You know you’re old when:
- you go to bed fine, wake up the next morning, and your back is out.
- you stand up after sitting for a while, and you have a little Walter Brennan thing going. (If you don’t know who Walter Brennan is, this probably doesn’t apply to you. Yet.)
- you bend your knees a bit when you sneeze to “protect your back.”
- you sustain a napping related injury. You know, you wake up, stretch real big, and pull something in your neck.
- you take a car ride and stop somewhere to go the bathroom, and it takes you all the way to the door to stand up straight.
Along with fat migrating from one part of your body to another and hair doing the same, mysterious injuries are just part of getting older. Happened to Charlie the other day.
Gimpy Thing
“Charlie, what happened?”
They all want to know
“Why are you hobbling?”
Heck if I know!
It come out of nowhere,
Out of the sky!
I don’t know why
I got a gimpy thing going
Last night I was fine
Couldn’t complain
When I hit the sack
I wasn’t in pain
I got up to pee
But it wasn’t my plan
To limp to the can
With this gimpy thing going!
Was it lifting that ladder
When I was at work?
My hip tried to tell me,
“Now, don’t be a jerk”
But I didn’t listen
I gave it a try
Maybe that’s why
I got a gimpy thing going
Was it slipping on ice
Coming out of the shed?
Getting caught in the spread
When I got out of bed?
Buggers like this
Sneak up from behind
You just wake up and find
You got a gimpy thing going
So true! That’s it for now. Catch you on the flip side!
Hear Ida Tell It: You Know You’re Old When