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”.
Old old? Was my great grandmother who got to…80 or 90. Must have been at least 80, given my mother’s and grandmother’s ages. She was old old.
Grandmother was old, but not so much.
Mother and everyone in her age range were “adults” but not old. Adults did things. Old people cut out papery dolls for me and my twin, that was their jobs!