I wrote this as a comment on another blog, but then thought, why not fill some space here on Domani Dave?
Stephen and I had Thanksgiving lunch with friends in Atlanta, and since repetition becomes ‘tradition’, this has become a wonderful one. All attendees were as, or almost as, decrepit as we, with the exception this year of the addition of a young man from India.
Normally, I say this alleged ‘tonic’ of mixing with the younger is a hoax, since the gap of experiences and references just becomes frustrating. This bright and charming young man, however, seemed genuinely delighted to be there, and interesting conversation was nonstop.
After Stephen and I got home, assessing the day as couples do, we placed this young man in a category we like to call ‘I’d just like to bounce him on my knee’. Relating this category to someone once, I inadvertently replaced ‘knee’ with ‘lap’.
That’s an entirely different category.
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November 26, 2016 at 11:36 am
Mark Alexander
To quote a line from Personal Services, probably my favorite film of all time, “What’s the point of being old if you can’t be dirty?”
November 26, 2016 at 11:37 am
itsmyhusbandandme
The tonic did you good. Or as corrective text typed when I first wrote that – the tongue did you good.
JP
November 26, 2016 at 1:18 pm
larrymuffin
Knee, lap different categories? Really? The word decrepit does not become you at all. I am sure you are as young as Spring time with the light behind you.
November 26, 2016 at 2:56 pm
Urspo
I enjoyed it even more the second time around. :-)
November 26, 2016 at 4:44 pm
Dave
On the subject of my readers, as Lord Hallam said to Barry Lyndon:
“When I take up a person, Mr. Lyndon, he, or she, is safe. There is no question about them anymore. My friends are the best people. I don’t mean they’re the most virtuous or, indeed, the least virtuous, or the cleverest or the stupidest, richest or best born. But, the best. In a word, people about whom there is no question.”
Yes?;-)
December 2, 2016 at 9:38 pm
wfregosi
It’s a short distance from the knee to the lap, about the same as from anticipation to delight.