I have noticed that some older people (mostly ladies sorry to say) are the pickie sort of people.....have no idea were in the world they got it but my grandmother was exactly that way. She would pick at a gnat's eyebrow being out of place.....I would just blow her off & tell her how trivial & insignificant the things she was picking about where & blow her off (got a lot of practice at that). My mother didn't start off that way, but as she got older, saw the same thing in her. promised myself that I WOULD NEVER be like my mother or grandmother & have kept that promise so far. Think we have so much more to focus on in life & find that it's the older people who seem to have nothing left in their life other than the little things that annoy them to complain about.

My older friend who is 92.....is interesting.....I find that she complains about a lot of things also....but she isn't the knit-picking sort of complaining....however I do catch her at times & she doesn't mind my pointing out when it happens....we just end up laughing about it...I always point out to her how many more serious issues she is dealing with than the trivial things that knit-picking is all about.....never seen such a politically active person & social awareness at that age before....Have to say, she is truly inspiring.....glad they aren't all like those women who were picking at your car.

Say, I'll loan you my truck & you can threaten to run them over the next time they comment on your auto....no one argues with a truck. I just got it washed at a car wash (something I have never done before in my life). I won the car wash on a radio program.....wow was that a nice thing....look so sparkily clean....until the next hour when I ran through a mud puddle that I didn't see. Ah well, they say trucks are supposed to look dirty & grungy.....maybe you really do need a truck...but I feel guilty if I don't keep it washed & clean & free from 3 loads of white fluffy dog fir that accumulates every time I go anywhere which is always with 3 of my eskies.