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In reply to the discussion: Breakfast Saturday 27 January 2024. Today is my birthday, there will be German Chocolate Cake for breakfast [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,898 posts)I'd show up at your house if i could.
So how old are you exactly? I'm 75, and I find that there are many benefits to getting older.
Here's one. I live in New Mexico, a very Hispanic state where the older generation, especially the older women, are honored. And even though I'm not remotely Hispanic, I benefit from this. For instance, the rare times I have a traffic stop, the officer is invariably young enough to be my son or grandson, and I of course am always appropriately polite and never get a ticket. Apparently they are never about to give mom or grandma a ticket.
Several years ago I was pulled over for speeding. It was on a roadway here in NM, and I knew the speed limit went from about 25 to 55 mph a quarter of a mile down the road, and went to the higher speed too soon. Well. Blue and red lights in my rear view mirror. Darn. I pulled over, and when the officer got out of his car, he clearly wasn't that much younger than me. Uh, oh. Again, he's Hispanic, I'm so Anglo I may as well have a giant A tattooed on my forehead.
He looked at my license, noted that I lived in Santa Fe, we had a brief discussion about my speeding, and he let me go with a warning. Wow. Yes, it is always helpful to behave politely to a police person. I also explained to my sons when they were first driving that there were circumstances in which, no matter how well and politely they behaved, they were young males, and would get tickets where I wouldn't in identical conditions.