Posts Tagged ‘old age’
The Law of Gravity Defied
Posted: June 20, 2012 in Kids, Old AgeTags: aging, around, belt, butt, chest, defy, gravity, growing old, hips, old, old age, pant, pants, photographs, sagging, waist
Mirror, mirror, on the wall… tell me a lie
Posted: May 19, 2012 in Men vs WomenTags: age, beauty, concealer, creases, eyes, eyesight, growing old, lips, middle-aged, mirror, old, old age, perky, pounds, ritual, sagging, sallow, thin, vain, vanity, weight, woman, wrinkles
The very vain middle-aged woman sat down at her dressing table and was beginning to go through her morning beauty ritual — but she didn’t like what she saw. Right at the corner of her eyes, an ‘age crease’ had developed during the night. Looking very tired and all strung out, she worried what was her next feature that would go wrong.
As she furiously attempted to cover the offending crease with concealer, she lamented to her husband, “John, just look at me. When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror, and I don’t like what I see. My my hair is all twisted and frazzled up, my skin is pale and dry, my face is starting to wrinkle, my lips are thin and sallow, my eyes are bloodshot from worry, my chest is sagging where it should be perky, and I’ve put on at least an extra twenty pounds.”
Her husband looks her over for a couple of minutes, then calmly says: “Well, at least there’s nothing wrong with your eyesight….”