I’d be really mad. But he doesn’t, so I am cutting him a whole lotta slack lately. When he expresses his observations about “the years of old”, he has no idea he is TOTALLY callin’ his mutha an Old Lady. He sees black and white photos and thinks they are pictures of the/my old days (a.k.a. “When YOU were a kid, Mom…”)… but he takes it a step further. He actually thinks that trees and such were in black and white “back in the/my day”.
Oh mah achin’ back! Where’s that blasted-dum-diggity heating pad?
So, today he hits me with some questions that leave me reaching for my dentures cane a bit insulted. Take a peek at the following picture:
That there faucet belongs to a house in which friends live. Isn’t that a REALLY COOL faucet?! It’s so retro, like this old-school water pump, yes?
Where’d I put my spectacles? Great-kermudgin-clackatass!
After using one of those cool faucets, my son came out of the bathroom and asked, “Are those like the kind of faucets you had to use when YOU WERE A KID MOM?”
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I need some warm milk. Who the smhmickety-schmack is gonna get me my warm milk! *dentures dislodge*
And then… AND. THEN. Tonight, he went back to the whole “black and white” film thing. We were watching Annie (the original)… My friends… My peers (a.k.a. “old people”) make sure you have on extra DentuGrip… he asked,
Mom? Were all movies in black and white when you were a kid? And was there talking? Because I saw an old movie in black and white and there was no talking and just a piano playing. *does piano hands*
The paramedics arrived at my home and applied the paddles to my age-ed chest. All I could say was, “NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!! THIS Annie that you are watching is THE SAME ANNIE I WATCHED when I was a kid!” *crossed arms* I think I said “Neener”. No, but he TOTALLY would have deserved it if I did.
TarNation. Well… Whose gonna help me trim my ear hair? I have Bridge Club in the morning and ya’ll know I like my ear hair trimmed… I want to look reel perty for Walter, that new retiree. He’s got chrome on his walker… Rawr!
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That is a cool faucet! Sounds like he needs some real history lessons from you. Show him how cool things were when we were kids. You know the days when kids actually when outside to play before there were video games. LOL!
Too funny!! My son thinks I’m old too.
This is when we have to show our patience and know that their kids will zing them back with the same questions one day!
Pass the Poly-Grip, sweetie - my plate is slipping. And good golly it’s cold in here! Where’s my sweater?
Bide your time. Karma will bite him. ;)
Sheesh, I must be like, super geriatric then! I remember a few/several years back when my then 16 yr old nephew told me he just bought this “new” cd of this band AC/DC and have I ever heard of them? I laughed and said, dude, I actually own their very first ALBUM. He goes, uh, what’s an album? I go, I go… ya know vynl. Like what they use to scratch in Rap songs. He was all.. no way, really? I didn’t know they/YOU were THAT old. That was when I was 35!