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Topic: A Wee Story
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted March 28, 2006 12:14 AM
After reading comments on the age of collectors I came across this story. If you're less than 10 years old you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions "Im four and half" You're never thirty-six and a half.You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. "Im gonna be 16"! You could be 13 but hey. you'ra gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life... you become 21.Sounds like a ceremony..YOU BECOME 21.But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there?Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED;we had to throw him out. There's no fun now. What's changed? You BECOME 21,you TURN 30,then you're PUSHING 40.Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone. But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would! You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70!After that it's a day-by-day thing: you HIT Wednesday!You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30;you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s you start going backwards;"I Was JUST 92" Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!" Graham
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