YOU KNOW YOU'RE GROWING OLDER WHEN ... A dripping faucet causes an uncontrollable bladder urge. A fortuneteller offers to read your face. After painting the town red, you have to take a long rest before applying a second coat. Dialing long distance wears you out. Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work. The best part of the day is over when the alarm clock goes off. The gleam in your eye is from the sun hitting your bifocals. The little gray haired lady you help across the street is your wife. Your back goes out more than you do. You began to outlive enthusiasm. You burn the midnight oil after 9 p.m. You decide to procrastinate but never get around to it. You feel like the morning after, and you haven't been anywhere. You finally reach the top of the ladder, and find it leaning against the wrong wall. You get winded playing chess. You get your exercise acting as a pallbearer for your friends who exercised. You join a health club and don't go. You just can't stand people who are intolerant. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. You look forward to a dull evening. You look in the mirror and see one of your parents. You regret all those mistakes resisting temptation. You remember today, that yesterday was your wedding anniversary. You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there. You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going. You stop looking forward to your next birthday. You turn out the lights for economic rather than romantic reasons. You walk with your head held high trying to get used to your bifocals. You're 17 around the neck, 42 around the waist, and 96 around the golf course. You're startled the first time you are addressed as old timer. You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet. Your children began to look middle aged. Your favorite part of the newspaper is 25 years old today. Your knees buckle, and your belt won't. Your little black book contains only names ending in M.D. Your mind makes contracts your body can't meet. Your pacemaker makes the garage door go up when you watch a pretty girl go by. You know your way around, but you don't feel like going. You go into a record store and expect to see records.