[Artie]

Gimme a break. I quit smoking after 40 years ( well ok 39)cuz it was going to kill me. Now my severe coffee habit is in cahoots with the grim reaper too. What’s an aging, cranky guy to do? What vices are left (that won’t kill me). Can’t go for a younger woman or my wife will kill me fo sho!

[Lazamataz]

Gimme a break.

Can't. Giving you a break has been linked to disease and early death.

Can’t go for a younger woman or my wife will kill me fo sho!

Count on me to take one for the team.

[Mears]

I still smoke and drink 3-4 cups of coffee a day.

I know I’m in danger of an early death and probably won’t live to celebrate my 81st birthday next month.

Que sera !

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[PeterPrinciple]

What’s an aging, cranky guy to do?

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I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

In my early manhood and in middle life I used to vex myself with reforms every now and then. And I never had occasion to regret these divergencies for, whether the resulting deprivations were long or short, the rewarding pleasure which I got out of the vice when I returned to it always paid me for all that it cost.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain