Outrageous!!!

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Everybody knows the Beatles' song: When I'm Sixty-Four

and most of you might also know Jenny Joseph's poem

When I am old
(see in link below)
http://www.barbados.org/poetry/wheniam.htm


The question is???

WHAT WILL YOU DO when you are old that will be totally outrageous and anti-establishment? LOL

Waiting for Derek to find us a Youtube of When I'm 64! lol

[princealbertofb]

When I Am Old.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,
And I shall spend my pension
on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals,
and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired,
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells,
And run my stick along the public railings,
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens,
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat,
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go,
Or only bread and pickle for a week,
And hoard pens and pencils and beer mats
and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry,
And pay our rent and not swear in the street,
And set a good example for the children.
We will have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me
are not too shocked and surprised,
When suddenly I am old
and start to wear purple!

Jenny Joseph

[fjp999]

Right now I dont have a choice but if I did I would spend the rest of my life on a cruise ship traveling the world.

Great question PA

[452]

Settle down in a large English Mansion, and traveling the world with my daughter. But that's just me.

[Dan1089]

If my children send me to an old age home then I will haunt them till kingdom come.When I'm old I want to have a comfortable pension plan,own (or inherit) our holiday home and start a vegetable garden.

[Smurlos]

If my children send me to an old age home then I will haunt them till kingdom come.When I'm old I want to have a comfortable pension plan,own (or inherit) our holiday home and start a vegetable garden.

veggie patch, classic! I want one! I'll grow watermelons in mine too! I always wanted a grape vine as well. Well we have one in the garden but they're not very... nice. Plus the birds always beat me to it :frown:

When I'm old, I'd like to be exactly like my grandad. He's in his 70s and still going strong, infact he's just widened both of the ponds in his back garden, he takes the dog for walks 3 times a day - not just a short walk either. He goes up to his campsite in his camper van and is still sooo active.

[marshlander]

Everybody knows the Beatles' song: When I'm Sixty-Four ...
Waiting for ... to find us a Youtube of When I'm 64! lol

Seem to be only cover versions out there, so this is a much better song instead

[princealbertofb]

hahaha, the Walrus classic.... I'm am no walrus... I'm a whale...

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Problem is, Jenny... I can't relate to being old yet... so how can I picture myself ... when I am old???