What Did The Years Teach You?

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Age is no guarantee of wisdom. This has been made apparent to me recently. These conversations with persons over the age of 65 left me scratching my head -

Senior Female - "I'll vote for Trump, but he needs to settle down and act his age. And he needs to stop saying all these negative things about women!"

Me - "What has he said about women?"

SF - "Just mean things. But now, the media says he says racist things, but he doesn't. The media lies."

Me - "So when the media says Trump is a racist, they are lying, but when they say Trump says mean things about women they are telling the truth?"

SF - dumbfounded look.


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Senior Male - "I believe of the two major candidates, Hillary would be less destructive to our way of life."

Me - "Sir, you were in the Army, correct? (He nods to the affirmative) I believe Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods might disagree if they were still alive to do so."

SM - dumbfounded look.


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What about you? Any folks over 65 giving you crazy responses to the election?



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