An unfortunate truth about old men.

Ultradog MN · Sep 23, 2018

Old men have reached the point in life that they are looking at their own mortality.
They realize life is finite and think to themselves,
"Hmmm, I likely only have 10, 15 or 20 years left here so I'd better make the best of them. I think not only will I be super cautious in all things from now on but I will use the respect I've earned to warn others about how fragile and precarious life is. I think I'll go around and warn people about safety all the time and contact my elected reps and try to get laws passed to require people to act safely and responsibly in all things. So they aren't allowed to do the dumb things I've done all my life. Never mind that everyone will think of me as having lost my manhood, my dignity, my fearlessness and maybe even my mind. I have wisdom now and everyone darn well better listen to me. After all, I'm only saying these things for their own good. It doesn't matter if people agree with me or not, I have more experience in life than they do and that experience of course makes me right.
I want to make it so no one does anything that the collective (which I now belong to) thinks is risky or dangerous, has any manly fun and spends the final 10 years of their life in a retirement community where all things are safe, planned and easy to forget.
Yeah, that's what I'll do; I'm scared now so I'll be a pest and be bored and watch a lot of forgetable telivision that does not teach or edify.
And I'll live to be a Hundred and be bored and miserable and teach others to be right like I am."

Traditional Farmer · Sep 23, 2018

Think you about nailed it.Kinda like when a person has a parent die that they never bothered to go see or help out never tires of advising others with living parents on how lucky they are they have their parents left and should make the most of it etc etc.

rrlund · Sep 23, 2018

Ya,I don't hound people about being active as much as I'd like to. I don't want to be "that guy" who keeps preaching about one thing. I guess if I have a better retirement because I can still do the things I've been waiting to do then so be it. I've got a 45 year high school reunion coming up in a few weeks. I already know the shape some of those old coots are in.

As far as having wisdom from age,that's why I have a real problem with my state representative,even though he's a member of my party,being younger than my sons. When he was campaigning I told him he needed to get a job and have about 30 years of working life experience before he had the audacity to think he could represent me.

JF in MI · Sep 23, 2018

Right on! I can't tell you how many times my life has been saved by the labels on the side of car batteries that say 'Do not drink contents'.

LAA · Sep 23, 2018

Nobody listens to anything you tell them anyway, I know I didn?t, everybody has to make their own mistakes. The only thing I try to advise my grown children about is to take advantage of the Roth IRA, that tax free money is sweet.

Greg K · Sep 23, 2018

You're spot on. Of course you could include old women in that one too, scared of anything being potentially possibly unsafe regardless of facts.

dpendzic · Sep 23, 2018

I don't want government to tell me what i have to do to supposively make me more safe' If i want to ride my Honda without a helmet that is my choice. if i want to operate my tractor or bulldozers without a seat belt that is my choice- If i want to enter an environment with grater than 50 ppm carbon monoxide that is my choice

rrlund · Sep 23, 2018

I was just asking the wife this morning why the sign was over the hand wash sink at McDonalds in Stanton saying "This sink is for hand washing only!". Just one that says "Hand wash sink" isn't enough? What else are you gonna do in it? It's way too small for a bath.

Crazy Horse · Sep 23, 2018

Yup, stay out of our lives government, let us do as we wish (like ride our ATV's without a helmet, not use a seatbelt, etc) ....... but be there when we need ya for a handout or a bailout or somethin' else that comes up like our heads being squished after hitting a fence post and the first responders have to save our lives. Actually, those rules are there for a reason, we just haven't figured it out yet.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 23, 2018

Well if a person was pretty tall I can think of one thing......(LOL)

steve706 · Sep 23, 2018

Keep in mind the vast majority on this site are Americans and live under a different set of freedoms compared to Canadians, they have better choices and more rights. You use the name crazy horse so you maybe you have connection to the native community, so the rule of sending Indians to residential schools was there for a reason, and we figured out it was wrong,but hey, it was in place for their own good right?

Elton Fancher · Sep 23, 2018

I expect old men have been the same as long as there have been old men. With any luck you might get to be an old man too. When you watch your friends and relatives make the same mistakes that the people before them did and then want to warn younger people, that is not a bad thing, maybe futile.

dpendzic · Sep 23, 2018

well first i have never asked the government for a hand out, hope to never in the future--second I am a first responder but am appalled for the calls for help to our ambulance for headaches.stomachaches,cut finger,etc---we have a very big list of our frequent fliers!

Hay hay hay · Sep 23, 2018

I bet most of us would be surprised at what percent of our taxes go to pay for the care of those that did what they wanted until they hit a tree (or some other equally stupid act), then we got stuck with the heath care bills and raising their kids and providing housing.
I have often thought we should let all these daredevils do whatever they wanted ...after they had signed a waver. But we would still spend tons of money airlifting them to save their lives, and we would not let their children starve, or shiver in the cold. Same with our life time Kentucky smokers. We have the highest rate of lung cancer and outrageous healthcare costs due to smoking.......And we all knew it would kill you 60 years ago when I was playing sports in high school. Fact is we have a big safety net under people and I don't think any of us have the stomach to see the children suffer for their parents stupidity.

Now the next 3 posts will say that riding without a helmet is safe and smoking is OK because grandpa smoked until he was 87, when he was shot by a jealous husband.

jwmfarms · Sep 23, 2018

You'd be surprised what people wash in a fast food restroom sink, probably even appalled! Homeless people think those "bathrooms" are really for bathing!

dpendzic · Sep 23, 2018

when i got shot a few years ago I paid the just under 10k helicopter bill out of my own pocket--even though i insisted I didn't want a helicopter, an ambulance was good enough to get me the 5 miles to the hospital

rrlund · Sep 23, 2018

This one's right behind the counter,next to the soda dispensers.

rrlund · Sep 23, 2018

I knew a woman who was hooked on pain pills who would call an ambulance when she couldn't get them any other way. Once she was taken in as an emergency case,they had to treat her. Her husband followed her there one time and tried to physically remover her from the emergency room and they called the cops on him and charged him with interfering with medical treatment.

SARG · Sep 23, 2018

I started thinking life was a lottery about ten years ago. When younger I flew overseas and other stuff that now I would not consider doing.
Today the concept of getting on a plane and being totally at the mercy of someone I have no idea about 30000 feet in the air ... the pilot .... is just a gamble I'm no longer willing to take.

Hay hay hay · Sep 23, 2018

Yes but if you had no insurance or no principles they would have sent the helicopter anyway...guess who pays?

DPittman · Sep 23, 2018

So at what age am I supposed to start doing all these things? I thought this was gonna be about the walking toots.

Crazy Horse · Sep 23, 2018

Better choices and more rights, not sure I would agree with that but he rest of your post I'd go along with. Keep in mind though Steve that going back in history, a ton of stuff on both sides of the 49th at the time was thought to be correct and later found out to be anything but. As time moves along though, we all hope that decisions made by those who are paid to make them are thought through and for the benefit of society as a whole, not necessarily for an individual. Probably not a whole lot of us here on YT that really have any legitimate complaints compared to many in the world.

M-MAN · Sep 23, 2018

Must be talking about some other old man. Realized my mortality a long time ago & I've surpassed it so the only thing that limits me is this old body gives out faster than it used too. Too old to die young and as long as everyone else leaves me out of their deathwish ain't none of my business what they do.

RandyB(MI) · Sep 23, 2018

I've always said, "growing old is easy...doing it gracefully is the hard part" .

IA Roy · Sep 24, 2018

Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse.

Live fast! Wouldn't know how to.

Die young! Too late.

Good looking corpse. Ain't gonna happen.

An unfortunate truth about old men.

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