On 03/03/13 22:53, Unbeliever wrote:
ARW wrote:
So where does that leave me and what am I supposed to do now?

Suitably bollocked - and be an even bigger prat than you are now just to
annoy 'em. I did that after an argument with a couple of cantankerous
clients just before I retired some 12 years ago - and hell the feeling was
great!

How do you act your age?

As disgracefully as possible - especially if you are past the time you start
to receive your old age pension - it's called regression into childhood.
Would that apply to you yet? ;-)


http://labyrinth_3.tripod.com/page59.html

Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

By Jenny Joseph


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When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple

with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired

and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

and run my stick along the public railings

and make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

and pick the flowers in other people's gardens

and learn to spit.

€*

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

and eat three pounds of sausages at a go

or only bread and pickles for a week

and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.

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But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

and pay our rent and not swear in the street

and set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.


--
Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc-ra-cy) €“ a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.