[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Multiple Cindys
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:47:24 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Ann. You and Monica and others have convinced
me. I'm going to use the appelation (right word?)
proudly--as I am happy with and proudof my white hair.
Grandma Cindy
--- Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Ann K. Parsons
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