by Barbara Garcia

Created on: October 08, 2009   Last Updated: October 09, 2009

Sooo you want to talk about growing old. Well let's go back to 1999 when I was working in the beauty salon. By the way, I'm a hairstylist by trade. At the time there were two stylist and a shampoo girl.This particular time I'm about to tell you about is in march, about a week before my 42nd birthday.

Some of our regular customers came in one Friday, and as usual, when customers come in, the conversations get started. Now ladies, all of you who have your hair done at a beauty salon, know what goes on inside of the salon. The crying, the talking, the clowning, lot's of things go on at the beauty salon. And what goes on there, stays there, just like in Vegas.

This particular day, some of our more mature ladies were getting there hair done, and the conversation was about? You guessed it, aging. My co worker who was Mrs. Orange was 57. I was the youngest at 42 and Deloris was 60. As I began working on Deloris hair, Mrs. Orange started to talk about how old she was feeling. She stated that her back was bothering her, and that sometimes she got really stiff. I started to laugh and told her she was just old that's all. Then Deloris started to talk about everything that was ailing her, especially her knee. I laughed at her and told her that I have known for a long time that she was old so that was to be expected. Deloris told me to hush, and we all laughed at my silliness. They both told me to just wait my time was coming.

Well as we were laughing, in walked Beverly. She was hopping. I started to laugh and said " oh Lord, have you gotten old too?" She looked at me and laughed and said girl hush, your day is coming.

Well I want you to know it is 2009, and I'm 52 years old and now I'm hopping too. Isn't this something, now my day is here. They are laughing at me cause now I'm hopping. Mrs. Orange laughed at me just the other day and said, that's what you get for laughing at us. We told you that you would get old too. I guess they were right, I had to admit, I'm getting old too. And we are all talking about the aches and pains now. But I still laugh at them, I'm still not that old, but sometimes I sure do feel like it.

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