Old people trying to look or act young, and thinking they're fooling everybody.

A woman becomes a mother late in life. Now she's menopausal with an elementary-school child, and her attitude is, "I'm not old! I can't be, because I have a ten-year-old! I'm trying to pretend I'm as young as all the other mothers in her class. My daughter thinks I'm only 24, and I love her for it!"

Denial, denial, denial. Why can't people just be real? What's so doggone wrong with getting older anyway? Why are people so afraid of it that they have to pretend it isn't happening?