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Message 1.Â
Posted by greenyman (U2336198) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
How many of us are in denial when it comes to getting older? For example; I convince myself that I don't need glasses when I am out but my eyes delight in humiliating me. The other day I was in the town centre when I saw a woman waving to me. I waved back cheerily and walked towards her. We both carried on waving until I realised she was in a shop cleaning the window.
One recent overcast night I saw a hedgehog on the lawn. I spoke to it in calm soothing tones and put a saucer of bread and water by it. I then left it in peace. The next morning the hedehog had magically turned into a dead hydrangea flower.
The neighbours must have wondered what was the connection between a dead flower and a saucer of bread and water.
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Message 2
Posted by Bearhug (U2258283) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
You're not meant to feed hedgehogs bread and milk, they don't digest it properly. A bit of cat-food is better for them.
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Message 3
Posted by Clodia (U2221803) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
But it's fine for hydrangeas, though.
Clodia [I'll get me coat] -
Message 4
Posted by Veronica Speedwell (U2233349) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
Carried on chatting to daughter in school kit beside me in shop, asking her opinion on colours, etc, and turned to ask why she had so little to say for her self all of a sudden, to discover own daughter had wandered off to another aisle and vaguely similar but unknown girl in identical uniform was studiously trying to ignore me whle searching stone-faced through article in sale.
Am not merely myopic and old but now regarded as mad by at least on pupl from local education emporium. -
Message 5
Posted by greenyman (U2336198) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
If I had cat food it would probably mean I had a cat which would probably scare the hedgehog off anyway. Besides I said bread and water - not milk. Point taken though.
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Message 6
Posted by Barrie WILSON (U2258177) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
I saw a hedgehog on the lawn.
You'll get to accept glasses when you're out driving and swerve to avoid a hedgehog, hit a tree and get told by the ambulanceman that the "hedgehog" in the road was a Joe Grundy horse's turd. Some people look smashing in glasses - and drive more safely. -
Message 7
Posted by greenyman (U2336198) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
Another thing that affects us all has nothing to do with age. How many of us see a person smiling at us in the street as they approach but are actually smiling at the old friend just behind you, leaving you with a meaningless smile on your face.
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Message 8
Posted by woofti aka groovy gravy (U1483210) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
Yes, that has happened to me, too... only I even approached the person with a huge smile and outstretched arms. That was embarrassing.
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Message 9
Posted by greenyman (U2336198) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
I always wear glasses when I'm driving. I'm not really vain - it's just that I have the silly idea that more I wear them the more I'll get to depend on them. I saw a hedgehog on the lawn.
You'll get to accept glasses when you're out driving and swerve to avoid a hedgehog, hit a tree and get told by the ambulanceman that the "hedgehog" in the road was a Joe Grundy horse's turd. Some people look smashing in glasses - and drive more safely. -
Message 10
Posted by Veronica Speedwell (U2233349) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
Contact lenses. You lose the glasses AND the squint.
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Message 11
Posted by greenyman (U2336198) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
Embarrasing but funny! Another one of my vanity issues is that I hate to admit I can't recognise someone who obviously knows me. I normally get round it by saying 'I was having an argument the other day - how do you spell your name?' This must have sounded very silly the other day when I said it to my long lost friend Bob. Yes, that has happened to me, too... only I even approached the person with a huge smile and outstretched arms. That was embarrassing.
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Message 12
Posted by Bearhug (U2258283) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
Contact lenses. You lose the glasses AND the squint.Â
But you do sometimes end up with streaming eyes, or patting your hand around on the floor, trying to find one.
Such a situation once caused me to start talking to someone at a bus-stop on Tottenham Court Road. They looked at me very strangely. I had momentarily forgotten that people don't talk to each other and make conversation in London. -
Message 13
Posted by Bearhug (U2258283) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
Another one of my vanity issues is that I hate to admit I can't recognise someone who obviously knows me. Â
I've had a 5 minute phone conversation before, "Hi, how are you, how's it going?" All general, non-specific stuff before she realised I wasn't her sister, and I realised she wasn't the wife of the guy I'd been phoning. A shared name had prolonged the confusion.
Of course, if you look confident enough when meeting someone who seems to know you, then they will end up being the one thinking, "Well, I *must* know this person! But who are they? What is their name? Maybe they're from swimming, people look different with their clothes on..."
Yes, before you ask, I really have greeted people with, "Oh! I didn't recognise you! You look different with clothes on!" -
Message 14
Posted by yellowcat (U218155) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
I once had a phone call from a friend to rescue him from a school renunion. He said it was ghastly full of all these really old people who it turned out were not the teachers but his old classmates. They had really aged in the thirty years since had last seen them.
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