"Getting a little action" means you don't have to take a laxative.
Tying one on means fastening your Medic Alert bracelet.
The cute young barista at the coffeehouse says breathlessly, "where did you get that sweater," and you think, "well all right," and then she says, "I want to get one just like it for my Granddad!"
I am all for good manners?. I was raised to be polite and respectful (my dear mother is rolling over in her grave )?..It was yes sir this and yes ma?am that?..But when I am talking with a client who is twenty-five or thirty years old and it is yes sir this and yes sir that it is obvious that they too were raised right but it sure makes me feel old?I tell them to call me Tom but noooo, it?s Mr. Chimp this and Mr. Chimp that?..And I know it was at least four years ago (I will be 52 in April)that the cashier at Kroger gave me too much change and when I tried to give it back (again good up bringing) she said that it was senior day ?..and I just thought the salt and pepper made me look sexy ??
when you go shopping with a friend and as soon as you walk in the door three sales associates come ask what they can do you help you. We laugh , and say sometimes it's good to be old. Really we must look like we are lost, but we are having fun.
I think it was Bob Hope who said, "You know you're getting old when you forget to zip up your pants... But you know you're getting REALLY old when you forget to UNZIP them!"