What "old person" things do you do?

[disneychrista]

Eventually, yes. It took about three hours of swearing and pulling my hair out.

It was something simple that I kept overlooking and should have caught within the first 15 seconds.

It usually is. I work with numbers all day long and sometimes you just have to walk away and come back to it. Then when you go back to it BINGO, there it is.

 

[Imzadi]

Read actual books instead of using an E-reader.

I'm the other way. I NEED an E-reader because my eyes got worse after Lasik eye surgery. I need to be able to enlarge the font or read with reading glasses.

 

[720L]

Go to bed early, get up early, listen to CDs and the radio (no satellite music service), a rare "night out" is going to a friends and home by 9, no streaming tv service (yet, I really want one just can't decide which one), write my lists/reminders on sticky notes, my cell is used for when I'm away from home & some texting & it doesn't have wifi or data?? I don't know what its called but I have to use someones wifi to get on internet, still have a landline, barely have any apps on my phone & the ones I do have I don't use, no more high heels since I injured my foot last year wearing my high Sorel wedges....now it's only comfort shoes.

 

[ronandannette]

Eventually, yes. It took about three hours of swearing and pulling my hair out.

It was something simple that I kept overlooking and should have caught within the first 15 seconds.

Shucks, don't be so hard on yourself, Red - thirty cents was probably a big deal back in the dark ages!

 

[Nayan]

I go to bed very early, I knit/crochet, still use paper to write notes on, have cable/sat service, if I go out to eat hit the 'Early Bird Specials', listen to classical music, read an actual paper newspaper, read print magazines, I don't drive after dark.

I'm sure there's other things I am forgetting (oh yeah, forgetting things )

 

[Julie's Haircut]

I'm 60 and I'm seeking out places that offer a senior discount.

 

[disneychrista]

I fall asleep at the movies.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Fart?

 

[DVCjj]

I tell everyone to bring a sweater.

 

[E&Cmom]

I listen to music from way before I was born. I love the Standards. I also love old movies especially old movie musicals.

 

[slpeters]

Every time we're in the car and we pass an accident or a fire truck I will reach up and place my hand by the base of my throat (I do this involuntarily and it really does look I'm clutching my pearls) and say "Oh, I hope everyone's alright." And then my husband will pat my knee and say "I'm sure they will be grandma..." I'm a 48 year old man.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I listen to music from way before I was born. I love the Standards. I also love old movies especially old movie musicals.

Likewise.
Huge Mills Brothers, Ella F. and Louis Jordan fan among others. But I am beginning to think that is even older than old people these days. Like many older films and actors/actresses as well.

 

[JoeA]

When we watch TV, I ask my wife if she has “the clicker”.

 

[Nolcrest]

Everything! Listen to CD's (downloaded music on my phone for the 1st time yesterday), balance statements monthly, have never mobile ordered food, watch news and political tv, still use a landline and prefer it over a cell phone, can go days without using a cell phone, use an actual GPS and then also look at a map, don't wear white after labor day, send out Christmas cards, have never gotten a drink at Starbucks, have great work ethic, go to the library, still use the term pocketbook, wear pantyhose for a dress function, want another minivan and I have NO kids any longer, the list is endless...

 

[RedAngie]

Shucks, don't be so hard on yourself, Red - thirty cents was probably a big deal back in the dark ages!

It was at the time!!! I was a smoker, and 30 cents was probably worth 6 or 7 cigarettes at 1984 prices.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I used to enjoy "mallwalking" with my mom and her friends, and following up with sitting around drinking coffee and talking at a fast food place a few mornings a week. I would do that every summer when I had the time off to do that. I truly miss that more than anybody could imagine. I still continue the "old person" habit of walking for exercise, but it is just not the same anymore.

 

[Dean Kennedy]

Can be anything

I will start

Watch Songs of praise.

Take naps!!

 

[NFLDERS]

Just noticed this thread. My contribution is that cookbooks do not go in the refrigerator after use, and has anyone found my________!

 

[lilylindsay22]

Make a noise when I sit or stand back up

 

[Uncle Coaster]

I call places by the name of the place that was in that location when I was as a kid so that nobody knows what I’m talking about.

Real life example from this weekend: “I saw that Moore’s is for sale.”

Moore’s was a general store that closed 30 years ago. Several businesses took over the location since including a seafood store, which is what is now for sale.