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More symptoms of old age
I watched the programme Grumpy Old Women last night. Their symptoms of old age included disliking waste, saving plastic bags and pots, and ignoring use by dates; in other words what I call common sense.
The symptoms of old age may simply reveal the differences between generations. Will women in twenty years time dislike waste and so on? Gordon Brown is exhorting us not to throw away so much food. My generation is prepared to eat mouldy cheese and jam (having scraped the mould off first) but are younger generations?
A neighbour (similar age to me) said that when one of her daughter's friends was staying with them for a few days, the friend asked for some jam. The neighbour, who said that she ate jam infrequently, had some in stock. She opened the jar to find mould on top. Oh, she said, hang on till I scrape the mould off. This, unsurprisingly, put daughter's friend off the jam; there might be toxins in it. Antibiotics more like. I'd have kept quiet about the mould.
I'd eat food that fell on my kitchen floor but I'd be reluctant to eat food that fell on someone else's kitchen floor.
Thought for today
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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