Again, for a 75-year-old, Peters does seem to have a rather odd concept of 60-year-old women…
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I found this very ageist and was highly insulted. I mean, she could be a WalMart greeter, too! Less chance of being run over, too.
what the….
That is not a stereotype that was even on the radar!
If we want stereotypes, maybe realtor Barbie. Except that’s not funny. Considering Barbie is capable of quite successful and niche careers maybe if we want stereotypes for 60 year old women maybe lecture circuit post-modern feminist social theorist Barbie. Or maybe just “write my damn memoirs, I was once freakin’ President Barbie, for effs sake” Barbie.
That is if we want stereotypes… which I would rather we not have. Seems a *really* weird quirk stuck in this guys craw and it’s really does not make him that attractive.
When I was a kid, crossing guards were kids. Now they are all adults (although I never stopped to check how old.) I’m assuming they get some retired volunteers, because crossing guards do their work at the end of the school day, before parents get home from work (for the most part).
Wikipedia says he’s married, but I have a feeling he’ll be eating St. Valentine’s dinner alone tonight.
Barbie might conceivably still be an astronaut at 60, though the oldest real-life woman astronaut was 57: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson Oddly, her total time in space falls just short of 666 days (665 days 22 hours 22 minutes to be precise) on three missions, making her NASA’s longest-in-space employee.
On the male side, the oldest “proper” full-time professional astronaut was Story Musgrove, 61 on his last flight (I would say for John Glenn’s second flight at the age of 77 he was more of a test subject).
I’ll admit the majority of crossing guards in my life were 40+ women who liked to shout. But I never thought of it as a default settling for women to fall into. Seems a really weird assumption to me.
Here in FL, when the afternoon temps are near 100 and the humidity is 95+, I’d rather be working in WalMart than out in the street.
I’ve never been in FL, but I’m assuming that many if not most of those 100 degree days happen in the summer, when there’s no school, and therefore no crossing guards. It also probably helps that the shift length is only 15 minutes or so.
When I was in grade school, we did crossing guards because A) you got to leave class early, and B) at the end of the year, there was a free trip to the local amusement park.
My daughter’s school was on a major (6-lane) arterial, and didn’t have crossing guards. They had a stoplight, and the high school was across the road, and let out about ten minutes before the grade school. So there’d be high-schoolers crossing one way to walk home, and grade-schoolers crossing the other way, and about 50,000 high-schoolers who drove themselves to school all interacting in that one intersection. Nobody was going very fast.
Then of course, in WI, it would be the opposite . . . very very cold, rainy, windy.
Andrea – regarding your first comment – I saw what you did there. Well played.
JP: FL has definitely shown me the vagaries of weather; in 2015, Christmas Eve and Day were in the high 80s and New Year’s Day was spent by/in a relative’s pool on the waterfront. In 2016, ’17 & ’18, we had to use the patio heater in the lanai.
Sometimes it rains so hard and fast, the pool fills up; an hour later, the sun is shining brightly.
Many times I’ve been on the road and have seen the crossing guards out in 100-degree weather, and in torrential rains. Could be April, May, June, September, October . . . we never know from day to day, or even hour to hour, exactly what we’ll have. However, I’m secure in the knowledge we’ll never have a blizzard and below-zero temps.
The temp today, 2/15, is 80 degrees. That’s on the Gulf Coast; I’m sure it’s higher farther inland.
” That’s on the Gulf Coast; I’m sure it’s higher farther inland.”
I live JUST far enough inland to not worry about hurricanes.
If a hurricane can hit Orlando, I can’t see where one would be living (in FL) and not worry ’bout hurricanes.
I would think that of those listed, Doctor would be the best fit for a 60 year old woman.
” I can’t see where one would be living (in FL) and not worry ’bout hurricanes.”
You can pull off this trick by not living in Florida. When I lived in Oregon, there was even less worry about hurricanes, though we did have the occasional earthquake, and there was this volcano in the neighborhood that occasionally deposited a layer of itself on the surrounding landscape. But no hurricanes.
James Pollock – Crossing guards also work at other then school crossings during the year, at least around here. Local houses of worship have them crossing people from parking areas for holidays such as Christmas and Easter masses or when there are a lot of people to walking to same such as Rosh Hashanah, as well, as them working to cross people when there are large events such as big craft shows. I am not sure if the house of worship pays for the crossing guards to be there or if it is a service of the local government to prevent accidents.
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I found this very ageist and was highly insulted. I mean, she could be a WalMart greeter, too! Less chance of being run over, too.
what the….
That is not a stereotype that was even on the radar!
If we want stereotypes, maybe realtor Barbie. Except that’s not funny. Considering Barbie is capable of quite successful and niche careers maybe if we want stereotypes for 60 year old women maybe lecture circuit post-modern feminist social theorist Barbie. Or maybe just “write my damn memoirs, I was once freakin’ President Barbie, for effs sake” Barbie.
That is if we want stereotypes… which I would rather we not have. Seems a *really* weird quirk stuck in this guys craw and it’s really does not make him that attractive.
When I was a kid, crossing guards were kids. Now they are all adults (although I never stopped to check how old.) I’m assuming they get some retired volunteers, because crossing guards do their work at the end of the school day, before parents get home from work (for the most part).
Wikipedia says he’s married, but I have a feeling he’ll be eating St. Valentine’s dinner alone tonight.
Barbie might conceivably still be an astronaut at 60, though the oldest real-life woman astronaut was 57: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson Oddly, her total time in space falls just short of 666 days (665 days 22 hours 22 minutes to be precise) on three missions, making her NASA’s longest-in-space employee.
On the male side, the oldest “proper” full-time professional astronaut was Story Musgrove, 61 on his last flight (I would say for John Glenn’s second flight at the age of 77 he was more of a test subject).
I’ll admit the majority of crossing guards in my life were 40+ women who liked to shout. But I never thought of it as a default settling for women to fall into. Seems a really weird assumption to me.
Here in FL, when the afternoon temps are near 100 and the humidity is 95+, I’d rather be working in WalMart than out in the street.
I’ve never been in FL, but I’m assuming that many if not most of those 100 degree days happen in the summer, when there’s no school, and therefore no crossing guards. It also probably helps that the shift length is only 15 minutes or so.
When I was in grade school, we did crossing guards because A) you got to leave class early, and B) at the end of the year, there was a free trip to the local amusement park.
My daughter’s school was on a major (6-lane) arterial, and didn’t have crossing guards. They had a stoplight, and the high school was across the road, and let out about ten minutes before the grade school. So there’d be high-schoolers crossing one way to walk home, and grade-schoolers crossing the other way, and about 50,000 high-schoolers who drove themselves to school all interacting in that one intersection. Nobody was going very fast.
Then of course, in WI, it would be the opposite . . . very very cold, rainy, windy.
Andrea – regarding your first comment – I saw what you did there. Well played.
JP: FL has definitely shown me the vagaries of weather; in 2015, Christmas Eve and Day were in the high 80s and New Year’s Day was spent by/in a relative’s pool on the waterfront. In 2016, ’17 & ’18, we had to use the patio heater in the lanai.
Sometimes it rains so hard and fast, the pool fills up; an hour later, the sun is shining brightly.
Many times I’ve been on the road and have seen the crossing guards out in 100-degree weather, and in torrential rains. Could be April, May, June, September, October . . . we never know from day to day, or even hour to hour, exactly what we’ll have. However, I’m secure in the knowledge we’ll never have a blizzard and below-zero temps.
The temp today, 2/15, is 80 degrees. That’s on the Gulf Coast; I’m sure it’s higher farther inland.
” That’s on the Gulf Coast; I’m sure it’s higher farther inland.”
I live JUST far enough inland to not worry about hurricanes.
If a hurricane can hit Orlando, I can’t see where one would be living (in FL) and not worry ’bout hurricanes.
I would think that of those listed, Doctor would be the best fit for a 60 year old woman.
” I can’t see where one would be living (in FL) and not worry ’bout hurricanes.”
You can pull off this trick by not living in Florida. When I lived in Oregon, there was even less worry about hurricanes, though we did have the occasional earthquake, and there was this volcano in the neighborhood that occasionally deposited a layer of itself on the surrounding landscape. But no hurricanes.
James Pollock – Crossing guards also work at other then school crossings during the year, at least around here. Local houses of worship have them crossing people from parking areas for holidays such as Christmas and Easter masses or when there are a lot of people to walking to same such as Rosh Hashanah, as well, as them working to cross people when there are large events such as big craft shows. I am not sure if the house of worship pays for the crossing guards to be there or if it is a service of the local government to prevent accidents.