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Overheard conversation between my parents:

Mom: This old woman at the market was so funny, she had her aide with her and she kept insisting her aide had to go get her own cart, she didn't want her (the aide) to put anything in her cart. The aide kept telling her it was ok, she wasn't buying anything anyway but the old lady kept going on and on about it.

Dad: I hope I don't get like that when I get old.

Mom: You will.

Quinn: ...

My dad is eighty years old.

(yes, I am ancient but not that ancient, I am the youngest, surprise, child.)

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I hear you. My mother had me at 39. While I grew up she used the phrase "a young person, about my age..." a lot. I finally asked her to stop when I entered my twenties, becasue I refused to see myself as a little child, just for her to stay a young woman.

The funny part is, that she never used cosmetics to look younger and let her hair show its natural grey before I was born. Yet on the inside she is a very youngminded person, open to all kinds of ideas. So I can accept in hindsight, how she didn't feel middleaged, when I protested her vocabulary.

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Forgot to say: It is probably similar to the experience in school, when first graders seemed to get tinier every year. For the longest time we aren't old and fragile, but our parent generation (or even that of our grandparents) is. So when you see someone with white hair and a walker, you don't automatically consider them a peer, even if they are the same age as yourself.

Another thing is, that people don't necessarily dress differently anymore, just because the enter a different age. There are gradual changes from children through teenage into adulthood, but they have more to do with lifestyle and careerpath than particular age. There used to be a certain grannystyle, that few people chose nowadays, but those who do somehow look older for it.

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Age is very relative. My oldest aunt is living in an assisted living facility at the ripe old age of 67. My mother, three years younger, is frequently mistaken for her daughter.

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This is very true, my mom looks 20 years younger than she actually is. My dad, on the other had, is very frail, walks with a walker and has oxygen.

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LOL! What's really funny is down here in Florida, I've seen 80 year-olds with more energy than me at 46! Must be our good Florida sunshine!

My mom is 78, and I remember when my grandmother was 78 she was ANCIENT with all white hair, hunched back, and frail whispy speech. My mom is the total opposite. Runs around with my husband and son, is getting ready for arthroscopic knee surgery for torn cartiledge, and is up for any adventure (my hubby took her to her first hockey game this year, and she loved it!).

Just goes to prove that age is a state of mind.

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LOL! :) So cute!

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Great story. My grandmother (many years ago) lived in an apartment complex that catered to older people. She refused to go downstairs to play cards with "all those old people." She was 87 at the time.

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My mom, at 70, refused to go to the Senior Center because it was full of old people.

"Old" is usually someone at least 10 years older than yourself.

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My paternal grandmother (who passed away some years ago now) used to work at an assisted living facility and then moved in there with all the "old people" -- according to her. We alway thought it was so funny that she was always going on about how those folks were "so old" when she was probably the same age or older than they were. We'd ask why she didn't want to do stuff with the other ladies, and she'd always say, "oh, they don't want to do anything because they're all just old." Ha! Thanks for the story and for bringing back that memory of my grandma.

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