What should have been an easy errand turned into a two part adventure. Dare I say why?
RETIREES
Look, Senior Citizens, there are five or six other hours when you can tie up the handful of parking spaces instead of hogging them while those of us who still work are on our 60 minutes of free time during the day. (This is also true for stay at home parents, but we'll get to that another time.)
They are not giving away free stamps between 12 and 1. You don't get better deals. Go in the morning to beat those of us who work or go after we're imprisoned again in our offices.
And another thing...
Don't get in the fast lane and drive 25 miles per hour. You remember the fast lane? It's the one all the way to the left. If you don't have the energy to press down on the accelerator, that is not the lane that you should be in. Move to the right.
And while I'm on the subject:
Quit bitching about the measly check you get from the Social Security Administration. You've already gotten every penny you and your employer(s) put into the program after a year and a half of getting benefits. You're sucking so much money out of the system there's not going to be any left for the baby boomers when they come of age, never mind the babies of the boomers.
A loaf of bread is not still 10 cents and a gallon of gas is no longer 35 cents. GET OVER IT! It's not going to get any cheaper no matter how much you complain. And I know you're not eating cat food, so don't give me any of that crap. If you think 50 cents is too much to pay for an apple, don't buy it. Don't stand in the supermarket complaining about it for half an hour.
Just because you're old doesn't mean you know everything. Even if you did at one time (which you didn't), you would have forgotten it by now anyway.
5 comments:
I totally agree with your take on senior citizens and it reminded me of something very important to say in this regard... but I think I forgot what it was. Besides I really don't have the time. It's 3:45 am on Saturday and I'm busy getting things ready. There's a couple of things I have to pick up at the post office on Monday... around noontime. If I recall correctly...um... that's the best time to go.
yes indeed those seniors. old and in the way.
then again I must confess the other day I went to turn on the tv and after a couple of thumb presses with no result I looked at that which was in my hand. not the tv remote control in any way, shape or form. oh my god, it was the car alarm doohickey. yikes, I thought, this could mean something.
.... oh by the way this is a true story. i attest it to document the moment i first saw that i was really losing it.
Pshaw. That's just par for the course. I can't remember (of course) how many times I was trying to open the front door of my home with the car alarm (as you call it) doohickey.
That reminds of the little parable about the drunk who drops his key as he's trying to get into his house. Looking. Looking. Looking. Finally a neighbor happens by. Looking. Looking. Looking. The neighbor just to say something asks, "Are you sure this is the spot you dropped it?" The drunken reply, "Actually I dropped it over there". The neighbor is perplexed and the drunk drunkenly explains as if totally correct in his approach, "The light is much much better if we look over here".
Moral of story: In dealing with problems oftentimes we will
hesitate to look in the shadows (where the true answers lie)because we think its just too scary.
Okay, okay. Point taken. Maybe I was being a little harsh on a group that with any luck I might actually join someday. Probably sooner than I'd like.
Are our "senior moments" results of age, too much stress, vitamin or protein deficiency? Who's to say? Who can remember?
not me. (what was the question?)
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