Wandering thoughts
I’m sitting here eating a blueberry Pop Tart just as happy as can be. This is not part of my New Year’s health kick pledge and it’s probably not reccomended in any nutritional manual but this little bit of “bad for you” goodness has put a smile on my face.
Speaking of things smile-worthy in my world: John Witherspoon. He’ll be at Tommy T’s all weekend so if you haven’t figured out something for Dad yet I reccomend this. Tommy’s has a great menu (father-friendly: meat, potatos, fried stuff) so you guys can have dinner first and then laugh it off. You know John from the Wayans Bros. TV Show and the Friday movies and Boomerang with Eddie Murphy and countless other things but just hanging in the studio he is a kind and humble man and look forward to his visits.
I have a question- when are you officially old? 40’s, 50’s, retirement at 65? The reason I ask is that no one I talk too classifies themself as old. Even AARP card carrying senior citizens don’t call themselves “old”. I hear all this “60 is the new 40, 40 is the new 20″ talk which I have some choice comments about but those will come another time. The reason I even bring it up is that story on the news about the 84 year old woman who drove the wrong way down the Muni tunnel. Long story short, officials were able to stop the trains so there was not an accident. However police “evaluated” her , decided she was okay and let her drive herself home (they followed her). We can all make driving errors but shouldn’t you have restrictions on your liscense after a certain age? Let’s face it, as we age things change…eyesight dims, reflexes get slower. I just said I plan to voluntarily stop driving when I get 75 (God Bless me to live that long). Of course when the time comes…will I think I’m to old to drive? I don’t have an answer about the age question it’s just something I think about as I get older. I know this, I am too old for some things because my body has told me so despite what my mind says. I also know, when I decide I’m too old for too many things I’ll be dead because I at least plan to “think young” forever.