| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/3/2009 11:55:22 AM | My response is usually "No-YOU are! And you smell." Then I kick dirt at them and stick out my tongue.
Meh. We are what we are. Old, young, skinny, fat, ugly, pretty. Doesn't bother me, to tell you the truth.
I also don't understand fat people getting upset at being called fat. It's like being upset that someone told you you have green eyes when you do. I'd be far more insulted if someone called me stupid or needy. Thems fightin' words!! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/3/2009 11:59:41 AM | Although I have found most young people to be very nice and polite there are times you just have to quit the conversation and move on. Why beat a dead horse to death? Most girls in their 20's have little in common with an older person. They have much more life to experience before they can relate to an older person's opinion. That's just normal if you think back to when you were that age. The simple way out is to state "I understand how you feel right now at your age and in time that will probably change. Be safe and enjoy"!  | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/3/2009 3:06:14 PM | Isn't it amazing how one's perspective can change? I remember at the age of 21 thinking of myself as finally being "old enough" so that no one could accuse me of not being an adult!
Then when I reached the age of 30, I remember thinking, "Oh my God, if I'm going to get married again, I better hurry up before I get too old!" (Bad idea - proven since!)
At 40, I remember thinking that "now that I am middle age, I will be wiser and more mature!"
At 50, I finally realized that on any given day I will feel inside much younger than the person I will see in the mirror looking back at me.
And - finally - I would suggest that you respond the same way I do when the young engineers I work with point out to me that I am old enough to be their mother. I respond by telling them that if I were in fact their mother, they would have better manners!
Let's hope these young people will actually gain wisdom with years!! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/3/2009 3:19:31 PM | | Well, you know...I am old. Closer to 50 than I am to 40, for sure! Nothing I can do about it, and I like the alternative even less...so there you go. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/3/2009 5:15:36 PM | Remember when we thought anyone who was 25 was over the hill? lol - what goes around, comes around!
When someone much younger than I am says that they are 28, for example, I reply, "I remember 28....and 38....and 48....." gotta laugh! age is really just a number. I meet people all the time who are much younger than I am, but you'd never know it by their attitudes, not to mention physical condition. Geez! get out and walk once in awhile! | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/3/2009 5:23:33 PM | I respond with a smile and a nod!
I earned every wrinkle, every ache and pain. I say bring on the birthdays! the more the better. :)
Peppie | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/3/2009 6:36:05 PM | Tell them "you're a baby" (which she obviously is, chronologically and intellectually).
But you hate to sink to their level. Better to leave the discussion or click her profile and click "ignore user" than banter with a 20-something who thinks and talks like a 2-year-old. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/3/2009 8:00:41 PM | | LOL it doesn't just happen to men. I had one guy say "I'm only interested in older women. I would love to meet you." I mean that's a preference yes, but was it necessary to throw in the 'older women'. Wouldn't it have sufficed to say, I would love to meet you and then perhaps elaborate on the actual reasons he is attracted to older women eg. stability, self-sufficiency, the fact that you can borrow my knitting glasses to find a phone number in the yellow pages LOL. Don't worry about it thow RDtoo. We can just lift turn our age-weary heads and shake our wrinkled fists at the youngins and then pass out in exhaustion for expending that much energy before our afternoon naps. LOL Just LOL it off! LOL | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/4/2009 7:34:11 AM | These are the best years of my life. I don't mind being called old.
When I was younger, I respected my elders, but couldn't/wouldn't relate to them. How foolish was I? | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/4/2009 5:50:41 PM | | To a twenty something a 51 year old IS old. Just like to you someone in their eighties is old. See its a 30 year age difference. You probably refer to people in their 80's as old all the time. When you were 20 you probably referred to those in their 50's as old too. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/4/2009 6:08:22 PM | | I am old. To note that shows good powers of observation. I've never felt it was an insult and certainly never anything I might argue with. However, interact inappropriately with someone much younger and the favour will always be returned. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/5/2009 7:21:22 AM | Beershack,
I love your answer. Can I use it sometime? I usually tell the young would be lovers that I'm into dentures, the smell of bengay and metamucil breath. That recedeing hairlines and bald spots turn me on. And if you weren't here during the Viet Nam War, you haven't lived enough to interest me. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/5/2009 7:08:40 PM | I usually don't hear that......................I have sense enough not to pursue a
woman that is much much younger than me......for example, a woman that is 20 years my
Junior.............I'm usually the man who asks a woman 45-50 that she's too old to
attempt to 'look like' a woman in her 20's, or adopt the trappings of a woman 20
years her Junior............lots of women doing that are in fact 'too OLD' but refuse to
acknowledge it, like man in his 50's making overtures to a 29 year old woman.....
it generally doesn't work, and looks completely out of place and out of character. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/7/2009 7:40:35 AM | When some one says that to me I just say...."thank you very much and in a few years you will be where I am"...........
Seriously, I think "old" should be a "four letter" word, like Oold, or olld or what ever.......
There seem such a negative perception with that word. As for me I love this time in my life. No more trying to climb the corporate ladder crap.........been there done that. No more taking crap from a boss that has the IQ of a rat. No thank you......done that also.
Yes I am a senior citizen and I've paid my dues so I can enjoy life...........but I'm not "old"........
Dragonrider | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/18/2009 4:50:22 PM | Hi Old Man,
On how I'd respond: in the forums, I would ignore it. If you respond to personal remarks or insults, I don't see anything to be gained for them or you, that could make it worth adding to the overall negativity and/or trying to derail the thread topic.
In person, yikes !! I admit don't know how I'd answer, because I fortunately haven't yet met anybody so rude as to say such a thing to my aged face.
p.s. You're old.
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/20/2009 1:41:16 PM | old? I should hope so! (big smile)
I agree, in the Forums, I'd ignore it. But I've been around large groups of young people for a long time and things "slip", and there's occasional intention "Dis". But you know, survival is it's own reward.
You’re old! - “yes baby” (pat on head)
You’re old! - “aye, I’ve been lucky”
You’re TOO old! - “ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha” (muffled, gentle laughter)
I did dearly laugh at Msg 125 “…for someone so inexperienced you have a wonderful grasp of the obvious” – that was terrific. | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/20/2009 4:50:03 PM | outofthedesert, I have to agree with you! the closer you get to (name an age), the younger it seems.
I thought last night that this is the first American president who's younger than I am. I told that to a friend and he replied with this: "he may be younger than you are, but you're young at heart and that's what counts."
nice, huh? | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/20/2009 4:57:44 PM | Serious response:
"The opinion you have of me, at this age, is the self image you will have if you get to live this long."
That usually gives them a little food for thought.
Humourus response:
"Ya wanna add a 'Sir' to that!"
just a couple thoughts | |
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| When someone points out that you're old..
Posted: 1/20/2009 6:18:01 PM | Young women who think that way can't get along with their own parents, especially the father. The parent don't like their daugher's behavior. That's why they hate older men.
Harry | |
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