Thanks to Pocopundit for finding this great Public Health PSA!
Apparently aging is a disability.
I see it every time I try to find a parking spot for my wheelchair accessible van.
Getting older isn’t considered a disease now but it will be interesting to see how that changes in the next few years and decades as pills come along to reverse aging. Maybe they will have to be marketed under euphemisms like a cure for muscle degeneration or such. lol
Found this on another website
Seniors Under Attack
THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!
We Must Stop This Immediately
Have you noticed that stairs are getting steeper ? Groceries are heavier.
And, everything is farther away. Yesterday I walked to the corner and I was
dumbfounded to discover how long our street had become!
And, you know, people are less considerate now, especially the young ones. They speak in whispers all the time! If you ask them to speak up they just
keep repeating themselves, endlessly mouthing the same silent message until
they’re red in the face! What do they think I am, a lip reader?
I also think they are much younger than I was at the same age. On the other
hand, people my own age are so much older than I am. I ran into an old
friend the other day and she has aged so much that she didn’t even recognize
me.
I got to thinking about the poor dear while I was combing my hair this
morning, and in doing so, I glanced at my own reflection well, REALLY NOW -
even mirrors are not made the way they used to be!
Another thing, everyone drives so fast these days! You’re risking life and
limb if you happen to pull onto the freeway in front of them. All I can say
is, their brakes must wear out awfully fast, the way I see them screech and
swerve in my rear view mirror.
Clothing manufacturers are less civilized these days. Why else would they
suddenly start labeling a size 32 waist pant as 40? Do they think no one
notices? The people who make bathroom scales are pulling the same prank. Do
they think I actually ‘believe’ the number I see on that dial? HA! I would
never let myself weigh that much! Just who do these people think they’re
fooling?
I’d like to call up someone in authority to report what’s going on — but
the telephone company is in on the conspiracy too: they’ve printed the phone
books in suchsmall type that no one could ever find a number in there!
All I can do is pass along this warning: WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!
Unless something drastic happens, pretty soon everyone will have to suffer
these awful indignities.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE CAN GET
THIS CONSPIRACY STOPPED!
PS: I am sending this to you in a larger font size, because something has
happened to my computer’s fonts - they are smaller than they once were.
Thank you.
Thanks to Pocopundit for finding this great Public Health PSA!
My dad lived past 90 and my mom to 88, passing about 6 months before he did.
They had live independently until about a year earlier, but the wheels had come off due to diminished capacity, each in their own way.
My mom had a quote on a wooden sign. It was Bette Davis saying, “Old Age Ain’t for Sissies.”
Yep. Send back every paper and an unpleasant note in the post-paid return envelope and they’ll stop sending.
Getting old is not a disease. It is an opportunity to join a new identity group that can claim all kinds of entitlements and privilege based on age.
Check how many vendors are not really after your money. They are after government program money. Of course, that money is FREE money and not your money.
Talk to a salesman or navigator for Medicare Supplement/Advantage. The first question out of their mouth is:
“Do you qualify for Medicaid?” Getting you on Medicaid and qualified for Medicaid by going to the right doctors is most important to their commissions.
I picked up the phone and called AARP and demanded they remove us from their mailing list.
We still get daily:
hearing aid offers
life insurnace
offers
Medicare supplement offers
prescription plan offers
medical equipment offers
pre-paid funeral planners
burial plot offers and...........
home improvement solicitations even though this is a condo
I hate seeing the mail in my husband’s hands every evening. It is nothing but junk and takes nearly thirty minutes to dispose of sometimes. It’s really bad when all the conservative organizations want money too.
Nah...much better to attach the "No Postage necessary" thingy on a brick and drop it in the mailbox.
After 10 years of their crap, I finally got them to stop sending me their junk mail.
Don't want no part of AARP.
The AARP supported feminism against family during the ‘90s, and I decided against it back then.