It was NOT the Senior Citizens who took:
The melody out of music,
The pride out of appearance,
The courtesy out of driving,
The romance out of love,
The commitment out of marriage,
The responsibility out of parenthood,
The togetherness out of the family,
The learning out of education,
The service out of patriotism,
The Golden Rule from rulers,
The nativity scene out of cities,
The civility out of behaviour,
The refinement out of language,
The dedication out of employment,
The prudence out of spending,
The ambition out of achievement, or,
God out of government and school.
And we certainly are NOT the ones who eliminated patience and tolerance from
personal relationships and interactions with others!
YES, I'M A SENIOR CITIZEN!
I'm the life of the party ...... even if it lasts until 8 p.m.
I'm very good at opening childproof caps .... with a hammer.
I'm usually interested in going home before I get to where I am going.
I'm awake many hours before my body allows me to get up.
I'm smiling all the time because I can't hear a thing you're saying.
I'm very good at telling stories; over and over and over and over...
I'm not really grouchy: I just don't like traffic, waiting in long lines, crowds, lawyers, unruly kids, barking dogs, politicians and a few other things I can't seem to remember right now. I'm sure everything I can't find is in a safe secure place, somewhere
I'm wrinkled, saggy, lumpy, and that's just my left leg.
I'm having trouble remembering simple words like.....
I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
I'm sure they are making adults much younger these days, and when did they let kids become policemen? I'm wondering, if you're only as old as you feel, how could I be alive at 150? I'm a walking storeroom of facts.... I've just lost the key to the storeroom door.
Have a great New Year and ...
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."
yes Colin the latter seems to disprove the first. I have often thought that if our parents had these virtues and taught them to us,and then our children doesn't have them ,who is to blame ? Frank
ReplyDeleteHello Frank,
ReplyDeleteI guess that you may be right, perhaps the latter does somewhat disprove the first. Just generalisation in the statement I suppose. Nevertheless, it does appear to be a different world today to our early years.
You certainly raise an interesting question when you state, 'who is to blame?' I would imagine that we both did our best to instill good values in our children and no doubt we succeeded. It would seem that we all have free-will to choose our own path and some folk choose a path that their parents avoided. Why? No easy answer. It will be interesting to see if others can add some light upon this topic.
Every best wish, Frank, for the New Year.
Colin.
When I mentioned the 'not the sc's'
ReplyDeleteto one of my sons his response was that we were the ones to blame for allowing our children to stray.
Paddy
Ah Ha! Faux pas? "There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation, if our traditions do not survive with it" (John F Kennedy). Now isn't Hindsight a wonderful thing?
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Nothing stays the same forever, thankfully,lets look at these virtues that our parents and ancestors had,
ReplyDeleteadults didn't know that the word discipline came from Disciple to them it was that children conformed to absolute obedience. to be seen but not heard.
no health service except the district nurse if any one was really ill the street used to give whatever small change they had to help pay for the Doctors bills.doctor were also the only people to own cars. no sweets and very little meat. Most of the ration card the old man had Flogged to buy beer.
Books ? it was a damn fool as wrote one and a bigger bloody fool who reads it.. I was once whipped for thinking I was better than my Father ! all I had said was I had passed the exam for Grammar school. and there is so much more to bring up think about it. all in all I think the youth of today are much nicer,than we were Think of the Teddy boys and the mods what did the old people say about them. all I can thank goodness for flower power .
I love playing the Devils advocate. and aren't we perhaps a tiny bit envious of them at times ? Frank
Re ancestors Frank - depends on how far you want to go back. Take for example the Bible (www.bible.org)
ReplyDelete(Judges 19:22) page 469: They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.” 19:23 the man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing! 19:24 here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!” 19:25 the men refused to listen to him, so the Levite grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. They raped her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn. 19:26 the woman arrived back at day-break and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master was staying until it became light.
So some things, thankfully, have changed Frank but on the other hand:-
(2 Kings 6:28) page 631 "Then the king asked her, what’s your problem? She answered, this woman said to me, ‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’ So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!"
Some things haven't..... Like,” pull up the ladder Jack, I'm alright"
As for Grammar schools; you might like to know I had great difficulty with the 11+ and I'm still having difficulty at 72+ but my fondest memories are of when my mum used to send me out to get the milk from the milkman, who had a horse and cart and used to ladle the milk from the milk churn into a container. After taking it back to her I then had to follow the horse & cart down the street with a bucket in one hand and spade in the other. And that my friend, is how life has been ever since! Stan
Oh, and I forgot 'flower power'. In 1954 Senator Kennedy called upon President Eisenhower "to face the stark reality" that America will not be able to stop Communism in Indochina.
Some people just never learn from history!
and that's the sort of thing that some members of the clergy have been doing ever since along with certain children refuges, will that ever change I hope so. BUT WHAT PUZZLES ME MOST IS;
ReplyDeletehow did you get a spade you must have been middle class.we had to use our bear hands very therapeutic on a frosty morn and perhaps the part I miss most.apart from fighting off the neighbour's
if you are still doing that today let me know where.Frank
Wasn't John.F.Kennedy's tradition adultery
ReplyDeleteFrank
Now I'm not an old misery,but I do miss the dicipline of old,the respect for elders and their wisenessOnce upon a time your employer was content to earn ten or so times what his employees earned,today it must be a few thousand times at least.As a very famous person once said(the name won't come to me)"there is no person on this earth that EARNS a million pounds a year!!!"
ReplyDeleteHere endeth todays lesson!
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Don , I thought you were away climbing Mt Everest.or the north wall of the eiger, or was it only
ReplyDeleteup to Hermans Denkmal? Let me correct you, you surely mean the MANNERS of old not the Discipline of old.but honestly do we always earn the respect of the young not all of us do and certainly not always. I read somewhere ,that around the perimeter of old age is the myth of extreme wisdom, meaning that you can get away with telling such a load of old crap,and you will get away with it,simply because you are old and deemed to be wise,I sometimes have great fun practicing this theory. & I thought I always "earned a million a year" just no one would pay me that amount the goal of an employer is to earn more and more and pay his servants less and less ,so it has been since time began & will ever be so.Frank
... And wasn't it Monica who said "I voted Republican this year because the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth?" Well at least Marilyn kept her mouth shut Frank. After all, these were two consenting adults and even presidents have private lives. Now in his last interview on Vietnam JFK said "In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Vietnam against the Communists... “I just hope that Afghanistan doesn’t go the same way. If it does, we will have learnt nothing from history! … Stan
ReplyDeleteWhat great philosophers we've got.
ReplyDeletePaddy
Re: "pull up the ladder Jack, I'm alright"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343855/Ministry-Defence-officials-set-record-bonuses-armed-forces-face-cuts.html
Frank.
ReplyDeleteThe Nordwand of the Eiger I did many years ago - this year it was Braunlage(1000m)not so high and you were within easy drinking distance from the Hotel for a hot punch.Never seen so much snow and ice,and the forests were out of bounds because of trees collapsing from the weight of snow!And the mountains were packed with skiers,lifts doing a thriving business.Missed my young days though when I could hit the slopes(gave up at 75!)
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Don(still enough snow in Detmold for winter sports)
Netted in here today - where are you all?
ReplyDeleteBest wishes
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I think they are all climbing the north pole .sorry the north wall of the Eiger. I'm not allowed because I went to my Urologist yesterday and he suspects I have Varicose vein's on me prostate
ReplyDeleteFrank
Just thought Don tomorrow comes the big thaw. Hope your pile of snow don't run into your Garage
ReplyDeleteif it does watch out for those snakes and crocks
We are still around Don, been a little busy after the thaw had a burst pipe in the garage which feeds the loo and tap so now doing repairs, as the old lagging seemed to have past it's sell by date or the frosts were more severe this time, now replacing pipes and putting in more lagging and hoping that if we have more bad winters it will keep them free from freezing, as you see some of us Senior Citizens are able to do things that we have learnt in life and able to save a bob or two.
ReplyDelete... and just to keep this thread going a little longer - Went down to pick up a hire van yesterday only to be told they couldn't hire it to me because I'm over 70 years-of-age! But I have an unblemished driving licence that's still valid for another two years, not even a speeding fine! Not only that but I have my very own car and vehicle insurance and have never made a claim! as does my wife who also has her own car and vehicle insurance - I can drive her car and she can drive mine. There is nothing wrong with me medically and when I went for and eye test recently was told I didn't even require glasses for driving! There were no signs, either inside or outside the garage to say you had to be under 70 years-of-age. Had I know this beforehand then I could have made alternative arrangements. However, as a further point of interest here, it didn't stop them trying to sell me a new car on the garage forecourt! If ever there was a case for Age Discrimination then this was it! Now you know why I don't look forward to New Years Frank - because there's going to be an even larger heap of dung out there to follow! How on earth did we manage to get through the 50s, 60s,70s and 80s without all these 'present day pillocks' in charge of us? Stan.
ReplyDeletePS. Don't forget to add 'Driving' to your list above, Colin.
Stan, here's another blast from the past you've just reminded me of. when people done a "moonlight Flit " they used one of those carts with big wooden wheels and a flat bed I know a bloke who still got one is that any good for you, you'll have to pick it up and return it from dorset
ReplyDeleteone other thing Stan remember the present day pillocks are the sons and grandsons of the Pillocks of olden days, ( I can't resist this sorry ) you pillock. frank
Hope you are now dry again John,nothing worse than burst pipes.And yes,we now have a thaw,2c PLUS today,but it was hairy at first as the rain froze on hitting the ground.It will be nice to see the lawn again after 6 weeks of snow,I see you are getting it back in the UK,just a week after it hit the States!Yes - what a farce - can't lend you a car,but can sell you one for 50,000quid any time?????
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend!
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