Heh! A few years ago, three of us, all 65+, climbed Mt Whitney. From hikers coming down as they stepped aside: "Oh come right through, sir." I felt physically fine. Mentally old. But I suppose it's inevitable.
There's another prejudice that's confronted in declaring my decade (I'm 70): that old people aren't technically savvy. Our generation came of age in tandem with the Silicon Valley. At least here in the Bay Area, at least some technical sophistication (if not full-blooded geekdom) among friends is assumed. On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 10:52:30 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 9:52:52 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > >> It has been quite a while that I really had to look up the translation of >> a word for which I could not deduct the meaning based on the context in the >> sentence: a septuagenarian. >> Fantastic word. :) >> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:01 PM Bart Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was tempted to hide the aging fact. Younger friends said I should >> highlight it. > > > As a sexagenarian myself, I cheer. (I more and more often hear from > younger hikers, "I think it's great that you're still out here at your > age." I've gotten over wanting to slap them, and now I take it in the > spirit in which it's intended.) > -- > 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OsmAnd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/d8106d88-c930-4968-b429-f24486ed9990n%40googlegroups.com.
