When I get old(er)
23:37 Tuesday 6 Nov 07
Out shopping today I was wondering which of the many things that affect older people will I dislike the most. There’s the vision thing, hearing, teeth, a fondness for shopping bags on wheels…. all things quite visible when out and about (especially on pension day). So I’m pondering.
Vision – I wear glasses anyway so that’s out. Teeth – don’t they just go anyway? Hearing – it’s not hearing that’s my problem right now, it’s listening and given I don’t listen much then hearing I’m not fussed about. But these are fixable anyway. What’s really going to annoy me is speed.
There is A and there is B. I move between them as quickly as I can and more often than not curse silently (most of the time it’s silent) when people get in my way. The only people that pass me are those that are running.
Get there, get it, get back, get on with whatever was left. Don’t slow people realise just how much more can be fitted into a day if they parted the air a bit quicker?
Having to go slowly will annoy the hell out of me.
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11:27 Wednesday 7 Nov 07
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It is not me moving slowly I worry about. It is every other old sod slowing me down :)
18:43 Wednesday 7 Nov 07
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I agree. Only you don’t have to be old to worry about that. Being slow is a factor of being pregnant as well. I like walking fast as well, passing people on the sidewalk. When you’re hauling 30 lbs more around going up stairs, standing up from sitting and walking take more patience.
21:24 Thursday 8 Nov 07
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My dad must have like thinking, he’s always saying if I went any slower I’d be going backwards. I don’t know, I just never saw the point in rushing about — never seems like I do any more when I get some place quicker. Though I can’t stand people who are late.
Then again, I apparently walk pretty fast, as all my guide dog trainers complain bitterly about. I guess it’s the one plus of having long legs. (Or as long as one’s legs can be when one is hardly 5’2″.)
12:12 Sunday 11 Nov 07