I've got to get this off my chest.
I'm over 60 - a "pensioner" and I refuse to be catagorised as an "O A P". I am not old, don't look old, don't act old, don't feel old. I will happily put up my mental faculties against any of you who are a good deal younger than me - and give you a head start to make it fair.
I get so tired of hearing scathing comments about older people, how slow, how befuddled, how pathetic we are supposed to be. Yes, when I was a child, most women the age I am now acted old and looked it but I've got news for you. I'm not into shawls and hairnets and rocking chairs by the fire. I'm not round and roly-poly or skinny and stick-like, I don't wear shapeless clothes or fluffy slippers, I still work for a living and I don't drive like a dithering old idiot. OK?
