I woke up, did my morning rituals and after I dressed up, I went to say goodbye to my son. See, last night, I had gone through my wardrobe and found this pair of distressed jeans I haven’t worn for a while so I thought I would wear it today. Here is how distressed jeans looks like
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My son looks at me and says “Mommy, your trousers are broken”. I smiled and said ‘No, they’re not broken…” Before I could finish my sentence he touches the distressed parts and tells me “Look, it’s broken. You need to fix it”. I just took a walk of shame back to my room, his words falling around me like dead autumn leaves. I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I’m no longer a wild teen; I’m a mother, a grown up and it’s about time I donate my wild fashion and start dressing up like a responsible grown up. I realized that i should also stop buying Justin Bieber tickets because probably the next time I attend his concert, the security will say “Baby, baby no…” and probably confiscate my veggie sticks snacks.
I’ve finally realized that I’m no longer a youngling and therefore i should stop using phrases like amazeballs and some stone-age slang which makes modern cool people roll their eyes.
What are some of the things that people do which you feel like they are age inappropriate?.
Hehehe I am with your son on this, old woman! (I would hi-five him). But that’s because I don’t like torn jeans ;). For me it’s just new sheng words… I hate em. But somehow I am forced to use them as I mentor young guys which is part of my job.
On Thursday this over 40 woman came to my work place. She had an issue she wanted to be assisted with. She wore a very revealing, low cut top and a flared mini skirt that left almost everything out when she sat down. It was a very uncomfortable 10 minutes that I took to sort her out. The question that lingered in my mind after she left was. ‘Why would a woman her age dress that carelessly?’
Well, almost two decades ago, practically all the bar maids in the pubs that I patronised were older than me.
I realised that I am no longer a ‘kid’ when I discovered that today, it’s almost impossible to get a bar maid of my age. Niwewacha the average bar maid with at least 15 years. Now, that’s when you realise that you are no longer young.
And some proceed to ask you how pubs were then in those dinosauric ages because some of them were not yet born when I was already drinking.