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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grandparent here.  I'm 80.  All my grandparents  and one of my parents were dead by this age.  I'm doing great; keep house; help out with grandkids.

You've got some serious ageism going on here.  Also you probably need a larger sample from which to generalize.[/quote]

Isn't a sample size of 4 enough?[/quote]

All you need is Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies & Uncle Joe (“he’s a movin’ kinda slow…”) on Petticoat Junction to know that old people were pretty out of it back in the 1960s. They’d been born before the Wright Brothers flew, & lived through a big depression & a passel of wars. They wore stiff leather shoes, didn’t have Gore-Tex nothin’ & used a damn road map to find places, so no wonder they were pissed off & worn out![/quote]

Maybe they were used to not doing much, so they do even less in their old age?  Maybe it is a middle-upper class thing - to feel more entitled, and watch the world go by?  My parents had no choice but to work, so they were always on the move, and the television was hardly ever on, unless they made it to the 11PM news.  Which they rarely did, because they were up and out at 6 AM for their 9-5, which usually ran hours well past 5.  People who hustle for a living, because they have no choice, have a different life than the upper middle who moves at a snails pace, by habit and way of life.  I know some people barely in their 60's today who act like they are in their 80's. Yes, they were handed everything.  When you have to work for what you have, life is different. Thankfully.[/quote]

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