I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this (I hope you have or this will make no sense whatsoever), but recently I have been picking up on some patterns when it comes to older people’s speech. While listenining to an older member of my extended family, it dawned on me, older people tend to repeat the same stories and life experiences–the same ones everytime you see them. But, that’s not the interesting part. What is even more interesting, is that I have noticed that they tell the stories using the exact same idiocyncratic speeh and words as they did the other time you heard it. It is as if they not only have latched on to these life experiences and stories so much, but they also have told them so many times, they have a set way of recounting them.

So, next time you are listening to you grandpa tell you again, how he got lost in the woods and meet Jacques Cousteau–listen closely. Next week he will probably tell the same story the exact same way. Now if you will exuse me, I have rewrite this article several thousand time, so I can repeat it well later in life.