If you're 60 or older, come join me. Let's talk, hang out, tease and support each other.

[Glenn]

Yep Grec; What's that old saying? Walk quietly and carry a big cue stick. Believe me, this old boy will still deck anyone who crosses that line though.

[Rockinonahigh]

Last year my son bought me a fancy walking cane, the handle is thicker than normal. Why?? Well it has a stun gun application if I ever needed it...yep big stick. I play a lot of pool in some not so nice places, last year there were a few car break ins as well as three people assaulted at there cars as they were getting in them. The pool halls mostly have one security guard but one isn't enough.
I'm glad to see people posting hear as it has bee far to quiet around hear.

[Daisy Chain]

I may offer that I think there is something both charming and masterful about a cane or walking stick, odd as that may sound and if its a Butch swaggering along with one even better ! *smiles*

Daisy

[Blind Melon Chitlan]

But the BS in our younger years is part of what taught us the ..."if I knew then what i know now theory/'

i'm just now retiring and yes scared as hell, but, still find it exciting to finally do what I really want to do. Even navigating the retirement process has been like a roller coaster. I'm loving it and the person I'm riding with !

[Rockinonahigh]

The last time I got in a scuffle was at our local g-bar (about 20 yrs ago), this butch I know was about 7 sheets to the wind and looking for a fight. I was minding my on bizzwa when he kept coming closer to be with every pass around the area I was at so finely he shoulder bumped me.. I said excuse me and went on with the conversation I was having with someone then he did it again only harder, so I moved to get some space between us so hopefully the nut case would just pass me by. No such luck, the fool was dumb enough to grab me by the shirt...wrong move...I stepped back turned to the left then bitch slapped him out cold...then went back to what I was doing. To this day I'm not sure he ever knew what hit him or who. Oh those were the days.

[puddin']

grey looks good to me now. i adore how i look, finally.

thangs i nevah understood i do now. i mean i really get them.

like how tides work, how lightenin' generates and executes itse'f, why deafness has a continuum, etc.

learnin' is nevah endin'...

[iamkeri1]

Rockin,

I laughed when I saw your post about the stun gun. When my youngest was about 14, he was in trouble with the law and at school on a pretty constant basis. He used to love running out the door yelling over his shoulder that he was going where he wanted and doing what he wanted to do, and there was nothing I could do to stop him. I used to comfort myself by visualizing myself dropping him to the ground as he ran away by zapping him with a TASER. Which, of course, at least at that time, eight years ago, were legal for private use in Florida with no license and no training required. I even spent quite a bit of time perusing the many vendors of these weapons who would sell you one or several, online, no problem. I never did buy one, but I thought about it REAL hard.

Be Careful when you go out, but keep going out. Have you found a job yet that you like? I know you love to cook. Best Wishes,

Smooches,

Keri

[Rockinonahigh]

Hi Keri.
How are you and good to hear from you.
Your son sounds much like my older boy at that age, he missed going to Juvi hall by a breath a couple of times. He got to running his mouth big time one after noon when he came by my job at the stock yards. He wanted money my car and was going out drag racing and who knows what then, as I wasn't in the mood to deal with it I told him to get home I would see him when I got home. He went home but got hold of my mad money in my lock box but couldn't get in it and he was pissed. I had all I could stand of this crap...thought about it a while then called my uncle who had strong connections to a military school ,the next day uncle came for a visit then went back with my very pissed off teen ager taking him to said school where he was enrolled in for the next year. Being in military school was a lot better than being in jail where his cronies ended up.
I have had to put off job hunting cause my left knee went nuts with arthritis so for the last long while I have been dealing with its foul pain. I thought my back issues were tough to deal with, oh heck just add arthritis in a knee joint to the mix...just bad. I had my back injected Tuesday so things are a lot better but I will need my knee shot up by my regular pain Doctor before long.
I tried another treatment with a different Doctor that worked the first time just fine but the second set of shots of supratz were useless didn't work at all, so now my regular pain Doctor is waiting for the stuff to clear out of my system before he gives my anything else, he said in a couple of weeks and that's doable.
So that's a wrap for me, what's been going on out your way?
Rockin

[Dean Thoreau]

Well here I am, almost another year gone by since my last post on this thread...Let's see,
Ok so I dated a few folks and am continuing the date thing......wow, interesting experiences,,,I have decided that at this age,,the first meeting is fascinating and very different...scheduling it has different issues as well:

Instead of bands you talk about your meds.
Discuss medicare instead of If we care.
Compare social security pay days to schedule the next date.
Instead of favorite songs you compare illnesses.
current events are the ones we read in AARP magazine.
Having a late date....means eating at six instead of the Early Bird menu : )
Staying out late is dependent on which one can drive at night, and if its neither it means....home before nightfall.
Having gas is no longer embarassing,,its a fact of life.and after we both say excuse me,,,3 or four times after dinner we just laugh and keep walking...
Transplants, pacemakers, eyeglasses, hearing aids, canes, walkers, are a fact of life and have to be figured in when choosing whose car we will use/ or where we shall go.....
Travel time includes lots of pee stops,,,and in the morning, after the diuretic kicks in, its more frequent.

Now for sex.....
wow,,,we both become 20 again.....and certainly feel free....can keep it going for days...if one has med breaks, pee breaks, fart breaks, ...and you just plan on using a lot of ben gay after the 3 day marathon, cause the back, hip, knee, elbow,,bones and muscles are sore. Of course neither admits that till the 5th day of the marathon, when the "hot showers" get longer and longer, and the lil nap turns into a 6 hour dueling snore fest with the breathing machines, O2, apnea machines,bp monitors, omg we should have brought a 50 foot extension cord and 12 outlet power bar to the hotel with us...u want to borrow my what did you say? for your what?

Oh those whispers of sweet nothings are now PA announcements so she can hear them when the hearing aids are out..."You won what?" You have a harpoon? Lets buy a truck??? oh oh....Lets truck? no? no that was a question no.....no not go....well if you want to go..No I dont want to go....no thats not snow....oh fuck what did u say? LETS FUCK well why didnt you say so???? dont need to shout...




(btw some of this is tongue in cheek, most of it is true, the sex part is true, and btw definitely bring a bright heavy duty extension cord with a power bar to the hotel.....extra batteries for what ever needs batteries )