Post by Madhatter on Aug 13, 2009 2:03:16 GMT
This is an intersting question posed by one of my lovely friend on another site. Its how we'll act when we get old, got me thinking. All of my friends seem to be around 50 a good 12 yrs older than me and non seem to act old to me. they all act younger like my age.that or I act old.
"will we look, feel and behave like elderly do people today?
Do we reach a certain age then decide we have to have short curly grey/white hair? Do we suddenly start listening to music way before we were born or maybe just lose the ability to have good taste in music?
I went on a holiday recently and stayed at a hotel where most of the people were rather old. The older ladies all seemed to have short hair, grey/white and most of them had it permed. Im talking older ladies from 60 up to about 90. They all seemed to listen to the same music and their partners would be sitting there tapping their feet while the old ladies clapped in time to anything from the birdie song to some really depressing country stuff id never heard of and old time dancing music. They all seemed to dress the same too, iv no idea where people buy those kind of clothes from these days, but old peoples fashion shops must exist cause all these old ladies were dressed in the same kind of way, and where do they get those big glasses from?
Even when it came down to food choice they seemed less adventerous. I heard one complaining about this new fangled forign muck - 3 bean soup, they were all laughing saying 'you cant have beans in soup, soup is chicken or oxtail, maybe tomato if your feeling a bit adventerous' and giving the waitress a really hard time over it. Of course when they saw me and my daughter having vegetarian options from the menu they were all looking at us like we were little green men from Mars.
What will we be like when were old. Will we still keep our individualism, imagine sitting in the old folks home tapping ya feet to the foo fighters, keeping long hair, having it coloured, wearing jeans and t shirts rather than trousers pulled up to the nipples for men and knee lenght floral print, elasticated, skirts for ladies with pink t shirts, ordering Indian, Chinese, Italian or Greek food rather than wanting traditional English food, playing pc games rather than bingo, asking the nurse to change your eyebrow piercing cause your rels are visiting. I do hope so, i dont want to be like those old people at that hotel, they scared me'."
"will we look, feel and behave like elderly do people today?
Do we reach a certain age then decide we have to have short curly grey/white hair? Do we suddenly start listening to music way before we were born or maybe just lose the ability to have good taste in music?
I went on a holiday recently and stayed at a hotel where most of the people were rather old. The older ladies all seemed to have short hair, grey/white and most of them had it permed. Im talking older ladies from 60 up to about 90. They all seemed to listen to the same music and their partners would be sitting there tapping their feet while the old ladies clapped in time to anything from the birdie song to some really depressing country stuff id never heard of and old time dancing music. They all seemed to dress the same too, iv no idea where people buy those kind of clothes from these days, but old peoples fashion shops must exist cause all these old ladies were dressed in the same kind of way, and where do they get those big glasses from?
Even when it came down to food choice they seemed less adventerous. I heard one complaining about this new fangled forign muck - 3 bean soup, they were all laughing saying 'you cant have beans in soup, soup is chicken or oxtail, maybe tomato if your feeling a bit adventerous' and giving the waitress a really hard time over it. Of course when they saw me and my daughter having vegetarian options from the menu they were all looking at us like we were little green men from Mars.
What will we be like when were old. Will we still keep our individualism, imagine sitting in the old folks home tapping ya feet to the foo fighters, keeping long hair, having it coloured, wearing jeans and t shirts rather than trousers pulled up to the nipples for men and knee lenght floral print, elasticated, skirts for ladies with pink t shirts, ordering Indian, Chinese, Italian or Greek food rather than wanting traditional English food, playing pc games rather than bingo, asking the nurse to change your eyebrow piercing cause your rels are visiting. I do hope so, i dont want to be like those old people at that hotel, they scared me'."
