Delores challenges Wednesday Word participants with a variety of words or a phrase to write a poem, prose, or fiction each week. This week, Delores provided us with this quote:
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." by George Eliot
As it happens, my wonderfully crazy Aunt Vada had just sent me this from her wealth of wild emails. I thought, "Well, what the heck..."
So I am providing this from an anonymous writer, since it does address this quote in some way:
Yesterday my daughter e-mailed me again, asking why I didn't do something
useful with my time. "Like sitting around the pool and drinking wine is not a good thing?" I asked.
Talking about my "doing-something-useful" seems to be her favorite topic of conversation. She was "only thinking of me", she said and suggested that I go down to the Senior Center and hang out with the guys.
I did this and when I got home last night, I decided to play a prank on her.
I e-mailed her and told her that I had joined a Parachute Club.
She replied, "Are you nuts? You are 78 years old and now you're going to start jumping out of airplanes?"
I told her that I even got a Membership Card and e-mailed a copy to her.
She immediately telephoned me and yelled, "Good grief, Mom, where are your glasses?! This is a Membership to a Prostitute Club, not a Parachute Club!!"
"Oh man, I'm in trouble again," I said, "I really don't know what to do. I signed up for five jumps a week!!"
The line went quiet and her friend picked up the phone and said that my daughter had fainted.
Life as a Senior Citizen is not getting any easier, but sometimes it can be fun.
Please note that I did not write this, but I wish that I had.
This quote was provided by Delores at Under the Porch Light . Words, phrases, photos--Delores challenges all. Please click on the fall church in the right side bar to access her site and visit some other participants.
