Senior citizen folklore

[Mike_Yates]

According to common folklore, is it really true that most senior citizens keep shoeboxes in their closets filled with small ingots of gold?

 

[Que]

I keep mine in a fruitcake tin. No one would think to look in there.

 

[Littlefinger]

According to common folklore, is it really true that most senior citizens keep shoeboxes in their closets filled with small ingots of gold?

Let's hope so. Otherwise, I just killed this guy for nothing.

 

[rimmy]

According to common folklore, you have a brain.


I doubt either one is true.

 

[oggbashan]

According to common folklore, is it really true that most senior citizens keep shoeboxes in their closets filled with small ingots of gold?

Perhaps, but it is no use trying to rob their houses for those ingots, nor trying to beat the location out of them.

They have forgotten which shoebox, which closet, which house in which town they left the gold.

If they have remembered, they have forgotten they sold the ingots decades ago to pay for a daughter's wedding.

 

[Super-Surprise]

According to common folklore, is it really true that most senior citizens keep shoeboxes in their closets filled with small ingots of gold?

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/c1bb39dff3b1d66f3bc588f3d39bb49439e927ab_m.jpg

 

[Que]

Let's hope so. Otherwise, I just killed this guy for nothing.

Someone is working on a dark chapter of his book.

 

[Kitty]

According to common folklore, is it really true that most senior citizens keep shoeboxes in their closets filled with small ingots of gold?

Depends on the folk, then we can gauge the lore.
Perhaps Irish folk. I don't why I think of Irish when I think of shoeboxes and gold. Perhaps the latchkey "dead end" Irish kids in 30's NYC who shined shoes.

And the gold like the pot.

 

[Riles]

I have seen many a senior and you can trust me when I say that the only thing in their over stuffed closets are dated clothing, hundreds of empty plastic grocery bags, mismatched shoes and margarine containers of expired candies.

 

[Mike_Yates]

My grandfather and uncle (who are deceased) both kept gold in their closets.

 

[Laurel]

According to common folklore, is it really true that most senior citizens keep shoeboxes in their closets filled with small ingots of gold?

No, you're thinking of leprechauns.

Or elves.

Midgets?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Old women hoard clothes and shoes, old men hoard tools. Our worthless children spent all the gold.

 

[DesEsseintes]

I would love to know where Mike gets his sources of information from. Is there a 'black hole' web within the 'dark' web, that even Silk Roaders and terrorists speak of in hushed tones?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I would love to know where Mike gets his sources of information from. Is there a 'black hole' web within the 'dark' web, that even Silk Roaders and terrorists speak of in hushed tones?

Mike Yates is Laurel.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I'm not a senior citizen but I do have Gold Krugerands & 1oz silver coins that I keep in a safety deposit box.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Whenever entering the home of a senior citizen, do you ever notice that old
paper/library smell?

That odor is present in the home of literally every single old person I've ever entered.

Apparently scientists have confirmed the existence of "that old person smell."

http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/31/old-person-smell-really-exists-scientists-say/

 

[Que]

Whenever entering the home of a senior citizen, do you ever notice that old
paper/library smell?

That odor is present in the home of literally every single old person I've ever entered.

Apparently scientists have confirmed the existence of "that old person smell."

http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/31/old-person-smell-really-exists-scientists-say/

I think you should have Laurelle merge this thread with the old people smell thread its better to have all of the various oddities about old people in one convenient place. I bet, over time, you will think of some more.

Like why do older people drive so slow? I noticed it happening to me not too long after 40. I used to have to drive home 200 miles, a couple times a month. I had a car capable of over 135 miles an hour that could do 14 seconds in the quarter mile. I would give a friend of mine a ride because he liked to have a drink after we got off of work.

He would say, "Query, how fast are we going?"

I would look down, do the conversion from KPH to MPH in my head...

"Oh shit....I am going 10 MPH UNDER the speed limit!"

 

[Mike_Yates]

Gold and diamonds are excellent to invest in.

 

[Super-Surprise]

Gold and diamonds are excellent to invest in.

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[Mike_Yates]

You have 41K posts and every single one if of an image and is nothing but spam.

 

[Super-Surprise]

http://www.trinaparkstribute.com/trina/daf2006f.jpg

 

[Que]

You have 41K posts and every single one if of an image and is nothing but spam.

Whoa...

I just did the math. At 1,000 words per picture, the word-count stands at 41,406,000!! 41.4 MILLION.

 

[Fala]

Old women hoard clothes and shoes, old men hoard tools. Our worthless children spent all the gold.

The WORTHWHILE children kept their Mother up on fashion and filled her closets with all the accoutrements she needed.

They cleaned all Dads tools and used them for all the jobs needed around their home, while he watched and supervised.

Anyone who can't trust their children around their "gold" didn't raise them right.

 

[LadyVer]

According to common folklore, is it really true that most senior citizens keep shoeboxes in their closets filled with small ingots of gold?

When you think of senior citizens, are you thinking of people over 65?

 

[phrodeau]

No, you're thinking of leprechauns.

Or elves.

Midgets?

Dragons and dwarves, rather.