But for us wrinklies, apart from what our bodies just aren't capable of, there's the feeling that society won't tolerate much geriatric naughtiness. We must not lie on the floor and pick our noses. We must sit in chairs and use clean handkerchiefs. Shades of the prison house begin to close. It's all very well making up your own rules, but other people have their own agenda and treat you as they perceive you.
Young people are impatient.
And it's always been like that. We'll do as we jolly well like. So perhaps it's middle age that's full of limitations. It certainly feels like that, with problem children, the rat race, elderly parents and the mortgage still to pay. My generation have always re- invented things.