Every once in a while I see a pretty girl. Sometimes I'll chat a bit. . . for a minute or two, politely. It's great looking like Methuselah because it doesn't matter what age the girl is, you get to talk to them if you want to. And when you've been around as much as I have, you can figure out a lot about a person in a very short while. I sorta see the sense in the half your age plus seven rule, but not because it's what other people will think isn't weird. I'm all about weird if being weird is defined by being different from what people think is OK. Nope, the reason the half plus seven rule works is just this:
Men always act half their age, and need a good woman with sense enough to keep them outta trouble. The plus seven for the girl is usually sufficient.
My wife is trying to find someone who will stand in for her the rest of my life. Either that, or she's gonna make the case that I should be confined to an institution while she tours Europe with her sister. Her only rule for me is that I need to support myself, and my habits. If I find someone who'll do my laundry, and wants to be a mom, she figures it's all good.
That said, I'd take someone half my age if she can stand on her own two feet in an argument, without either acting scared of talking to me or imagining I know more than she does. The things that would change all that are if she stinks, drinks, uses foul language, watches soaps, shops a lot, or lives in a dung pile. The thing that would over-rule almost anything on the neg side is if she has a habit of rolling outta bed and doing stuff with a purpose until it's time to call it a day.
But seriously, even at my age, I like older women better because they treat you better. It's all about the compassion, baby.
