Old People (and Old-Ish People) are Awesome

1. An old person while clothes-shopping, referring to a cropped shirt: "yes, showing your umbilicus is all the rage."  The saddest thing is, I'm related to her.

2. This is about a different old person ... actually, an old-ish person.  In the middle of my homeroom class, she goes, "hey (my name), I hope you don't catch fire!"  Yeah.  For no reason.  How was I supposed to respond to that, by the way?!  "Thanks"?  "I hope you don't either"?  WHAT?!

3. Okay, this is a conversation between me and the same old-ish person as in point #2.  So she can remain anonymous, we'll call her O-IP (old-ish person).

O-IP: Are you sad?

Me: No ...

O-IP: No, me neither.

This conversation was completely out of the blue.  No one said anything about anyone being sad beforehand ... she just started talking.