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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh I can\u2019t wait to get married, have a husband, a house and babies. I would like my own car too and come home when I please. This used to be every girl\u2019s dream. Well guess what!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60* years later.  Whoo hoo I don’t have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have my own place. I don’t have a curfew. I have a driver’s license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don’t have acne. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers (no, no, I hope not).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row. Here, here! I don\u2019t want to exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to stop calling the bathroom “John” and renamed it the “Jim”. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim (gym) this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I have old age coming at a really bad time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was a child I thought “nap time” was a punishment. Now it feels like a small vacation (is it nap time yet?) zzzzzzz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The worst thing I tell myself is… ” I don’t have to write that down, I’ll remember it”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I don’t have gray hair… I have blonde, from a bottle, which is known as “wisdom highlights”! I’m just very wise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, if God wanted me to touch my toes,He would’ve put them on my knees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven’t met yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do I have to press one for English when I just get transferred to someone I can’t understand anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep! Of course, I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get lucky when I walk into a room and remember what I came in there for. Was I coming in or going out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, I have a pill bottle in my hand. Was I going to take my meds or did I already take them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have many friends  but right now I can’t remember their names. I may have known them from school. You? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where\u2019s my cell phone? Where\u2019s my keys? Where\u2019s my glasses? Oh darn, I want to be young again! Do you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these things occur as we grow older, but I don\u2019t want to get old. I would rather be back in the \u201dGood Old Days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you agree with this, let me know and I\u2019ll give you a Penny For Your Thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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