My life changed today

Cal,

You life would have changed much more if you had pulled a weapon. Then more than you can imagine if you had shot anyone.

First time I got called a Man was when walking to the library I passed a house two blocks down the street from my house and saw two boys fighting. I told them to break it up. They ran screaming into their house that some man had ... I was 12 years old at the time.

But we really should talk about what it really means to go out in public with such attire!

ES
 
What do you have to protect you from being adressed as "pops", pops?
Nothing, I was defenceless.
Cal,
Then more than you can imagine if you had shot anyone.
Ed, handguns are illegal up here. They are only available to those who require them for their occupation. People here carry a blade or bear spray as regular pepper spray is also illegal.
 
This seems to be the old fart anecdotes thread. One favourite family joke is from my late dad taking his mother to the doctor when she was in her eighties, I forget the issue. When the doctor asked "where does it hurt?", she pointed at her feet and said "it starts there", then waved her hands all along her body and said "and goes up my whole body all the way to my head."
 
As I said earlier I'm 67, sitting right next to me as I type this is Mom who turned 97 three weeks ago. She's battling Stage IV cancer right now and she isn't going to win, but you can damn well bet she'll go out fighting. If you think you're old at 40, or 50 or 70 you just haven't spent enough time around actually old people. If I told her right now I thought I was old she'd tell me to quit whining and go make her a tequila sunrise...no, seriously!