OLD AGE, WHEN DID I GET OLD
I’m not even old and I feel old !
I get up at 3 am, my bladder wakes me up. Tells me I have to go but, I did at 930 when I came to bed? Doesn’t matter, still gotta go. When I get back to bed, I still can’t fall back asleep, gotta be up in a couple hours for work.
My aching body hurts and I still out work all the 20 year olds on the job. They say there back hurts? I tell them there in trouble if they’re already sore. My lower back pain is an every day occurrence, aches and pains are part of the pass into old age.
By 230 in the afternoon I wish I could take a nap, truth be told, depending on the job and the day... sometimes I do. I turn the A/C on in the truck and have a snooze. This was a daily occurrence when I would pick the kids up from school, kids got out at 3:15 and I would plan to get there at around 1:30-2:00. Griff would tell me “I seen you when I was out for recess, what time did you get here?” I would say it’s so I could find good parking and do paperwork but really it was nap time. With COVID here I really miss my afternoon school naps.
Exclusive video of Lee and I dancing with out our snap chat filters on to make us look youthful
Sitting on the couch watching tv or a movie and I almost always nod off, Lee tells me to wake up and watch. I try, I’m just so tired with out my nap.
We hear all the time from our kids that we don’t know what it’s like. Lee and I think we are pretty cool still. Yes we can’t tell the difference between 1080 or 720 when watching a movie, boys say “Omg the quality is so bad, how can you guys watch that?” We shrug our shoulders n say it looks good. I proceed to tell a story from my youth about how we would attach an antenna to the tv and lay it on the floor, this antenna has tin foil on the end because it seemed to help. It seemed to help us get SuperChannel, it cost $5 a month for this movie channel but that was too much to spend, so we did the antenna and tin foil trick to steal the channel for free. The quality was not 1080 or 720 , more like 120 .... the snow coloured tube tv was nothing to brag over. But it was free SuperChannel.
But now a days we spend $5 on coffee with out batting an eye, hundreds of dollars a month on our hand held phones and house hold internet services. Everything costs so much, yes maybe I’m getting old and grumpy, but I’m tired of getting gouged every where I go for money.
It’s hard to believe my parents were my age now when my sister and I were young. They felt so old to us, I’m sure they still felt young. We would tell them the same thing ours do now. They tell us that we embarrass them or daily occasions.
The way we do this or that. Use the golf cart to give Charlie a really good run. They get embarrassed pretty easy, I think it’s just there age. And Jake seems to influence Griff quite a bit, if Jakes embarrassed than Griff says he is too.
Any younger person that’s reading this blog, enjoy your youthfulness, your body full of energy and no pain. Your day too is coming. Keep your self fit and eat healthy and most importantly enjoy life everyday and live in the moment. My mind tells me yes I can do that and then my body says oh no you can’t, All jokes aside I feel pretty damn good. I feel young most days but Damn I would like my nap 💤
I think we’re still cool, maybe that’s the first sign we’re aren’t cool? Having to tell our kids that we are 🤷🏻♂️