Can you relate to this??? . . .enjoy . . . nancy v . .(from Iowa)
Over the Hill
> 40 SIGNS THAT YOU'RE OVER THE HILL
> 1. You're sitting on a park bench and a Boy Scout comes up and helps
> you cross your legs.
> 2. You keep repeating yourself.
> 3. Lawn care has become a big highlight of your life.
> 4. You tune into the easy listening station ... on purpose.
> 5. You light the candles on your birthday cake and a group of campers
> form a circle and start singing "Kumbaya".
> 6. Someone compliments you on your layered look ... and you're wearing
> a bikini.
> 7. You keep repeating yourself.
> 8. You start video taping daytime game shows.
> 9. You wonder why you waited so long to take up macrame.
> 10. Your insurance company has started sending you their free calendar
> ... a month at a time.
> 11. At cafeterias, you complain that the gelatin is too tough.
> 12. Your new easy chair has more options than your car.
> 13. When you do the "Hokey Pokey" you put your left hip out ... and it
> stays out.
> 14. One of the throw pillows on your bed is a hot water bottle.
> 15. Conversations with people your own age often turn into "dueling
> ailments".
> 16. You keep repeating yourself.
> 17. It takes a couple of tries to get over a speed bump.
> 18. You discover the words, "whippersnapper", "scalawag" and
> "by-cracky" creeping into your vocabulary.
> 19. You're on a TV game show and you decide to risk it all and go for
> the rocker.
> 20. You begin every other sentence with, "Nowadays ..."
> 21. You run out of breath walking DOWN a flight of stairs.
> 22. You look both ways before crossing a room.
> 23. You keep repeating yourself.
> 24. You come to the conclusion that your worst enemy is gravity.
> 25. You go to a garden party and you're mainly interested in the garden.
> 26. The waiter asks how you'd like your steak ... and you say "pureed".
> 27. You start beating everyone else at trivia games.
> 28. You frequently find yourself telling people what a loaf of bread
> USED to cost.
> 29. Your back goes out more than you do.
> 30. You keep repeating yourself.
> 31. You refer to your $2500 stereo system as "the hi-fi".
> 32. You make it a point to attend all the RV shows that come to town.
> 33. You realize that a stamp today costs more than a picture show did
> when you were growing up.
> 34. Your childhood toys are now in a museum.
> 35. Many of your co-workers were born the same year that you got your
> last promotion.
> 36. The clothes you've put away until they come back in style ... come
> back in style.
> 37. All of your favorite movies are now revised in color.
> 38. The car that you bought brand new becomes an antique.
> 39. You keep repeating yourself.
> 40. You find this list tasteless and insensitive.
