A question for the olduns on here.

[Dave7]

Have you noticed that as you get older your toe nails get further away and hence more difficult to reach .
What else has crept up on you?

 

[Gunk]

My legs have definitely grown, it’s a proper stretch putting a pair of socks on.

 

[fossyant]

Oh yes. Biggest issue for me, is one of my big toe nails is quite brittle, ever since I broke my toe some years back, and it doesn't take much to leave a tiny sticky out splinter of a nail, which in turn causes untold pain !

 

[postman]

My arms have got shorter i cant touch my toes.Plus my waist has got thicker,but my patience has worn thin.

 

[Sharky]

The walk from our house to the shops, the gradient seems to have increased.

 

[ColinJ]

Have you noticed that as you get older your toe nails get further away and hence more difficult to reach .

I (aged 70) was discussing that subject with one of my sister's neighbours (aged 77) last month. Neither of us can stretch down to touch our toes; we can barely reach our shins!

Our conversation was overhead by another neighbour (late 70s) who declared that toe-touching was not a problem, and proved it to us. In fact, knuckles on the ground wasn't a problem either. She then completed our humiliation by stretching down and putting the palms of her hands on the ground...

Time for me to start going stretching exercises!

 

[Dogtrousers]

My arms have got shorter i cant touch my toes.Plus my waist has got thicker,but my patience has worn thin.

I've never been able to touch my toes, even when I was a kid. Socks are a major exercise these days. And if my shoelace comes undone it can be quite a trek until I find a suitable low wall to be able to fix it.

 

[Dave7]

Like @Dogtrousers, even as a kid I couldn't touch my toes (without cheating). Then when I was 19 I had a lifting accident which chipped a lower vertebrae.
Re the socks issue i get over that by sitting down and cooking my foot over the other knee and sliding the sock on.
Re cutting toenails I sit on a low stool, cut one or two, sit up for a breather the go again.
Below is my toe nail operating stool.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Have you noticed that as you get older your toe nails get further away and hence more difficult to reach .
What else has crept up on you?

Being unable to get off my bike. I'm seriously considering the possibility of a dropper seatpost so I can drop the saddle so I can get my leg over it. Either that or transferring to the Brompton permanently.

And before anyone suggests, yes I do tilt the bike over. I basically have to lie the damn thing on its side.