Better an old man's derlyng than a young man's werlyng.
Now, there's a thing. I've never heard that proverb before, but I'd be prepared to bet Dorothy Hewett had when she wrote the play I was in earlier this year.
The male lead and his girlfriend, see, are both teenagers in the first act, and he spends a lot of time sniping at the relative age of the steady, respectable chap her parents favour as her husband-to-be. At one point, when he's trying to talk her into rejecting a gift the other fellow has given her, he asks her if she wants to be "an old man's darling"; her response, more power to her, is "I'm not an old man's anything. I'm not a young man's anything, either."
(I was the "old man". I seem to be getting typecast as the guy who doesn't get the girl - or else the guy who did get the girl and now wishes he hadn't.)
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Date: 2013-09-08 03:06 am (UTC)Now, there's a thing. I've never heard that proverb before, but I'd be prepared to bet Dorothy Hewett had when she wrote the play I was in earlier this year.
The male lead and his girlfriend, see, are both teenagers in the first act, and he spends a lot of time sniping at the relative age of the steady, respectable chap her parents favour as her husband-to-be. At one point, when he's trying to talk her into rejecting a gift the other fellow has given her, he asks her if she wants to be "an old man's darling"; her response, more power to her, is "I'm not an old man's anything. I'm not a young man's anything, either."
(I was the "old man". I seem to be getting typecast as the guy who doesn't get the girl - or else the guy who did get the girl and now wishes he hadn't.)