When I am old

Today happened ... I postponed my I'm-not-having-any-more-offspring event, and went shopping with my best friend. It had been since ... umm ... I can't remember when the last time we went shopping was. But, it was definitely before the days of the double stroller.

So, entirely too long.

We decided our stores in town were lacking in the jean skirt department, and went to Louisville. We also decided while we were there we should eat, and decided Golden Corral would be the obvious choice, since it was right in the same parking lot.

(Thithy's always so confident that I know my way around Louisville, but that's just the mark of a good friend. I knew I'd get lost.)

Clearly it was Senior Citizen Day at that particular Golden Corral.

(Okay, it's probably like that every day.)

We began mocking ourselves as we are wont to do, and realized in a few very short years we're going to be the old friends who meet every Wednesday for lunch at the Golden Corral. One of us will be blind as a bat with excellent ears. The other one will be sharp-eyed but deaf as a doorknob.

What?

Just kidding. I joked that Zesty will be saying, "Mom, take your medicine. You always forget to take your medicine." Pinky will be saying, "Aunt Tash, I don't know WHY Mom insists on going to the store every day. EVERY DAY."

My husband and her husband will still be battling it out on the xbox - the original one - and my husband will still be getting his rear handed to him. But now it will take four hours because Adam will have to get his walker and BenGay, and Mr Lemon will have to change his Depends.

We'll be hobbling up to that young song leader with a song request for the "old" songs. From that good old classic group led by Israel Houghton. They'll sing a little You Are Good and Moving Forward to please the old saints.

Someone will ask Bro Lemon to testify, and he'll get all fired up and do a little jig. The young people will laugh until Sis Lemon gives them the stink eye.

As long as I still have friends like them when I am old, I'll be happy to tell her to turn up her hearing aid.

I SAID, turn UP your HEARING AID.