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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 7/14/2008 8:00:20 PM | RD..Just tell that dumb 20 something that youd rather have life experience and self confidence and wisdom that age brings over stupidity and immaturity and insecurity that youth brings  | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 9/14/2008 4:14:47 AM | | I dont like the term old man. I dont like the term old lady...But the way I figure it. I worked all my life...I deserve it Getting older doesnt bother me a bit | |
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lustre
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Joined: 9/6/2008
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 9/14/2008 6:18:37 AM | Hi OP,i know how you feel,all you can do is blame it on immaturity,which it is,unfortunately a small minority of the younger generation dont realize they will be old one day themselves. As for responding to them,i am pretty sure it would go in one ear and out of the other so just dont waste your time,treat it with the contempt it deserves.best wishes.
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 9/14/2008 6:37:09 AM | | After striking out a 20-something in a ball-game last summer for the SECOND time, he snapped his brand new bat in half over his thigh. Big kid! It was his way of pointing out that I was way older and that it shouldn't have happened. Deal with it, kid! There are still a lot of things we do that they can't touch. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 9/14/2008 6:56:39 AM | My answer:
Yes, I am getting older but better & wiser & enjoying every minute ... and guess what, one day YOU WILL be my age -- let's see where you're at when that time comes around & then I  | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 9/14/2008 9:26:00 AM | ...I went back home last week as I had lost someone very dear to me, ( a childhood friend) and after the prayers, many of her family and friends gathered outside , people I hadn't seen in years and years.
While I was speaking with some old friends I noticed a fellow staring intently at me, I glanced at him several times during my conversaton all the while thinking, "I know that face," it was very familiar ....after a few minutes it suddenly hit me, all the old memories came flooding back as I smiled back at him.... my friend and I used to chum around with him and his brother when I was probably around 12 or 13... maybe even younger. We chatted for a bit about old times, got caught up on all the news...it was nice.
On the way back to my sister's I was telling my 18 year old niece the story of how we used to hang out together and that I even had a crush on him at one time....I never laughed so hard when she said, "But Auntie, he's an old man"......"Well he wasn't always old".... I told her, and besides "I'm old too"
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 9/14/2008 9:43:02 AM | | I would think she has a lil ole IQ of piss ant and just go about my business,, So, with that siad """"The Youth have not had the bonding nor manners taught by a loving Mother but have only learned in a day care where it is """Lacking in that"""Called protocol, good manners and tact and diplomancy,,,That only one can learn at home. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 6:45:54 AM | I'm astonished so many people bother getting upset about this... but I do wish someone could come up with a comeback as good as Winston Churchill's famous reply to the woman who sputtered, "You, sir, are drunk!" His line was, "Tomorrow, madam, I will be sober, but you will still be ugly."
That's a mean-spirited line, though. He chose to be drunk, after all.
I can't agree with equating age and wisdom, though. Even after a half-century-plus roving this planet, I keep meeting very elderly folks who have a high opinion of wisdom I either can't see or can't respect - as well as youngsters who know, say and do things that leave me in awe.
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 7:10:02 AM | The only person who has pointed that out to me is my 7 year old granddaughter, and only when we're teasing each other in fun! If anyone else would say that to me, I'd respond, "And how very blessed I am to have reached this age! For yourself, would you prefer the alternative?" | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 9:29:54 AM | I embarass them by showing how Athletic and Energetic an *OLD* person can be . . :
...Diving for a line-drive on a baseball field...
..Hurdling 4 feet in the air and catching a Frisbee between my legs...
..Rollerblading AND playing Hockey...
..Standing on my hands .. and walking across the park on them...
..Wearing-out a dozen kids .. 1/4 my age .. at a company picnic or family reunion...
....the list goes on....till I _Feel_ my age..!!..... | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 9:53:12 AM | I've received that comment a few times and my response has always been.. with a big smile... yep, I am and proud of it! Ohhh, and usually it was a young child and it was not meant unkindly.. just an observation of their veiw, gotta love them and their youthful minds! LOL
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 10:27:06 AM | | I always ask why they are interested adn if a girlie, ask if she has a thing for a daddie type and to let me know right now!! works great, either leave you alone or say YES!! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 10:31:17 AM | Evertime I forget something my 7 year old tells me I am old. So believe me around her I try to remember as much as I can.
To me age is just a number. Life is how you take it. Though life hasn't been easy and still isn't I try to make a positive out of everything including age.
Message 252: older, wiser, and know who I am and what I want.....what's better than that?
I know who I am and mostly what I want, and that is the positive of being a little bit older for me. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 1:16:07 PM | | I had a 20 something girl try to cut in line at the ladies room. I told her to get to the back of the line, she ignored me and went in anyway. She comes out, goes to get 2 of her gfs and proceeds to start yelling at me. I just laughed at her , which enraged her further, at which point she told me I was "old" again I laughed and said "thats right, I'm probably old enough to be your mother" now, would you like to find out what would happen to my daughter if she talked like this to me? she did the "whatever" look and walked away! anyway, I told my daughter this, who was about this girls age and she had the wisest words of all, she said " since when is it a sin to be old?" I am proud of my age and if anyone doesnt like it , oh well to bad! they dont have to look! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 2:14:53 PM | When I was about 13 or so, I said to my friend that I wanted to be extra-nice to my father because he'd just turned 50 and I figured he didn't have many years left.....
well, I expect my father is laughing big time in heaven since I'm now the ripe OLD age of 59 and still kickin'!
age is just a number. when someone much younger makes a remark that I'm "old", I just laugh it off. I may say something like, "honey, you're going to be this age before you know it! enjoy your youth; it goes fast!"
they probably walk away thinking I'm some ole nutcase, but so what? they have no lasting impact on my life and when they reach their 40's, 50's or whatever will be deemed "old" at that point, they may remember what I said - or not. I really don't care! just give me the senior discount at the movies! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 2:24:46 PM | | Don't let it get you down, you are not the first nor will you be the last to hear that. It actually amuses me when this happens. Mr./Mrs./Ms. Obvious has nothing else to ding you with, you should feel good that saying, "you're old!", is all they can think of. Just tell them that it happens if you live long enough. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 2:44:31 PM | | OP: im old, im fine with it, if THEY dont like it ...too bad ya know? disprespect comes in many forms and getting in anyones face because of age, or a stated opinion...well ya know...shows no class. but...what do i know. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 11/15/2008 3:25:12 PM | I used to use the words "I don't care what people think, than ealier this year I listened to those words and how negative they sound.
So now I say I don't worry, and my age is one of the things that I don't worry about what people think of how old I am, and how I act. I like to have fun and will until the day I die. So people can think what ever they want, I'm not worried. | |
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