Aging Again…

And what about aging again? I am aging and so is the hubby! So our life is about aging a lot. I am not yet 70. But hubby has been there for a couple of years. Is 70 when you start aging? According to me, it is, as I haven’t started yet!

Anyway, hubby bought a new Dodge Journey a year or so ago and it has very few miles and he takes very good care of it. He only bought it because he wanted me to buy it and I didn’t want car payments as I had only a few months of no payments when this deal came around.

He has a 2005 Chevy pickup with no air conditioning, no electric or automatic anything and it is beginning to rust. He took the box off and made a flat box that looks nice! His truck though is continuing to fall apart a little at a time.

I sent a picture to my kids of the odometer and I said that it could be dangerous riding with John. The odometer was reading almost 120 miles per hour.

My son wrote back and said, “Mom, you aren’t in much danger as the truck is out of gas!” I have to get up early to fool my baby! He is 44 years old. My older son who will be 50 next year said, “Are you guys living in the fast lane?” Right now the truck needs an odometer and gas gauge.

When hubby gets in to drive my 2015 dodge journey, he will say that he can’t drive my car anymore as he has gotten used to his new car and he has a backup camera on the rearview mirror of his car. I say, well, laa tee da! Then we laugh!

He is just not used to all of this modern technology! He won’t admit he likes it but he does and I do believe you can get spoiled with it, even though he will say it’s always that ‘junk’ that will break down first. With that junk, he is referring to the new technology.

We were on the road with a friend that is a good 10 years older than the hubby. He was telling a story that I enjoyed. He said, “There was a salesman that walked into an old store that looked like a store from the old west. In the store sat a Native American that was whittling on something.

The salesman had heard that Native Americans have long memories. So he asked the Dakota man what he had eaten last year on his birthday and he told him eggs.

He disregarded what the man said as he thought anyone could have had eggs on their birthday for breakfast and may eat eggs every day so no big memory thing.

A few years later the salesman was again in the same town, in the same store and he had learned a few other things about the Dakota tribe living in this state. He thought he would greet the man in the Dakota language that he met last time.

The salesman walked up to the same man that was there a few years before and said Hau (how) and the Dakota man said, over easy!” Great story. Good for a laugh.

Later I thought I heard our friend talking to himself and supposed that he talks to himself when he is alone at home. I just wondered if the hubby is going to do that too, as I already do! I have told him before that I have to have an intelligent conversation once in a while and we laugh!

I am sure glad that the hubby gives me some material every week! We are aging and our friends are too. The good news is they all keep me laughing!

One of our friends had a shoulder repair surgery yesterday and when the hubby talked to him, he was doing fine and ready to get out of there so he lied to the doctor and told them he had someone to stay with him at home when he gets out of the hospital.

When we wanted to know how it worked to quit smoking before surgery he said, “No problem as I had Nicorette gum and patches.” And he added that he would be going home soon.

Our friend’s worst complaint was that he couldn’t find anything to watch on television, even though there were hundreds of channels! He is in his 80’s too. It just occurred to me that maybe the hubby hangs around with those old guys to not feel so old! And maybe that is why I married hubby?

My hubby’s worst complaint when reading this was that I called his favorite pickup truck ever junk! I never did! So, I changed a couple of words. Then he asked that I not let my daughter and her husband that are Ford people see what I wrote!! Aging is good for laughs!

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