>>>>>Little girl gave me a card today. It says, "Ice Age, Stone Age, Bronze Age" on the front. When you open it, it has a mirror glued to the inside with the caption underneath, "Old Age." :-D I thought it was very funny.
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>>>>When I was thirty/forty/fifty years younger I would have found that funny.
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>>>>Today??????????????????????????
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>>>Why can't you see it for what it was? A little girl wishing my happy birthday. Are you always so negative? It was cute. Relax a little. You either don't have kids or don't understand them.
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>>Relax
>>Take a chill pill
>>etc.
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>>My only intent, obviously not properly transmitted, was to joke about how close to home this struck. I got the joke, thought it was cute, etc. In point of fact.............
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>>When I turned 50 my youngest son, who is a talented actor and mimic, called in an old woman's voice as a representative of "The American Association of the Elderly." He wanted to send me information on their help line for people suffering from the depression of getting old. The comments keppt getting more outlandish but it wasn't until he invited me to a local "Geezer Gathering" that I finally tumbled to what was going on. He calls each year to repeat the invitation and it is now a (unfortunately well-established) tradition.
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>Yeah, the lack of smiley faces or other such characters didn't really help convey your joking manner.
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>Good story on the birthday. I always call up one friend of mine, and sing her a birthday song of my own lyrics set to a known song. I think the last one was, "Summertime, and the living is easy, but not for you, 'cause you're so old..." Another time it was done to Elvis' "Hound Dog."

Actually, it was "Heartbreak Hotel." "You found a new place to hang out, it's not so bad, you know, it's down at the end of lonely street, at the old folk's motel..."