Tame, timid and tardy,well now says who? Not me.

hi gardengerty nor me either,I was timid and shy and my dad called me bashful which made me think somehowI was not as good as other kids. I know my son has never made fun of me for being elderly, but for being poor at mouse work as he calls using the computer mouse. I have a number of much younger friends here who do not seem to worry about my age at all. We just see each other as people we like to talk to.

hi 1hopefulman I so agree we can say that some but not all, that's so patently untrue, thanks for the kind words. I am more that on paper than in person where I am a bit shy. lol. lol.

hi 1hopefulman. well yes indeed I second that and raise it

hi dragon54u yes when I worked in the library the two younger pages always fudged on their work breaks, on their lunch break and always left work early too. when at work they cou ld never finish an assignment and left that for us older people.lol.I am not timid when someone irritates me as I have learned to talk back, and when something is amiss here I do go and make my complaint as I am now olde enough to stick up for me. My arthritis does not stop me from doing a lot of things, and I am happy which a lot of younger people seldom say.

hi Tamara yes if we said some of the things they have said to us, to them they would be furious but they seem to think we not only do not understand but have no feelings either, rude is still rude even it the person is young and gorgeous looking.

hi Alice yes indeed they will see that good manners, and patience will' really help them instead of making fun of us older people. its almost funny as if they do not think they will ever get old have wrinkles, and watch gravity pull things down on them. he he he.

hi paula I agree I know a lot of people in their seventies and eighties who have climbed mountains,sailed a ship around the world, became doctors and nurses at an advanced age, and did so many of the same things that much younger people accomplish. Nobody should be pigeon holed into set boxes, we are all unique and so different.

hi kprofgames yes I remember when I thought 30 was old and 40 was done for, then I grew up and hoped forty was still young and on up to sixty. I found a photo of myself and my hubby at 60 and 64 and was surprised to see how light brown my hair was and how good we looked at that age. Now my hair is blonde white, it refuses to be completely white which is so silly at 83, should be snow white. lol lol lol

hi gabs yes they get one image from the popular misconceptions and think older people are all drooling idiots sitting in rocking chairs in a nursing home mumbling to themselves. well they are sure wrong as we are all different and a lot of us are as active as we were thirty years ago.We work harder and take less sick leave, we are on time and we do our work, while a lot of the younger ones shirk jobs, leave early and let some of the older ones take up the slack. I am shy but I have always been shy and it does not really hold me back anymore.

hi dawnald gotcha, thats okay, I am more or less ranting but' still using the all word with any group of people is so silly 'because we humans are not all alike,we are individuals, and each of us is unique too. so we should not have huge generation gaps but of course we do, not an ideal world I guess.

yes indeed we are all unique, and different. I knew my son when he was in his teens was very different. he was careful with money, he knew what he wanted to do, and once he got a computer he was gone,he knew more about fixing computers at 14 than a lot of adults ever did and over th e years since he has really become the go to person. He seemed always older than his years.

There is a teenager who volunteers at the same cat rescue group that I do, wants to be a veterinarian. She can handle everything there, including some things that I don't (ie taking blood). She doesn't particularly like other teenagers and isn't very interested in teenager things at all. Yep, we're all different.

hi greenmoo yes I think we generally keep a lot of the traits we had as young people, I was always on time and still am, also if for some reason I cannot keep an appointment I call in plenty of time to either reschedule or whatever they want me to do. sometimes my doctors office if he really wants to see me will fit me in that same day and they tell me to just come on in. I am a lot more cautious now as I had a bad fall three years ago, smashed my shoulder bones,had to have an artificial shoulder joint put in, so now I am really afraid of falling and really cautious too. I notice now the silly things that people can actually trip over and have a bad fall. so i avoid the pit falls so to speak.

hi cynthiann I am in the midst of little Saigon here in Garden Grove ca. these vietnamese people do not send elderly parents to retirement homes or any other kinds of home. the elderly come to live with their children and really are treated with love and respect too. I have grown to admire so many of these people here.they are hard working,kind, and gentle people. wish we were more like that with o ut older people.

hi lovinangelsinstead21 just remembered tellin my hubby when he was alive that good since the car was in the garage getting repaired, he would not be able to get a traffic ticket. so he comes home looking really embarrassed, he had a ticket, for jaywalking, a ticket for jaywalking across harbor boulevard one of the main arteries in the city of Costa Mesa, I almost screamed at him, you got a ticket for jay walking? then I had to laugh, and he laughed and we both almost had hysterics,he got a driving ticket while carless, jaywalking. oh lord.

hi blue bunny oh yes you do have a point there,he he, brain implant. that reminds me of the time I had some business errands to run so came back to my town to go to work late, and I got the green light for pedestrians, and walked as quickly as i could but this young man y elled at me,old lady can't you move any faster? well I yelled back, you run a red light here buster you get a ticket as the police stations just around the corner and just barely got half way across the light still green for me, and that idiot careened around the corner past me,running part of a red light, part of a yellow light, as I got up onto the sidewalk and hurried down the street to wo rk. as i got even with the library, and was about to cross the parking lot I heard a police officer call to me. there he was and there the idiot was, he was writing him a ticket , and the cop asked me if I was the lady he had seen almost get hit by the driver he had stopped. I said, yes that was me. so the impatient young man got a nice fat ticket for nearly hitting a pedestrian and running a red light. another one who clearly needed a brain implant.

Hiya Hatley, Good for you maybe he won´t be so impatient anymore. That might have taught him a Lesson hope so. Had something similar happen to someone I know but they did not get a ticket but they are catching up here they really are catching up. Even the Pedestrians are going to get fined for crossing the Road the wrong way.

hi dorannmwin my dear grandpa lived with us his last years and he was beloved and was part of our family. He had worked so hard all his life and even with us he was always doing something to help out. He felt loved and he was loved. my mom was close to him and i was really close.I could go to him with any problem and he never laughed at me or made fun of me at all.

hi lovinangelsinstead21 As I was reading your response I remembered the dance time of old timers they called themselves the Eighty Sixers as some were in their eighties, and boy ' could they dance. They performed for my diabetic group that met every week. and we had people of all ages in that, but we really enjoyed them as they were as lively and as talented as people half their ages, And you could see that they were all having fun too.They line danced, they did some scottish dances, and irish jigs, even some square dancing too. the thing that amazed me is that they were so agile and so talented, and none of them were younger than 75 so it goes to show that you cannot go by age.

they were so much fun to watch and to listen to as they had a lot' of rapport, you would never think people of their ages could be so agile but they were limber and slim, not one plump person in the lot, how I envied them their slim trim bodies and that wonderful ' dancing that they did.

Hiya Hatley, That is wonderful to read people of all ages taking part in something like that really nice. Forgetting about age barriers and all that silly nonsense. Dancing Irish Jigs and Country Dancing my favourites are the Irish Jigs they are so lively. I like Salsa too but the Irish Music gets to me much deeper. I have got two left feet but who cares?

hi magicalbubble no it really is miserable to be made fun of for anyone of any age. thats my point what the hell has age got to do with ones characteristics. Some kids are time, timid and tardy and so what. Yes I suppose there will always be a generation as long as younger people perpetrate myths about how all older people do this or that. I am not really timid nor tame and I am on time as I know I take a lot of time to get going so I do allow for that.What I was trying to show is that people can be anything as it does not have much to do with age but with the individual.

hi danishcanadian why is it I get hungry whenever I see your user name I want to go to the bakery. he he. yes I hate sterotypes too. My husband was very extroverted and always laughing, while I was the serious shy one, not timid, but an extrovert so we too balanced each other out. I kept the books, as he kept forgetting to put down the withdrawals and that suited him fine. he was about six or s even years my senior. With real love age differences seldom really matter.

hi mimpi1911 nope I am never tardy but hope to be empowering' as I think what has age to do with any thing, If we are mentally clear and strong, we can do anything that young or old can do, if we just try hard enough. I was a lot more shy when I was younger but being more or less on my own here I have had to depend on myself more although my son is not far away and is always willing to help if needed. and I have found it is freeing to know that I can do certain things for myself.

hi terri0824 yes we ripen with age and gain some wisdom too.and I think most of us are the ones who are on time. My husband was the one who could never get to an appointment say at ten,he would be five minutes to thirty minutes late. me I am always a bit early and if I cannot make an appointment on time I will call the business or person I was going to meet at a certain time and tell them that I was going to be late and why.

hi neelianoscet yes we really should find ways to bridge the so called generation gap and learn from each other and teach each other.But again all elderly are not doddering frail people, lots of us dont look as old as we are nor act like younger people think we would act. True its not kind to insult an older person nor is it kind to insult any age person.But I think we should think of young people as individuals, and older people as individuals,some are this, some are that, but not all are any thing. I hate that use of the word all.

bounce58 thats just what I was getting at, why stereotype any one because as humans we are not all alike, we are unique, we are each one of us a bit different.wild generalizations just will ' not cut it. I feel I have earned the right to speak up if someone wrongs me or insults me, and I used to be a wuss as my son so cheerfully put it.

hi ewinner yes all age groups have some people who are this and some who are that, but we cannot say all do this or that, If we are mentally strong we can indeed face any kind of a situation at any age, even if we are physically handicapped. like my physical therapist told me we can all do more than we think we can. and I found out he was so right.