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CaliforniaPeggy

(152,070 posts)
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:01 PM Sep 2020

Some more Senior humor!

We discovered our age group!

We are Seenagers (Senior teenagers). We have everything that we wanted as a teenager, only 60+ years later.

We don't have to go to school nor work.

We get an allowance every month.

We have our own iPad and/or cell phone.

We don't have a curfew.

We have a driver's license and our own car.

We have IDs that gets us into bars and the wine shops. We like the wine shops best.

The people we hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant, they aren't scared of anything, they have been blessed to live this long, why be scared?

And we don't have acne.

Life is Good! Also, you will feel much more intelligent after reading this if, and only if, you are a Seenager.

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much.

People do not decline mentally with age; it just takes us longer to recall facts because we have more information in our brains.

Scientists believe this also makes some of us hard of hearing as it puts pressure on our inner ear.

Also, us older people often go to another room to get something and when we get there, we stand there wondering what we came for. This is not a memory problem; it is nature's way of making us older people do more exercise.

SO THERE!!

We have more friends we should send this to, but right now we can't remember all their names.

So please forward this to your friends; they may be our friends, too.

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Some more Senior humor! (Original Post) CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2020 OP
Thanks for the laugh, Peggy! Ohiogal Sep 2020 #1
YW, my dear Ohiogal! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2020 #2
That sums up my retirement. I live like a teenager with his own home, a car, and a monthly check. Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #3
Priceless CaliforniaPeggy! Thanks for sharing. alwaysinasnit Sep 2020 #4
wonderful nt Fresh_Start Sep 2020 #5
My wife and I are in the same position. Mr.Bill Sep 2020 #6
Absolutely .....OUTSTANDING....WONDERFUL...OK, BEYOND & BEYONED... Stuart G Sep 2020 #7
Welcome to the Seniors Group, my dear Stuart G! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2020 #8
Thank You for your kindness...I will be here often..Yes, I am a "senior" Stuart G Sep 2020 #9
And the reason our heads are gray wnylib Sep 2020 #10
The part about having everything we wanted when I was a teenager is totally true! Nitram Sep 2020 #11
k&r Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #12
Allright...I've got all that too bbbuuuttt..... diverdownjt Sep 2020 #13
Nailed it! (if only I could remember what "it" was). marble falls Sep 2020 #14
This is a wee bit serious for such a fun post, but soldierant Sep 2020 #15
I'm glad you brought this up! And no, there's no coincidence here. CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2020 #16
Why, thank you. soldierant Sep 2020 #17
I am getting close mdbl Oct 2020 #18
Thank you, Peggy. wendyb-NC Oct 2020 #19
LOL Kick burrowowl Oct 2020 #20
This explains SO much! El Mimbreno Oct 2020 #21
Hell & the hereafter El Mimbreno Oct 2020 #22

Ohiogal

(34,613 posts)
1. Thanks for the laugh, Peggy!
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:08 PM
Sep 2020

At least now I can explain to my kids why I’m absent-minded, hard of hearing, and.... I forgot the third thing.

Mr.Bill

(24,790 posts)
6. My wife and I are in the same position.
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 03:21 PM
Sep 2020

Plus the added benefit of great grandchildren we get to spoil. We wrecked the grandchildren decades ago.

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
7. Absolutely .....OUTSTANDING....WONDERFUL...OK, BEYOND & BEYONED...
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 07:04 PM
Sep 2020

....wait...what was the rest of this post.?..OH MY.....I forgot?...

......must be a "senior thing"...

not really, I just made this one up ......first post in the Senior group....wait maybe my 2nd post..???

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,070 posts)
8. Welcome to the Seniors Group, my dear Stuart G!
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 07:14 PM
Sep 2020

Glad to have you aboard.

It's a cool and interesting group of .......well, Seniors!

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
9. Thank You for your kindness...I will be here often..Yes, I am a "senior"
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 07:19 PM
Sep 2020


And I am very glad to be here, and there and still around the town....

wnylib

(24,376 posts)
10. And the reason our heads are gray
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 07:28 PM
Sep 2020

is the experienced and knowledgeable gray matter on the inside of our heads. So powerful it spreads outward.

It's true. A lot of people are saying this.

Nitram

(24,604 posts)
11. The part about having everything we wanted when I was a teenager is totally true!
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 12:04 AM
Sep 2020

And I am enjoying every minute of it (except for Trump and the GOP's plot to destroy democracy in America). When I was a teenager I wanted what I have now and had no idea how much I would later value my youth, my good looks, and my unlimited energy.

diverdownjt

(712 posts)
13. Allright...I've got all that too bbbuuuttt.....
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 09:34 AM
Sep 2020

I still have pimples on my forhead. What am I doing wrong.
I feel like a total loser dude...............

soldierant

(7,892 posts)
15. This is a wee bit serious for such a fun post, but
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 10:31 PM
Sep 2020

regarding hearing loss...

My mother lived into her 90's by which time she had extreme hearing loss (90% with state of the art aids)

Her mother lived into her eighties with severe hearing loss - had she lived as long as Mom, it could well have been as bad s Mom's.

I was in my fifties when I learned that, when Mom was a child, a favorite corporal punishment was to "box her ears." If Mom got this, yu know her mother got the idea from her own mother.

I am in my seventies, an age by which both had started to experience noticeable hearing loss. I have not noticed any yet.

Coincidence?

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,070 posts)
16. I'm glad you brought this up! And no, there's no coincidence here.
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 10:35 PM
Sep 2020

Your mom realized that "boxing your ears" could be damaging--and so she didn't do that to you.

You had a great mom, my dear soldierant!

soldierant

(7,892 posts)
17. Why, thank you.
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 10:51 PM
Sep 2020

I did indeed, in many, many ways. In just about every way.

My husband has been known to say he didn't know what lve was until he met her. How many men can say that about their mother-in-law?

mdbl

(5,471 posts)
18. I am getting close
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 07:50 AM
Oct 2020

hope the rug isn't pulled out from under me with repuglicans screwing up social security and medicare.

wendyb-NC

(3,800 posts)
19. Thank you, Peggy.
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 08:49 PM
Oct 2020

It's perfect, and oh, so true. You made my day! I'll pass it on, and post it around the house so I can refer to it often.

El Mimbreno

(782 posts)
21. This explains SO much!
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 10:08 AM
Oct 2020

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much.

People do not decline mentally with age; it just takes us longer to recall facts because we have more information in our brains.

Scientists believe this also makes some of us hard of hearing as it puts pressure on our inner ear.

El Mimbreno

(782 posts)
22. Hell & the hereafter
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 10:10 AM
Oct 2020

Also, us older people often go to another room to get something and when we get there, we stand there wondering what we came for. This is not a memory problem; it is nature's way of making us older people do more exercise.

I go to the shop, garden shed, or pantry and stand there thinking, "Now what the Hell am I here after?"

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