Growing Old

Growing old is painful. I watched yesterday as a store clerk was polite to my mother's face and then pulled faces and acted exasperated with her slowness behind her back. And I thought "I know I don't like the alternative to growing old but I think I still agree with the Who - I hope I die before I get old" (although some would say I'm already there).

I know that maybe I should have told the clerk off, but having over-reacted to another situation (that I had misread) a few days previously, I chose not to react externally at all this time. But I clearly filed it away in my head. It still bugs almost 24 hours later!