Do young people really think us 'oldies' are simple?
Watch this postMy sister recently went back to the opticians because her sight was blurred through one lens when looking through her new glasses. She has been wearing glasses since she was five and thus pretty used to wearing them. The young receptionists informed her that you have one dominant eye and she was obviously looking through the wrong eye and was therefore reluctant to waste the opticians time by making her a new appointment!
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In addition like an awful lot of older people I married, had children and learnt to cope with all that life inevitably throws at you.
Although I'm now retired I'm not aware that me mental faculties have diminished and I'm just as interested in learning new things as I ever was. Nevertheless I've had to get used to shop assistants, medical staff, office staff et al suddenly talking to me very slowly in a louder than normal voice, using very basic and simple language and repeating things to me ad nauseum (this by the way includes my own children sometimes).
For my part I'm desperate not to fall into the trap of insisting things are "not what they used to be" or being too opinionated on "how things should be done". I've had to learn not to cause confusion and sometimes embarrassment by using over-complicated language to a younger generation that largely doesn't understand it (sorry but it's true) and not to lose my temper when I do think I'm being patronised. The danger is that you begin to feel that no-one wants to hear your voice at all and that is a really hard concept to get used to. Maybe that's just getting old.
What wet , warm and very satisfying , ???
Answer a cup of tea lol
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To happyhacker " whoops !!! Well what can you say ? It wasn't a real good chat line to impress a Princess. Us Aussies don't have Princes and Princesses over here. So when they do come over for a visit they are vulnerable to Aussie frog scams. She must have been a bit stupid to listen to a frog in the first place. But there again, being a savvy Silver.surffer she saw through his scam and ate him before ending up in a life of servitude
To Yodama. I never mentioned anything about the Princess being an Aussie. The frog/prince was an Aussie. I can't reveal the Princesses name for legal reasons, but she was a cousin to the Queen twice removed and was English with a bit of Scottish in her. ( that's the bit that helped her from her predicament ) an old Scottish saying her Grannie her told her " Dinae speak tae strange frawgs or ye'll end up wae a hip replacement " On Googling the Princesses biography I found that she had never heard of hopping animals like kangaroos, or MacRoo burgers, had just had a hip replacement, and couldn't hop after them anyway.. So an Aussie frog with a castle and a crippled Mum must have been so inviting for her. Especially when she found out that a fish had eaten one of his feet and he couldn't hop anymore. A sad tale, but true.
To happyhacker. Have a think about it.. If the Princess had kissed the frog, turned him into a Prince, and then ate him to get his inheritance....then what?. I don'know if the laws have changed in the UK since I lived there.....but it was known as canobalism. ( can't seem to get the spelling of this right ... but it means eating people ) In O.z there are laws against eating people. You can eat roos, wallabies, possums, wombats, magpie geese, snakes, spiders, frogs, haggis and rabbits. But human Princes over here are an endangered species and people are liable to heavy fines, and or lengthy jail sentences for eating them, and also forfeit any inheritance.
To georgesmum. Thanks for having a chuckle. I'll send you a wallaby pie with mushy peas for Christmas.
Cheers to all,
Wellies
That evening when the Princess was dining alone, on frog's legs and chips, she smiled to herself and said " I don't bloody think so. "
Wellies you have a fantastic sense of humour....I look forward to following your refreshing posts.
She caught man in charge as he had just finished a test, showed him the comments and his comment was ----- " Somebody is trying to wind you up" ----
I rest my case.