Old Age Is Not For The Chicken-Hearted!

[JimPage]

Scene: Ambulatory Colonoscopy Recovery Room, Laurel, Maryland; 08/05/10, 8:50am

RECOVERY-ROOM NURSE: Mr. Page, do you know where you are?
JIM: Lady, please get off the stage.
RRN: Mr. Page, where do you think you are?
JIM: We're on the stage of the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville, the man next to me is Mister Chet Atkins, and I am calling Security . . .
RRN: Mr. Page, you are in Laurel, Maryland; you are in a recovery room, and you just had a colonoscopy.
JIM: Guard, this woman is insane and disruptive . . .
RRN: Mr. Page. Open your eyes and look around.
JIM: What the heck? Where am I? Where's Chet?
RRN: We'll give you some apple juice once you get your bearings.

[dubtrub]

Isn't getting old fun?

[mosman]

Actually I'm not getting older it's just that everybody else is getting younger. When I look around I see police and school-teachers who look like teenagers and shop staff who look like school kids ... there's something weird going on here.
Or something ... I need a nap.

[wombat]

I hate it when I have to deal with cops, and Doctors who are clearly much younger than me.

[mosman]

I also hate the way they print words so small and blurry these days. I remember years ago newspapers and books had big clear type which was so easy to read. I guess the printers now are young and lazy.

[juan_10]

Hehe , Buttons getting smaller ... those press button phones used to be OK , you know just after the ones with a rotary dial .. but these new ones ..even to read the screens I need to put on my 'reading ' specs.
Texting ... forget it .. that blackberry phone with the tiny tiny buttons...no way.
At least with the newer touch-screen gizmo's I won't need to put on two pairs of specs to read what the buttons are.

One of my many jobs was as a theatre plaster technician , it's so funny what people say in the recovery room ... mind you, I've had one of those camera jobs just like Jim , I dread to think what I must have said as I was coming round ... and then they offered me a nice cup of tea !

[olrocknroller]

They knock you out for that??? Cool! Up here in Canuckville, you get to watch the show on a little TV they put in front of you...now there's entertaining programming!

olrocknroller

[Haole Jim]

But how old would you be...

...if you did not know how old you are?

[Haole Jim]

In about 5 years, more than half the USA population will be over 50.

[rog43win]

@Jim........well, I'm in the club now....lol........I had one done on Thursday......the worse part is, last Sunday night, I got the 24 hour bug, and spent 6 hours Sunday night in the bathroom, getting myself cleaned out from both ends.......then when I had to drink the 4 litres of colon-blow on Weds, there wasn't much to clean out..
Glad to say there were no polyps or problems....Doc told me to get another one in 10 years....let's see, I'll be 77 then.....uhmmm.........I don't plan on scheduling that one, lol.

Roger