my goals for old age

[totient]

For some time I have maintained that when I am 80 years old I will do nothing but cackle. And inspired by Jenny Joseph I have begun to practice taking delight in things. But the other day in a pizzeria in Watertown I realized that there is something I will take delight in when I am 80 years old, which I cannot practice now, and that is calling cops "Sonny".

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[rmd.livejournal.com]

i'll be calling everyone "dear", i bet, when i'm old.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Me, I'll be looking forward to calling the cops the same things that I call them now, only out loud, and getting away with it. Hmmm, better wait 'til at least 100 for that.

[(Anonymous)]

I can kind of picture you cackling away on your porch in a rocking chair... I love that poem... thank you for making me think of it.

nicole