"Elderly", "Old" or "Mature" - What's YOUR Label?

SifuPhil said:
Distinguished.

I've always wanted someone to call me "distinguished".

I would be standing there with my cane and top hat and monocle, and they would just come up and say "Gosh, Mister, you sure are distinguished!"

*sigh*

Alas, that has never happened.



Probably because I don't own a cane, top hat or monocle. :(
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and even if you did own them [and wore them] chances are that other than a few wary glances, people would be giving you a wide berth!;)
 

Falcon said:
Well I can't walk on water nor turn water into wine, but my son can.
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That reminds me of the old joke -

Three proofs that Jesus was Jewish:

1. He went into his father's business
2. He lived at home until the age of 33
3. He was sure his mother was a virgin, and his mother was sure he was God.
 
Like you, I'm a resident of "sin city". But I feel guilty that I haven't been upholding my end of the sinning thing. I guess I'm neglectful in that sense. But in another sense I'm very busy acting as a caregiver for a person who is important to me.
 
My son calls the hubby and I the elders just for fun. I don't mind seniors. What I absolutely hate is to be called sweetie,or honey, especially by some young air head working in the bank or cashier etc. It makes my stomach churn.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
My son calls the hubby and I the elders just for fun. I don't mind seniors. What I absolutely hate is to be called sweetie,or honey, especially by some young air head working in the bank or cashier etc. It makes my stomach churn.
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Oh yes that is the worst. Although when a young woman said about me "Oh isn't she cute", I had to laugh because I remembered saying that about a tiny very old Navajo lady. Tiny I ain 't old I am.
 
I don't go for labels either, and it is quite a shock when the news mentions someone nearly 20 years younger than me as 'aged' or elderly.
It is all relative, I've seen people in their 40s live and move like 80 year olds, but I have to tell you that at our church we have a man who
jumped out of a plane for his 90th birthday and provides home baked morning tea every Wednesday for 20 or so people..
 
Younger today than I will be tomorrow. 65 elderly? A senior, perhaps, but when I think of elderly, I think of frail. I am not quite there yet!
 
Now, "elderly" to me is more of an insult. For some reason "elderly" sounds negative, as if you're knocking on Death's door and are so frail that a stiff wind could break your bones.

I vote we eliminate "elderly" from our vocabularies.
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I don't mind being old. I dislike being called elderly.
 
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