Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for August 19, 2023

my example of that would be diarrhea

“They’ll ride up with wear.” Are You Being Served?

My old underwear is more likely to sag down

… and become more and more holey.

I have pairs that are over 20 years old. The elastic tends to fail spectacularly first.

Older and ageyer than ever!

But your butt is still older than your old underwear, Aunty.

There’s nothing worse than a poetry spouting engineer. Is life something that happens to us or is it something we make happen?

From “To My Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell

“But at my back I always hear time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near …”

“… Thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run.”

My Nana’s favourite saying was “old age comes uninvited”. She was right.

I thought they “crept” down!

Yeah. I still remember the morning I looked in the mirror and realized I didn’t know the old guy there. He sort of looked like my grandpa. …odd that. Not Dad?

Aunty, old age didn’t creep up on you, it plowed into you at a full blown gallop.

Same here, Aunty.

Proof positive that you’ve avoided looking in mirrors.

Aunty, I swear I was 32 just last week; and now I’m 74 … how the hell did that happen?? Gahhhh

I am going to have nightmares involving creeping underwear. Of all the possible things in my house to creep around, even my imagination wouldn’t have gone there.

it hasn’t crept up on me, it’s came flying at me like a 375 pound unblocked defensive lineman, everything was pretty good until 4 or 5 years ago and bam.

underwear that creeps up is why i keep a baseball bat handy…

I thought Old Underwear crept Down, not Up.