Old people crack me up!

[TheGoodTexan]

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[TeleTurkey]

Ya gotta love 'em. My mom, 75, is amazing. She has taught herself how to do e-mail and surf the internet, but ask her to buckle one of the kids carseats...no chance!

[BradKM]

He just leaves it at home, next to the house phone.

I'd say he's doing the right thing there. Wish I could do the same.

[BB]

Glad I can make ya chuckle!

[TeleTurkey]

Glad I can make ya chuckle!

I hope you weren't offended.

My mom and I have laughed about this together more than once. I'm about halfway through life and I hope I can keep a sense of humor about the things that become difficult as I age. My mom has and I not only think that's great, but it also keeps her in touch with everyone else.

[BB]

Originally Posted by TeleTurkey

I hope you weren't offended.

My mom and I have laughed about this together more than once. I'm about halfway through life and I hope I can keep a sense of humor about the things that become difficult as I age. My mom has and I not only think that's great, but it also keeps her in touch with everyone else.

Oh, of course not! I'm just being my natural smart arsed self. I'm a bit more than halfway home and laugh at myself everyday for the things I used to laugh at my grampa for!

I'm sure there is a tropical island somewhere where old, fat and ugly are highly revered....just havent' found it yet!

[blogan]

Originally Posted by TheGoodTexan

Maybe they're actually smarter than we are, and we're just moving too fast to recognize it.

I just wish I could keep up with old people. My mother just ran the Boston Marathon at 75 yrs old.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by blogan

I just wish I could keep up with old people. My mother just ran the Boston Marathon at 75 yrs old.

And we have a winner. That's a good 5 miles beyond cool.

[TG]

I'm 44 and my son is already laughing at me. :?

[Togman]

At the moment, me and my sister are trying to talk our father out of buying a computer. We just know what would lay ahead if this happened!

Talking of old folk and their ways - I remember walking through our villiage many years ago with my elderly Grandfather. A car pulled up and the driver asked my Grandad if he knew where Lawn Lane was in the village. My Grandads reply "Of course I do son, I've lived here all my life". With this he just walked away. I can always remember the bemused look on the driver's face as !looked over my shoulder as we walked away.

[sneakyjapan]

two questions...half way through your life?...how do you know?
and...how old is old?

[TeleTurkey]

two questions...half way through your life?...how do you know?
and...how old is old?

Well, I'm 40. I figure I would be fortunate to live to 80, so that's half to me. When you start getting near the age where the average person dies, that's old.

[Charlie Bernstein]

i don't get combo meals either.* haven't been in a mcd's in over 15 years. kinda like reading beetle bailey: how many years can you read it hoping for something funny before you finally give up. i finally got tired of waiting for something at mcd's to taste good.

and there's no way you could get me to leave the house with a cell phone. i don't even carry a wallet! down with stuff. (except, of course, guitars, amps, and stompboxes.)

admittedly, i'm on the dark side of fifty, but i've been this way for years.

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*tgt, your story reminds of a story a friend told me, about someone she knew who went into a fast food place and asked for half a dozen chicken nuggets. the cashier said, "sorry, you can only get six or ten."

[TeleTurkey]

i don't even carry a wallet! down with stuff. (except, of course, guitars, amps, and stompboxes.)

There's a guy who knows what he likes and to h**l with everything else! You rock Charlie!

[Joel Terry]

My sweet, angelic mother-in-law lived with my wife and me until she passed away at age 77. She battled COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) through those years, and ultimately succumbed to it; however, she was a genuinely happy soul, and her mind was as sharp as a freshly-stropped razor up until we watched her take her final breaths.

I never laughed as hard, learned as much, or felt as much love and happiness as when I was with Miss Betty (as I affectionately called her). She was a country girl; her formal education ended at the 8th grade. But she was the most intelligent person I've ever met in my life. She was Mark Twain in a dress.

Yet, like Bruce's grandfather, she had moments of sheer naïveté, particularly when it came to contemporary matters.

My wife rented Titanic for Miss Betty when it came out on DVD. They watch it together, and when it comes to the part where the ship begins to sink, Miss Betty cries, "Oh, honey--turn that off! Just watching it makes me suffocate! Why would they show that? Lord, have mercy!" Sherrye, nonplussed, replies, "Mom, it's the Titanic. It sank. What were you expecting?" Miss Betty sheepishly answers, "Well, I know it sank, but if I'd have known they were going to show it, I wouldn't have had you rent it!"

Miss Betty was famous for speaking her mind, for being brutally frank, as most seniors are wont to do. (I suppose when you reach a certain age, you just don't care what other people think.) Well, one day, my older brother comes up from Mobile, Alabama, on a visit. Sherrye and I are at work when Jack gets in, so he helps her do her crossword puzzle, one of her absolute favorite pastimes, one which she and I do together. Apparently, she struggles with the puzzle, and brother Jack is of no use to her. After a while, she flings her puzzle and pencil down with a harrumph of frustration and says to Jack, "You know, I think the world of you. But you just aren't anywhere near as smart as Joel, are you?" :P

As an invalid, Miss Betty wasn't able to get out of the house as much as she would've liked; consequently, she lost virtually all concept of distance, the cost of things, and the like. One night, she sees a television advertisement of a local fast-food restaurant's new shake/smoothie drink, and she has to have one. She dispatches Sherrye and me to go get this drink for her about 9 o'clock in the cold rain. Miss Betty's wish is forever our command, so we don't refuse her. She assures us that the restaurant "is just down the street," and she slips a dollar to Sherrye to buy the drink. Sherrye and I just look at each other, but we dutifully depart. In actuality, the restaurant is across town, and the drink costs around three dollars. When we get back about an hour later, cold and wet, she sharply inquires, "Well, what took you so long? And where's my change, honey?" :P

You know, that generation to which Miss Betty belonged--those who valiantly made it through the Great Depression and World War II--is quickly disappearing. And this saddens me beyond words. Yes, I know death is inevitable, but still...these are the people who truly were "The Greatest Generation," and I'll always feel that I never learned enough from them, or heard enough of their stories. To me, losing these people is comparable to the fourth-century destruction of the Royal Library of Alexandria, in which the world's greatest repository of ancient texts of history and wisdom was forever lost.

Joel

[The String King]

[quote="Charlie Bernstein"](except, of course, guitars, amps, and stompboxes.)[quote]

You forgot leads! :D

A lot of the old women in England think they can get away with pushing in front of you in a que just because they are 80. It's annoying!

My grandpa bought a mobile phone, and when he messages on it he abbriviates abbriviations. "Ow R U?" "I near ther" ex-cetera.

[TheGoodTexan]

xx

[benbo]

You know, that generation to which Miss Betty belonged--those who valiantly made it through the Great Depression and World War II--is quickly disappearing. And this saddens me beyond words. Yes, I know death is inevitable, but still...these are the people who truly were "The Greatest Generation," and I'll always feel that I never learned enough from them, or heard enough of their stories. To me, losing these people is comparable to the fourth-century destruction of the Royal Library of Alexandria, in which the world's greatest repository of ancient texts of history and wisdom was forever lost.

Joel[/quote]


Amen Joel, Amen

[David Barnett]

My dad's 83 and not only does he still drive a car like a normal person, but he can store numbers in the phonebook on his cellphone. I can't even dial a cellphone.

[sneakyjapan]

the older Japanese women cut into line too. I see them on the train all the time... sittin there all hunched over and lookin as sweet as can be...then their stop comes up, they stand and pull on these huge box thingys wrapped in cloth onto their backs and as they walk to the door give that popeye look...bit scary actually. I should say...I`ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a sushi roll today... and really mess with em.

[Nick Fanis]

My father is amazing!
At 75 he has bought a computer & now he is an internet wizard surfing like the Beach Boys!
(he claims that his education,he is an architect & a civil engineer,helped him to "get" the new technology )
He has also bought a digital camera & uses it like a pro!
He has TWO cell phones and can type an SMS msg faster than me!!
"Of course" he still meets w/ his racing buddies (he used to be an amateur car race driver) once a month for a short "spin"!!)

My mother on the other hand is a way different story! She still turns the VHS off by pulling the plug of the wall socket!!

[Joel Terry]

Originally Posted by Nick Fanis

My father is amazing!

At 75 he has bought a computer & now he is an internet wizard surfing like the Beach Boys!
(he claims that his education,he is an architect & a civil engineer,helped him to "get" the new technology )
He has also bought a digital camera & uses it like a pro!
He has TWO cell phones and can type an SMS msg faster than me!!
"Of course" he still meets w/ his racing buddies (he used to be an amateur car race driver) once a month for a short "spin"!!)

My mother on the other hand is a way different story! She still turns the VHS off by pulling the plug of the wall socket!!

Nick, that's priceless, especially what you said about your mother.

Joel

[jaybee001]

[quote="The String King"][quote="Charlie Bernstein"](except, of course, guitars, amps, and stompboxes.)

You forgot leads! :D

A lot of the old women in England think they can get away with pushing in front of you in a que just because they are 80. It's annoying!

My grandpa bought a mobile phone, and when he messages on it he abbriviates abbriviations. "Ow R U?" "I near ther" ex-cetera.

some time ago I was in the bank, and an old woman was at the counter taking about 20 minutes, after her there were 4 more people before me, so after waiting some 30 minutes, with still 2 people in fron of me, the old woman comes back in, comes up to me and says "I can go before you, no?" so I ask her why , she says "well, I was here before" - I kindly told her "well so was I, last week, so I guess I was first and you'll have to wait your turn" - I half expected her to hit me with her umbrella...

[Darrell]

So I just want to say "glad I could help".

Actually, I pulled the same stunt at a dinner party with the family.

We were at a Mexican food reastaurant, where I had the nerve to ask the waiter if the steak was a "which part of the cow is the steak from".

His minimal knowledge of the English interpreted my question as "which state was he from", which lead to a break down of miscommunication of likes the world has never seen and their was a rambling between us which went on for about 5 minutes. Of course were were seriously thinking we were discussing the same thing.

When I finished, everyone at the table was laughing so hard they had tears coming out of their eyes. They said it was "better that Elvis and Costello". They laughed through dinner, and all the way home. It was an unforgetable evening.

[TheGoodTexan]

xx

[Joel Terry]

Originally Posted by TheGoodTexan

At least he didn't reply, "Chihuahua."

Bruce--you, sir, are a natural comedian! That post made my day!

Joel