The 50-Plus Room - for

[bitslinger]

Questions for people but mostly for the guys
Do you do social (partner) dancing?
If so what kind?
If not, do you wish you could? What stops you?

My wife and I like to go out dancing. Where we live, on "ladies nights" at the C&W bar there's live music. She gets in free and my cover is around $10, with no drink minimum. There's usually a decent sized group of people our age. There's all types dressed from casual to meat market sexy. I'll usually nurse a beer all night, while my wife might order from the well or stick to water. So, for under $25 we can dance for a couple of hours. It's fun to people watch and gets our own juices flowing. It's good exercise, and done right dancing is like having sex with our clothes on. Sometimes when I turn her or pull her in for a 'trick', I'll let her know what I plan to do to her when we get home. The music is loud, so no one else hears .

 

[Lilianna23]

55 straight married male from the midwest. Just joined and I saw this thread figured it was for me lol. I started to read the posts but 75 pages is too much!!!! Glad to see more older people around talking and doing what you all are doing.

Welcome! I think we're the fun group on Lit! Even the youngsters try to crash our thread!

 

[Lilianna23]

Did that at the cabin after Christmas when it was -30°F. Went outside for only essential things, like fetching firewood and performing bodily functions.

That's when modern miracles like indoor plumbing come in handy!

 

[Lilianna23]

Something about life has definitely changed lately. I keep noticing old people who are younger than I am.

IKR? The older I get, the younger everyone else is! 70 doesn't seem that old to me now!

 

[Biggalute]

I read all the blurbs, 'age is just a number' 'old is the new young' and I get it, my mind and attitude to many things is young, (although I do enjoy being a reactionary old git sometimes)
One time in my early twenties I was giving out about something and a girl, who had a soft spot for me, said, "You're going to be a really grumpy old man, I think that's so sexy."
I don't know about the sexy, but I'm embracing the grumpy old man thing

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Questions for people but mostly for the guys
Do you do social (partner) dancing?
If so what kind?
If not, do you wish you could? What stops you?

Im about to start a dance in my town, and would like to get some thoughts I do expect a significant 50 plus audience.

Wife and I used to dance at clubs. Then kids and adulting sort of ended that. We’ve talked about taking Salsa dance lessons, but wife now needs a knee replacement so plans are on hold till after that.

 

[Wh_te_er]

IKR? The older I get, the younger everyone else is! 70 doesn't seem that old to me now!

Isn't 70 the new 30 or something like that???
Just a number anyways. Old is all in the head. I know 30 year Olds that act 80 and 80 year Olds that act 30 so........

 

[AlexBailey]

I've been in the trades long enough that I'm being hired to replace old and obsolete equipment.... that I originally installed!

 

[Lilianna23]

Isn't 70 the new 30 or something like that???
Just a number anyways. Old is all in the head. I know 30 year Olds that act 80 and 80 year Olds that act 30 so........

I think I'm going to be that 80 year old lady who still thinks she's 30!

 

[KyleR215]

At 50 I still think I am 20.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Well..that's thumbthin!

This hurts.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

I think I'm going to be that 80 year old lady who still thinks she's 30!

My age depends on which part of my body we are discussing.

 

[Dom70]

I think I'm going to be that 80 year old lady who still thinks she's 30!

Join me then. I am 72 thinking 28...until I try things and the sudden realization hits me! NO YOU ARE NOT 28 anymore sport!

 

[thør]

That's when modern miracles like indoor plumbing come in handy!

In an off-grid cabin that frequently gets below freezing when not occupied, a water and wastewater system is pure PITA to deal with.

 

[AlexBailey]

In an off-grid cabin that frequently gets below freezing when not occupied, a water and wastewater system is pure PITA to deal with.

We did the off-grid cabin in the woods thing for several years when the kids were in elementary school.

Providing all of our own utilities, managing a composting toilet, snow, mudslides, wildfires, bears, rattlesnakes. raccoons, trees falling across the road, buying eggs and produce from the neighbors, rescuing neighbors…

It was a great adventure, the kids (adults now) still talk about it fondly, but I love being a townie now. I just hired a gardener!

 

[thør]

We did the off-grid cabin in the woods thing for several years when the kids were in elementary school.

Providing all of our own utilities, managing a composting toilet, snow, mudslides, wildfires, bears, rattlesnakes. raccoons, trees falling across the road, buying eggs and produce from the neighbors, rescuing neighbors…

It was a great adventure, the kids still talk about it fondly, but I love being a townie now. I just hired a gardener!

We only spend long weekends out there. The best is in winter when there are no bugs and lots of snow to go out exploring on.

 

[Biggalute]

Isn't 70 the new 30 or something like that???
Just a number anyways. Old is all in the head. I know 30 year Olds that act 80 and 80 year Olds that act 30 so........

I think I'm going to be that 80 year old lady who still thinks she's 30!

My age depends on which part of my body we are discussing.

The spirit is willing but to quote the great Leonard Cohen 'I ache in the places I used to play'

 

[AlexBailey]

The spirit is willing but to quote the great Leonard Cohen 'I ache in the places I used to play'

“A friend and I had a conversation about the stages a man goes through in relation to his allure to the opposite sex. It was not a scientific evaluation. Just something that arose over a cup of coffee. It went something like this. You start off irresistible. And then you become resistible. Then you become transparent. Not exactly invisible, but as if you’re seen through old plastic. And then you do actually become invisible. And then— and this is the most amazing transformation— you become repulsive. But that’s not the end of the story. After repulsive, you become cute. And that’s where I am.”

-Leonard Cohen


(I’m hoping to skip a few of those stages)

 

[AlexBailey]

We only spend long weekends out there. The best is in winter when there are no bugs and lots of snow to go out exploring on.

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Wow! That’s beautiful and desolate and probably way more dangerous than it looks.

I have a friend who has a remote vacation home in the mountains. Back in the olden days (before cell phones) his teenage kids took some snowmobiles out and disappeared for about six hours. They had met some other vacationers and were at another property all safe and warm and couldn’t understand why their dad was livid when they were finally found by an ad hoc search party.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

The spirit is willing but to quote the great Leonard Cohen 'I ache in the places I used to play'

So long as it's not my closing time I'm good.

 

[thør]

Wow! That’s beautiful and desolate and probably way more dangerous than it looks.

I have a friend who has a remote vacation home in the mountains. Back in the olden days (before cell phones) his teenage kids took some snowmobiles out and disappeared for about six hours. They had met some other vacationers and were at another property all safe and warm and couldn’t understand why their dad was livid when they were finally found by an ad hoc search party.

The walk home is the dangerous part. It's 20-ish miles back to the cabin and snowshoes aren't that much fun walking that far. Cell service is sketchy at best out there. But, it's fun.

 

[Booboobear84]

Isn't 70 the new 30 or something like that???
Just a number anyways. Old is all in the head. I know 30 year Olds that act 80 and 80 year Olds that act 30 so........

A couple of months ago at a dance I asked a 20 something to dance near the end of the night. She said she was tired. I pointed out that I was nearly three times her age, and she conceded. It was actually a lovely dance, and we both had a good time. I was actually tired after that one, but danced the last dance of the night after it.

 

[Booboobear84]

Wife and I used to dance at clubs. Then kids and adulting sort of ended that. We’ve talked about taking Salsa dance lessons, but wife now needs a knee replacement so plans are on hold till after that.

Yeah, you kind of need knees for dancing (not to mention walking).

 

[Booboobear84]

My wife and I like to go out dancing. Where we live, on "ladies nights" at the C&W bar there's live music. She gets in free and my cover is around $10, with no drink minimum. There's usually a decent sized group of people our age. There's all types dressed from casual to meat market sexy. I'll usually nurse a beer all night, while my wife might order from the well or stick to water. So, for under $25 we can dance for a couple of hours. It's fun to people watch and gets our own juices flowing. It's good exercise, and done right dancing is like having sex with our clothes on. Sometimes when I turn her or pull her in for a 'trick', I'll let her know what I plan to do to her when we get home. The music is loud, so no one else hears .

When I go contra dancing it's $10 to $15, so my wife and I can get live music, a caller, and a dance hall for $30 or less. Pretty much all of time I've been dancing I've thought of it as ridiculously cheap, and I'm generally more entertained than at a sporting event (well let's except the World Series, that was special), or the theater, and for a lot less money.

 

[Missk_2022]

Well here is to the start of my 4 day weekend.....