Growing Old Disgracefully: How to Upset and Perplex Your Children With Increasingly Erratic and Unreasonable Behavior - Softcover

Candappa, Rohan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0740741683 ISBN 13: 9780740741685

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub, 2004

Synopsis

Where's the fun in growing old gracefully? Humorist Rohan Candappa believes it's "far better to put your name down for a course of bad behavior, irresponsibility, and questionable fashion choices. And anything that winds your kids up must be worth having a crack at."

Embarrassing and exasperating your kids doesn't have to stop when they become adults and move out of the house. Rohan points out that "If life begins at forty, then a sixty-year-old is not yet twenty-one. And think how much mayhem still lay ahead of you at that age. Act accordingly."Growing Old Disgracefully offers hundreds of pointers for making your sunset years seem like the dawn of your existence. Here are just a few:

* Advice on dressing well: Lycra is always a good bet. Fluorescent Lycra, ideally.

* Looking younger: Forget dieting, exercise, and plastic surgery. Instead, tell people you're fifteen years older than you are.

* Confusing young 'uns: On a crowded bus or train, offer your seat to someone obviously much younger than you.

* The best anti-aging cream: Ice cream! What other food makes you feel like you're eight years old again?

* Making grandchildren your allies: Buy them presents that their parents have (sensibly) refused to buy them.Growing Old Disgracefully serves up plenty of irreverent fun for everyone (except your children).

About this title

From the Publisher:

Extremely funny new title from bestselling humorist Rohan Candappa, for grown-up children and dotty parents alike.

From the Back Cover:

Do you really want to embrace old age? Wouldn't you rather wrestle it to the floor and then sweet talk it into coming away with you for a dirty weekend in Barcelona?

Bestselling humourist Rohan brings his wisdom to bear on the tricky business of growing old, whilst having fun and annoying your stuffy children. Useful tips include where best to leave the donkey sanctuary brochures, having told your offspring that you're currently rewriting your will; knitting patterns for peek-a-boo thermals; and joy riding techniques for the over-60s (break into your own car and drive round town really slowly with Radio 4 on full blast).

Growing Old Disgracefully - a self-help manual for those who want to grow old without growing up.

About this edition

• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0740741683
• ISBN 13: 9780740741685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204