OWG's: Are You Elderly ??

[74-911]

Local newspaper and TV reporters continually refer to persons in their 60's as being elderly, i.e. elderly couple robbed (they were 63 and 60), elderly man hit by car (he was 65), and so on.
Admittedly, I have to look in the rearview mirror to see 60 and I can't do all the things I could 10-20 years ago but damn, I still get around pretty well and certainly don't consider myself elderly.

What say you other OWGs, are you elderly?? If not, when do you think you will be ?

[masraum]

Unless you are going to live to the age of 120 or 130, then you are elderly. Elderly just means you're older, it doesn't necessarily mean that that you're decrepit, but it can be used that way.

[Jim Richards]

You're only as old as you feel. And I feel like...

[Bugsinrugs]

Get naked, stand in front of the mirror and tell us if your old. Me....I'm old!

[recycled sixtie]

Turning 69 next month. I notice a difference in energy level between being 60 and present age. More people call me sir now. It's what you make it though. My fil used to say when you hit 50 your energy level drops. It's true.

[pete3799]

OWG?.......old white guy?
Coming up on 62. Don't feel elderly.........decrepit yes..... but not elderly

[look 171]

I sure as heck feel like it sometimes. My wife tells me I sound like an old fart, always complaining to her about others and the simple thing they should do like keeping things in order. Yes, I am elderly already. When I really get there, watch out. Now, don't drive down MY street.

[lin7310948]

well im 75 and i dont feel elderly but i aint as interested as in working on one of my hotrods all night as i once was...same way i feel about my 47 year old partner of the last 14 years!!!

[oldE]

Yes I'm elderly. 61
That's why I teddered hay yesterday morning before I went to work, spent 8 hours talking to folks at the Tidal Power Center, then went and played and sang for two hours at the Bistro last night.
This morning I got up and got the barn ready for hay, set up the elevator and teddered the hay again before I went to work. We had 146 visitors today. When I get home I'll have to switch over the tractor from the rake to the baler and load the wagon as we bale hay. Then all I'll have to do is stow it in the mow.

Of course I'm elderly. If I was a kid I probably couldn't keep up.

Best
Les

[aigel]

If you look it up int the dictionary it apparently applies to everyone past middle age. But it also has the co-notation of geriatric, which you probably are offended by.

The goal is to be a kick ass "elderly" guy that outruns that reporter trying to write about him ...

G

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by look 171

I sure as heck feel like it sometimes. My wife tells me I sound like an old fart, always complaining to her about others and the simple thing they should do like keeping things in order. Yes, I am elderly already. When I really get there, watch out. Now, don't drive down MY street.

You ARE an old fart!

[74-911]

Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs

Get naked, stand in front of the mirror and tell us if your old. Me....I'm old!

Been there and done that.. unfortunately some things can't be unseen

Originally Posted by pete3799

OWG?.......old white guy?
Don't feel elderly.........decrepit yes..... but not elderly

Old White Guy ? yep, per my wife that is getting to be the generic use for us old guys of a certain age and up. And to add insult to injury, they also say we all start to look alike thus the OWG connotation..

Surprised no has posted to "Get off my Lawn".....

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

You ARE an old fart!

watch it bud

[Baz]

PROUD Baby Boomer here!

[Evans, Marv]

I have to look in the rear view mirror at 70. I'm noticing I'm not the bull of the woods I used to be. I have to actually exercise to keep my conditioning up, chest is starting to fall a bit, and I notice I get tired if I put in a whole day of physical work. I notice my mind is younger than my body. That sucks too

[wdfifteen]

There has been a precipitous drop in energy level between the age of 60 and 65. I'm feeling elderly.

[Hugh R]

61 here, I believe in things like pool robots, and gardeners. I get around just fine. We were filming at USC a week or two ago and I realized that the Co-EDs don't even see me.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs

Get naked, stand in front of the mirror and tell us if your old. Me....I'm old!

I'm in denial.

It's a real thing, I look in the mirror and am really happy. But if someone took a pic of me at the same moment, looking at it, not so much. It's really strange.

[Mark Henry]

Getting close to mid- fifties and I just spent 2 hours pitching hardballs to my 13 year old. I coach his team 3 nights a week and I do the warm up with the kids. Martial arts workout daily, classes 3 times a week. etc.etc.

But I see peeps my age that have one foot in the old age home, while I'm always getting asked what's my secret.
I always tell them and sure some people have bad luck healthwise, but from those who could be able I always get the same lame excuses.

Am I sore? Damn straight I am!
I look at it this way I'm going to be sore one way or another, so sore and healthy is way better than being sore and a sloth.

YMMV

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

I'm in denial.

It's a real thing, I look in the mirror and am really happy. But if someone took a pic of me at the same moment, looking at it, not so much. It's really strange.

Hey Shaun, cauzz ya sucking in that stomach. I do it at every family photograph. Hell, even at the DMV just in case if they catch the lower half of my bod. hey wait, ya aint elderly yet? Not from the pics I have seen pushing and pulling those old car onto the ramp