On Acting One's Age

[rolanni]

I have an awfully hard time remembering to act my age.

For example, I forget that my grey hairs entitle to me a chair, even when everyone else is sitting on the floor. I don't mind sitting on the floor -- in fact, I like to sit on the floor -- but it's always a jolt to see the Shocked and Horrified faces of the people around who suddenly want to scramble to find me "something to sit on" (What? I'm sitting on the floor. When did the floor stop being "something"?)

Is anyone else a chronological amnesiac?

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[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Right up to the point that my sometimes decrepit body decides to notify me that in fact it doesn't appreciate me forgetting that I have previously broken it.

Sigh.

My head is still twenty five and my body seems to be about 75. Dammit.