Signs We Are Getting Old

[Hopeless Sinner]

Having a 25 yo daughter buying her first home.

[XXX-er]

Shoveling snow or splitting wood by hand does not make you more pure

it just hurts more

[CarlMega]

Shoveling snow or splitting wood by hand does not make you more pure

it just hurts more

The years of this being auxiliary exercise is over for me. My house is a terrain trap. Last year accelerated some nerve damage I had, not doing that again. Gotta be smarter now, which people tell me comes with age. No promises.

[riser4]

My wife said men over 50 shouldn't shovel snow due to heart attack risk. I have no idea if that's true, but I went with it. If I'm feeling passive aggressive and feel like the kids or my wife aren't getting to the driveway quickly enough, I'll go out and pretend to shovel.

[bennymac]

Shoveling snow = bending over somewhat awkwardly - then loading a bunch of weight that goes right through your lumbar spine - then twisting your lumbar spine with that weight away from your body with some overhead rotator cuff muscle use - and then repeat. While out in the cold - generally with zero warm up in advance.

[riser4]

Oh, it definitely fucks up my already fucked up back and rotator cuffs. I use a scoop as much as possible when I must do snow removal myself. I'm torn over getting a new snowblower. First, I am the killer of small engines. It's a special talent of mine. Second, I've killed an electric and a small gas snowblower because... Third, we just don't have a huge need anymore. But when we do get a dump, it's usually heavy, and wet, and requires your largest, most bad ass expensive blower that is overkill the rest of the season. I just can't justify $2K or more on something with an engine that will get fucked up from lack of use and proper maintenance. And I'm not aware of an electric blower up to the task.

[XXX-er]

Of course you ^^ realize one can just take half the swath instead of blowing up your snow blower by taking a whole chute full so i don't have to tell you that

IME I can blow a double drive way/ in front/ behind the house/ walkways while I am waiting for ski bro to show up and go skiing riding it is way more fun that shoveling snow

[riser4]

Of course you ^^ realize one can just take half the swath instead of blowing up your snow blower by taking a whole chute full so i don't have to tell you that

IME I can blow a double drive way/ in front/ behind the house/ walkways while I am waiting for ski bro to show up and go skiing riding it is way more fun that shoveling snow

Yes, I take narrower swaths. Duh. What I'm saying is we usually get at least one or two storms of cement that are beyond any amount of fractional swathing with current electric snowblowers, and those small gas blowers, that I know about. If there's an electric superblower that I haven't heard of, let me know.

[SumJongGuy]

Only had a legit need to shovel snow once (22" in the yard) in the past 24 years living here... Usually less than a foot, usually less than half a foot. I do go knock it off the shed roofs when it's more than 2".. Sheds not in great shape..

What we do have that's worse is fucking bamboo. Neighbors finally got most of it under control but it went unchecked right nextdoor for a good 10 years until last summer.

Just put the "done until spring" cover on the lawn mower though..

[Core Shot]

My wife said men over 50 shouldn't shovel snow due to heart attack risk.

Now I understand why my wife makes me shovel.

[CarlMega]

Ha. Only 4'' here today and I'm out braaping with the big guns and DGAF. My driveway is like 4 cars deep, plus back patio, death walkway metal roof slide zone between garage and house, sidewalk - and then over to our our 2nd house with an even longer driveway.

I do need to improve my aim as I can be a bit of a menace if I'm not paying attention. "So sorry! I'm old and can't see so good" [heh heh suck it shovelers]

[Diamond Joe]

Kinda cool how many ~70 year olds hang out here. This forum constantly impresses me.

This place might be filled with geezers but man y'all are funny as fuck. There is no other forum I can go where I will literally laugh out loud multiple times per thread.

[bagtagley]

I sit to pee most nights

Learned that in my 30s. In my 40s and now I sit to pee 99% of the time I'm doing it indoors. No shame.

[Diamond Joe]

If, when you're down tying your shoes, you think "what else can i do while I'm down here"?? You're getting old

If you don't even bother with pesky "shoelace shoes" any more and/or know what a "shoehorn" is - and own/use one - you ARE old.

[gravitylover]

I got one of those long shoehorn things. I fukn love it.

I'm that weird guy that likes shoveling snow. My back is fukd, etc etc so I just go slow and do it a few times during the storm. I had a heart attack a few years ago so I try not to push too hard.

[wkd-rdr]

Learned that in my 30s. In my 40s and now I sit to pee 99% of the time I'm doing it indoors. No shame.

Was biking with my 12 year boy. Dude was like, hey I need to pee.

Ok, we will do a pee stop.

Ok, I'm ready, he says.

I'm like, I haven't even got a stream going yet, man.

[riser4]

I got one of those long shoehorn things. I fukn love it.

I'm that weird guy that likes shoveling snow. My back is fukd, etc etc so I just go slow and do it a few times during the storm. I had a heart attack a few years ago so I try not to push too hard.

I haven't had my first heart attack yet.

[skaredshtles]

Was biking with my 12 year boy. Dude was like, hey I need to pee.

Ok, we will do a pee stop.

Ok, I'm ready, he says.

I'm like, I haven't even got a stream going yet, man.

I laffed. Gramps.

[gravitylover]

I haven't had my first heart attack yet.

Well, yeah, see what you can do about not having one. They fukn hurt bigly. There's a bunch of other reasons too but fuck that hurt.

[rideit]

Was biking with my 12 year boy. Dude was like, hey I need to pee.

Ok, we will do a pee stop.

Ok, I'm ready, he says.

I'm like, I haven't even got a stream going yet, man.

NO GODDAMN COMMENT

[PB]

I got one of those long shoehorn things. I fukn love it.
.......

Any one who's had abdominal/thoracic surgery has at least 2 or three. I do.

When can we start discussing the things that start to happen well after your old??

[Buzzworthy]

Learned that in my 30s. In my 40s and now I sit to pee 99% of the time I'm doing it indoors. No shame.

Middle of the night, yep. Daylight, no. Unless I’ve been drinking beers and aim start to go.

[MakersTeleMark]

Learned that in my 30s. In my 40s and now I sit to pee 99% of the time I'm doing it indoors. No shame.

Save your back, embrace the sink.

[PB]

Everyone knows the sink is for pooping.

[SumJongGuy]

I'm so old that I remember in football when the QB couldn't just fling the ball to the middle of nowhere to avoid a sack with 3 defenders hanging on him bringing him to the ground. They called it "in the grasp" and at that point dumping the ball didn't count as an incomplete pass. It was a sack..