The aunty-aging formula you did not know about
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Loading... - Rimba Ningsih
- 15 Aug 2022
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Hurtling over the compound wall, a yellow ball lands in the garden as I am strolling with my sister-in-law.
It is followed by a gangly boy in swift pursuit. I sprint to the hedge, bend and wiggle, retrieve it and toss it back to him.
‘Thank you, aunty!’ he calls out.
I immediately reply, ‘You are welcome, uncle.’
My sister-in-law is amused, ‘Why do you always have to be like this! We are close to fifty, what else will he call us except aunty!’
I retort, ‘By that logic, I can argue that at this age our eyesight has also begun failing, so I couldn’t make out if he was a teenager or a very sprightly geriatric gentleman?’
My prickliness around aging was compounded during a meeting recently. A girl on our team wanted to do a story about older women joining dating apps. When I asked her if she knew many 40- and 50-year-olds she could interview, she said, ‘No, I don’t need really old women, just slightly older, like in their thirties.’ Read More…
