On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 3:43:11 AM UTC-10, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 7/29/2015 1:06 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 7/28/2015 4:22 PM, Bruce wrote:
> >
> >> The idea that elderly people go to McDonald's to meet their friends
> >> sounds very sad to me. Imagine having lived 75 years and not having
> >> gotten any further than hanging out at McDonald's.
>
> > It makes you sad, but the people I see there seem to be enjoying the
> > company of their peers rather that sitting home watching Jerry Springer
> > or sending cranky messages to newsgroups. Socializing with others is
> > beneficial.
>
> I bet if one took the time to talk to the ROMEO's, they'd find those
> people have had very interesting lives that most certainly ventured
> far beyond McDonald's.
>
> nancy

My wife and I were talking to a couple of old gents who were sitting outside of Costco. We were eating and the guys were just talking. One guy once had a tofu factory in Hawaii - he knew nothing about tofu when he started out but is now a tofu manufacturing expert. The other guy was a food distributor/supplier and got the idea of selling King's Portuguese sweet bread in stores. That wasn't done back in the 70's and seemed like a goofy idea - at the time. These days, everybody knows King's Hawaiian Sweet Bread.