Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 30, 2024

I didn’t take trigonometry, but I get Caufield’s point.

I didn’t feel middle age until I realized I was referring to the man at the store or whatever as the kid at the store.

I don’t feel middle aged yet, as long as I don’t have to stand up or move.

Math is NEVER about how you feel about it. Though trig can help you triangulate on a location that’s not right where you are now.

And the problem with Fridays is that Monday is only three days away.

It won’t be in trig unless you can triangulate it.

Wait, are they bonding?

When you’re in grade school, 12th grade seems like forever in the future. When you get old enough to remember things you did, and you’re saying, “How many decades ago was that?”, the years you waited to finish school seem like nothing.

There’s a property of thermodynamics where the hottest part of the day is actually around 3 to 4 PM. Maybe this is related.

When you realize that the 1990s weren’t ten years ago.

Some once called the ‘senior years’ the Golden Years. I see them as the Triple A+S Years. Acknowledging the changes. Accepting the changes. Adapting to the changes. + Surviving the changes.

Thursday=Friday Eve. The excitement is building.

Caulfield has it right.

A boy’s will is the wind’s will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, My Lost Youth 1855

A worthy read for anyone ready to accept that time has passed and that much has been forgotten.

Contemplation . . . the muse of age.

It is far off, right up until it isn’t.

The world is now run by children…

I have felt solidly middle-aged for nearly a decade now, though according to an elder in my family, I only entered middle age 3 and a half years ago.

Everybody has these transition moments. I’m walking up to the shopping carts to get the last small one and I notice a young guy, doing the same thing, hitting the brakes and letting me go first. I reailze: He’s noticed my gray hair. He’s being NICE TO THE OLD GUY. I smiled and thanked him. I wanted to kill him and dismember the body!

Caulfield, it will get to you way faster than you would have liked.

At some point, one is always old. But one only gets the Senior Discount for one week a year.

This strip gets more unrealistic all the time.

After “middle age” comes “muddle age”, or so many folks try to convince us. And then they’re surprised that I don’t seem to be there… yet?

But I blame (/s) that on the genetics of both my mother’s and father’s ancestors.

You know how “they” draw The Flash going really fast as a series of latent images of where he was moments before? Aging is like the reverse of that. The solid image is you now, the less distinct images of you are the future,

You know you’re middle aged when your age starts showing up in your middle.

I love senior discounts. Even professional escorts are giving them now.

Every Cannabis shop offers senior discounts and often a “senior” day.

That is a real sign of knowing how to market to their market!

Hump Day is Thursday evening with Roller Coaster Friday.