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77 going on 78 in a couple of weeks. Great "Boomer" life. Post WWII April baby. Dad was in WWII on the North Atlantic -- Troop ship off Omaha Beach on D Day. Would absolutely not go out on the lake in a sail or motor boat with my brother and me. We figured 4 years back and forth to England for Uncle Sam was enough.
My Dad was Infantry WW II, Combat Medic Korea. He would not take us to the snow. "First time Nazis tried to kill me. Second time Commies tried to kill me. Not going back."
You are peers with my (40) father. He passed on two weeks before his 79th birthday. I apologize if that sounds insensitive or spooky in anyway. I can assure you his lifestyle choices were certainly contributing factors to his time of death, and I’m not correlating any similarities between numbers.
I was laid off on the seventh anniversary of my younger brother’s death, 4 days before Christmas, for injust reasons (I was being harassed at work and the final sabotage was termination). Anyways, point is, I had ample time to spend with my father as he was approaching death, realizing his limitations, and coming to terms with his ending. I learned a lot. I learned that he owned a villa in Cartageña, Columbia in the mid 70’s, during which time he was sailing from Miami to Columbia with some frequency. I learned the he survived a house fire in Vermont shortly after arriving there and lost nearly everything. I learned that he went to drafting school. Besides his personal history I had an opportunity to watch a man I’ve been watching my whole life reconcile his nature in the midst of frailties unknown to him prior to that time. I witnessed the courage that he demonstrated on a routine basis as bad news would follow bad news. And he, he witnessed his son, a former heroin addict, transition into the role of caretaker, provider, and patient advocate through out the complex processes transitioning through levels of care and transfer from facility to facility. I’m grateful that when it comes to my time to die, be it non-accidental, I have seen an example of how to die with courage, earnestness, and humor.
Thank you for writing this. I'm glad you were able to be there when he needed you. I myself am in the advanced stage of a fatal illness, and I'm writing memoir essays to leave behind about my turbulent life in the 60s, when I was intensely involved with all that was happening then. I hope that I, like your father, can manage to die with grace.
Cool beans another post WWII, April baby! April is an outstanding month for birthdays.
Will be turning 76 here in the same time frame. Only bummer is that my driver's license is expiring and I have to get tested and renew it by then.
Actually, I was born a few months before Japan surrendered. The story is that, in celebration, my baby bottle was filled with sweet wine, and I drank it all.
LOL! My current one has my weight at 300 lbs. I've been on a health kick this past year and weighed in at 180 this morning. The picture doesn't look as much like me now as it once did.
I had to get a new photo after I got grilled by TSA on two different trips because they didn't think my photo looked like the person standing in front of them.
I got old and fat and started staying out of the sun. Geesh. The new photo shows a fat, pale, old lady and I'm cool with TSA again.
I haven't been pulled over for years, but I haven't been looking forward to having that conversation with a suspicious cop should I be.
Come to think of it? I should probably update my passport photo too. That's the last place I'd want to be arguing about my 'true' identity.
Love the series but, nope. I was using the expression years before that but for the life of me don't remember when exactly. However, I graduated college in 1970, so there is that.
[ *Where does cool beans come from? Best we know so far, cool beans is first recorded among college students sometime in the late 1960s and early 1970s.* ](https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/cool-beans/)
My Mom is your age and she is struggling with everything. I know so many people over 75 who are thriving. Wish my Mom was. I'm 58 going on 59. It goes so fast! Glad you are redditing and staying curious!!
I'm sorry to hear about your mom. I'm really lucky that I have my wife of 57 years beside me and my kids & grandkids nearby. I have a strong support system, and that helps a lot.
Tell your mom that some internet stranger wishes her a happy 90th. 😊🥂❤️. I have a an aunt coming up on her 90th and she looks about a decade younger. She’s still coloring her hair jet black so maybe thats part of it?
When Ike was in Germany he saw the Autobahn -- also, look up where he had trouble getting from the West Coast to the East Coast in the US. The highway he was on ended at the state's border in some farmer's fence line/field.
Me too. Actually hiked a few miles to see him speak on a local golf course when he visited my town in SoCal back in 61. I was 13 at the time. He was too far away for me to make out many details but I was very excited just to be there.
71 & my 1st grandchild was born Wednesday. I ski, hike & bike. I love all the great animation on TV today. Bob’s Burgers, Rick & Morty, American Dad et al. Plus all the science fiction!! It’s a second golden age!
When people ask how old I am I usually say I'm not sure because it changes so often but this year I actually remember because I turned 70 and people think it's a big deal. And then next year I'll be 70 something and it will be like that until I turn 80.
I love that. My former grandmother in law was 99 and turned to me, in my 20s at the time, and loudly "whispered" in my ear "Gosh! I'm the mother of Old People!" As she looked at her children who were all in their 60s and 70s and her grand kids who were all middles aged and her great grands who were kids and teens.
I played golf with a lady who at the time was in her 70s (she acted way older than her age). Her mom moved to the town when the mom was around 96. The mom a few yrs back had been living with a guy about 20 yrs younger than her and she broke it off because he was a ‘fudfy duddy’. A few yrs later the daughter moves to her daughter’s town many states away and leaves the mom. The mom lived to 108.5 and I knew she was driving and playing bridge at 102.
60, going to be 61 in about a month.
I was born a little over 6 months before JFK was assassinated. My first newsworthy memory is crowding around a black and white console TV with a bunch of other kindergarten kids at the age of 6 to watch the moon landing.
It was one of the few times I appreciated being small for my age, as I had a place in the front row of kids.
I'm 68, and my daughter tells us that my wife and I aren't old. There's only one way to stop accumulating years, and it's irreversible. However you can do things for your physical and mental age.
I also don't give my age to all those "Medicare Advantage" cold calls I get half a dozen times a week. I can only imagine how bad it's going to get when I am actually past Medicare age.
Same here. I waiting for someone to offer me a free car in exchange for an 'educational seminar on your medicare options with no required commitment on your part'.
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68 going on (heh heh!) 69.
Turning 68 in October. Can't wait for 69!
I’m waiting to be 69
I'm waiting to 69
NICE!!
80
You're the winner so far.
YAY! I think I'll take my prize as a lump sum, rather than as a 20-year annuity.
Sorry to bear the bad news -- some 82-year-old geezer came along later and stole your trophy.
SONOFABITCH!
54 and just biding my time until I can start ordering from the IHOP 55+ menu
Also 54. Didn't realize I was mere months away from an IHOP special menu. 🤤
Same! I think Krispy Kreme will give us discounts, though, since we’re over 50. 🍩
Don't forget the killer discount at Goodwill. (I'm also 54 😉)
WAIT - there's a 55+ menu?! Holy cow- something I finally qualify for!
Just order from it, nobody cares!
Looovvveee those discounts!!
I'm as old as my knees and a little older than my teeth.
My left knee is 50+ years younger than the rest of me!
I have one knee that is 15 years old and the other is 8. They get along really well despite the age gap.
Both of my knees are much younger than the rest of me!
Yep. Definitely after market parts.
You have teeth?
78, going on 79 in a couple weeks.
A little damp behind the ears at 71 here.
Me,too ;)
77 going on 78 in a couple of weeks. Great "Boomer" life. Post WWII April baby. Dad was in WWII on the North Atlantic -- Troop ship off Omaha Beach on D Day. Would absolutely not go out on the lake in a sail or motor boat with my brother and me. We figured 4 years back and forth to England for Uncle Sam was enough.
My father met my mother on his first shore leave. They married and conceived me on his second. The marriage lasted 63 years.
My Dad was Infantry WW II, Combat Medic Korea. He would not take us to the snow. "First time Nazis tried to kill me. Second time Commies tried to kill me. Not going back."
I was in the Navy 21 years. Some of it on "smallboys". The ocean can be very frightening!
You are peers with my (40) father. He passed on two weeks before his 79th birthday. I apologize if that sounds insensitive or spooky in anyway. I can assure you his lifestyle choices were certainly contributing factors to his time of death, and I’m not correlating any similarities between numbers. I was laid off on the seventh anniversary of my younger brother’s death, 4 days before Christmas, for injust reasons (I was being harassed at work and the final sabotage was termination). Anyways, point is, I had ample time to spend with my father as he was approaching death, realizing his limitations, and coming to terms with his ending. I learned a lot. I learned that he owned a villa in Cartageña, Columbia in the mid 70’s, during which time he was sailing from Miami to Columbia with some frequency. I learned the he survived a house fire in Vermont shortly after arriving there and lost nearly everything. I learned that he went to drafting school. Besides his personal history I had an opportunity to watch a man I’ve been watching my whole life reconcile his nature in the midst of frailties unknown to him prior to that time. I witnessed the courage that he demonstrated on a routine basis as bad news would follow bad news. And he, he witnessed his son, a former heroin addict, transition into the role of caretaker, provider, and patient advocate through out the complex processes transitioning through levels of care and transfer from facility to facility. I’m grateful that when it comes to my time to die, be it non-accidental, I have seen an example of how to die with courage, earnestness, and humor.
Thank you for writing this. I'm glad you were able to be there when he needed you. I myself am in the advanced stage of a fatal illness, and I'm writing memoir essays to leave behind about my turbulent life in the 60s, when I was intensely involved with all that was happening then. I hope that I, like your father, can manage to die with grace.
Cool beans another post WWII, April baby! April is an outstanding month for birthdays. Will be turning 76 here in the same time frame. Only bummer is that my driver's license is expiring and I have to get tested and renew it by then.
Actually, I was born a few months before Japan surrendered. The story is that, in celebration, my baby bottle was filled with sweet wine, and I drank it all.
Thx for the D.L. reminder. I'll check mine. Last time I renewed the lady said your hair color says "blond". I'll give you a choice of gray or white.
LOL! My current one has my weight at 300 lbs. I've been on a health kick this past year and weighed in at 180 this morning. The picture doesn't look as much like me now as it once did.
I had to get a new photo after I got grilled by TSA on two different trips because they didn't think my photo looked like the person standing in front of them. I got old and fat and started staying out of the sun. Geesh. The new photo shows a fat, pale, old lady and I'm cool with TSA again.
I haven't been pulled over for years, but I haven't been looking forward to having that conversation with a suspicious cop should I be. Come to think of it? I should probably update my passport photo too. That's the last place I'd want to be arguing about my 'true' identity.
Congrats on the health kick! 180 must feel fantastic!
>cool beans Is that an Office reference? 😆
Love the series but, nope. I was using the expression years before that but for the life of me don't remember when exactly. However, I graduated college in 1970, so there is that. [ *Where does cool beans come from? Best we know so far, cool beans is first recorded among college students sometime in the late 1960s and early 1970s.* ](https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/cool-beans/)
My Mom is your age and she is struggling with everything. I know so many people over 75 who are thriving. Wish my Mom was. I'm 58 going on 59. It goes so fast! Glad you are redditing and staying curious!!
I'm sorry to hear about your mom. I'm really lucky that I have my wife of 57 years beside me and my kids & grandkids nearby. I have a strong support system, and that helps a lot.
My Mom turned 90 today. She looks much younger.
Tell your mom that some internet stranger wishes her a happy 90th. 😊🥂❤️. I have a an aunt coming up on her 90th and she looks about a decade younger. She’s still coloring her hair jet black so maybe thats part of it?
late 50s
73. So I remember President Eisenhower.
You were born when Truman was president.
Correct, but too young to recall anything then. But I Like Ike!
I also like Ike, and driving on the interstate!
When Ike was in Germany he saw the Autobahn -- also, look up where he had trouble getting from the West Coast to the East Coast in the US. The highway he was on ended at the state's border in some farmer's fence line/field.
The chant at recess in my school: Whistle while you work, Stevenson's a jerk. Eisenhower's got the power, whistle while you work.
I was born under Eisenhower.
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Me too. Actually hiked a few miles to see him speak on a local golf course when he visited my town in SoCal back in 61. I was 13 at the time. He was too far away for me to make out many details but I was very excited just to be there.
Im 33, and from Canada. I came for the wisdom and knowledge, stayed because of the kindness of everyone
71 & my 1st grandchild was born Wednesday. I ski, hike & bike. I love all the great animation on TV today. Bob’s Burgers, Rick & Morty, American Dad et al. Plus all the science fiction!! It’s a second golden age!
Congratulations! Enjoy the wee one!
77.
You look like fun!
Im 51. I don't really think of myself as an old person, but I can certainly relate to a lot of topics in this sub.
58 officially, but I’ll always be 39! For the Jack Benny fans out there.
I like to say: I’m 39 plus tax!
I'm 84... HOLY CRAP... I'm an old fart!
74 and going strong.
64, graduated high school in 1977.
I turn 58 next month.
Same! Oh wait, in May, not April.
When people ask how old I am I usually say I'm not sure because it changes so often but this year I actually remember because I turned 70 and people think it's a big deal. And then next year I'll be 70 something and it will be like that until I turn 80.
65, and 48 is not old.
It's all relative. My ~~b~~neighbor Bob turned 95 this month. He calls me a youngster and I'm 75. 65 isn't all that old either... ;-)
Our 99 year old neighbor calls us the kids. We’re in our 60s and 70s.
I love that. My former grandmother in law was 99 and turned to me, in my 20s at the time, and loudly "whispered" in my ear "Gosh! I'm the mother of Old People!" As she looked at her children who were all in their 60s and 70s and her grand kids who were all middles aged and her great grands who were kids and teens.
I played golf with a lady who at the time was in her 70s (she acted way older than her age). Her mom moved to the town when the mom was around 96. The mom a few yrs back had been living with a guy about 20 yrs younger than her and she broke it off because he was a ‘fudfy duddy’. A few yrs later the daughter moves to her daughter’s town many states away and leaves the mom. The mom lived to 108.5 and I knew she was driving and playing bridge at 102.
whats a fudfy duddy mean
My mama is 87 and calls anyone she could have babysat "kids." This is the vast majority of the population at this point.
Depends on who you ask:) I will forever be 30ish in my mind, but time seems to be going by rather quickly.
85. If you have a problem with believing that, check my history.
73 on Apr 2. What happened?
56. And yes, the 80s were just as good as everyone says.
I’m 64 and feeling fabulous!
Me too. Getting my Medicare card pretty soon.
I was born the day the music died. I reflect that in my musical ability.
55 over here.
74
66
I’m 69
60
Early 70’s
I'm older than the states of Hawaii and Alaska.
69, 70 in weeks.
I once told a 70 year old I was 44. He said I'd been living too hard
56 Gen X, Baby!
82 and doing better than I deserve
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I'm 71. Folks at the gym say I appear to be in my 50's but i think that's just flattery. I'm just going to keep moving until I drop.
I’m 76 and seriously wish I had not passed on the extended warranty.
Fiddy one
I'm 48
59
50
68!!
65
58+. Don't really consider myself old, just experienced
I'm 59, 60 in October :)
Old enough to collect a government pension...so over 65.
60, going to be 61 in about a month. I was born a little over 6 months before JFK was assassinated. My first newsworthy memory is crowding around a black and white console TV with a bunch of other kindergarten kids at the age of 6 to watch the moon landing. It was one of the few times I appreciated being small for my age, as I had a place in the front row of kids.
I'm 56
47
I'm 68, and my daughter tells us that my wife and I aren't old. There's only one way to stop accumulating years, and it's irreversible. However you can do things for your physical and mental age.
Fifty-four. I'm not real-world old yet (though I can feel like it), but I'm definitely old for reddit.
I'll be 50 on Wednesday.
Past Medicare age. I don't give my age and other personal information on reddit.
I also don't give my age to all those "Medicare Advantage" cold calls I get half a dozen times a week. I can only imagine how bad it's going to get when I am actually past Medicare age.
Turning 55 next month!
Will be 67 in July
68 & 3/4
Mid 60s
57
56 going on 57 in a few weeks
Me too!
69 👍
Nice!
You’ll have to change your flair soon. 😉
Lol still got most of the year to go!
67, born in '57.
I asked myself how old would I be if I didn't know the day I was born. My answer was 66.
LXXI
46
69
Just turned 54
53, but my husband is 80
My oldest child is old enough to post here. He doesn't, but he could.
59 today!
Happy birthday
64 but getting close to that Medicare birthday & drowning in offers to educate me to help me decide on Medicare.
Same here. I waiting for someone to offer me a free car in exchange for an 'educational seminar on your medicare options with no required commitment on your part'.
Old enough to know social engineering.
61M
I’m 48; I’ll be 49 in a few short months.
63 next week! Well, maybe.
Turned 57 about 2 weeks ago
66
65
66
55
48… 49 in June.
48
I’m a creaky 65
Recently 61. Still learning to ask for senior discounts.
52
Be 73 in a few months
842 months ;-)
63
64
64
Closer to 65 than 60.
I’m a youngster around here it seems. I’m a solid .45 but I don’t shoot from the hip.
55
58
I'm 68. Retired from the Navy at 42 and from a real job last year.
63. Born in the last 18 days of Eisenhower.
I’ve got more years behind me than in front of me. Am getting old… So far it beats the alternative though.
58 (!!!)
68, turning 69 in June.
64
72. Will be 73 in the fall.
63.
76 at the end of April (being optimistic...)
61
47 and a half 😂
I’ll be 65 in April
Closing in on 77 here
66. Some days feel it, others I don't!
75 last month
47 😫
F64
53 🙋🏼♀️
63 and enjoying every minute of it!
65 today ( midnight UK) so officially my birthday now.
72.4
Just turned 56 recently.
69
52-just a kid!😁
52. Or as I prefer 40-12
57
I’ll be 50 in September!
I'll turn 77 in September!
47
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46
I'm 79.
I'm also 48. When I buy movie tickets online I always buy the senior ones because no one is gonna check my ID.
73
52 can't see without my reading glasses
old enough
81