Speaking Of Growing Old!

The New York Voice recently ran an article on sighs of growing old.

Many of our senior citizens (and some not so senior) dropped us a line, offering some other signs of  aging which they have notice:

Reader Charles Jones, (we don't know his age) probably sent in the best one, which is published below:

"Everything is farther than it used to be. It's twice as far to the corner, for instance, and they've added a hill, I've noticed. I've given up running for my bus; it leaves faster than it used to.

"Seems to me they are making staircases steeper than they used to make them in the old days. And I have noticed the small print they are using. Newspapers are getting farther and farther away when I hold them, and I have to squint to make out the news. No sense in asking to have them read aloud, everyone speaks in such a low voice that I can hardly hear them.

"The barber doesn't hold a mirror behind me anymore so that I can see the back of my head. The material in my suits is always too skimpy around the waist and the seat. Even my shoe laces are so short they are all but impossible to reach!

"Even people are changing; they are so much longer than they used to be when I was their age.

"On the other hand, people my own age are so much older than I am.

"I ran into an old classmate the other night and he had aged so he didn't recognize me. I got to thinking about the poor fellow while I was shaving this morning, and while doing so I glance at my own reflection in the mirror.

"Oh-Oh-OH! They don't even use the same kind of glass in the mirrors anymore!"

(Oh! jt)