Saturday, January 31, 2004
The Aged of Today
For my inaugural post, I'd like to complain about the scandalous attitude old people have to property and propriety.
I was in Borders bookshop earlier, during one of its rare periods of opening, when I saw an elderly couple, who couldn't have been anything under 70, sitting at a table doing a crossword and looking up the answers in a dictionary they'd got off the shelves!
These are probably the same people who, as grandparents 20 years ago, slapped our wrists for touching the books in the bookshop - "look, don't touch!" was their warcry.
I've got into too much trouble for starting a giggle loop in the past, so I got out of there fast.
I was in Borders bookshop earlier, during one of its rare periods of opening, when I saw an elderly couple, who couldn't have been anything under 70, sitting at a table doing a crossword and looking up the answers in a dictionary they'd got off the shelves!
These are probably the same people who, as grandparents 20 years ago, slapped our wrists for touching the books in the bookshop - "look, don't touch!" was their warcry.
I've got into too much trouble for starting a giggle loop in the past, so I got out of there fast.
posted by Chip : 17:23
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