My Parents

Posted by JCE

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Last night I had dinner with them after picking up my sister from the airport. My parents are 78 and 79 but you would not know this to look at them - they both act and look as though they are in their late 50's, early 60's.

During dessert (yeah, that's right - it was a full meal including homemade cookies for dessert. Quite the treat for me since I do not even cook much less provide dessert.) my parents started telling us about their recent volunteer work at the local senior center. My parents do not actually consider themselves 'seniors' so they volunteer to help the 'old people' and this past week the senior center had a Christmas party. My father dressed up as Santa, which is totally true to his character. He loves to brighten people's days and if he gets to be the center of attention while doing it, so much the better. Well, my mom was giggling away about how all the old ladies were practically fighting one another to get the chance to sit on Santa's lap and have their picture taken but as things died down, she made her way up there, plopped herself on his lap and instead of giving him a chaste kiss on the cheek as the other ladies had done, she apparently really laid one on him. My dad laughed and said the other ladies practically turned green with envy.

Old people are dirty.
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