TUESDAY

 

I seem to have been out for most of the day.  I went to the Senior Centre when Sharon was finishing her Tai Chi class to ask if she'd been to the new delicatessen I'm so keen on, and she hadn't so we took an enjoyable trip out there with someone else.


I just got home in time to get some lunch before going to do my afternoon stint on the front desk at the Senior Centre.

 As well as answering the phone and listening to the Country and Western music wafting down the corridor, I sell jewellery.  And it surprises me the number of seniors who come round and take an interest in it, and try on the bracelets.     Just as the number of seniors on the dance floor surprises me.  Even the old ladies who don't have a man to dance with, jig about on their own, like teenagers do.  Maybe not with the same mobility as teenagers.  But with all the Keep Fit, Aerobics and Tai Chi that goes on they are a lot more mobile than the old people in Denton.

 I suggested (gently) to Kate that this notice didn't seem very friendly and I'd be happy to donate bags of candy from the Dollar Store if it was a problem.  She laughed and said there were two people who always picked up the dish of candy and emptied it into their purses, and the notice was for them.   I noticed that almost everyone who passed the desk stopped to help themselves to something.  Which also surprised me - the number of seniors who can munch away on chewy toffees, they're certainly beyond my dentures.

In the evening I went to the movies with Sharon who wanted to see 'Cowboys and Aliens' but couldn't find anyone to go with her.  It was good.  To know what it was about though I needed to read the plot on Wikipedia when I got home, I should have done that before I left.   There were Indians in it too, as well as cowboys and aliens. But although it was 1873 they were getting on amicably with the white man, like they do here, now.