Fart

When do old people become old?

The two in front of me in the queue at the cafe just took 10 minutes to decide what they want. Three thoughts came to mind;

1. They had no idea there was a queue of frustrated people behind them. When and how do they lose their peripheral awareness?
2. Had they seen the queue its 50/50 they would have behaved differently. Some old people seem to care less, like they’ve earned the right to be cunts, finally.
3. How hard is to pick two items off a list of 10 options? Why does it take 10 minutes? Are they running scenario analyses on every ingredient, really slowly in those old buggered brains? “Oooh, cabbage made me fart once”

I’m 61, and I think I need to get to the bottom of this so I can develop some coping mechanisms before it’s too late.

One thought, the more life miserable they look, the worse they are. There’s a clue.