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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: lordxizor on December 04, 2012, 11:41:57 AM
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In this thread discuss instances of awesome elderly folks.
The other day I saw an older guy (probably in his 70s) driving his riding lawnmower down the sidewalk with his big dog an a leash walking next to him. To top it off, he had the biggest cigar I've ever seen in his mouth.
I also get a huge kick out of the old couples that go to McDonalds and get two smal coffees, two hamburgers, and share a small fry.
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An old lady in my line at the grocery store the other day had two things of Eggnog. One regular, one mixed with really hard alcohol. She hands me the regular. "Take this one back." she says. "It's the weekend, and I'm getting smashed." You go, old lady. You go. :metal
There's another old woman who always tells me I look like her great grandson. She's 98, no visible health problems, and she's always cracking jokes. She always comes in with her 75 year old daughter, and always tells me advice like "Don't party as hard as I did, son. That's how you end up with kids like this one." And points to her daughter, who's raising an eyebrow. It's awesome. :lol Can you imagine being 75, still taking your mother to the grocery and having her be that healthy too? Jebus.
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There's another old woman who always tells me I look like her great grandson. She's 98, no visible health problems, and she's always cracking jokes. She always comes in with her 75 year old daughter, and always tells me advice like "Don't party as hard as I did, son. That's how you end up with kids like this one." And points to her daughter, who's raising an eyebrow. It's awesome. :lol Can you imagine being 75, still taking your mother to the grocery and having her be that healthy too? Jebus.
I couldn't imagine being 75 and having my 98 year old mother ribbing me like that :rollin
As a truck driver I work with a bunch of guys who've been driving longer than I've been alive. Full of great advice and some great humor :tup
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Fuck yeah old people.
I have an 80 year old uncle that's as healthy as he's ever been and I love having a few beers with him while listening to his fart and dick jokes.
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Fuck yeah old people.
I have an 80 year old uncle that's as healthy as he's ever been and I love having a few beers with him while listening to his fart and dick jokes.
Now that's living!
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Old people are awesome. I really like it when they're put on sheets of ice and put off to sea.
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Appreciate me, then get the fuck off my lawn :yeahright
:P
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I appreciate lonestar :biggrin:
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Appreciation given! I love my g-pa, he's 86 and still works everyday, goes scuba-diving off the coast of Mexico and can probably still whoop my ass.
The wise old ones are ever-important.
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I appreciate lonestar :biggrin:
I was going to post that, great guy!
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Most of the old people in my family are pretty crazy...
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Appreciate me, then get the fuck off my lawn :yeahright
:P
:rollin
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... listening to his fart...
Oh my god. :lol Nevermind.
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Old people are the shit
:metal
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The older I get the more I appreciate old people, except when I'm driving. :lol
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I appreciate lonestar :biggrin:
:tup
I would like to appreciate my two grandmothers. One is 89, the other 90. Both still live on their own. One still works out of the house selling a clothing self dry cleaning product, the other volunteers at the local hospital as a translator for the Mexican new mothers in the maternity wing. They are truly amazing women.
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Man, at first I thought this was gonna be a thread about old people here on DTF, with "old" being relative of course. Then I could get all mock-offended at being called old. Or if no one mentioned me, I could get all mock-offended at not being called old.
Now I don't know what to do. My grandparents have all been gone for a long time, and my dad's still around, and he's awesome, but he drives me nuts because he... aw fuck, you don't want to hear it.
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Old people are the nemesis of my commute. So, I'm kinda ambivalent about them.
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The older I get the more I appreciate old people, except when I'm driving. :lol
This. I will never understand how it is legitimate that you're still allowed to drive even if you can't see, move or whatever anymore. :lol At least that's the way it is in Germany.
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I rarely get to meet old people to talk to and I really like to, especially here in the U.S. I wish I would once talk to someone who was in their twenties or thirties DURING the twenties or thirties, but with every passing year my chances are getting slimmer :/
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So much win in this thread so far. I will add some stories later. Being a hospice worker, I spend almost every day with old folks and I love it. My patients range from 50-100!
I rarely get to meet old people to talk to and I really like to, especially here in the U.S. I wish I would once talk to someone who was in their twenties or thirties DURING the twenties or thirties, but with every passing year my chances are getting slimmer :/
Easy solution: volunteer in a nursing home or for a hospice... or any organization that serves older folks. Lots of options.. and you're right, time is running out but there are still plenty of sharp-minded people that age around.
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I'll check that out and see how it would work, thanks!
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:).. Lots of options!
I just said goodbye to one of my favorite old men, a former patient who was a WWII vet. He had a great story about hijacking a shipment of PBR in the desert.
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One of the older guys in the church choir was a pilot during WWII, and he told me a story one time about a special "unauthorized" mission to pick up a load of cigarettes. Like, hundreds of cartons of Marlboros. But during wartime, cigarettes were a valuable commodity just like anything else, and they got shot at on the way out of there. One of his buddies was hit and killed. I was gonna make a joke about how cigarettes can kill you, but I looked at his face, and he was near tears. So I (wisely) kept my mouth shut.
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It would've been tarrible of you to make his friend the butt of the joke. Good call filtering yourself since you used to not be so tactful. You've come a long way, baby.
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Whats the emote for the slow clap?
because I would use it here if I had knew it
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:slowclap: = [:]slowclap[:]
And thank you.
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It was pure brilliance.
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I definitely came out smokin.
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I definitely came out smokin.
Fag.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.
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Old people are awesome. If your grandparents are still living, go hang out with them. You will be enriched.
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Old people are awesome. If your grandparents are still living, go hang out with them. You will be enriched.
All of mine are dead. I need to borrow someone's...
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Mine are, too, or I would lend you mine.
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F old people for the most part. But
fake :tup for this woman.
https://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Oldest-Woman-Suffragette-Dies-In-Georgia-At-116/VVrFhwZ1e0eGiTqPdVkp_Q.cspx?rss=102
"I mind my own business and don't eat junk food."
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Old people are awesome. If your grandparents are still living, go hang out with them. You will be enriched.
All of mine are dead. I need to borrow someone's...
No prob, Jay. I've got some hard candy in my pocket for you. Just call me Pep Pep.
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It would've been tarrible of you to make his friend the butt of the joke. Good call filtering yourself since you used to not be so tactful. You've come a long way, baby.
Still got a ways to go, but I'm getting there, slowly.
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Old people are awesome. If your grandparents are still living, go hang out with them. You will be enriched.
All of mine are dead. I need to borrow someone's...
No prob, Jay. I've got some hard candy in my pocket for you. Just call me Pep Pep.
I'm sure SOMETHING hard is involved. :corn
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It sure as shit ain't a Werther's Original either.
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It sure as shit ain't a Werther's Original either.
Um... DUH. :jets:
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I remember a few months back being on a bus, and I remember this old lady was saying that she didn't believe the nonsense that the news had about "young people of today" being unpleasant and rude, and that she thought them actually rather nice, and that at ninety three, she found that being happy was the best way to deal with life.
I almost high fived her, but then I would have dropped the various things I was trying not to have crash down and destroy half the bus.
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That was very nice of you. :)