KathyF Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 [quote user="sweet 17"][quote user="KathyF"] Ask me again when I'm 80! [:D][:D][/quote]Hey, Kathy, watch what you say! Are you implying that 80 is old?My OH is 81 and he still regularly beats men in their 30s and 40s at table tennis. People who play table tennis will know what a game of quick reactions it is.There are young men in his club trying to get into the league teams who won't play with him because they lessen their chances of being picked to play competitively if they get beaten by an 80 year old.I think some people are luckier than others in the rate at which they age. Me, I've had to get used to becoming invisible since my late 50s but I like it when people make the mistake of treating me as though I am doddery because I have ways of getting my own back![:D][/quote]Perish the thought, Sweet. [:)] I have an 87yr-old mother-in-law who went swimming regularly until a bad fall last autumn and who is planning to get back to it again when the weather improves. It's just that 80 is a bit nearer what might be called old than 65. [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I was just joking with you....being mock serious!You're right about 80 being older than 65. In fact, sometimes, when we are trying to make up our minds to do something or not, we tend to come down on the side of doing it and not putting it off.As OH says, "I don't have so long to hang about dithering as other people!"It doesn't depress us or anything like that, but it does concentrate the mind somewhat [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 And to telling one's family, well if they care, they will notice symptoms of ill health over and above the usual expected wear and tear of life. Tell them nothing eh? let them worry? Maybe best if one has the pox?[Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I remember the first time I used my bus pass, I was miffed that the driver didn't look surprised when I waved it at him. He obviously thought I was old. I think I'm just older.A comment on the main theme of the thread: it seems that many older people are divorcing once work is behind them and children have left home. and this is often driven by the woman. Why? Maybe it's sort of Last Chance Saloon. Do it now, tomorrow may be too late. Or a refusal to conform to other people's presumption that they will "go gently into that good night." Not to be flippant, it could be that some people have been planning it for years, and when the time is right, they break out of their marriage and their own acquired self and look for sex, fun, life, whatever you want to call itNot for me. I like my life.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyF Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Sweets, I think not putting off what you want to do is a good motto for all of us. Seize the day! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 The memé pepé mamie papie thing really gets me as well, the problem is around here 90% of people over the age of 36 are indeed grandparents,.Apart from a few rare exceptions every French woman of my age that I have met to date has appeared both physically and mentally to be at least 20 years older, my ex was 15 years younger than me but apart from physically in many many ways she was at least a generation older than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 [quote user="NormanH"]I would have loved to see your face[:D][/quote]- says someone who has met me!Norman, I kept it very straight and pretended she was referring to somebody else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 [quote user="5-element"][quote user="NormanH"]I would have loved to see your face[:D][/quote]- says someone who has met me!Norman, I kept it very straight and pretended she was referring to somebody else...[/quote]and knows that you are the epitome of French chic and intelligence ; certainly not a 'GRANNY' figure [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 You trying to get some of Sweets meals on wheels, Norman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Just someone to push me to the nearest Brasserie [:D]...and back home after [:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Could you not have a couple of cases of baked beans delivered to your barrel with a few bits of duck in deep fat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Norman, what you said is so flattering that should I be your neighbour, I would volunteer to wheel you around the town while you are painting it red... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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