Concerned About Growing Old?

[Marie2020]

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There were so many times we would get a cross phone call when we were calling friends or family. Sometimes we would land up speaking to people we didn't know for ages on one subject or another.

 

[flowerbug]

this sort of thing can also happen on cross-country bus or aeroplane adventures...

i had an elderly lady chew my ear off for most of my trip to LA (the one-and-only time i flew there), but she was not scheduled for me return trip. i got the whole list of her family from parents, siblings children and grandchildren and i even recall the family name and rough environs that i could probably still track them down and ask them what happened to their grand-matron 20 years later.

my trip from Denver to mid-Michigan i spent quite a few hours of time listening to a lonely teenager who was glad to be going someplace else from a place that had no appeal to her. i'd gladly have stayed if i'd have found a job but a month of looking (sort of ) and fishing (also mostly sort of) and i ended up with only one job offer and i could not bring myself to accept and show up for... that was 40+ years ago... ok, i've now kept going on my trend of procrastination here...