25 Nov 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 60 Comments. Tagged life
overheard in Bi-Lo
So I’m standing in the supermarket aisle perusing the herbal teas. There’s a couple of people having a conversation beside me:
her: yeah, we’re getting old…
him: do you realise its four years since we turned eighteen!
Needless to say, I had to fight back the urge to slap some reality check onto their pert little wrinkle-free faces…
60 Comments
November 25, 2008 2:30 am
king_espresso
I had the same problem with Sally last week when she bitched about turning 35.
November 25 2008 02:35 am
Cat @
35 is with acceptable perimeters...
November 25 2008 02:35 am
Cat @
35 is with acceptable perimeters...
November 25, 2008 2:30 am
king_espresso
I had the same problem with Sally last week when she bitched about turning 35.
November 25, 2008 3:20 am
ashamel
Everyone is too old or too young, and most are both.
November 25 2008 03:22 am
Cat @
nope, some folks are just too young and they deserve a slap!
November 25 2008 03:22 am
Cat @
nope, some folks are just too young and they deserve a slap!
November 25, 2008 3:20 am
ashamel
Everyone is too old or too young, and most are both.
November 25, 2008 3:24 am
girliejones
On the other hand, *lifetime* of disappointment as they discover like the sideeffect of living is getting older.
November 25 2008 03:26 am
Cat @
it was the seriousness in their voices that really amused me
November 25 2008 03:26 am
Cat @
it was the seriousness in their voices that really amused me
November 25, 2008 3:24 am
girliejones
On the other hand, *lifetime* of disappointment as they discover like the sideeffect of living is getting older.
November 25, 2008 3:35 am
benpeek
they are so right. it has only been four years.
November 25 2008 03:38 am
Cat @
you don't act a day over 70...
November 25 2008 03:38 am
Cat @
you don't act a day over 70...
November 25, 2008 3:35 am
benpeek
they are so right. it has only been four years.
November 25, 2008 3:47 am
punktortoise
Youth is wasted on the living
I distinctly remember telling my godfather-in-law-to-be – that is, my godmother’s fiance – that he was too old to be getting married, because he was 26.
In my defence, I’ll point out that I was only six at the time. And it may or may not be poetic justice that, at age 26, I was nowhere near married myself …
November 25, 2008 3:47 am
punktortoise
Youth is wasted on the living
I distinctly remember telling my godfather-in-law-to-be – that is, my godmother’s fiance – that he was too old to be getting married, because he was 26.
In my defence, I’ll point out that I was only six at the time. And it may or may not be poetic justice that, at age 26, I was nowhere near married myself …
November 25, 2008 3:57 am
tallaudrey
I’m sorry, I am reeling from the fact that you *didn’t* slap them bitches up. Not a court in the land would convict you for a righteous slapfest like that!!!
*getting slappy with it*
November 25 2008 03:58 am
Cat @
yeah, I'm experiencing regret
November 25 2008 03:58 am
Cat @
yeah, I'm experiencing regret
November 25, 2008 3:57 am
tallaudrey
I’m sorry, I am reeling from the fact that you *didn’t* slap them bitches up. Not a court in the land would convict you for a righteous slapfest like that!!!
*getting slappy with it*
November 25, 2008 4:07 am
nyssa_p
HAH you’d use my James as a punching bag. He gets this injured look about him when I laugh at him being all mournful about turning 20…then 21…then 22….Every freaking year!
“Oh fuck, I’m another year older…oh mann this sucks.” *him sulk sulk mourn mourn*
*me PMSL*
November 25 2008 04:08 am
Cat @
yeah, slap him from me next time a birthday comes around.
November 25 2008 04:08 am
Cat @
yeah, slap him from me next time a birthday comes around.
November 25, 2008 4:07 am
nyssa_p
HAH you’d use my James as a punching bag. He gets this injured look about him when I laugh at him being all mournful about turning 20…then 21…then 22….Every freaking year!
“Oh fuck, I’m another year older…oh mann this sucks.” *him sulk sulk mourn mourn*
*me PMSL*
November 25, 2008 5:13 am
ericreynolds
Haha. I remember when I turned 23 (less than half my current age) it was the first I thought about aging. I was no longer in my early 20s, but inbetween early and MID 20s. I needed to be slapped at the time.
November 25 2008 05:15 am
Cat @
They say you are most immortal in your 20s because you're free of childhood, yet so far away from the disturbing issues of actual ageing.
November 25 2008 05:15 am
Cat @
They say you are most immortal in your 20s because you're free of childhood, yet so far away from the disturbing issues of actual ageing.
November 25, 2008 5:13 am
ericreynolds
Haha. I remember when I turned 23 (less than half my current age) it was the first I thought about aging. I was no longer in my early 20s, but inbetween early and MID 20s. I needed to be slapped at the time.
November 25, 2008 6:40 am
flinthart
Aww, Cat! What a missed opportunity! You don’t bitchslap people like that. You look surreptitiously at their groceries, and pick half a dozen dodgy items. Then you say: “Excuse me, I couldn’t help overhearing. Of course you realize, I’m only twenty-four, but unfortunately I spent the last six years eating (LIST THEIR STUPID GROCERIES HERE.) Now my doctor tells me I have to subsist on (SHOW THEM THE MOST INEDIBLE THING IN YOUR GROCERY BAG) because it helps reduce the visible effects of ageing. Of course, you’re not concerned about things like that yet… oh… is that a sunspot on your arm there? Hmm.”
MESS WITH THEIR HEADS! IT’S FUN AND THEY DESERVE IT!
November 25 2008 06:41 am
Cat @
that vomit stuff you posted on your blog messed with my head!
November 25 2008 06:41 am
Cat @
that vomit stuff you posted on your blog messed with my head!
November 25, 2008 6:40 am
flinthart
Aww, Cat! What a missed opportunity! You don’t bitchslap people like that. You look surreptitiously at their groceries, and pick half a dozen dodgy items. Then you say: “Excuse me, I couldn’t help overhearing. Of course you realize, I’m only twenty-four, but unfortunately I spent the last six years eating (LIST THEIR STUPID GROCERIES HERE.) Now my doctor tells me I have to subsist on (SHOW THEM THE MOST INEDIBLE THING IN YOUR GROCERY BAG) because it helps reduce the visible effects of ageing. Of course, you’re not concerned about things like that yet… oh… is that a sunspot on your arm there? Hmm.”
MESS WITH THEIR HEADS! IT’S FUN AND THEY DESERVE IT!
November 25, 2008 1:52 pm
lyndahawryluk
One of my colleagues was sighing deeply today as she described how she’d been moved to a new office with ‘a couple of twelve year olds who are size 6′ and we both had a laugh because at one point in time we were *all* young and pert – and they’ll just end up like us eventually! Lol.
November 25 2008 19:55 pm
Cat @
I was never a size 6
November 25 2008 19:55 pm
Cat @
I was never a size 6
November 25, 2008 1:52 pm
lyndahawryluk
One of my colleagues was sighing deeply today as she described how she’d been moved to a new office with ‘a couple of twelve year olds who are size 6′ and we both had a laugh because at one point in time we were *all* young and pert – and they’ll just end up like us eventually! Lol.
November 26, 2008 3:04 pm
slithytove
She: Oh, there’s a CD by the Beatles.
Another She: Who? Are they good?
She: They were Paul McCartney’s old group.
November 26 2008 19:49 pm
Cat @
yes, I'm sure if I hadn't left, that bit of dialogue would have followed next
November 26 2008 19:49 pm
Cat @
yes, I'm sure if I hadn't left, that bit of dialogue would have followed next
November 26, 2008 3:04 pm
slithytove
She: Oh, there’s a CD by the Beatles.
Another She: Who? Are they good?
She: They were Paul McCartney’s old group.
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