I just read a news item wherein an elderly man was arrested for the murder of a woman.
HE IS YOUNGER THAN HIMSELF!!!
When did we get old? Or worse, elderly?
Elderly screams decrepitude, infirmity, frailty, knocking on heaven's door and all that.
We might not be in our prime and the spring in our step might not be as bouncy as it once was.
BUT WE ARE NOT ELDERLY.
The dog is on antibiotics and antidepressants.
Our land settlement went through.
Tomorrow I will catch up with J and C and do another Vinnie's drop off. Himself will hopefully do another tip run and a storage run. He needs to finish the interior painting (one coat on two walls) and fix up some timber work. Then he can pull up the carpet and we can move some furniture around.
Time for a gin.
You are in denial old gal. It's okay - this is often the case. A year from now you'll be racing Himself in your mobility scooters while singing war songs such as "We'll Meet Again" or possibly the Inuit version "Whale Meat Again!"
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh at Whale Meet Again BUT, Mr Pud, you are showing YOUR age. That was a song of our parents' era. We will be singing "We Will Rock You"!
DeletePoor Doggie....we are not old...!!!! Peta
ReplyDeleteI wish we could explain to them what is going on.
DeleteHahaaa...here, they refer to us Boomers as, Seniors...We get discounts at restaurants of 10% so...I take full advantage!
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Donna
We have a seniors' card which gives similar benefits and I don't have a problem with 'senior'. It has a sense of dignity that 'elderly' doesn't!
DeleteLet's call ourselves "Olderly." I agree that "elderly" does not bring great images to mind.
ReplyDeleteOlderly. I like that one.
DeleteI must confess I was briefly confused by the sentence "He is younger than himself." Ha!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a journalist we were told never to use the words "old" or "elderly" as they are subjective and diminishing. I usually just gave an age (if essential to the story) and avoided any adjective.
Exactly, Steve! "A 72 year old man ..." would have been quite acceptable.
DeleteThat is a strange sentence. Being called elderly is better than being called decrepit and other terms.
ReplyDeleteMy point is that "elderly" encompasses those terms. At least it seems to here. Maybe it is not as discriminatory on your side of the world. Funny how words have different meanings.
DeleteElderly seems to be anyone over 70, but I'll think of myself as elderly when I get to be 80. Maybe. I certainly don't feel old, just a bit slower.
ReplyDeleteElderly is 10 years older than I am!
DeleteWhen I was in the emergency section of the hospital all the doctors looked like they were in high school. That really makes me feel old!
ReplyDeleteI prefer the term retro!
The problem I have with elderly is that it's often seen in the phrase frail elderly as if they were synonymous. I'm way older than boomers, and I'm old but not frail.
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