MY PERSONAL TOP TEN LIST: YOU KNOW YOU'RE MATURING WHEN:

My personal compilation: a top ten list of signs in the last few years of my imminent advanced age..... :)

YOU KNOW YOU ARE MATURING WHEN:

#10.  Your sister tells you that you're a cross between Dad and Grandpop!

#9.   A substitute teacher in your building informs you he graduated from high school with your son!

#8.   A coworker you assist in the classroom gives the students the word sparse as a spelling word and all that will come to
to mind is your hair!

#7.  You are reading a passage taking place during the Great Depression of the 1930's and a student raises his hand and asks if you were alive back then!

#6.  You are overseeing a student reading a story about Stevie Wonder at a computer and he raises his hand.  In amazement he exclaims, "Mr. B., Guess what!  Stevie Wonder was born in the 1950's and he's still alive!"  You proceed to tell him that you were born in the 1950's and it takes more than a minute for you to get him to close his dropped jaw!

#5.  You shovel two feet of snow after a blizzard and upon going inside, realize you've lost a lens from your glasses in the
snow.  It's nowhere to be found, so you frantically call BJ's for help.   They can have your new glasses ready in 24
hours, but in the meantime you go to work with adults that look like big blobs and children that look like little blobs, and you can only see half the TV.   You get the new glasses and upon asking the technician if she recycles old glasses, she guffaws and says to just  throw them away.  All is honkey dorey for weeks until the snow melts and you find the old lens in the front garden near the sidewalk.  You make the mistake of bringing the lens to work to show your coworkers, who know your story and nickname you Popeye and attach your found lens to a memo containing an announcement about you wanting to be called Popeye!

#4.  What's left of your salt and pepper hair is mostly salt, and you look at your shirt after a haircut and think it has snowed!

#3.  You gasp and scream when the hair stylist shows you the back of your head in that little mirror!

#2.  The receptionist in the Doctor's office thinks you are your mother's husband, and at the time she's in her 80's and your're in your 40's!

#1.  You raise your glasses and squint to see a student's paper and she shouts, "That's what my Grandma does all the time when she checks my homework......and she's like 50!!!!!"