you ever think about waking up and being 90 years old?

Post #431,690 by boxley 11/13/19 10:42:16 PM 11/13/19 10:42:16 PM Reply	you ever think about waking up and being 90 years old? the wishful thinking: I am thinking about waking up, getting into my motorized wheel chair. tucking my warm robe around me. Tinkling a little bell and a pretty nurse in a white snug uniform delivers my breakfast bloody mary. the likely reality: I will press the button and an Ogre will come into the room and state "you press that bell again old man I will beat your ass" what brings it up was yesterday was my birthday and my phone starts ringing off the hook. WTF fuck! who is calling me at 6:30 am on my day off? My 90 yr old mother Me: "Oh hi Ma" Ma: " you doing well? Calling to wish you a happy birthday. Wanted to call you before I got busy and forget." Me: what you got going on?" Ma: "well we got 5 inches of snow last night so I have to get busy shoveling the sidewalks at the home" Me: "love ya ma" "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #431,691 by a6l6e6x 11/13/19 10:55:33 PM 11/13/19 10:55:33 PM Reply	Happy belated brthday! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #431,697 by malraux 11/14/19 10:51:38 AM 11/14/19 10:51:38 AM Reply	We'll all be lucky to be shoveling the walk at 90 Happy birthday old man! Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #431,700 by Ashton 11/14/19 10:33:44 PM 11/14/19 10:33:44 PM Reply	Well ..anticipating --if the Stat-charts aren't fakenews--can recall awakening, in that {ephemeral space/time} short of compos mentis to something like, Shit! the Black Shadow is long gone and ... if it weren't--you grounded-Self, so might as well settle for the pretty "enlarged stamp" Commemorative pic on fridge ~4 X 6" from the Blighty-P.O. a while back, Its title, "World's Fastest Standard Motorcycle". You're stuck in a '52 Morris Minor™ side-valve .. ... .... Thought next, "Oh Well--we'll always have Bench-racing". How fortunate to have such a durable Mater; envy. (Mine had the chops to make that, save for the Fickle-Finger-of-Fate awarded her, independently from Laugh-In. Carrion. (But avoid buying Bonds that mature in 30 years, y'hear?)
Post #431,702 by boxley 11/14/19 10:36:30 PM 11/14/19 10:36:30 PM Reply	naw, her mom, my granma went to 101 however the males in the family rarely reached 70 I am amazed every day I am still sucking air and somewhat mobie "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #431,705 by Ashton 11/14/19 10:55:22 PM 11/14/19 10:55:22 PM Reply	Yeah me-too having survived n-cycles, not-drowning when A) fell into a hole in a creek as a tyke; B) using a Prof's scuba-gear (with no quick-release on the weight-belt nor really--on the tank itself)--at La Jolla Cove in So. Cal.) fortunatelly a couple locals got to me--iggerance kills. ..and a few other incidents. (I no longer scale the near-permanent ladder to roof, to maintain/adjust TV-antenna ... just for a quick reconnoiter) ... should there be any unscheduled orange glows in the night-sky. I trust that you stifle-self before attacking the Expert-slalom anywhere.. To wit: I stumbled upon a brief-video of a young guy doing back-flips atop the flat ~escarpment 'wall' of a roof. About the third flip he disappeared--that'll Bring Out one's Inner-coward, to See: fershure :-/ Regret not bookmarking that Effective piece of seppuku-prevention.

Welcome to IWETHEY!