YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN...

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YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN...

1. You pay for your groceries at Publix in the self checkout, and before you walk out of the store two bag girls ask if you need help getting your buggy out to your car.

2. You are driving your late mother's car, and her disabled tag is still in the side pocket, and you think about parking in a disabled space.

3. Your former clients, friends, and acquaintances begin their sentences with "He was..." and suddenly realize you haven't died yet.

4. The worship leader asks everyone to stand for the song service, and the chair you are seated in seems like a better option.

5. You grow a goatee to cover up the wrinkles on the south side of your face.

6. You use outdated words like "swell," "keen," and "cool."

7. You criticize the "holey" jeans and pants "hanging off the arse" fads, but you appear at Walmart in your pajamas.

8. You were born in the first half of the 20th Century, you knew people who were born in the 19th Century, and the child of a soldier who fought in the Civil War.

9. You learned to type on a manual typewriter.

10. The great grandchildren of adolescents who once attended the boy's group of which you were a leader are now attending the same group.

by Bill McDonald, PhD