On 4/11/2013 2:15 PM, S Viemeister wrote:

> 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...

Ditto, plus now I walk with a cane.

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