Book Board Chat

One thing I do enjoy in being old is if others view my actions as odd, they can attribute it to an eccentric old lady! (which means I don't care what they think anyway)) I am all for comfort anyway. People find it strange that I push a wheel chair like a walker. I do so because then I have comfort of a place to sit when I have to stand in line. Grocery stores, where I don't use the wheel chair/walker get most upset when I sit down on the floor because I can't stand in line for butcher, etc. It doen't get me any quicker service, they are just upset because I am down there waiting my turn. When was the last time you saw seats or benches throughout a grocery store? Some have food courts but that is not where the food is. Business do not realize or have refused to think about that over 1/3 of population is going to be elderly soon and they have done nothing to accomodate declining health of those poeple. Kaiser built a new hospital in Downy and it won many awards for it's wide open spaces but it is a PITA to go to it because you have to walk so far to get where you are going. There is real competition for handicapped parking these days and it will be even worse in the future when so many are handicapped through old age, bad heart, leg problems, etc.