ACTIVIAISM
Recently when I went to an eye doctor for floaters, a common vision problem for older people, an assistant asked me if I had ever thought of cosmetic surgery for my droopy lids.
In a Kiehl’s store I bought some hand cream and the cashier, in his white faux-doctor jacket, tossed too many packets of “youth regenerating skin cream with Rare ‘Resurrection Flower’” into my bag.
At a cocktail party reception before a fund-raising dinner I was emceeing, a gorgeous woman came up to me, told me she was an aesthetician and that she could get rid of “those things” on my face.
I like getting senior discounted movie tickets, but I like to ask for them.
After a matinee of Robert Redford’s film, The Company You Keep, about older radical revolutionaries, I was in a bathroom stall, listening to the usually astute film critiques of the Upper West Side set. “That Redford, he’s been in the sun too much.” “And Julie Christie? Was that a wattle?”
For sure there is such a thing as gravity. And it’s true that I spent a number of summers in my youth slathering on baby oil and floating around in aluminum canoes on upstate lakes. I did not know floaters are so common, or someone told me but I forgot.
My Mom used to say, “My face I don’t mind it, because I’m behind it.” I think I look like Jamie Lee Curtis. I apply a dab of Activia every morning and evening to my face and neck.
April 21, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
I will always give your mom credit ever time I share “my face I don’t mind it, because I’m behind it.” Thanks Kate for sharing her with me…..may try that Activia hint
April 23, 2013 @ 2:07 am
We’re here to listen………W.’s “Library” is being dedicated on Thursday (as literate people everywhere wince).
That should put a smile on your mug.
May 22, 2013 @ 4:21 am
My face I don’t mind it
For I am behind it
It’s those in the front
That I jar
That was how I learned it from my mom too!
Thanks for the laff and all those laff lines Kate
May 22, 2013 @ 5:37 am
Hey, thanks (again) for a good laugh. The timing on this could not have been more perfect. I am just back from the dermatologist and let me tell you, that was depressing. I went in feeling like a reasonably attractive middle-aged woman with better-than-average skin, and left feeling like a dried out, spotted, wrinkled old husk needing a new new regimen of facial care and, ideally, “a few little” cosmetic procedures. Plus I am to shun the sun as if I were Nosferatu. Oy, Jesus.
May 22, 2013 @ 9:12 am
I am experiencing similar issues. But really will try the activia tip, will probably try the “New Greek-Style” Activia.