Fri, Jun 15, 2007, 8:57pm snipped-for-privacy@erehwon.com (Tom=A0Watson) doth lament: Tonight was the first time that I noticed it. I have wrinkles on my hands.
Eh, Tom, you're looking at this in the wrong perspective. I've got
10 years on you, and I've got stuff like this all figured out. It's the water. Proven medical fact, if you stay in the tub for too long, your stin will get all wrinkly. You're obviously taking way too many baths, and for way to long. There's several solutions to all this. You could move to Seattle. It rains so much there everyone gets all wrinkly, like a prune. You want to pay a compliment to someone in Seattle, you say, "You look like a prune". So you'd fit right in up there.
Alternately, you could simply stop bathing. After a couple of weeks, people will totally ignore your wrinkles. Give that a try, if you don't care to move to Seattle. Or, you could just not get old. Apparently I've stumbled on doing that. Arout 10-12 or so years back, I went back to the home state for my dad's funeral. While there a group of us went to a local diner for breakfast. Now I graduated in 1958, and haven't been back there in a long, long, lonnnng, time, and never did anything particularly notable in high school. So this was close to 40 years after I gradgeated. I'd barely set down when a stranger my age comes over and calls me by my name. I'd never seen this guy in my life. Turns out he was one of my old school classmates, and he'd immediaely recognized me after all those years. Hell, I could just barely recall him, even after he ld me who he was. He'd just eaten breakfast and was on is way to his job. That guy left, and the waitress came over and damn all if "she" didn't call me by name too. I'd never seen here before eiher. Turns out SHE was a school classmate of mine too. I did vaguely recall her, once she'd told me who she was. I don't know, either I've changed a LOT less than I had thought, or these people have absoluely no life at all, and spend way more of their free time looking thru their high school yearbooks than is healthy.
Don't worry about the small stuff, anything under ten pounds, just haul up by rope.
JOAT If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton