[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Multiple Cindys
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:37:13 -0500
I knew a man once who was 93 and still driving an ambulance. I'm not making
it up either. He lived to be 110.
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia Kulak" <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:14 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Multiple Cindys
I wholeheartedly agree. My Grandmother is almost eighty and she still lives
in her own apartment and does everything independently.
Julia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 6:26 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Multiple Cindys
> Hi all,
>
>
> Original message:
>> Cindy and Cindy, there are four women named Monica on this list and
>> another woman who spells hers with a k in her name. I use my last name in
>> my signature, and so do they. It seems to work out well that way. Of
>> course, nicknames or handles that describe you are good too. Monika with
>> a k signs her messages as Monika in Maryland. Grandma Cindy, if you don't
>> like the grandma part, we can always change to calling you something
>> different.
>
> This may be OT, but I have to speak up here. Our society is horrible when
> it comes to dealing with our elders! It's just like once you're over
> fifty or sixty, you all of a sudden become persona non grata, or second
> class. Me, I prefer to see age as conferring wisdom, experience, and a
> balanced view of things. We're so stuck on the view that unless you're
> young, you're worthless, that it permiates our whole society. Men change
> their hair color and so do women because they think they're ugly with gray
> hair! I'm not even going to go into the whole thing of face lifts and so
> on to disguise one's age.
>
> Well, folks, we better get used to it. What with the increasing advances
> in medical technology, our elder population is going to expand. We better
> start using them as the advisors, counselors, experienced workers and
> general all around good people that they are!
>
> It may interest you to know that places like McDonalds, Wendys, Walmart
> and so on are finally waking up to the fact that if they hire elders to do
> the work they used to think could be done best by kids, they are getting a
> competent, caring, and steady work force. I'd much prefer to be waited on
> by an elder than by some kid who can't even make change!
>
> Grandma Cindy, you are an elder, a respected, experienced one, and I think
> you should be proud to be one!
>
> <grrrrr>
> Ann P.
>
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