How many of you don't Care how old you are

Could not agree with you more. Age is a number that I pay little attention to.

Its just a number and when I get that Orange and Blue box in my hand from the local train store I feel 5 years old again and all the problems and pain just go away.

I try not to think about it, as I just turned 50....

Hopefully, cybernetic implants will be available during the next 10 years so I can start replacing bad parts with robotics!

Just turned 69 on October 12th. I did not feel a year older, only one day older. I enjoy every day for that day. I believe this hobby keeps us all young at heart.

See everyone at York.

 

thanks.

jim r from www.bridgeboss.com

I was born in 1961, which makes me 51.
I received a heart transplant from a 16 year old in 2001.
Then I received a kidney transplant last year from a 29 year old.
So I have three birthdays but can't quite figure out the math to determine how old I am...

Bert

Mr Nabisco, 

Since the heart and kidneys are 2 of the major organs, and weighing them statistically, while dividing the total number of major organs by two....

Determines your age to be 37!

i don't want to know how old i am---anyway i forgot!

I'm just seven....decades.  (Sure sounds younger that way, doesn't it? )

Age is a case of "mind over matter." "I don't mind.....and it doesn't matter!"   Tom in PGH

Age doesn't matter to me at all. I try to be happy, kind and helpful, during my journey.

 

At my age, I take seriously that I have more days behind me than ahead of me. Thus, I don't let anybody rush me - those days are over. Retirement means every day is Saturday, for me, at least.

 

I've also noticed folks appear to have a certain expectation that I will bring some maturity and judgement to situations and circumstances, and I've been called upon to be a peacemaker on more than one occasion (and did so effectively.) I believe folks expect a certain measure of wisdom, so I try to measure-up.

 

I find that I feel peaceful almost all the time (except for some traffic in certain east-coast cities.) Also, I feel the beauty of life and Nature, it seems, increasingly more poignantly, as time goes onward. In a word, I feel grateful. I dont feel an age, just an outlook. Grateful.

Frank M.

Age is important for only a few things:

• Driver's license
• Legal to drink
• Old enough to vote
• Collect Social Security

 

I'm somewhere between the first three and the last one and that's the only time I think about age.

 

ALL of the above plus MEDICARE. 

 

PS: Will turn 70 on Saturday. 

I've defied the doctors and am still upright after 15 years of king sized medical issues.  So each morning when I wake  and see the light I get nervous until I realize it is the sun and not the dreaded "white light"

 

I love every day and appreciate all that I have in family and friends. I am so lucky and blessed.  And on top of that I get to play with my trains. I'm having way too much fun to be or to feel old.

 

Ed

I am firmly and decisively mired in the "metal" age!

 

Silver hair.

Gold teeth.

Lead butt.

I am allmost 5 years post transplant (kidney). Those are the only years I wish to count. As for the trains, they are what will allow my granddaughter and I to be the same age, no matter what it is!

I've heard it said that you're only as old as .... wait, what what were we talking about

Model years are for cars!

I don't know how old I am, I'm too busy having fun!

 

Andy

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"At my age, I take seriously that I have more days behind me than ahead of me. Thus, I don't let anybody rush me - those days are over. Retirement means every day is Saturday, for me, at least."

 

Well said Frank!

 

Jack

I was watching some drywall hangers the other day, I never saw anyone work so fast in all my life. Try that all day long as you approch retirement age.

I go to a retirement age group at a big church I go to. I say to myself I sure hope I don't look as old as these people do. Many of them are older than me but I am sure they think I look old too.

As Indianna Jones once said in the Raiders of the Lost Ark when told that he wasn't the same man he was 10 years ago, "It's not the years, it's the mileage."

Despite the mileage I still feel young at heart!

 

Steve Tapper

The passing of the years and the passing of the gas....they both happen all too frequently at this stage of life!

 

...But it's still better than having the preacher talk about my passing!

 

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis

 

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?  ~Satchel Paige

 

KD

 

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So, is it time to get up?............................or is it time for my nap?

Not only do I not care how old I am, I don't care how old any of you are either.

Folks tell me to act my age...I say,  you can give up having fun, I'm not!

This is one great thread.  Very informative.  This morning I figured out Nicole's address of N. Q. D. Y. is Not Quite Dead Yet.

I'm 72.5  years old and have been retired 77 months.  If I can't go to sleep, running my trains for 20 minutes or so is a great sedative.  My interest in trains started during WWII, watching the Santa FE hauling countless trains go by each day on the Hutchinson cut off .

I love showing my layout ( which is pretty bland compared to a lot of the layouts that have been displayed on this forum) to kids of all ages.  I also enjoy good humor and other model railroaders.  I thank our savior every day that I can get out of bed and seeing my needs.

Al

What really counts for you hairy-legged old guys is: how old is your prostate?8  

You know, the Official Proclaimer of Seasons, Daffy Duck, looks young after all those years of being shot by Mr. Fudd.  Buggs also looks good.  Must be the carrots!

Mother is 84.  Turns to a kid riding Houston METRORail and seeing UP 844!

Of course I don't care about the age except for Medicare, S.S., retirement plan, driver's license. and so on.

I don't care that I'm 420 dog years old.  But, I am an old dog if you know what I mean.  Woof.

UP 844 is 68.

Age?   AGE?   I'm 8!

68 and feel like 50.  New reconditioned prostate, regirth after 4 heart attacks, and plan on going for another 30 or so!!!

I don't give a !/$&-:#%€ about how old I get, but I do look forward to my birthday!  It's another special day to buy trains.  My birthday along with national holidays, other people's birthdays and the first robin of spring landing in my yard are great milestone dates to buy trains for my railroad!

 

You only grow old once, but you can be immature forever! 

 

Still the best reply.

 

Pete

No, funny thing is that the older we get the less you care what people think. The less you care the more fun you have and i'm having alot of fun

I do care how old I am, I just can't figure out what I can do about it.

Today I feel like I felt in my early twenties when I sat on my foot locker and some carrott top 2nd Lieutenant was using words he didn't know the meaning of.

Agreed……………..

 

Regards, 

Swafford