OLD? | 2005-12-01
"You are old, father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head --
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," father William replied to his son,
"I feared it would injure the brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
So those who read the ravings in Bob's Blog know I meet Father William's qualification. But how do you know if YOU"RE old?
You are surely old if you have ever uttered the following phrases:
"It's not far. I'll just stand on the running board."
"Put in a dollar's worth of gas."
And then there are two expressions that died out when the World War II Generation took over:
"The American people won't STAND for it."
"This is America. I can express any opinion I want to."