How will you decide when it's time?

When the time comes I`ve always got my trailer decal to fall back on.:thumbsup:
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I've sure gotten old!
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought
prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything
quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that
make me dizzy, winded, and subject to
blackouts. Have bouts with dementia.
Have poor circulation; hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't
remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends.
But, thank God, I still have my driver's license.
 
I've sure gotten old!
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought
prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything
quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that
make me dizzy, winded, and subject to
blackouts. Have bouts with dementia.
Have poor circulation; hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't
remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends.
But, thank God, I still have my driver's license.

Remind me to never go to Colorado unless I can borrow a Abrams tank!
 
Geeezzz guys - lets have another beer and forget all about this.
I agree with Pete: Ya gotta "think through" the aging process, like the karate chop.

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It we focus on it, aging will only fulfill itself in our lives, and we will injure our hand, if ya know what I'm getting at.

For me, I get up each day with a very narrow focus; planning the next bike ride. Little else.

I'll be cruising the Catskill mountains this coming Wednesday.

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...as I’ve said before, the boys didn’t stop playin’ cause they got old, they got old cause they stopped playin’....

On the matter of when I stop doing something, I think it is a state of mind thing and so as long as I am able, I will decide.

Over the course of my life, I have tried to follow the wisdom of Winston Churchill who, on the matter of giving in or giving up, said....

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well he didn't do so good at Gallipoli did he , that's one he should have given up earlier due to the overwhelming force of the turks .. etc etc , that's one of his balls ups
 
well he didn't do so good at Gallipoli did he , that's one he should have given up earlier due to the overwhelming force of the turks .. etc etc , that's one of his balls ups
Whaa??
On a saturday evening, we're parsing Churchill???..;)
Me, I'm tuning in to the Indycar race from Iowa.....its about to start after a big storm hit the track....

....and having another cold beer.
 
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DE: that's a great pic. Dog really do know how to lean while riding in vehicles.

Reminds me a a dog we had a few years back. She loved to ride in the truck with me but at times had problems if I turned too fast. So I finally got in the habit of warning her "Left Turn", "Right Turn" and she did much better after that!
 
well he didn't do so good at Gallipoli did he , that's one he should have given up earlier due to the overwhelming force of the turks .. etc etc , that's one of his balls ups

The main reason for the evaporation of the caste system in Britain after WWI was upper class officers sending sending the lower classes needlessly to their doom. In civilian life, the upper class was accustomed to making demands of the lower, with the lower obeying for their livelihood.
 
The main reason for the evaporation of the caste system in Britain after WWI was upper class officers sending sending the lower classes needlessly to their doom. In civilian life, the upper class was accustomed to making demands of the lower, with the lower obeying for their livelihood.

That might be one of the reasons my mom's dad decided to move his family to the States back before WWI, but then once that got started he took a train to Toronto and enlisted in the Canadian army. He did manage to make it back home but as I understand his health was not the best after that and only lived to some time in his fifties. One of the people I truly regret not having the honor to have met.
 
On the 50th anniversary of mankind's first moon landing, last Saturday, another kind of new record hit the electric car community.

Legendary drag-racer Don Garlits, who was setting racing records before the moon landing, set two new speed records in an electric dragster in the quarter mile, one for a time of 7.235 seconds, and the other for a trap speed of 189.04 mph at the end of the quarter mile, Hot Rod Magazine reports.

In addition to his eight national drag racing championships in the sport's fastest Top Fuel class, the 87-year-old Garlits—known as "Big Daddy" in the sport—also held the previous record for a quarter mile pass in an electric dragster set in 2014 at 184 mph.

87 years old and trying to go 200 mph.
To think I'm only 62 and get nervous going past 70.
 
Carpal tunnels fixed, knee replaced, 6 year cancer survivor, aortic valve replaced (and a by-pass)... as long as they can fix what's wrong with me (physically), like the main character in "Yellowbeard" said, "...you won't catch me dying all over the place! You'll have to kill me before I die!..." As long as I'm still on this side of the grass... :rock:
 
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