I had an old guy come into my office today, he was very sweet, told me a cheesy old-person type joke to make me smile, shook my hand and introduced himself, made a point to get my name, thanked me profusely for my help, and all the while his hands were shaking in a palsy-like manner. It made me sad.
He went back out to his truck to get some pens for me, a couple blue-ink pens that have the name of the organization he started emblazoned on the sides of them, because who in an office ever has enough pens? Not I.
But when he came back in he also gave me detailed directions to his home. Do old people just like to talk, or did he think I would follow those directions and actually come to visit him?
Come to think of it, most old men I’ve ever met through the various jobs I’ve work (especially waitressing) take some pleasure in flirting with pretty, young girls.
Old folks just tend to get lonely men and women. Consider that they probably have out lived most of their friends. Perhaps he was not looking to get into your pants, just your mind. Tent here is just a pants man, he leans towards one track much like a pit bull sniffing female hormones.
Blurred, did you ask him why he was giving you the directions…I mean, not to assume that it was just about him needing someone to talk with. He maybe thought that you needed someone to talk with. Or is it possible that he may have mentioned ‘why’, but you didn’t hear him? Just to put a different slant on things.
LoL okay okay okay, I did NOT say he was trying to get into my pants. I didn’t even think it. I thought it was strange that he told me how to get to his house, but I didn’t figure he was trying to have sex with me
And no, arc, he didn’t tell me why, I was looking directly at him, listening very closely, because that is my job. It was just kind of the end of the conversation. He told me his name one last time, I think he may have forgotten that he’d already told me, and then he was like, “Yeah, I live over blahblahblahblah.”
shrug No matter. He was a very sweet little old guy.
Some old people say things that most young people don’t or wouldn’t because these old people have heard the same shit for three times as long as the young ones have been alive. Imagine to them listening to rebel talk of teens after the predictable rebel trend of every generation who has ever heard music.
If conversation was like a traditional holiday every single day for sixty years, you might change they way you celebrate by shitting in a box and wrapping it just for a new reaction you’'ve never seen. Not because the gift getter wants a pile of surprise poo. But because the gift card face is boring as fuck.
The way old people talk about repetition, changing details of familar stories, makes early death sound like spicing things up.
If I ever come across Mr. Rogers-type inviting me to visit his place, I’d turn around and run as fast as I could because this is exactly the type of man I’d expect to have bodies piled up in his basement freezer.
Would you be my neighbor my ass!
SO I found out why this old guy was so shakey, apparently it has nothing to do with any sort of palsy LoL.
So this guy has a walk-in beer cooler in his garage. He’s such a major alcoholic that the beer truck that comes to town to stock the liquor store with beer actually delivers TO HIS HOUSE. Apparently he just hadn’t had his first beer of the day…
Blurred, I have met old folks that if you take their booze or addiction of choice away they die, even if its a small amount like just one drink. This often happens in nursing homes. Looking forward to getting drunk is probably the only thing that keeps him waking up each day. He can probably drink all of us under the table and still be soberish. That first 6 pack of beer is like coffee.
Old folks just tend to get lonely men and women. Consider that they probably have out lived most of their friends. Perhaps he was not looking to get into your pants, just your mind. Tent here is just a pants man, he leans towards one track much like a pit bull sniffing female hormones.
Or is it possible that he may have mentioned ‘why’, but you didn’t hear him? Just to put a different slant on things. 
It’s the red hair, baby. The red hair… 
