BS: The Things I Used To Do

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: mack/misophist
Date: 09 May 04 - 03:45 PM

It's starting to look like baked goods, pasta, rice, potatos, alcohol, most beans, oil, and butter are going to be nothing but sad, wistful memories from now on. Unless I have the gumption to spend more than half the time fasting.

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 May 04 - 03:43 PM

Actually I need a lot less sleep than I used to when I was younger.

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 May 04 - 03:27 PM

I'm learning to be selfish and put my own wants first for a change without feeling guilty.

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Sweetfia
Date: 09 May 04 - 02:49 PM

I used to throw tantrums when i was younger if i didn't get what i wanted...no wait, i still do that!! *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Peace
Date: 09 May 04 - 02:47 PM

Lots.

1) Stay awake for a few days, get four hours sleep and do it again.
2) Used to think nothing of a good run. Now, I have to consider taking a walk.
3) I used to have difficulty with the following: I was getting better lookong every day, and it would bother me. Now, I still get better looking every day, but it doesn't bother me at all.
4) I used to be able to plug targets at a hundred yards, dead center, no scope, no problem. Now I can't see a hundred yards. This helps considerably with #3.
5) I am finding it harder to stay angry with people. Even GUEST.

Bruce M

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 May 04 - 02:44 PM

I'm not as good as I once was; but I'm as good once as I ever was!
John

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Megan L
Date: 09 May 04 - 12:56 PM

At nine my dad ripped his breaks climbing a tree to scrump apples, at ninety my dad ripped his breaks climbing over a gate, I guess some folk find an age they like and stay there.

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 May 04 - 12:45 PM

I can't do a temporary "Lotus Positon" without actually breaking my knees.
I did the "Lyke Wake Walk" with ease in the early 80s now climbing the stairs too fast leaves me breathless.

I couldn't do a 5 mile "Fun" run, as in the early 80s without weeks of intensive training.And possibly monkey gland shots.......

Oh, my God !! the list is endless and it's all my fault.

Blimey, mt wife Ann and I jived for about 5 minutes at her 60th birthday party and we both had to sit down and gasp for a while.......

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 09 May 04 - 07:05 AM

Oh dear, trying to read this with humour and not dejection!

No not really. I still want to feel like that 28 year old, but since I no longer get the looks in the street from men the way I did at that age, the illusion has been well and truely blown.

I can't eat dairy products without emptying a room now, and I MISS MY CHEESE!

I can't smoke weed anymore without falling asleep, so why bother?

I can't drink, but then I never could really.
Same holds true for remembering people's names.

I can't flip my legs over my head anymore, but then there is little need for it now.

Mostly, I can't lie to myself as easily...which I've decided is a great benefit of getting older. (And I can't quite get myself to say "getting old" rather than "older" yet...but soon...soon...)

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 09 May 04 - 06:32 AM

Toes....now, there's a memory from the distant past!

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 May 04 - 06:20 AM

For the first 30 years of my life, I could eat anything I wanted, whenever I wanted and as much as I wanted. I thought nothing of toasting a whole loaf of bread (24 slices) with jelly, and drinking a quart of milk as a midnight snack, and wouldn't gain a pound. Now, all I have to say is Dunkin Doughnuts and click my heels three times, and I weigh another two pounds.

The good thing is, my tastes have changed in recent years and I don't feel the craving for pastries as strongly as I used to. Now, I pay attention to what I eat, am discovering all sorts of wonderful food that I enjoy, and can see my toes again.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 09 May 04 - 03:42 AM

I can no longer "go" as many times of a night as I used to (not divulging actual number). The only frequent "going" now is for nature's calls.

And I can still not get into those trousers I kept for 15 years for "when I lose weight".

But I have rediscovered the pleasures of handholding, cuddling, head-on-the-shouldering etc, only now without the embarassing and often painful side-effects I suffered in my youth. At least, not as often.

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Metchosin
Date: 09 May 04 - 02:19 AM

I can't do somersaults anymore without throwing up and sadly too, I have had to give up eating raw peppers, raw cabbage and cucumber.

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Amos
Date: 09 May 04 - 12:32 AM

When I was between 17 and 40, the face in the mirror looked a lot more like me than it does now. I don't recognize this older gentleman who keeps misappropriating my damned reflection!

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 May 04 - 11:52 PM

Isn't that the truth!

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: LadyJean
Date: 08 May 04 - 11:19 PM

Some years ago, I had a pleasant chat with the lady who was my mother's oldest friend. She met mom on their first day of school, and me when I was a week old.
She thinks she's 28. She isn't. She wasn't when I was a week old.
I think I'm 28 too. I'm not. I haven't been for a long time. But it was fun while it lasted.

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: LadyJean
Date: 08 May 04 - 11:17 PM

I was a Scottish highland dancer in my youth. My knees were reminding me of that today. Ow! Ow! Ow!

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 May 04 - 10:59 PM

Well, I still do the all nighters and the pizza but my body sure is different. I remember vividly one time at the beach- I was about 35- when a group of us were out walking on the sand on a glorious day. Unable to restrain myself to the pace of the older members of the party, I flitted hither and yon- about drove them crazy. Nowadays a lot of my energy is internal!

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 08 May 04 - 10:13 PM

How bout staying up all night with your girlfriend at the beach and being able to go to work at 0730 with no ill effects. Now I can't stay up past midnight without feeling like death is on my heels the next day.

Subject: RE: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Midchuck
Date: 08 May 04 - 10:04 PM

Get drunk. It's not that I've become more virtuous. The hangovers just got worse until they weren't worth it anymore. It seems like the only people over 40 who get drunk much are those who are drunk more or less all the time.

Peter.

Subject: BS: The Things I Used To Do
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 08 May 04 - 10:00 PM

Considering that many of us in Mudcat are high-mileage models, I suspect that we've all made our adjustments to bald tires (and bald heads.) Not that the adjustments are all bad. Some of the things I don't do any more are because I guess I've learned a little over the years. Some things I can't do, anymore. At least as energetically as I used to. Part of the changes that happen later in life is that as you get closer to check-out time, you want to use your time a little more wisely.

Here are a couple oothings I don't do anymore:

Stay up talking until dawn, thinking that my friends and I were wise enough to solve the problems of the world.

Eat a large pizza without burping, even once

Got any?

Jerry