What will you be like?

I look forward to yelling at the neighbourhood children to get out of my yard while brandishing my cane in a vaguely menacing fashion.

When I get really old I won't be able to travel anymore. :(
I shall be curmudgeonly :flare: (so far, it looks promising ... I am already showing the early signs!!).
I shall no longer care about keeping myself skinny, I shall have my chocolate cake and eat it too!

When I'm 70, I want to wear a bib apron and wear my hair up in a bun with plastic combs and pins and cook all kinds of cakes and cookies for my great-grandchildren so they can eat them and run wild when they get home. I want everyone to want to come to see Granny, not do it out of obligation. I want all the new babies to be brought to me so I can hold and kiss on them and rock them, kinda like I do now, just more of them. I want a full, ample, saggy bosom for the babies to cuddle up to when I'm rocking them. I will not be hateful or selfish and say mean things to anyone. I want my house to be full of family every time I turn around and smell like my Grandma's house did. But on the other hand.....
I want to dress well and keep my hair done and wear makeup. I don't want to become inactive but go out dancing every chance I get. I want to drive a cool car so the great-grandkids keep wanting to borrow it. I'll want my music loud and rockin. And I'll smell like Journey or Channel. I'll drink when I want and have parties when I want. The kids will worry that I'm playing too hard for my age. I want to work at least part time so I can afford to loan the great grandkids money for dates and stuff their parents won't let them have. I want to be a bad influence on them all.
I'll probably end up in some home with a window facing the street so my kids can drive by and wave every Sunday.:lol:

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Originally Posted by kilted exile

At 70 I fully intend to be an old curmudgeon telling any young whippersnapper in sight my opinion on everything and then complaining about how "when I was your age I had to work 27 hours a day down the coal mine"

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:lol: That sounds like me now!! :p

Glad this thread was revived. It was a good one.

When I'm old, I want to be like my grannie, always a ham and ready to laugh or make a joke. I also want to have her energy. She didn't stop tap dancing till she was 82, and only because her balance was starting to go.

Dead.
Come on, do you really expect my generation (born in 1988) to slip through without some massive, world-shaking war? Or, if that is not enough, there are plenty of ecological problems that can reduce the probability of longevity considerably.
Plus, there is always that old good information about world ending in 2012 (we are thinking of doing some kind of celebration in the end of that year).

And if I am that lucky to be alive, it will probably be some style of cyberpunkish corporatocratic future so I would have to work 27 hours a day in a coal mine.


When I would consider some kind of more optimistic future, then well, probably my best friends now would be dead because they have quite bad health problems.
Okay, trying to be more optimistic...peace...happiness...cyanide...er...I' ll try to write something positive tomorrow...if I am alive then.

I want to be that awesome granny that takes the kids skydiving or goes gambling to Vegas, I want to be surrounded by my huge, bustling family and hopefully, my cooking will be edible by this time so I can feed everybody and yell "Put some meat on 'em bones, you're too skinny!"

I aspire to be a ninja con artist in my later years... :)
Seriously, who would suspect such a sweet old dear? hehehe
But that's just my job under the moonlight. I'll be a cool granny who's hell-bent on making everybody fat with biscuits ;)

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Originally Posted by alhara

i think being 70 will be kinda fun. the thing is is you are 70 and every one knows it, SO YOU CAN fart with every step and poop your pants. It's like the old man in waiting who said he he likes to give little kids the finger and noone cares because he's old. or a comedy skit where an old man is pulled over for speeding and his excuse is that he's dyeing and he can't waste time putzing around 70 will suck health wise but it's like being a teenager again. your kinda outside social rules if you wanna find an up side intend to be a crazy old person with super long grey hair and tll little kids i'm a witch and i do magic and tell them crazy stories and stuff and i don't knwo have grandchildren and read all the time. and eat the food i like and be happy mentally where i'm not physicallyour lives are more than oour bodies.

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that's awesome. that's a good way to do it. I'll just be crazy as hell. except, I probably won't have kids or grandkids so it won't matter

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Originally Posted by Taliesin

Dead.

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My crystal magical ball predicts you would be alive by then, sorry for the bad news.

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When I would consider some kind of more optimistic future, then well, probably my best friends now would be dead because they have quite bad health problems.

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Yeah, very optimistic indeed with all your best friends dead. :rolleyes: There was this person I had heard of who drank severely, smoke a lot, and had really bad health problems but a few of his relatives and friends still believed he would stop and with their support and his own will he did. Lived quite a long happy life afterwards seemingly. Now that was an optimistic approach of his friends.

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Originally Posted by Shea

When I'm old, I want to be like my grannie, always a ham and ready to laugh or make a joke. I also want to have her energy. She didn't stop tap dancing till she was 82, and only because her balance was starting to go.

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Heh your granny sounds very interesting.

XD
I'm going to smoke cigarettes and eat chocolate cake all day. Hey, if I've made it that far, I'm not really too concerned about my health after that. May as well enjoy the rest of my days and indulge in unhealthy pleasures.

I will also have a lot of goats.

Not the cat lady.

The crazy goat lady.

I'm gonna be the horse lady!! in an old big house that will house all the neighborhood kids and my grandbabies and all their frinds. I will cook in cauldrons like a witch. I will do cartwheels in my decripitness