Have you noticed lately that people are going slightly crazy? I mean they are losing their minds about stupid little things. For instance, let’s take the issue of men and women’s bathrooms. How about if you have a men’s special part (you know the one I mean, it looks like a kind of faucet and it sticks out in front of them below the waist, that thing.) you go to a men’s bathroom, if you don’t have that thing, you go to a woman’s bathroom. If you aren’t sure what you are, let’s have a bathroom (and frankly I have seen this) where there is a picture of a man and a woman on the door and you visit that bathroom. Everyone is happy, right? It makes sense to me.
Are we sick of politics yet? NO? Well then, let’s just tiptoe into the conversation, but just for a minute or two. How about if someone has voted for someone you don’t like or with whom you disagree, how about you don’t kick, hit, or spit, or threaten, the person because of their choice? Of course, this is just a suggestion. If they are holding a sign and you don’t agree with this sign. Just move on. Maybe, don’t wish anyone dead? This is also, a good idea. People can change their minds. I certainly have in the past and the present. A good idea is to consider stating facts clearly and simply. Sometimes this can work. At the very least, it makes you aware of a different point of view. There, that wasn’t so hard, was it? I might be different than some people on television, but I see lots of good important views on all sides of every normal political discussion. Yes, indeed, on BOTH SIDES.
There is a new movement in the last few years. It is correct and justified in many, many, many, instances, however, like everything these days, it might be going way too far for me. Recently, some women, and I guess some men too, have objected to the winter song, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” This song was written by, Frank Loesser in 1944. BTW, this song won an academy award. I just thought I would mention that fact. It was considered to be a pretty good song in its day. I will make a full disclosure, I love this song. The song is about a man and a woman. It is cold and snowy outside. Inside the man and woman, possibly had dinner and drinks and they are sitting close together on a couch (no doubt) in front of a cozy fire. The man wants the woman to stay in front of this fire with him. Could be he is interested in this woman? (Yeah, think so?) The woman thinks that she should leave, as any proper woman in the 1940’s would think after dinner and a drink or two. He tries to coax her to stay and frankly she would like to stay. Okay, he probably would like her to stay because, “OH NO NOT THAT?” he probably wants to have sex with her, and GUESS WHAT? She actually might want the same thing? HOW SHOCKING AND HOW TERRIBLE IS THAT? You mean to tell me that men and women might have, at one time, in the far distant past, actually wanted to have sex? You mean to tell me that men tried to get a woman in bed, and occasionally they succeeded? Women actually might have wanted the same thing? Did someone have to be talked into it? Did people really flirt with each other when they went to dinner, had drinks and might have, just might have, decided, (good or bad) to have sex?
Listen, I get it. No one should be forced into anything. NO, means NO! I, 100% agree. Don’t yell at me after you are finished reading this post. Men have talked women into having sex. It happens. I blush. It has happened to me. Here is a surprise for you men too. There are times when women pretend that it was all the man’s idea. Sometimes it is the woman’s idea too.
I am a flirt. I readily admit that fact. I am not insulted if a man flirts with me. I like it. I am pretty sure I will always like flirting. Here are the rules. If someone flirts and you don’t like it, tell her or him. If it is at work you have to be careful. One shouldn’t be offered a job or not offered a job because of sex or dating, or no sex and no dating. I repeat, NO, IS NO! If you say, maybe, than maybe, probably means you can still coax the person, and then, what will be will be. I don’t think that is too difficult to figure out?
Now, if you are like me and over 65 and really, if anyone wants to flirt at any time, anywhere, well, just sit back and enjoy it. Keep that fire going and pour me another glass of Champagne. I’m not going home just yet.
Until Next Week…
Is There Sex After 60? (Navigating Single Life After 60) 
2 thoughts on “Me Too? Not Me, Well, Not Exactly Me!”
Julie Marschand
I again enjoyed your post fir November. You aren’t kidding about the products getting reduced. Everything I enjoy now, which must be gluten free has been reduced in size. I have normative this phenomenon for at least four years now, maybe more! Thanks resent that they do it. Sometimes the price increase and the product decrease makes me so angry I stop buying. They call it in the business world, supply and demand. We have to constantly ask ourselves is this product worth the cost? One of the great things about competition is that if a product goes too high and gets less and less in size and quality then people stop buying it. If however, the product is being sold in an affluent area, changes in price and size will have a lesser affect but as you say, Sue, we are not dummies and so I get mad as a hornet when companies pull this crap! I not only get mad for myself but I get mad for the sake of people who have a low standard of living! The Bible says to whom much is given, much is expected! I, my husband and my daughter have all agreed to find some place this Christmas to do something good for our community together. I will find a place to help someone to have a nice Christmas dinner this year so help me. I just watched a commercial by Johnson and a Johnson which states over and over that they are always thinking about ways to help people, their customers. A few commercials later the narrator of an attorney’s office stated that several billion dollars have been paid to 8 customers who were diagnosed with cervical cancer which is considered incurable as compensation because Johnson and Johnson willingly and knowingly Added talc to their products without issuing any warnings about the risk for cervical cancer because of using their products. What I am trying to get at is that lying, misrepresenting a product, overpricing, and lack of accountability catches up with people in this work and most assuredly will be paid fir in the life to come after death. The Bible says, Vengeance is mine says the Lord. I have seen thus to be true in many instances. Most of the businesses that I saw cheating people by those rotten practices I just listed have gone under. Case in fact, about 29 years back there used to be this place called
”The Room.” It was owned by Montgomery Ward’s. I went in the place 2 times. I shot out of there faster than you could blink your eyes! It was like I was shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills CA! Sure enough, that place went totally bankrupt! That is how products stop making money also! These reduced in size products will stop being bought soon and then the sellers will be the ones who will be mad as hornets. Some people call it karma! Another way to say it is ”what goes around comes around!” When I’m relaxed enough to focus on that wise principle, I let it go with my anger! Justice reigns! I sure do empathize with you in your height making it hard on you. I was made fun of relentlessly when I was younger. At least now, as an adult, I am the one helping all of the elderly and short people in the grmrocery stores. And I always am glad to help them. The snow always being around in Colorado I feel sorry for you also. MY son lived up in Michigan for many years when he got out of college. He got so used to the cold and the snow, when he moved back to Chicago, he walked around all winter in a sweater rather than a coat! I am proud of you wearing flats fir comfort and safety. The women today wear those ridiculously high 5-6 inch high heeled shoes and boots. I have seen many videos of women falling in them! Even on the red carpet!!! Their poor bodies will get so damaged by the time they are our age, it will be a pitiful sight! You however will have a strong constitution and will be pain free! Another opinion about sex after 60? Heck yeah! It is time for women to stop being so reticent and buying into men’s’ idea that women have to be silent and passive. If I were single, I would feel very similar to you, Sue, I think you have a solid handle on how you feel. I think there is some discrepancy between how you feel and how you act, but I think you know about that and your blogging helps you to bring the two aspects of your personality closer together. I worry about you posting to the internet at large, however L, because there are so many creepy people out there without consciences who could do you harm. I keep praying for your safety. I personally love your fresh, honest and open opinions expressed on your blog. I just am a highly cynical person when it comes to the public. Thank you fir sharing your thoughts! You are a terrific writer!
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Thank you so much Julie. I just saw this or I would have written back sooner.
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