Wednesday, June 11, 2008

What Is Your Secret For Being So Youthful At Your Age?

       In the past several years I have made my living doing the thankless, sometimes glamourless work of telemarketing. I call homeowners and try to persuede them to take a look at our company’s home improvement products. Amongst the folks I converse with, many of these are the elderly, men and women in their 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. When these nice people tell me they are “old”,  a senior citizen, I ask them, “WHAT IS YOUR SECRET FOR SOUNDING SO YOUNG AT YOUR AGE?” The following are the answers to this question:

“WHAT IS YOUR SECRET FOR SOUNDING SO YOUNG AT YOUR AGE?”

“I meet the challenges as they come!” - 80-year-old man

“I don’t even look it! I wanna live to be 100! My doctor says I’ll outlive him!”
                                     - 88 year old woman -

“My mother had good genes!”
                               - 87-year-old woman -

“I keep laughing…and love everybody!” -86-year-old woman

“I’m just finishing up a manhattan cocktail!” - 90-year-old man

“It’s a camoflage!” - 88-year-old woman

“”Oh hell, I walk 11 miles a day!” - 87-year-old man

“A healthy father, good genes!” - 92-year-old lady

“A lot of sex!” 74-year-old man

“Drinking hardly!”  - 86-year-old man

“The good lord has been considerate to me!”  - 86-year-old man

“Good thoughts”  - 86-year-old woman

“Lots of good vodka!”  - 79-year old man

“I’m deaf and blind. I’ve been that way for years. I simply cannot die! That’s the problem - I want to die, but I won’t!”
                                           - 93-year-old man

“Because I don’t want to end up in Rockville - under the ground!”
                                            - 99-year-old man

“Good living; a good marriage. These are things older people say that makes them feel blessed. I was married for 63 years until I lost my husband”
                                                                - 90-year-old woman

“I work every day!”  - 90-year-old man

“I’m fine and doing well’, I tell people; and by this time in the afternoon I actually believe it!”
                                       -85-year-old woman

“My cook!” (his wife he was referring to)  -90-year-old man

“I just keep a-goin’!”  - 99-year-old woman

“Just good genes, I guess!”  - 91-year-0ld woman

“I’ve got arthritis, a wooden leg, and bones crackin’ - but doin’ great!”
                            - 98-year-old woman

“I drink a lot of milk!”  - 85-year-old woman

“Walking, working and volunteering!”   - 85-year-old woman

“Whaddya mean? I’m in a wheelchair!”   90-year-old man

“I’m awnrey, I guess; If you’re healthy and happy, that can do the rest!”
                                       - 80-year-old man

“Positive thinking!”    - 81-year-old man

“Go, go, go! I don’t stay home!”    - 77-year-old woman

“I was born in Texas - They never shut up there!”
                                                     - 88-year-old woman

“I don’t know, but it’s not that great to be old.”    -woman in her 90’s

“Good livin’”   - 97-year-old woman

“Pretense!”    - 82-year-old woman school teacher

“We’re always keepin’ busy!”  - a couple: her 92, him 91

“I worked full time until I was 70. I’m still the president of my own corporation. I retired two years ago.”    - man in his 90’s-

“I never smoked; I never drank; I never even drank coffee! No bad habits!”
                                     - 82-year-old woman

“Good old Italian blood!”   - 87-year-old woman

“Well….I’ve worked hard, played hard!”  -86-year-old man

“Good vodka”  - 93-year-old Russian man

“I think I sound kinda old!”    - 75-year-old woman

“I have my mind, but that’s all!”  -92-year-old woman

“My secret for what?!”  - 91-year-old man

“I may sound youthful, but I don’t look it! I have bad knees….I just keep goin’”
                                        - woman in her 80’s -

“Keep goin’, keep keep workin’!”   - 83-year-old man

“”I try”   81-year-old woman

“Hard work”    -84-year-old woman

“Keeping a sense of humor!”   -90-year-old woman

“After I lost my wife this year I’d rather think of only positive things - and so that is what I do!’
                                 - 83-year-old man-
                                      

                       
                  

                                                                       



Posted by Tommy at 13:58:42
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3 Responses to “What Is Your Secret For Being So Youthful At Your Age?”

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