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?

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Sit on the floor, I say. Let 'em be uncomfortable. :-)

I'm more disconcerted, actually, by the friends who won't sit on the floor, require the comfy chairs, and so on. I know that health issues happen when they happen and not everyone can sit on a hard chair or on the floor, but still ... I hope to keep sitting (and camping and sleeping) on the ground for some time yet!

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Hey, Jack Williamson sat on the floor when he was 70!! He was a wonderful man, and he was willing to dive in and be one of the youngsters.

[janni.livejournal.com]

That is heartening to know! (And means I potentially have decades of sitting on the floor to go!)