Aren't older women great?

[truedelphi]

Off my FB feed, from a friend in Oregon. Husband thought it funny (so do I.)

After being married for 50 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Fifty years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep with a hot 23-year-old girl every night. Now, I have a $500,000 home, a $45,000 car, a nice big bed and a large screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 69-year-old woman. It seems to me that you're not holding up your side of things."

My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.

Aren't older women great? They really know how to solve an old guy's problems.

[lunatica]

1. Yes, we are great!

[spiderpig]

7. You took the words right out of my mouth.

Not to mention we're funny as hell, don't need $1500 Hermes handbags, and can cuss like sailors.

[840high]

8. You bet we are.

[arcane1]

2. Wouldn't she be 73?

[ConcernedCanuk]

16. Jack Benny Syndrome +30

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either that, or she SHOULD be asking

"who's the 69 yr old?"



CC

[Scuba]

3. “In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox ...

“In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!”


― Benjamin Franklin

[pipi_k]

5. I knew

I recognized that from someplace...


Benjamin Franklin's "Fart Proudly"...which I had the pleasure of reading sometime last year.

[truedelphi]

10. What a marvelous essay. And from Franklin, to boot.

Thanks for posting.

[dipsydoodle]

4. No doubt about it.

[Aristus]

6. Oh, HELL yeah!

[MrMickeysMom]

9. The thing about 23 year old women some 40 years later...

They still can be a hot as any 23 year olds NOW. And THIS... after coming through all the shit we endured as 23 year olds THEN!

[IrishAyes]

11. Yes we are!

Although I must confess to loving the quote, "Men always complain we smother them. Personally, I think if you can still hear them, you're not pressing hard enough on the pillow."

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Why, yes.

Yes, we are.

[In_The_Wind]

13. We do have a certain flair about us.

[Callalily]

14. Indeed!

[DFW]

15. My wife is still hot at 61

After 39 years together, we now have all that other stuff, too. No way I'm giving her up.

I look the hot 23 year old girls and wish all the 23 year old guys as much luck as I had.

[truedelphi]

17. I congratulate you on your good luck.

For a while, maybe 2006 to 2007, whenever I went back to Marin County and went to a restaurant to with friends, I would notice at least one table with an older man, accompanied by a very young woman.

Happened at every restaurant I went to. I felt my heart sink a little bit each time I would see these older guys with women who looked to be fifteen. It made me sad to think how many abandoned older wives were now on their own in Marin. Sure, they got the house and the boat and the stock certificates, but still.

I would note that the younger women seemed to positively dote on the person they were with. So I tried to think, "Well, at least this couple loves each other."

Then one day, as I was passing by such a table, the younger woman leaned over to say something to her partner, but she said it in a loud enough tone I could overhear her.

"Dad, this is my favorite place; thanks for bringing me here. Wish mom could have come with us too."

Suddenly it dawned on me that for months I had been making a "pathos" out of what were actually some very positive vignettes of every day life.