On Turning 21,915 Days!

Today is June 18, 2019.  It is the 21,791st day of my life.  In a mere 124 days, I will turn 21,915 days old or as the rest of the world says, the BIG 60!!  Sixty years old.  No big deal. Who cares, right?  I CARE!!!!   I. Am. “Turning” aka, limping, dragging, drooling, forgetting, sagging, and sliding in sideways to 60 freakinfanelli years old!! How the HELL did I get here so quickly?  My dear old mother didn’t offer me much sympathy.  Her reply to my whining was, “Well, my BABY is turning 50!”  (Wth!? Validation? What’s that?!  Oh, yeah, brother #4, Cornelius Matthew, aka Neil Dog Potato Salad, is turning 50 years old in 2 days, ehh, 50? no big deal.) Hey MAAAA, I’m YOUR baby, too, and I’m turning the big 6-0!!   I’m 89, wanna switch? Nah.

For those of you who have gracefully done a pop-up slide into 60, Congratulations!! My visors (I hate hats, they squish my hair!) off to you!  Others, I’m sure, feel as if they did a head first slide.  The good news is, you’re still safe, a little banged up, but you made it.  Sadly, for others, they slid too soon and were tagged out.  In their honor, I’ll try to stop my whining, at least until the BoSox go to their bullpen.  Here’s my thought challenge, when you were turning 60, not 50, but 60, were you honestly wondering too, “where’d the time go?”  I mean 50 was okay.  A prime of life kind of milestone, but nothing too earth shattering, not to my psyche anyway.  I was still in the game. Plenty of time left to pull off whatever it is I want to pull off.  On the other hand, SIXTY, the BIG 6-0 is the equivalent to the last quarter of the game!! (I can still see the scoreboard in the then “new gym” at Morgan.  Man, I loved that gym! Can still hear my hi-top Converse, no support what so ever, sneakers squeak!)  Last quarter!! I’m heading into the freakinfanelli last quarter.  Roughly 20 (good) years left if I’m lucky.  If I go past 80 and am still in good health, that’s OT or is it sudden death? Maybe both.

Happy 18,262.13 days since your birth this Thursday, Neil.  Start working on your pop-up slide!

Katie Dunn Scott

6/18/19

Rainy day in Matunuck.  Bored beyond belief.