I walked into Hollister last week and asked the girl for a “Gift Certificate.” She appeared bewildered for a moment or two and finally stammered out, “Do you mean a Gift Card?” Yes. I am forty. We used to call them Gift “Certificates.” I will probably always refer to them (at least in my mind) as Gift Certificates. I’m old.
Recently, I was minding my own business looking at some books in the local library and a loud toot slipped out unbeknownst to me. I was as shocked as the guy sitting at the table next to me. Did you catch that I was in the LI-BRARY? I apparently have no control over tooting loudly in public and wildly inappropriate places. I am old.
The other night I was out to eat with my BFF at a wonderful Mexican place in town. Before your meal they serve you a basket of tortilla chips and three delicioso salsas. I dipped a few chips and then – I SALTED THEM. Yes, I salted my tortilla chips. My beloved grandmother who would have never been caught dead without her trusty handbag ALWAYS carried a salt shaker in her purse. Always. I do not exaggerate. The woman went nowhere without extra salt, or her purse. I get it now. I’m old.
Notice Dear Queen Elizabeth in this lovely family portrait from the recent christening – WITH HER PURSE. She probably has a shaker of salt in there.
You know how I really know I’m forty – I. Just. Don’t. Care. I’ll confuse teenage sales clerks, toot in public and salt whatever I like – and I really don’t care. I’m cool with it. I’m forty.
Clothed with Joy 
This cracked me up! I find myself feeling exasperated with teenage clerks and then as I walk away mumbling to myself about what a ninny that person was, I realize I’m crossing a bridge of some sort here. Wasn’t I just a ninny myself?
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I walk away and prepare blog posts in my head. Lol
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I’m 40 in a couple of months. Is salting things compulsory? I’m not keen on the taste.
Visiting from A-Z Challenge
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Ha! No I don’t think so, I just inherited it from my grandmother. 🙂
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Ha, it’s funny because it’s true! And with a teenaged daughter in the house, it is constantly pointed out to me how old/out of it I am. 🙂
Nancy at Hungry Enough To Eat Six
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I’m 50, as you know, and one of the ways I am reminded of this is that I don’t know how to operate some new-fangled contraptions on the internet, and “in 3-D.” Although I do better than my 78-year-old father. I guess it’s all relative.
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“Better than your 78-year-old father.” Ha ha ha ha ha. Thanks for stopping by, haven’t seen you in a while. 😉
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I know, it’s been so long…. 😉
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And in case you didn’t know .. someone who is wearing pants that are too short, they are not called “high waters” these days, they are called “floods”. Go figure.
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Ha! My friend recently asked her daughter if she wanted to “film” something, her daughter said “do you mean video it?”
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It is funny what kids think is “normal” these days. Seriously. ” What’s a phone jack? ” I thought I was going to die.
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I think gift certificate sounds more exciting anyway 🙂 I’m 31 and I feel old a lot of the time!
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This made me laugh so hard! It was like you were talking about my mom … twenty years ago. Now it’s me. Sigh. I love the purse shot. I knew there was something odd in that picture.
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That is hilarious! I still say “gift certificate” occasionally. Some stores actually still use them! 🙂
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