Y’all remember the story about when Vince and I were in Sam’s probably 8 years ago and the little boy said “Dad, did you see those old people?” When Vince and I turned around to see the old people, we realized he was talking about us. The dad was so embarrassed and apologized over and over but we told him it was fine . . we are old people. That’s when I told Vince that when I was 6 years old, my grandparents probably weren’t even 50 yet. They lived way, way out in the country, no phone, no neighbors and I was so afraid they were going to die of old age and no one was going to know that I needed to be rescued.
Yesterday while in Hobby Lobby, I had walked over to the cross stitching row to look at hoops and frames – didn’t buy anything. There were two ladies not too far from me and they were talking.
Lady #1: I’m looking for something mom can cross-stitch. She seems to be getting bored.
Lady #2: Why cross-stitching?
Lady #1: That’s what old ladies do!
WHAT? I almost said “There are lots of young people who cross stitch. You should try it!” But I figured . . sometimes you just keep your mouth shut. It’s taken me a lot of years to learn that and a lot of practice to do it.
Those ladies were not spring chickens! They were probably at least 45 years old.
It made me wonder how many stupid things I’ve said (or written) because I thought I knew so much more than I knew! I did think it was funny that they have no idea how much pleasure the young and old alike are getting from cross stitching. Makes you wonder what they do for fun.
I wish I had gotten a better look at them but didn’t dare turn around after hearing that discussion. My face sometimes says more than my spoken words so . . I walked away thinking . . thank you for the blog post! 🙂
Nelle Coursey says
This is funny! I can remember thinking some of the same things when I was younger, and now I am here where it is all true! LOL
judy.blog@gmail.com says
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who thought that way. I remember in high school having a couple of teachers who seemed so, so old and I know they weren’t 50. When I was 16, my mom was 36. Quite a few of my high school teachers had kids in high school when I was there so most of those teachers were in their mid to later 30s. Quite a few of the high school teachers were just out of college so some of the older ones really seemed old. We were probably brutal to them.
Joyce says
One’s perception of “old” sure changes the older one gets. I used to worry about my Dad doing strenuous things because of his age. (He was probably about 60 at the time.) Now that I’m 60, I laugh when I think about that. (since I’m certainly not old…LOL)
Linda in NE says
Once you to 60 or so old is at least 10 years older than you are.
Dottie says
I shake my head when I read stories or hear stories in the new about an “elderly” person and they then say the person was somewhere in their early 60’s or early 70’s. I’m quickly approaching mid 70’s and when I hear elderly, I think 80’s – 90’s and according to the news people, I’m already “elderly”, LOL.
patti says
we often interact with people in stores or restaurants, then later comment to each other about how they likely go home and talk about “the nice elderly couple.” of course we really aren’t “elderly,” at least we don’t think so ;0)
Susan says
Oh, yeah. When my dad retired and we moved to AZ, my mother was 51, so he had to be 55? She didn’t even have gray hair! I thought they were both old, and I was the ripe age of 13, halfway through that trip. LOL My sister was 8. She probably thought *I* was old!
Angie S. says
Catching up on blog posts…this one cracked me up because I started cross stitching with a friend when we were both about 19 yrs old. We would stitch on our breaks and the secretary would always comment about us being too young for cross stitching…that was something she should be doing at her age of mid 50s. I’m still cross stitching, but now am at a more “appropriate” age for it. LOL
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I can’t remember exactly when I started but I stopped when I was probably in my late 20’s. I so wish I had stuck with it and my walls were now lined with beautiful samplers. Good for you for sticking with it.
That is funny because at 19, we feel like we’re well into adulthood (or we did back then) and now we look at 19 year olds as “kids”. 🙂
The other day we had a video meeting (see . . I don’t even know what you call those!) and afterwards, I told Vince . . he was a child! I went to a new doctor and Vince asked how I liked him and I told Vince . . he looks like he isn’t old enough to drive yet! 🙂 We say it all in fun but everyone else is so young these days!