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Will you "Grow old with Grace" or "Grow old Disgracefully"?

When you eventually pass what ever that certain age is

Do you intend to be the stereotypical Granny or Grandpa?

Or will we see you charging about on a nitro-injected motor scooter blazing trails of flame everywhere?

The suggested place for this was Pregnancy and Parenting??? LOL

Update:

I like Jenny Joseph too,

I was Given that Poem at a Writers Group years ago

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  • 10 years ago
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    When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple

    with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.

    And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

    and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.

    I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired

    and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

    and run my stick along the public railings

    and make up for the sobriety of my youth.

    I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

    and pick the flowers in other people's gardens

    and learn to spit.

    You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

    and eat three pounds of sausages at a go

    or only bread and pickles for a week

    and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes

    But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

    and pay our rent and not swear in the street

    and set a good example for the children.

    We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

    But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

    So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

    When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

    Source(s): What do you think?
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I intend to "Grow old with Grace" and beat the damned devil

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    lol no i will still be smoking weed with my scones heck i might even have weed in my scones

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