Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for May 31, 2013

Great grandmother 104, grandmother 99, Mom is now 100 almost 101, I have “male pattern baldness” inherited from the mom’s side, so hey, maybe?

There’s days I feel like 100…

. . . and Broom Hilda is 1500 . . .

I’m not sure I’d want to live to 100+.

I’ll be there in three more years. I’ll tell you what it’s like. :)

Say goodnight Gracie.

I fully intend to live to be 120. Just to confound my friends and confuse my enemies !

With my luck I’ll live to be 120.

My grandmother swore for many years that she did NOT want to live to triple digits. She passed away at 99 years, 4 months.

one day at a time that’s it no more no less

Like (probably) Shoe, want to go out at the age of 104, at the hands of an angry husband.

I’ll be there in just over a year. I’ll be able to tell you what it’s like before CJ! LOL

41 more years and I’ll be 100.

If people are lying in bed drooling, they are most often overmedicated.

Yeah, I’m playing that game too. It would be so much more helpful if they weren’t contradicting each other on a regular basis.

What I want is to see the actual plans, I don’t want synopses from either the insurers or the brokers.

What I am getting is contradictions. We made a decidedly wrong choice when my husband retired, and now it will cost a bundle we don’t have to put that right too.

It’s insane, and it’s inhumane. What it looks like here is the insurers have been given carte blanche to strip working and retired people of every possible cent, without giving them much of anything in return.

I’d just jump off a bridge and leave them to it, but sadly, I’m not hardwired that way. I will settle for the tiny amount of satisfaction I get from not giving them what they want.

Clever.

Yossarian’s motto from the book Catch-22. “I’m going to live forever or die trying..”