You know you're old when...

ezaircon4jc · 01-20-2025, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Do you wear glasses? I do, with bifocals.

If not you can get a cheap pair of reading glasses at your local drugstore. Will help a lot with small things.

I get my "cheaters" at Costco. It's something like $20 for 3 pairs.

Esteban · 01-20-2025, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

I get my "cheaters" at Costco. It's something like $20 for 3 pairs.

Definitely worth it. Get a lanyard, keep them around your neck and you're good to go.

vreihen16 · 01-21-2025, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

Just as I turned my head, my RX-8 was rolling very slowly out of the garage.
I leaped out of my chair and made a valiant effort to grab the front wheel
well. I missed it by inches, then watched in horror as my RX-8 rolled into
the right front corner of our year old GLK.

Back in my younger days, I rented a one-car garage at work to store whichever of my two cars I wasn't driving. During the summer, I hung the hard top for my Jeep CJ7 from the rafters with ratchet straps, and would park my VW GTI under it during the week and the daily driver Jeep under it on the weekends. I kept some of my race paddock gear against the back wall.

One evening after dark, I parked the GTI outside the garage door with its headlights shining into the garage while I went inside to get something from the paddock gear. I needed an extra foot of space, so I popped the Jeep into neutral and started to roll it backwards. TL;dr I cracked my head on the hard top hanging from the rafters, and was on the floor bleeding from my skull as the Jeep rolled backwards through the door and whacked my GTI hard enough to break a headlight bucket and make obvious dents in the hood and front fender.

No way was I going to submit an insurance claim for that one, because no adjuster would believe that two driverless cars collided with each other and the owner of both cars was injured in the incident.....

Joachim · 01-21-2025, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Feel like my mind is always in the mid 20s, but with the wisdom and common sense of an older man. Feels pretty good.

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Esteban · 01-21-2025, 12:24 PM

Here's a card I got yesterday for my birthday. What? You thought it wouldn't be about cats?

Joachim · 01-21-2025, 01:30 PM

Beautiful and funny card.
And Happy Birthday, belatedly!

Esteban · 01-21-2025, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Joachim

Beautiful and funny card.
And Happy Birthday, belatedly!

Thank you.

shannon1 · 01-21-2025, 04:15 PM

Happy Birthday Esteban! Hope you had a great day.

Esteban · 01-21-2025, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by shannon1

Happy Birthday Esteban! Hope you had a great day.

Thanks very much shannon1. Yes, had a nice, peaceful day with family.

3.0L · 01-21-2025, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

No way was I going to submit an insurance claim for that one, because no adjuster would believe that two driverless cars collided with each other and the owner of both cars was injured in the incident.....

I filed a claim for both cars as the sheet metal damage was pretty bad. Their
insurance adjuster called me and I explained exactly what happened. After a
few moments he read back his version of the incident that included, “driver
lost control of his car.” I replied, “no way, I wasn’t sitting in either car.” He
finally rephrased the description accurately. You have to really watch those
ba$tards or they will use a bad report against you in the future. Having said
that, that was only the 2nd time in my life I’ve ever filed a claim. The first
one was over 35 years ago when an uninsured drunk driver rear-ended our
Maxima and totalled it.

wizardofOz · Yesterday, 04:01 AM

Happy birthday Esteban

Enjoy your time!

wizardofOz · Yesterday, 04:05 AM

Does someone calling you an 'old soul' classify as a you know you're old...when your age and face feels like you just passed primary school compared to others...?

Llarry · Yesterday, 07:49 AM