Monday, January 2, 2012

Hope We Die 'Fore ...

The visibly aging slide further into irrelevance & oblivion, via.

Pushing them down that slide? Their fucking parents.
Even before the headlines about pot-smoking grannies, things were changing. The community’s fitness centers, for example, had extended their hours to accommodate a suddenly higher proportion of residents who decided to keep working rather than retire. Exercise classes had begun offering yoga, meditation, and Zumba, and Marcia Wilson, the manager of social services, says she started to notice sixtysomething neighbors who’d moved to be near ninetysomething parents now were making up about a third of her caregiver support groups.
[We emphasize.]

Do not know/care what the hell Zumba is, by the way.

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