This Week for Seniors

Being a senior citizen can be tough. To start out, you soon realize that you have more days behind you than you do in front of you. But we lived a long time and grew up in a no stress world. No cell phones, no video games, no computers. Our transportation was mainly bicycles and just walking everywhere. You didn’t use the phone very often and you usually just rode your bike to your friend’s house, then went and knocked on the door and said to their mom, (in those days the mom was nearly always at home) “Hi Mrs. Smith can John come out and play?” Your friend came out, got his bike and the day’s adventure was on! No one usually knew where you were or when you would be back. Just a whole day of fun and adventure. Simple times with simple games, usually made up on the spur of the moment. We learned life’s lessons by experience. Lessons such as when you rode by the neighbor’s house with the mean dog, you rode by as fast as you could pedal. No gears on the bike, nothing but pedal power.

Seniors have a treasure trove of life experiences that we use now daily. It is hard to scam a senior because we have seen it all. The grocery stores are good at trying to scam shoppers. Here are a few good examples on the paper aisle. 12 rolls are equal to 48 rolls. No, seniors can count. 12 rolls are 12 rolls. New bigger rolls Yes, why? Look at the size now of the card board roll. It is almost twice the size that it used to be on paper towels and bathroom tissue as it used to be. Sugar and other thing are same price as the larger ones used to be. You can’t fool seniors. My favorite perks for seniors are simply our age. You can do things and say things that others are afraid to say and they will just blow it off as an age problem. I loved my grandmother; she lived to be 104 years old and sharp as a tack. I loved to go to those birthday parties just to see what she would come up with. At one party when a grossly overweight Aunt went back for another big piece of cake she said out loud “like you really need that”, well everyone else was thinking that and just didn’t say it. My mom was mortified and fussed at her, and I told my mom when you get to be that age you have earned to be able to speak your mind and it will just be blown off as an age thing. I feel like I have gotten to that point and a love it and use it as often as possible. Forgetting something is good also, the age thing again. Another good thing is when you do something and someone says why did you do that, well I just say “that is the way mom and grandma did it. “ Always remember youth and strength can always be overcome by cunning and deceit.

Thought for the day: I can picture in my mind a world without war and without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they would never expect it.