On 4/11/2013 1:59 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
> On Apr 10, 8:22 pm, sf > wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:23:59 -0500, Ema Nymton >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> She is very
>>> attractive, but nobody looks at women in wheelchairs (according to her).
>>> That bothers her.
>>
>> She could be "over a certain age", which was driven home to me when I
>> was walking with my then (late) teenaged daughter and all eyes were on
>> her - not me. <dramatic sniffle> What a wake up call to "old" age!
>> I was absolutely invisible and although she was dressed modestly, she
>> was hot stuff.
>>
>
> There used to be a writer for the Chronicle -- Jane Ganahl? -- who
> once wrote that she used to complain that she couldn't walk down the
> street without attracting unwanted male attention. But that now she
> had reached the age where she was invisible to men, she wasn't as
> happy as she thought she would be.
>
At railway stations, guys used to rush to help me with my bags because I
was attractive - now they rush to help me because I'm old...