Observations on Growing Older  ~Your kids are becoming you…and you don’t like them …but your grandchildren are perfect! ~Going out is good. Coming home is better! ~When people say you look “Great”… they add “for your age!” ~When you needed the discount you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything… movies, hotels, flights. ~You forget names … but it’s OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!! ~The 5 pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds. ~Your husband is counting on you to remember things you don’t remember. ~The things you cared to do, you don’t care to do, but you care that you don’t care to do them anymore. ~Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring than he does in bed. It’s called his “pre-sleep”. ~Remember when your mother said “Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident”? Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident! ~You used to say, “I hope my kids GET married … Now, “I hope they STAY married!” ~You miss the days when everything worked with just an “ON” and “OFF” switch. ~You use more 4 letter words… “what?”…”when?”??? ~Now that you can afford expensive jewelry, it’s not safe to wear it anywhere. ~Your husband has a night out with the guys but he’s home by 9:00 P.M …next week it will be 8:30 P.M. ~You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you’ve read it. ~Everybody whispers. ~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet…. 2 of which you will never wear. ~But old is good in some things: old songs old movies And best of all OLD FRIENDS!!