My ninety-six year old mother often says, "When you are as old as I am..." and it's always the preface to a pronouncement of one kind or another.
The other day I asked her, "So, when did you get old? I mean, can you remember what age you said to yourself, 'I'm old'?"
She thought about it and said, "Ninety-three."
I asked my grandfather a similar question, but reversed; "when will you be old?" when he was ninety-two. "Ninety-three," he said.
ReplyDeleteHe also said, after a life of never being admitted to a hospital, that if he went in he would never come out. He was dead right at the age of ninety-four.
Love the poetry of your last sentence: "...dead right at...ninety-four.
Delete"Dead right"..."dead wrong"...just plain dead...