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You Know You're Getting Old When...
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 15, 2011 (message contributor)
YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN...
• You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
• You watch the Weather Channel.
• You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
• You try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren't wearing any.
• When you say something to your kids that your mother said to You, and you always hated it.
• The pharmacist has become your new best friend.
• You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there.
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