From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 04/16/02-09:50:44 PM Z
I was eavesdropping on a student conversation today in the hallway between
classes. I overheard the following statement, " I'm really a nice person, but
my looks, I guess, strikes fear into old people. They avoid me and won't speak
to me as I walk up to them,"
This guy has a few tattoos and a pierced ear lobe, nothing too strange for
today's youth. I think the cover is always easier to judge.
-Darryl, celebrating his second fifty years of life.
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FOTAR2@aol.com wrote:
> Shannon,
>
> In case I failed to get it across, my reply was intended to be a bit on
> the tongue-in-cheek side, as well. But only a bit.
> I, too, am pushing 70 and I'm totally amazed at how it has failed to live
> up to my apprehensions. That, however is from the inside. The external
> response of people (younger people) to the packaging that goes with age does
> leave one with the impression that we DO all look alike, and are somewhere
> between irrelevent and invisible, so I'm not inclined to give my usual amount
> of slack to anything that furthers that impression.
> Actually, trees age considerably better than people. If it wasn't for the
> terrible things that people do to trees, that might have been my first choice
> had I been given a say in the matter.
>
> Cheers
> Bob
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