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What are the benefits of getting older?

Please tell me

         

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10:10 pm on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm having a moment here. Remind me again about older and wiser, the golden years, etc.

Name one benefit of aging.

bakedjake

10:14 pm on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You get to say "When I was a kid..."

I've always wanted to say that and have someone feel like they have to listen to me.

mivox

10:26 pm on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Personally, I think back to my teen and early twenties and heave a big sigh of relief that I'm done with that silliness... but if it's not that simple for you, here are a few others:

1. If you have kids in the house, you get to say, "Because I said so."

2. People don't automatically assume you're ingnorant or stupid because of your age.

3. You get discounts on car insurance, because the insurance company believes you're "done with that silliness" as well.

4. You don't have to keep one hand on your ID the entire time you're in a busy bar.

Macguru

10:51 pm on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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5. You just start learning about so many things like cholesterol and stuff.

6. You finally can enjoy giving the 'I told you' line to someone after his bad fall.

nancyb

10:57 pm on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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instead of being a smart alec brat, you become an engaging curmudgeon. ;)

instead of blindly following every change in fashion (no matter how unappealing to the body) you wear what is comfortable.

Teknorat

10:58 pm on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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7. You find out what your prostate is.

8. You get to go to the chiropractors.

9. Eating rabbit food suddenly becomes a neccessity.

Oh the joy!

lawman

11:04 pm on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm an immature kid in a 54 year old (on December 17 anyway) body. Problem with that is my mind writes checks my body can't cash. :)

olwen

1:02 am on Nov 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You can have all your teeth taken out, and "enjoy" the experience of learning to cope with dentures. It's been 4 days, I cant wear the lwer ones at all, and I may never be able to chew again. But my teeth were so bad I couldn't chew anyway.

bunltd

3:08 am on Nov 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Name one benefit of aging.

Errrr.... Experience?

But seriously, I think that age is pretty much just a number once you reach a certain point.

Just refuse to age! I'm glorying in the fact that some of my son's friends say "That's your mom?" ;)

LisaB

vkaryl

3:56 am on Nov 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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lawman, I KNEW I liked you.... I'm 57 on Dec. 12....

[Edit: btw, I absolutely am not EVER growing up. Whyever would I want to do that? And LisaB, I get taken for my sister's daughter and my daughter's sister ALL the time.... makes it hard for the three of us to go places....]

skateboard

5:15 am on Nov 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Better at planning.

Leosghost

10:10 am on Nov 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Having kids .

HowlingWizard

9:58 pm on Nov 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Name one benefit of aging

It is better than the alternative.

Personally I plan on continuing to age for as long as possible.

SlyGuy

12:01 am on Nov 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Name one benefit of aging.

..you remember what it was like to walk to school, uphill - both ways, in the snow..with no shoes.

;)

Sly.

trillianjedi

3:54 pm on Nov 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You can get away with all sorts of stuff under the guise of senility.

TJ

hannamyluv

4:01 pm on Nov 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Having kids .

Making the kids. ;)

mivox

8:36 pm on Nov 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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It is better than the alternative.

ROFL! Too true. :)

duckhunter

9:06 pm on Nov 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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This reminds me of a favorite joke:

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. Life is
tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the
end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life
cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of
the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out
when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work.
You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your
retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready
for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid,
you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little
baby, you go back into the womb, spend your last nine months
floating . . . then finish off as an orgasm.

EarWig

10:31 pm on Nov 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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What are the benefits of getting older?

Passing wind and getting away with it!
:)

Webwork

12:42 am on Nov 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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When you get really old and end up in a nursing home you get to play graba** or grabanythingelse and get away with it.

I've had a number of occasions to visit nursing homes for clients and while walking the halls I've invariably had sex crazed or totally uninhibited frazzle-haired women octogenarians make the most amazing offers, often whilst reaching for - and sometimes, with amazing quickness, grabbing - the object of their desire.

Now I know what Mel Gibson must feel like sort of.

4css

4:18 pm on Nov 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You are not getting older, you are getting better.
At least this is what my husband sometimes tells me ;)

Age represents Wisdom in most people.

Those aren't wrinkles that you are getting, they are knowledge lines. ;)

The trick to aging, stay eternally 29, works for me!

cabbie

6:31 pm on Nov 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The girls look prettier.