What happened?

[59meteor]

Good analogy Limey, I will be 60 in a few months, and have been drag racing since 1974, and working on my cars a few years longer than that. I am astonished at how fast the pages of the calendar have been turning in recent years, in the past few years, I have had to use reading glasses, I have arthritis, my hearing is getting worse every year, yet in my mind, I still think (and often try) like I did decades ago, and get frustrated that physically, it ain`t as easy as it once was. I don`t have a hoist in my garage, and crawling underneath my car,and even worse, trying to get up again, is a lot harder than it used to be. Also have been going to a bunch more funerals than weddings in recent years. Funny, when I was 14 & 15, I was so anxious about my 16th birthday, so I could get my drivers license, it seem to take SOOOOOOO long for that magical birthday! Also, in the 70s and 80s, I had several cars that it seemed that I owned FOREVER, but was really only 3 or 4 years, my drag car I have owned for over 30 years, and only recently did I replace my old 74 F350, that I owned for 26 years. Whoever said the once you are "over the hill", you start picking up speed, sure had that right!

[Ford Blue blood]

A good friend gave me an analogy for life a few years ago.  It goes like this....run a tape measure out to the average life expectancy for males.  That would be in the 78 - 82 range.  Put your finger on the number on the tape that is your current age.....really puts mortality in perspective!

[geraldchainsaw]

to ford blue blood,    thats why i thru all of my tape measures away,