You know you're old when...

[trof]

You need a jeweler's loupe to read the postage stamp sized owners manual for your new fit watch.

[agingdem]

1. I need a high powered flashlight and

3.0 magnifying reading glasses to read the back of a shampoo bottle and the expiration date on a can of soup...

[trof]

4. There ya go.

I wear an led headlamp.

[trof]

2. You start watching reruns of the Lawrence Welk Show and think..

Gee, that was actually a pretty good musical variety show. Lots of very talented people.
Oh dear...

[agingdem]

5. watch an old Perry Como Show and

wonder why I had a girly crush on the guy...

[trof]

7. AND I know all the lyrics to all the songs.

I can sing along.

[agingdem]

10. I have them downloaded on my phone...

along with the theme songs from Exodus and Giant...

[patphil]

11. You watch a Lawrence Welk Rerun and realize you saw it when it was first aired.

[agingdem]

14. I got one better..

Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess, a regular on Lawrence Welk...

[patphil]

17. Yeah, I remember him as a Mouseketeer.

[trof]

26. The two adult Mouseketeers...

I forget their names (Noooo, REALLY? ).
I always they were kind of ... creepy?
Like pedophiles?
I dunno.

[Kali]

3. take photo of it

load it to your computer and zoom to read! (also most manuals are on line already, try that. I am about done with microscopic fonts!)

[Walleye]

6. You know you're old when you know what a jewelers loupe is

[sorcrow]

16. And you know how to spell "loupe". nt

[trof]

28. DOUBLE BAM.

I did have to look it up.
Left off the e.

[trof]

27. BAM!

[Skittles]

8. what is it with those tiny booklets

F***!!!!

[wnylib]

21. And fine print on labels in stores that

you can't read even with reading glasses after cataract surgery.

I have multiple allergies, must check all labels and can't read most of them.

[usonian]

9. I am so nearsighted that I take my glasses off

to read almost anything, including this tiny iPhone.

There just HAD to be some upside to this malady.

That said, there are apps, including good old "camera" to help you read small print.

I use one to find my glasses when they disappear. The phone is as far as I can see without them.

Now, what was the question?

[Hoyt]

12. Before I had cataract surgery, did same. It was the one benefit of nearsightedness.

[ShazzieB]

24. Been nearsighted most of my life.

But these days, I can't read much of anything without my glasses. I can just barely remember what it was like to be able to read without them, but can't really remember when I lost that ability.

I am hoping to have cataract surgery later this year and assuming I will always need reading glasses!

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. There is a phone app for that!

Called magnifier....with an option to use the LED to flood the material you want to read. Very handy for miniature manuals and cooking directions on labels.

[ShazzieB]

25. Whoa, I had no idea.

Thanks for the tip!

[MOMFUDSKI]

15. Some years back, before I had an IPhone,

I was on a landline talking w/India regarding computer and he asked for Serial #. WOW. Chin holding phone, left hand lifting computer tower, right hand holding magnifying glass to read teeny weeny serial #. Like my daughter tells me, "Mom, you need someone videotaping you all day because people would PAY to see this stuff". I did find it funny AND I am easily amused.

[elleng]

18. I'm so old (or FIT) I know better than to obtain any such thing!

[sanatanadharma]

19. Wait a minute! You're supposed to know yourself as old?

Damn! I have only just begun to know myself as 'grown-up', as in "what do you grown-ups know, except groans?"
And now I need to know myself as old; but where did my old self go? I'd swear I used it yesterday.

It is like as long as I have known myself, Ive known only changes in the world around me, starting with my own body.
Myself I still know as the enthused knower of my youth, now driving a worn out car. Anyone want to trade?

[3Hotdogs]

20. To sum it all up, I'm 79 and soon to hit 80. I figured it out......

80, is the new 85.

[trof]

29. You are not far from wrong.

I'm 80 and I long to be just 75 again.
bother

[appalachiablue]

22. With all the lights in the house on and a high- powered hand

magnifier it works pretty well.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

23. I've been watching old reruns of Gunsmoke. I think I've seen just about all of them by now

so I watch them again as NOW I've forgoten the gist of the story.