You know you're old when...
- Jennie
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You know you're old when...
When I complained to my mother-in-law about my fortyish aches and pains, she put it into perspective for me. She sighed, got that sort of far-away look she has, and said,
"I never really felt old until I realized that I have _four_ menopausal daughters..."
Arlene's no longer conversing, but she does seem to enjoy our visits. My daughter played her fiddle in the nursing home last time, and the younger daughter danced to it, and their grandma smiled. She is beautiful.
Jennie
"I never really felt old until I realized that I have _four_ menopausal daughters..."
Arlene's no longer conversing, but she does seem to enjoy our visits. My daughter played her fiddle in the nursing home last time, and the younger daughter danced to it, and their grandma smiled. She is beautiful.
Jennie
- dubhlinn
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Re: You know you're old when...
Indeed,Jennie wrote:
"I never really felt old until I realized that I have _four_ menopausal daughters..."
Now there's a sobering thought.
The age question hits me when I walk down the High Street and see people in their sixties pushing their aged parents around in wheelchairs, stopping ocasionaly to wipe a lip or settle a blanket down over their lap.
My Mother and Father died at 54 and 63, so I will never have to do that.
It breaks my heart to see people struggling with age and it's problems looking after people who are even more aged than they are themselves.
Only a few days back I was going into a shop and an old women with a walking stick was trying to reverse out of a door with her Mother in a wheelchair. Her handbag got caught in the door handle and things were getting a but tricky. I went over and sorted out the door while she untangled her handbag and got the wheelchair out.
We exchanged a few polite words and has she moved away, a weak and withering arm rose from the wheelchair as a very tired and weary voice gasped "Thank you".
Around all this were kids on bikes and more kids pushing prams with even smaller kids smiling in the prams.
I'm gonna be 49 very soon.
Too late to die before I'm 40.
Slan,
D.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
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I think the first time I actually felt "old" was when my oldest daughter told me she was engaged. That did it, in fact my words were-"Now I feel old"
Now that I really do feel some of the years in the old bod, I look at my 83 year old mother who babysits her 3 year old great- grandaughter and keeps up with her too. Then I tell myself to shut up.
Actually she said that age has it's avantages- particularly that you can get away with a lot- jumping line, like you don't know where it ends, telling people exactly what you think(rude), pretending you don't understand, etc. Everyone thinks "oh, she's just old". little do they know...
I fight it tooth and nail.
example: Tomorrow morning I'm up at 5:15 for a three hour drive to march in a killer parade(lots of up-hill) with the pipe band. I don't know how I'll get along lugging that drum, but I'm gonna try.
Now that I really do feel some of the years in the old bod, I look at my 83 year old mother who babysits her 3 year old great- grandaughter and keeps up with her too. Then I tell myself to shut up.
Actually she said that age has it's avantages- particularly that you can get away with a lot- jumping line, like you don't know where it ends, telling people exactly what you think(rude), pretending you don't understand, etc. Everyone thinks "oh, she's just old". little do they know...
I fight it tooth and nail.
example: Tomorrow morning I'm up at 5:15 for a three hour drive to march in a killer parade(lots of up-hill) with the pipe band. I don't know how I'll get along lugging that drum, but I'm gonna try.
"Let low-country intruder approach a cove
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
John Foster West
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
John Foster West
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My grandmother (91 and still going strong, God bless her) gave me a fridge magnet once that reads:
"The more you complain, the longer God lets you live"
I suspect there's more than a grain of truth in that...
"The more you complain, the longer God lets you live"
I suspect there's more than a grain of truth in that...
Cheers,
Mark
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Mark
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Re: You know you're old when...
The 50s aren't any better...dubhlinn wrote: Too late to die before I'm 40.
There's so few options.
If I see change in the parking lot, it has to be a quarter before I will bend down to pick it up. Nickels, dimes, and pennys I leave for the younger.
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I went out with a woman with three daughters, all in their late teens to early twenties. Dirty old lecher's paradise, right? I couldn't help be struck how ... juvenile they were; pathetically struggling to look and sound adult. I know I fail at looking and sounding adult, too, but there was nothing attractive about these girls as they were floundering their way through life.
Maybe I'm getting old or something. Great! So now I'm a failure at being a lecher, too.
djm
Maybe I'm getting old or something. Great! So now I'm a failure at being a lecher, too.
djm
I'd rather be atop the foothills than beneath them.
djm wrote:I went out with a woman with three daughters, all in their late teens to early twenties. Dirty old lecher's paradise, right? I couldn't help be struck how ... juvenile they were; pathetically struggling to look and sound adult. I know I fail at looking and sounding adult, too, but there was nothing attractive about these girls as they were floundering their way through life.
Maybe I'm getting old or something. Great! So now I'm a failure at being a lecher, too.
djm
Perhaps you've just developed better taste . . .
- Innocent Bystander
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I love it. I can think of one or two people that need to be told this one!MarkS wrote:My grandmother (91 and still going strong, God bless her) gave me a fridge magnet once that reads:
"The more you complain, the longer God lets you live"
I suspect there's more than a grain of truth in that...
Wizard needs whiskey, badly!