Unni! Unni!

[TheBo]

I kept forgetting to post this! All of the older folks on this drama called each other casually, particularly the grandmas called each other "unni" all the time. They were inlaws, just like Jiyeun et al.

And after all those lectures by Grandma Major. LOL.

Bo

[BAE]

that's so true. they should follow their own advice! and hana and jiyeun knew eachother for a long time too.

[TheBo]

Yeah, Bae, if you live long enough, you just get to do whatever you want, as they say. I think that's fair, LOL. There's a series of podcasts about Korea I listen to, and one of them was about cafes (I posted it here). They were discussing how young women, until a few years ago, could be attacked in the streets by anyone and their grandma (literally) for smoking in public, but elderly women just smoked and the heck with the rest of y'all! I like that.

Bo

[ginnycat5]

Yeah! Have you read the poem, Warning, by Jenny Joseph?

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
...
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
...
But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

There's another one that rings true for me-

Maybe at Eighty? by S. Minanel
They say wisdom comes as you age-
Now I'm in a real jam-
at sixty I should be a sage-
look what a fool I am!

[TheBo]

Those are great poems, Ginny. I'll look those people up. Always looking for a new poet to read.

Bo