Never Too Old To Be Young
I wish I could picture, the moment he stepped out of the train, walking fast with his empty pikulan (a pole with two hanging baskets on each end).Too difficult to shoot in an overcrowded train. So said Opa Johan to his wife.
This is a photo I shot in the train. Imagine the impossibility to meet him three times in a same compartment.
He is over 90 and what’s so special is that he still teases playfully a young woman vendor in the train and she equally teases him in return when she’s passing by. The worst thing for a man is when a woman regards him as not a man, you know? When I asked him whether he still has his wife, he said, sure. She’s just 30. I don’t remember how many wives I’ve got, while it’s a pity, I’ve only got just the first one, that’s you, you little fool?
And I thought of Liz who won a young husband for the 8th time in her sixties, but he won himself a young wife when he is over 90 years. That’s more than winning an Olympic gold medal. Ha. Ha.
This is a photo I shot in the train. Imagine the impossibility to meet him three times in a same compartment.
He is over 90 and what’s so special is that he still teases playfully a young woman vendor in the train and she equally teases him in return when she’s passing by. The worst thing for a man is when a woman regards him as not a man, you know? When I asked him whether he still has his wife, he said, sure. She’s just 30. I don’t remember how many wives I’ve got, while it’s a pity, I’ve only got just the first one, that’s you, you little fool?
And I thought of Liz who won a young husband for the 8th time in her sixties, but he won himself a young wife when he is over 90 years. That’s more than winning an Olympic gold medal. Ha. Ha.
September 2012
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