I'm gonna have to accept this aging thing at some point. I'm still mystified by my lack of strength and endurance, but like it or not, that also becomes inevitable at same point.
So while I will continue to resist this deterioration with every ounce of will inside of me, I may also try to find out if there are any advantages to my senior citizenship.
I've discovered one already!!
Did you know that many Ontario Universities offer free tuition to senior citizens. Yah! Free! Full degree programs, either full or part time! Free!!
Furthermore did you know that UWO is one of them!! Yup! Just down the road!
But here's the real scoop. You only have to be 60 years old, and that I am!!!
I can't freakin believe it!
I have already met with an advisor and she assures me that I will have no problem getting accepted. It will be a dream fulfilled to study psychology, and I may even consider a minor in philosophy.
Do you believe it? Holy unbelievable Batman!
The crazy thing is that I knew from Michael that there were some uni's that paid tuition for seniors, but neither of us knew that UWO did, and more importantly to me, that the age requirement was 60. We were chatting idly about this the other day, and unbeknownst to either of us, the other one went home to google it. This happened so simultaneously that it was freaky!! It was plain good luck, because we both assumed that you had to be sixty five, and as such there was really no rich to investigate further. Wow! They invented a word just for stuff like this. Serendipity!!
So there you have it! It's good to be old eh?
And while I can't do half the stuff I used to do, I can still do stuff. I was picking up lumber at the local yard today and I got frustrated with the young guy handling the other end of the 6X6's. Without being rude I just started picking them up by myself and throwing them in the trailer. After I put one in, he would wait patiently for me by the pile to pick up the other end of the one he had chosen next. He was totally good watching grampa doing 3/4's of the work.
And yes, one more time....free tuition for me!!!
...and I think this explains my lumber yard story...
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."---W. Somerset Maugham
....then again maybe it also explains why this old grampa is now prepared to undertake this university thing, where as the young Peter never even considered it....
You know what else just occurred to me? I think it's been the dialogue that this blog has precipitated, that as much as anything got me thinking about this. I thank you all for that, but I would be remiss if I didn't thank Old John specifically for yanking my chain so often. :)
Love
Peter
So while I will continue to resist this deterioration with every ounce of will inside of me, I may also try to find out if there are any advantages to my senior citizenship.
I've discovered one already!!
Did you know that many Ontario Universities offer free tuition to senior citizens. Yah! Free! Full degree programs, either full or part time! Free!!
Furthermore did you know that UWO is one of them!! Yup! Just down the road!
But here's the real scoop. You only have to be 60 years old, and that I am!!!
I can't freakin believe it!
I have already met with an advisor and she assures me that I will have no problem getting accepted. It will be a dream fulfilled to study psychology, and I may even consider a minor in philosophy.
Do you believe it? Holy unbelievable Batman!
The crazy thing is that I knew from Michael that there were some uni's that paid tuition for seniors, but neither of us knew that UWO did, and more importantly to me, that the age requirement was 60. We were chatting idly about this the other day, and unbeknownst to either of us, the other one went home to google it. This happened so simultaneously that it was freaky!! It was plain good luck, because we both assumed that you had to be sixty five, and as such there was really no rich to investigate further. Wow! They invented a word just for stuff like this. Serendipity!!
So there you have it! It's good to be old eh?
And while I can't do half the stuff I used to do, I can still do stuff. I was picking up lumber at the local yard today and I got frustrated with the young guy handling the other end of the 6X6's. Without being rude I just started picking them up by myself and throwing them in the trailer. After I put one in, he would wait patiently for me by the pile to pick up the other end of the one he had chosen next. He was totally good watching grampa doing 3/4's of the work.
And yes, one more time....free tuition for me!!!
...and I think this explains my lumber yard story...
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."---W. Somerset Maugham
....then again maybe it also explains why this old grampa is now prepared to undertake this university thing, where as the young Peter never even considered it....
You know what else just occurred to me? I think it's been the dialogue that this blog has precipitated, that as much as anything got me thinking about this. I thank you all for that, but I would be remiss if I didn't thank Old John specifically for yanking my chain so often. :)
Love
Peter
Is it ok that I'm JEALOUS in all capital letters? 😂 Way to go! That is super awesome. You'll have to teach me all you learn (or at least let me read your textbooks in a few years...lol).
ReplyDeleteI love it all! Heres another quote from a much older senior customer of mine from Shelburne. "I can do anything now that i could when i was seventeen......goes to show how pathetic i was when i was seventeen eh?" (Author - i cant remember)
ReplyDeleteLove holij
Fan fucking tastic!
ReplyDeleteThe benefits of being a senior citizen!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, with the re-branding they don't go by "UWO" anymore, it's "Western" now. ;)
Love,
Michael