Yesterday I became an old person, as I went to the park wearing shorts with black shoes and socks

[Bossy Monkey]

I'm bearing up pretty well.:)

[Forkboy]

1. Wow...that's day I blow my brains out.

:hide:

;)

[Bossy Monkey]

9. If it's all the same to you, I will NOT take your suggestion under advisement

:)

[Forkboy]

14. Please don't!

:)

[old mark]

2. I used to wear cardigan sweaters to work, but I never wore

shorts with black shoes and socks.

Have to ask 2 questions: Were they shorts with the really high waist to get over your potbelly?

How old are you really?


mark

[Bossy Monkey]

8. No, potbelly has evaporated, and just shy of 47, respectively n/t

[old mark]

22. You are not really old - just practicing...

You'll get the hang of it...
While walking in your old man costume, stop periodically and stare vacantly at nothing, then shake your head and continue your walk.You might want to look into a cane as well.



mark

[Iggo]

3. I dress that way all the time.

But that's how we metal heads roll.

EDIT: Evidently we're not all that high on spelling, though.

[Bossy Monkey]

11. Bob Mould's picture for "Black Sheets of Rain" shows him dressed similarly

though they look more like sewn-up boxers. I'll just tell everybody my fashion judgment is suffering from my tinnitus and my wrestling obsession; naah, "I'm old" is a lot more credible.:)

[Iggo]

17. Plus, I'm old (47)

:rofl:

[Bossy Monkey]

21. Geezer! Oh wait, I'm 47 in a month...

Youthful, boyish fashion victim! (I think we can both plead guilty to that, regardless of our age.):toast:

[graywarrior]

4. Were your shorts plaid or pale blue polyester?

And were you wearing a golf cap.

[Bossy Monkey]

12. No, no, and no, but I'll work on it n/t

[graywarrior]

18. You have to feed the pigeons

especially near other people who are trying to have lunch or catch some rays. And hack a lot.

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. welcome to codger-hood

and get off of my lawn!

[Bossy Monkey]

13. Finally something I have in common with John McCain

besides being white, male, and crazy as a loon.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. years ago (when I still had a dad)

we were driving between Pendleton and Anderson Indiana and there was this ancient little old man in red plaid shorts, a yellow striped Tee shirt tucked in with his shorts in the area of his arm pits and a straw hat walking down the high way about a mile out of Pendleton (where he lived)

I said WHOA!!! That guy looks a lot like daddy , lets go back and check it out.

and sure enough it was him.

I said "daddy ! what are you doing on this busy road? "

He said "well daughter, I wanted to go see mommy and I thought if I walked real slow and was careful I could make it"
At the time my mom was in a Nursing Home in Anderson , suffering with dementia . It was a good twenty miles away.

We offered him a ride , which he gladly accepted .

He had candy in his pocket for mom .She always looked forward to seeing Chester because he brought candy , and besides she had loved him since she was a teenager.

He was only ninty then , so he thought he would make it.

[Bossy Monkey]

15. Years ago, when I still had a mom

a lady was wandering my neighborhood trying to find the drugstore. She was obviously lost and obviously wasn't going to get found without help. I got my car and took her to the drugstore. The drugstore she wanted was out of business, so I took her to the new location a couple of blocks further. Fortunately they recognized her, and were able to call her son, who came to get her. They really didn't seem to understand why I would help a lost, disoriented stranger. I explained that my mom had senile dementia, and there but for the grace of-- well, her own timidity, really, that could have been her.

[trof]

24. Stranded at the Waffle House.

I've told this on DU before.
Miz t. and I saw it unfold a few months ago.

Short version:
An elderly lady's husband left the booth for the men's room and evidently forgot she was with him. Left the men's room and walked out to his car and drove off.
A waitress got her a ride with a couple of young construction workers who had just finished their breakfasts.
A little bit funny, and a lot sad.
I often wondered if the old fellow made it home.

[senseandsensibility]

31. Sweet story.

Very touching.:cry: I did tear up a bit, though.

[Kali]

33. *sniff* someting in my eye

nice story
damn allergies

[datasuspect]

7. try black socks with work boots

while wearing short pants

[msanthrope]

10. Plaid short pants and you have my husband. (I try not to think about it.) n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

16. Yeah, but that could work for you in a punk-rock rebel sort of way

Anyway, I've got flat feet; me and the Danskos are probably going to the grave together. (If Dansko makes work boots, I just don't want to know about it.)

[Critters2]

19. Bermuda shorts?

Those are just lovely with black shoes and socks. :)

[Bossy Monkey]

20. No. I have a lime-green pair, but they never leave the house.

(It was due to a weak moment at a thrift store.)

[trof]

23. Why would you do that?

I'm sure you know better.

[Bossy Monkey]

27. Went through all my clothes in January; all the athletic socks missed the cut

As I recall, none of them had working elastic anymore. Haven't gotten around to getting more. As the whitest white man in America, I shouldn't be wearing short sleeves or short pants anyway. (Dark hair + light eyes = high skin cancer risk.)

[tigereye]

25. are you my father?

:rofl:


or are you one of those annoying hipsters?

[Bossy Monkey]

28. tigereye, I am your father...

Nope, neither. Just stylistically challenged. (Also really, really lazy.)

[tigereye]

36. he he.

laziness may be some sign of sartorial excellence!

[LeftyMom]

26. Did you play checkers when you got there? Or bring bread for the birds?

[Bossy Monkey]

29. Mugged young people

Seriously, just went for a stroll. It's a really shady park, and it was the first hot day of the year. Lovely, lovely day.

[surrealAmerican]

30. I'd need to see a picture of this.

It could be done in such as way as would make you look like a hard-core punk, or more like a feeble old dude. Without the picture, we'll never know.

[Bossy Monkey]

32. Picture a relatively slender 46-year-old in a green polo shirt and dark green khaki shorts,

not Bermudas, but long enough to cover boxers, in dark dress socks and Danskos. I look like a middle-aged man with fashion issues, which is what I am.

[bif]

34. I do all kinds of things to em-bare-ass my kids!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. My ex used to wear black socks with sandals.

And this was when he was, like, 27. You don't have to be old to dress old.