Age - Minus Nine Months = Only a Gleam in Daddy’s Eye!
Age - Plus Six Months = SOON!
Age - Zero = E.R. Ward - Daylight at End of Tunnel!
Age - One MINUTE = WAAAAAAH! It’s A BOY! It’s A GIRL!
Cigars All Around!
Age - One Year = First Happy Birthday!
Age Seven Years = the Supposed Age of Reason =
Knowing Right from Wrong? But - Do They?
First Confession and First Holy Communion.
Age Twelve = ALMOST TEENAGER - YAY!
Age Thirteen Years = Confirmation or Bar/Bas Mitzvah.
Age Sixteen = SWEET SIXTEEN = First Kiss?
First PREGNANCY? No Contract Abilities!
Age Eighteen = Old Enough to Go to WAR and DIE!
BUT - NOT TO VOTE - in Some States!
Age Twenty-One = ADULT! = Responsibility! =
Legal DRINKING Age! = Set ‘Em Up, Joe!
Age Twenty-Five = Almost Middle-Aged - AND -
Hopefully - a College Graduate - BUT BROKE!
Age Thirty = CONGRATULATIONS! = MIDDLE-AGED!
Age FORTY = Over The HUMP! =
ALL DOWN-HILL NOW! WORK YOUR BUNS OFF!
Age Fifty = Welcome to AARP!
Start Thinking About RETIREMENT PLANNING!
Age Sixty-Five = USED TO RETIRE AT FULL SSA BENEFITS!
Now - ADD 6-9-12 Months or Get PENALIZED!
AGE SIXTY-EIGHT = ME! = OLD - BROKE - RETIRED -
BUT - Still Must WORK Part-Time or STARVE!
Age Seventy = Usually = WELCOME TO NURSING HOME!
Age Seventy-Five = Still Alive, but No More JIVE!
Age Eighty = DUH? WHO AM I?
Age Ninety = WHO ARE YOU?
Age Ninety-Five = EVEN KIDS ARE DEAD NOW!
AGE ONE HUNDRED = FULL CIRCLE! =
BUT WHO CARES, OR GIVES A RAT’S RECTUM?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
Yup, and would you believe, some 68-year-old guy in Gaza City is waking up in a bomb crater saying "THANK YOU, LORD, FOR ONE MORE BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL DAY !!!"
Wendy will love this one, too, since you included "Bar/Bas Mitzvah".
Government actuarial tables say that folks born in 1940 were supposed to live to be 62. So I guess we died in 2002; dang, we missed our own funeral :-)
Enjoyed your comical look at age and aging. I know what you mean about the trapped teenager--I'm the same (teen) age as you, and well acquainted with the aches and pains!
Don't despair, God has plans and a purpose for you and me. I want to be on duty, ready for His directions all the time. Even in old age, said the Psalmist, He is with me. SURE!
cONNIE
Good top part. Did not spend much time on bottom one. Was too confounded by the top part. Yes, we are lucky to be here each day and I am fortunate too that I woke up alive again and don't I know it. Your writes are good though throughout the year.
Who are you again & I am only 54, but then again I am not shore, you're only as old as you look, and brother when i saw you last summer, well, I can't go on or I might lose what few teefies I got left...;-) Ed
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I think I'm just gonna quit counting, and keep living!
Yup, and would you believe, some 68-year-old guy in Gaza City is waking up in a bomb crater saying "THANK YOU, LORD, FOR ONE MORE BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL DAY !!!"
Wendy will love this one, too, since you included "Bar/Bas Mitzvah".
Government actuarial tables say that folks born in 1940 were supposed to live to be 62. So I guess we died in 2002; dang, we missed our own funeral :-)
Ted
Be always safe,
Karen
Don't despair, God has plans and a purpose for you and me. I want to be on duty, ready for His directions all the time. Even in old age, said the Psalmist, He is with me. SURE!
cONNIE
"Thank you, Lord, for one more beautiful, wonderful day!" AMEN!!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.