9-8-09...Getting Old Can BE GOOD!!! YEP!
I've been talking about the quirks of getting old but there are some good things about it too.
I can say all the stupid things I care to and no one seems to mind. They just give me an indulgent smile that says, "Poor thing she don't know any better, Bless her heart" HE HE. What they don't know aint' gonna hurt em'. I use that guise to insult some young whippersnapper who thinks he knows it all. I can say most anything I want to and not get nary' an argument.
I recently came across two young men at the grocery store where I had gone after Church on Sunday. They appeared to be about 16. One was carrying my groceries out of the store. The other one got out of a car in the parking lot. The two young boys were busy talking and I wasn't paying much attention at first. I became interested when one asked the other, "Where have you been all dressed up like that"? The other boy replied, "Oh my Mom made me get up and go to Church this morning". The other boy said, "Oh Man couldn't you get out of it?" That's when this little ol' lady said, "You look so handsome honey. It didn't hurt you any to go to Church did it?" Then I turned to the other one and said, "And it wouldn't do you any harm either sweetie". I guess it was the honey and sweetie that kept them from telling me where to get off. Or could have been my age and how fragile I looked when I said it. Whatever it was, after my groceries were tucked in the back seat they both smiled sweetly at me and said, "Have a good day Mam". I said, "You too honey". I'm not that fragile either don't ya know?
Then one day I asked this young person, "Honey are you a boy or a girl, I can't see good enough to tell". Of course I could see but I didn't know if this person was a girl or a boy and I was really curious. I had already given it a hug and I just wanted to know what I had hugged. It was a she and it didn't get mad at me. It was not acting courteous in a public place. My hug had cooled her down a might.
Then one day in the Doctors office there was this young boy sitting there with a cast on his leg and dirty stringy hair tied back in a pony tail. Hey I'm cool with the long hair I just would have liked to see it clean. I was being good though and wouldn't have said anything. Then his buddy came in and they started bragging about how he had gotten the broken leg on a motorcycle. Talking and giggling in bad language about the stunts they had pulled on motor cycles. Now guys this just came spilling out of my mouth. I swear I had no control. I said, " That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life! It is not only stupid to show out on a motor cycle but for you to sit there with a broken leg and brag and laugh about is is the height of ignorance. You both need to be taken to the wood shed with a peach tree limb"!! You could have heard a pin drop on the carpet I'm telling you. Those two boys looked at me like, What the heck is she talking about? They didn't look shocked or offended just dumb founded. I said, "Honey please be careful from now on and let this broken leg be a lesson to both of you. I'd hate for two good looking young men like you to be killed on a motorcycle because you were joy riding". They both said, "Yes Mam", and not another word.
Now us oldie but goodies can get by with things like this usually with the younger generation and may be able to get through to them. I know that one day I will spout off my mouth to the wrong one and just might get my jaws boxed. Yep! Sure nuff' could. I'll let you know when it happens. YEP!!!!
