Thursday, January 15, 2009

TOTAL DENIAL

This is not a list of resolutions.
I make new resolutions on a daily basis, so that once a year business does not do it for me.
I am in Denial about my age.
I have a false sense of my non existent youth.
Anyway....
Tuesday night we attended a seminar about estate planning. Upon entering the room I was shocked by how old the people were. I thought they should have been planning long before now.
They all seemed to be 70+, with the exception of a few.
As the evening progressed I was more an more annoyed by old people behavior.
Don't get me wrong I love, love ,love old people. I plan on being one myself someday. Maybe setting a record for THE OLDEST. Ask Sarah, she can vouch for me.
Anyway, all the throat clearing, loud whispering, potty breaks were bugging me.
The attorney who was speaking said he had just had a birthday and he was 51.
FIFTY-ONE? Are you kidding me.............I thought he was 60 if he was a day.
I scanned the room and sure enough I began to question my first impression. Maybe there were a few more people my age. I hoped it to not be true.
Surely I do not posses that many facials lines, and I know I was not wearing anything that came close to polyester. I don't carry a hanky and my shoes were not orthopedic. I drove myself there in the fog and darkness and needed no help walking swiftly into the building.
Having said that, let me ask you a question. Why is my brain still 20 but my body, face etc will not cooperate? Why is it when someone calls me ma'am I am a little surprised? When the kid at the grocery asks if I need help out, HELL NO, I put all this stuff in here I'll take it out!!
I order 2 tickets at the theatre and the girl asks"adults"? No Einstein, 2 children. Are you blind? I couldn't help but ask"did you mean senior"? She turned red and mumbled something stupid.
Where am I going with this? I don't know. I forgot.







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I am a true native Idahoan, Born at the old St. Als that used to be downtown. I am 51 and I have been married 32 years to the same man. Gasp...I think I just got a small electrical shock. I have 3 grown kids, and 4 grandbabies.