Same Old

I often find myself moaning about the same old things, transport,queues and old people. Time to dig up the old folk and reanimate them for the point of this here post

I was on the bus the other day,one that I had queued to get on. It was on this bus that an old woman made me smile. She was the sort who speaks to utter strangers as she demonstrated when she started a conversation with the old girl next to her. As we trundled along she was telling her new friend that she was 90 years old (I didn't believe it, but if she wants to shave 30 years off her age then who am I to judge?)

Then she started on like most old folk do about 'how things have changed', in this case it was how 'those flats weren't there when I live around here'. The flats she was referring to havn't even been finished yet, not being funny but I remember when those flats weren't there...say, 6months ago!

Then further down the road I heard about how 'this all used to be fields', at this point the unwilling pair of ears sitting next to her said 'yea, grass'. Hahaha, it was hard not to laugh out loud. It was like that game where you relate each word to the next, field,grass,cows,milk...

I like it how old people have heard on the wireless how they are a good source of history, and instead of waiting for us to ask they just bombard us as we try to do our christmas shopping :)