WHAT is it WITH OLD people?

Remember when you were a kid, you would go on a road trip and you were miserable, trapped in the back seat with your sibling or siblings as your parents drove you all over creation. A trip to Rhode Island, to say Rocky Point, seemed an eternity in the car, a trip to Maine was a lifetime.  But if someone asked you about a trip or a vacation you told them about all the cool stuff you did or saw. 

As you got older you would take pictures, The Mayflower, Airplanes, cars, boats, motorcycles, horses, dogs, farms...anything different. You related your experiences to your friends. 

Then there were Sundays at the grand parents, the entire family would show up. They would be talking about a trip they took, to Lancaster PA, Watkins Glen New York, A Cruise ship to the Bahamas. Would they have photos? Sure, of them sitting with friends around a table somewhere. They would tell you all about their trip, the trip would seem to be from one restaurant to another, All they ever talked about was the food they had.

At what point, at what age is it that we reach where there is no more doing or seeing?  There is no activity other than the drive and some place to stop and eat. 

I ask this for a reason, it would seem my age group is rapidly entering that period in our lives. Some one recently went on a trip across three states and into a fourth. It was a rather long ride, there should have been things to see along the way, buildings, animals, vehicles, historic sites, something, anything.   But no...

I have on my phone, a visual collection of their trip from photos they sent. There is a State sign, there are two photos of a restaurant, there is one photo of food at the restaurant, There are two photos of menus, two photos of other eating establishments, and another one or two photos of food, one looks to be an order of blueberries with some sort of breakfast pastry beneath it. 

Pursuit Chickens

To be honest I did receive two photos with chickens in them, but they were probably on the menu.

Did your parents or grand parents shoot 8mm or super 8 movies? Were there endless hours of footage taken out of the windshield?

I got one of those photos also, rain and a windshield wiper.

So now we all know what we are degenerating into, blind traveling, food fixated, weather complaining old folks.

Pretty soon we'll be talking about how the food affected us, what illnesses or age related issues we have, and endless hours of how we feel or felt at any given moment. 

You know why old people talk about the weather so often? It's because it's almost a safe subject. You are visiting your grandmother, she opens the door, what do you say?

How are you?    NO, She will tell you.
How have you been? NO, She will tell you
What's new? NO, to an older person What's new would be a new ailment.
So you say, Hello Grandma, Gee nice weather isn't it.
This will give you (on a warm dry day) a short reprieve, but it will lead to health issues. 

At what age do we not care about self-value? There is a point where your modesty is over taken by your need to have attention.
This is quickly indicated when you ask, Grandma, how are you? 
And she replies that "She messed herself last night"

That was her high point for the day, something different from the norm.

We will all be there,  sooner or later.