-aged=

when that really hot MILF at work calls you SIR.

and she's not in your chain of command.

[WCGreen]

84. LOL!!!!

Been there....

[MissMillie]

87. Wow... that's really

pathetic

:hug:

[WCGreen]

88. Sure is.....

But I'm still excited because the other one, which wasn't weighted, really sucked...

[Midlodemocrat]

90. I WANT ONE OF THOSE!!!!!

And, no, it isn't a sign of middle age that I bought myself my gifts at Sur La Table. x(

[WCGreen]

94. It works....

And it is just heavy enough to pull and snap it off....

[Bridget Burke]

91. Did you know you can buy decorated paper towels....

With the pattern oriented for the "stand up" towel holders?

My favorite recent "find" at the grocery store. After Blue Bell's Tres Leches con Fresas, that is.

[WCGreen]

95. Ohhh La La.....

[lizziegrace]

96. Cool!

I got one of those when I moved into this house. I didn't know I could get ones that look good standing up. :)



:popcorn:

[WCGreen]

97. What will they think of next.....