A Chane Meeting I Shall Not Forget

[Dee Sa]

I was waiting at the bus shelter for my bus, an elderly woman smartly dressed joined me and asked did her hair look nice, yes very nice I replied she told n]her name was Doll & she was 99 years old and would be 100 in Sept, I taken aback, she said she goes dancing 4 times a week at the British Legion and her dance partner is her carer, she also told me when she was young in wartime she sang with the Oscar Rabin band in London and her stage name was Dolores, bless her.
I told her sincerely it was a pleasure to meet her and talk with her.

[murraymints]

That's nice dee xx

[jeffa]

I was expecting you to say that when you turned around she'd vanished...

[Peaspeculiars]

That's lovely Dee, it's amazing what you learn from strangers if you have a few minutes to stop and listen. She must be fit dancing 4 times a week! good for her :o)

[kvalidir]

Oh that's wonderful, I love chatting to old people, especially ones who haven't grown old :)

[agchristie]

Thats nice D - what an inspiration!

[Peaspeculiars]

I went to a botanical gardens a couple of weekends ago and by chance I watched a man with grey hair and a slow pace walk towards me with a smile on his face. He looked straight at me and I smiled too, he must of been well into his eighties and was loving the gardens as much as I was, you could tell by our faces.
It was straight after that chance encounter that I realised that I no longer look at anyone from the older generation as 'old', I see them as just a person a few years ahead of me. I hope i can enjoy gardens as much as he was when I catch up to his age.

[marval]

What a lovely thing to happen, she must have been very interesting to talk to.

I had to look the band up.

http://uk.ask.com/wiki/Oscar_Rabin_Band?lang=en

[andy-hughes]

Not to pour cold water on your excellent story Dee, but it reminds me of a very different experience recounted by a friend -

waiting in the bus station on a winter day, it was blowing a proverbial blizzard, my friend was joined by what he described as the archetypal old lady - she had a headscarf, coat down to her ankles, shopping bag, glasses, zip-up boots and stood at around five feet tall.

My friend and the old lady waited in silence for over an hour, while signs of life gradually vanished in the snowstorm until they seemed to the only two people left in the world.

Finally, the dim distant lights of a bus lumbered into view and a bus pulled into the bus station, its destination blind advising that it was the very bus the two were waiting for.

The bus proceeded to crawl at a snail's pace around the bus station, passing its to potential passengers without pause, before lumbering off to be once again lost in the still-falling snow.

My friend, being possessed of the patience of several saints simply sighed and contemplated his next move.

Not so his potential travelling companion who voiced her opinion with the only words spoken since her arrival at the bus stop over an hour previously.

"Well the *** ***!" was the senior citizen's opinion of recent events, and she stomped off in the direction of the retreating bus, similarly to be swallowed up by the ever-falling snow.

Not all old people are as sweet as yours Dee!!

[Zacs-Master]

Must have been Catherine Tates mum Andy.

[Dee Sa]

I think its CatherineTates nan you mean Zacs LOL this same old lady said she was at a wartime dance and singing to herself in the ladies loo when she came out a woman said to her was that you singing in there and when she said yes she took her straight up to Oscar Rabin and said I have just found you our new singer and that was that, but her good old East End mum used to wait up for her to come home so she did not go off with the yanks [ wartime].

[silliemillie]

She sounds wonderful, I wonder why she needs a carer?

[viv38]

What a lovely story. I love talking to elderly people and always smile at them when out and about.

[baza]

silliemillie,she needs the carer to dance with by the sounds of it.