Is it just me or can anyone else relate to this...:-)!

THE 5 STAGES OF LIFE   1. To Grow Up   2. To Fill Out   3. To Slim Down   4. To Hold It In   5. To Heck With It   And now that I've reached number 5 and a member of the august Senior Citizen group ----   I'm the life of the party even when it lasts until 8PM. I'm very good at opening childproof caps with a hammer. I'm usually interested in going home before I get to where I am going.   I'm awake many hours before my body allows me to get up. I'm smiling all the time because I can't hear a thing you're saying. I'm very good at telling stories; over and over and over and over... I'm aware that other people's grandchildren are not as bright as mine.   I'm so cared for: long term care, eye care, private care, dental care.   I'm not grouchy, I just don't like traffic, waiting, crowds, politicians.   I'm sure everything I can't find is in a secure place. I'm wrinkled, saggy, lumpy, and that's just my left leg. I'm having trouble remembering simple words like... I'm realizing that aging is not for sissies. I'm sure they are making adults much younger these days. I'm wondering, if you're only as old as you feel, how could I be alive at 150?   I'm a walking storeroom of facts.....I've just lost the store room. I'm almost a SENIOR CITIZEN and I think I am having the time of my life!   Now if I could only remember who sent this to me, I would send it to many more!   I haven't sent it to you before, have I?

-- Anonymous, March 10, 2002

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Ah, Marcia, You know me too well!

Wishing you enough.

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2002

That's great. Wish I had written it!

Wildman, (envious)

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2002

I seem to be jumping back and forth between #3 and #5 without passing through #4.

Won't leap the great void of forty until next month so I'm not OLD yet!

......Alan.

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2002

I do believe I skipped right over #3, struggled with #4 for awhile and now I'm at #5 and "settled" in!! And the rest is most definitely ME :-)!!

How well I remember my 40's.....!! BTW, Alan...are you on my b'day list?? Don't seem to remember your name there (maybe I'm having a senior moment!).

-- Anonymous, March 11, 2002