From buddy Wed May 31 01:02:01 1995
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1993 00:00:00
Subject: Billy Crystal-City Slickers 


Billy Crystal's view on developmental psychology from
City Slickers (1991)

        Value this time in your life, kids.  'Cause this is the time in
your life when you still have your choices.  It goes by so fast.
        When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything and you do.
        Your twenties are a blur.
        Thirties.  You raise your family.  You make a little money.  And
you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?"
        Forties.  You grow a little pot belly.  You grow another chin.  The
music starts to get too loud.  One of your old girlfriends from high school
becomes a grandmother.
        Fifties.  You have a minor surgery.  You call it a "procedure."
But it's a surgery.
        Sixties.  You'll have a major surgery.  The music is still loud,
but it doesn't matter, because you can't hear it anyway.
        Seventies.  You and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale.  Start
eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon.  Get lunch around ten.
Breakfast, the night before.  Spend most of your time wandering around
malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "How come the
kids don't call?  How come the kids don't call?"
        The eighties.  You'll have a major stroke.  You end up babbling to
some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but you call "Mama."
        Any questions?