How to tell people are old
How to tell people are old: Sue Riener’s 6-year-old grandson offered this insight.
“I was taking him to school one day, and remarked that he needed to quit growing up as it was making me older. He commented that he could not stop it, but I shouldn’t worry because I wasn’t old. I asked how he knew, and he said, ‘You don’t have those fingers that look like scary tree branches, and you don’t walk with those little baby steps like old people do.’ After a very long, thoughtful pause he then said, ‘But sorry Grandma, Grandpa’s already there.’” Today’s full Slice column here.
Question: So do you have “those fingers that look like scary tree branches”?
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