
Aging Ungracefully
Just before the funeral services, the
undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, "How old was your
husband?" "98," she replied. "Two years older than
me." "So you're 96," the undertaker commented. She responded,
"Hardly worth going home, is it?"
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Reporters interviewing a
104-year-old woman: "And what do you think is the best thing about being
104?" the reporter asked. She simply replied, "No peer
pressure."
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The nice thing about
being senile is you can hide your own Easter eggs.
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I've sure gotten old!
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees Fought prostate
cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet
engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject
to black outs. Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation; hardly feel my
hands and feet anymore. Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends.
But, thank God, I still have my driver's license.
I feel like my body has
gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor's permission to join a fitness
club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I
bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by
the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.
An elderly woman
decided to prepare her will and told her preacher she had two final requests.
First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered
over Wal-Mart. "Wal-Mart?" the preacher exclaimed. "Why
Wal-Mart?" "Then I'll be sure my daughters visit me twice a
week."
My memory's not as
sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Know how to prevent
sagging? Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.
It's scary when you
start making the same noises as your coffeemaker.
These days about half
the stuff in my shopping cart says, "For fast relief."
Remember: You don't
stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing.
--- THE SENILITY PRAYER
: Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good
fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.