Denial

P1010709Friday is here at last so it is time to have some fun.   Before I have too much fun I would like to wish all the fathers out there a happy fathers day. 

This post is about my daughter not about my father.  Sarah is a brainy 20 something Ph.D candidate with a smart mouth.  I get how she got to be a 20 something but I don’t understand the mouth.

She teases me and is  just plain bad. I would never tease her because she is smarter than I am.  Yesterday she told me that I am in denial, funny I thought I was in St. Paul.  We are talking about two different rivers.

We live on a a river bluff.  The only direction I can walk from my home with out walking up or down a river bluff is West.   West just isn’t any fun, the dog doesn’t like it either.   So I either go down to the River or climb the stairs and walk along Summit avenue.   Yesterday I  may have over done it a bit and I can feel it in my back and in my legs. I was informed by the 20 something with the fresh mouth that I am not as young as I used to be.  Ha!

She says I am getting old.  I don’t want to dampen her youthful enthusiasm too much but I was once her age and one day she will be my age, if she is lucky.  She says I am in denial, as I insist that climbing a river bluff isn’t a strenuous enough work out to cause pain and stiffness.  She lies.  She is just making it up.  It can’t be so. I have never been old before, it can’t be happening now. 

Why do we have children?   

It is all a matter of perspective, there are people who are a few decades older than I am who are doing just fine.

Have a great weekend.  Stay young, buy real estate

7 Replies to “Denial”

  1. Thanks for the smile T

  2. Herb – it would be funnier to me if my legs and back did not hurt so much. 🙂

  3. Jennifer – like the song says I’ll die before I get old. 🙂

    Spider guy back to your blog.

  4. Ah T, thanks for the Friday fun!

    I love it when my daughters say, “she was this old lady, I mean, older, I mean, uh, she was, you know, around your age. Not that I’m saying your older or anything!”

    🙂

    But we’re only as old as we feel, right?

  5. Age and guile trump youth and beauty every time. Thanks for the smile! Happy Father’s Day, all!

  6. Jennifer Klaussen says:

    T – I too am feeling the pain of exercise. I go to a 6am boot camp style exercise class – this morning, one of the gals turned 25, so in her honor, we added 25 pushups to the END of our workout. Thank goodness it wasn’t MY birthday! 🙂 OUCH>>>

  7. What about those of us with youth and guile? P.s. smart mouthed apples don’t fall far from the smart mouthed tree.

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