Posted on 02/24/2019 1:00:06 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It restarts early, too. I was out running on a summer day when I was about 45. A teen girl in a convertible ignored the fact that I was in the crosswalk and almost ran me down. I yelled “Hey” at her and she yelled back “F you, old man.” Not only are you invisible, they want to wipe you out to boot.
Your post reminded me of the scene in “Fried Green Tomatoes” with Kathy Bates where she has been cut off from a parking space by some younger women who tell her “Face it, lady, we’re younger and faster!” Bates’ character responds by ramming their car multiple times as they watch, dumbfounded. Bates walks away, saying “Face it, girls, I’m older and I have more insurance.”
I’m definitely old, and I rather enjoy the fact that people completely ignore me.
It just means more time for reading, good movies, self-reflection, and sexual fantasies.
LOL. Never saw that movie. I’ll add it to my list.
I’ve stuffed up in life often enough to have gained a modicum of wisdom and mostly I’ve learnt to stay out of things so not to interfere so when I do have something to say being treated as irrelevant is pretty annoying especially when people will ask for help to get out of the mess I tried to keep them from. Maybe I did it too I really don’t know but it is amazing how some of today’s young adults filter out the things they don’t want to hear and still manage to blame everyone else
I’ve been reading this stupid article all my life. Things change as you get older. Life changes as you get older. You inevitably begin to move from centerstage. Your personal universe begins to shrink. Deal with it. Life has seasons. Spring is Spring, Winter is Winter...
We love AMAC and when we used to get AARP literature we’d take their SASE, stuff it full of AMAC literature and stick it in the mail. It took a couple years, but we don’t AARP junk any more.
When we approached Medicare age, AMAC hooked us up with a wonderful agent who helped us through that nightmare, and shopped around for a great supplemental plan for us. That was five years ago, and we still use him for a resource when we have questions.
“Face it, lady, were younger and faster! Bates character responds”
You left out the part where she says, “We have better insurance.” That was excellent.
“You left out the part...”
Really???? The last line of my post:
“Bates walks away, saying Face it, girls, Im older and I have more insurance.”
Is that gone or am I the only one seeing it???
I guess you missed reading to the end of the post where it said:
“Bates walks away, saying Face it, girls, Im older and I have more insurance.
The great singer/songwriter Amy Rigby set this whole article to music years ago in her song, “Invisible.”
I don’t remember who said it but “As I get older I realize I am more interesting than most people I meet”.
You’re old and need your eyes checked.
I’m going to run in a zigzag pattern now and evade fire.
AMAC,,,
I need advice like that.
Just turned 64 and retirement is
Intimidating.
Talked to a “Financial Adviser”
and he is about Stocks and Bonds.
I need “Nuts and Bolts “
Guidelines.
I’ll check for a Website
Thanks!
Just when we thought we were finally getting rid of old people, they are banding together and will soon be lecturing us and telling us how things used to be back then.
Ideals? Attractiveness is based on a biological reaction to the others suitability for reproduction. As we age this fact becomes harder on women than men, true, but it remains a fact.
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