Let's talk about older people

As some of you may know...I am a total sucker for old ladies and they always get the absolute best work from my business for rock bottom prices because i love them so much. Sometimes I kick myself but...it's fine.

Today I talked with a lady who told me all about the old highway that ran through her land, the last 120 yr history of the land, what it was like when the television was invented and what she thinks of today's advancements. I love hearing about this stuff. When the tv was invented they bought one and when the guy came from town to set it up he ran a wire from the tv in the house to the old barbed wire fence outside. That was the antennae. She said it was the best picture possible at the time.

I don't know....maybe most people might not be interested in this kind of stuff.....but I get to talk to people who were around before television!! I love hearing what they have to say. What do you guys have? I'm sure there are some good stories.

 

I don't talk to people my own age much. What they have planned on the weekend for fun, the chicks they reckon they're sleeping with.. all the bullshit...it's all bullshit.
Much rather go and talk to the old folks. =] at least they've got interesting journeys through life. All my pub friends are like 50+ =p I'm going there tonight and hopefully I'll hear some good drunk tales etc.

 

I've dealt with old customers and their musical instruments. They've told me about buying a guitar in the 50s and 60s and how they used car paint to paint them and how much they cost. It's pretty damn cool.

 

"Back in my day we didn't need anybody to tell us what the weather was going to be like, I just stuck my head out the window".

 

my head is out the window, too, Irm....LOL!

 

I love it too, thanks for starting this thread

 

I still do that. I can't stand how hopelessly unnecessary weather reports are. People are lazy.

 

I find the weatherman job to be the only job every in the history of the world where he can fuck it up every day and still somehow maintain that job security.
It's really hard to define weather in my area because the alps and peaks throw the clouds around. You could staple "cloudy/foggy/mist/rain and snow and some sun" next to us if we made the weather report, which we don't because we aren't significant enough for the rest of Bavaria. =p

 

We actually talked about that today. I mentioned that I didn't need a weather app on my phone. She said she didn't understand how people couldn't look at the sky at see a storm brewing. She's right. But she was also in awe that her cell phone (which is always off unless she needs it) could update the time by itself to adjust for day light savings time. I tried to explain it.

 

i used to put the smurfs on then yank off the knob so my sister couldnt change the channel

later on we got a fancy wired remote control that looked like a small typewriter


thats my old tv story

 

I recently went to the funeral of one of my cousins. It was weird because all of our parents are gone now except for one and she wasn't at the funeral. That made my cousins the oldest people in the room. The are all older than me by 12 to 15 years. I heard some great old family stories told by my generation. There were 6 of us female cousins and we sat around and talked about our mothers and when we were little girls.

Growing up is weird because you don't ever really feel it on the inside.

 

No you don't, I've felt the same inside every birthday like I'm still 13 or something. Then sometimes I put on spectacles and look at my skin and yup.. I'm ageing. =[ not looking forward to hitting this "wall" I've read about.

 

Hmm.....this makes me think. I don't have that anymore....at all. I came from a large family but i basically have my wife and kids. I don't even know why that is but it just seems to be the dynamic. I've tried to change it but it pretty much just stays the same.

 

Circa 1950-1958 in our Bronx apt- -music system and B/W TV rolled into one pc of furniture-

 

I love old people. Its a shame how todays society throws away their elders in nursing homes n stuff these days

 

I wish I could say the same but although I love all old people and their perspectives in theory, I mainly seem to meet the boring ones. They are very friendly usually so the most we talk about is the weather and how nice this or that is and then I'm off again (if I can help it)

 

I've met some great old women and had some great conversations with them.Maybe I like them because there is no sexual tension,as it were?They are usually so nice and kind,and surprisingly bull-shit free...I hope I will have an old lady partner when I get into my seventies or something like that,and we could live out our sunset years as amiable, interested in life eccentrics.

 

I was in the very last class at MIT that never used calculators. It was slide-rule city.

 

I used to volunteer at two nursing homes and I loved listening to the residents' stories. This one lady found out I also worked at the other nursing home where her ex lover happened to reside. She was 101 years old and proceeded to tell me how great this guy was in bed, how great French guys are in general in bed, and how much she missed sex.

So I've always had a lot of love for old people but lately I've developed a phobia of them. My great aunt passed away recently at 85 and it was just really depressing to watch her go downhill. She was always lively and very independent. I always figured she would live to be 100. Her death has made me contemplate life and mortality a little too deeply, and now I feel like when I look at old people all I see is death.