- your babysitters start calling you ma'am and sir
- the kids YOU babysat have their license, are in college, or have even graduated from college
- you have to split a movie into two nights because you can't stay up long enough to watch it in its entirety
- sleeping late means getting up at 7:30 or 8:00 am (or 5 am if you're past 50)
- music concerts require ear plugs
- you can't drink caffeine after 3 pm without serious consequences
- TUMS aren't just for pregnancy
- you pull a muscle doing something you easily did just a few years ago
- you can say you've lived through part or all of 5 decades +
Feel free to add your own statements to the list. If I get a lot more, I'll post a revised version.
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I read this quote today in the magazine, The Week: "Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else".
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