I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100.
But it also made me think that people only get old when they’re like 80.

I mean like actually “old”. The “old” adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different “old”.

  • @[email protected]English
    37•5 months ago

    It’s well known in my house that “old” means “4 or more years older than my mum”. Whenever my mum gets a year older, the definition of “old” moves one year up.

    Also, my dad is 5 years older than her.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
      4•5 months ago

      My mom is in her 70’s, but she doesn’t want to live in an elderly community because “they’re full of old people”. To be fair, my mom does act younger than other people her age, other than the complaining about health issues part.