So deceptive because we could die today. My "real age" was calculated to be 30% less than my actual age, and it state that my life expectancy was 86.2, but as I said, I could die today. If we think that we will live to be 80 years old, we never really live.
Ha! I went to the dentist a while back, and I didn't floss that morning because I was heading to the dentist. (That's what I pay them for.) I was cranky and this crazy new hygenist is lecturing me while I'm stuck there with her fists in my mouth. She asked me if I flossed that day, and I wasn't in the mood to explain myself so I just said no.
She had this hissy fit about bacteria building up on my teeth and told me that I just took 5 years off my life. I removed her hands from my mouth and asked, "When, exactly, am I going to die?"
"I don't know that!"
"Then how are you going to take 5 years off that? I could be hit by a truck on the way home, and I will have wasted immeasuable hours of my life flossing my teeth. Please shut up and finish cleaning them so I'll look good for my funeral."
On the bright side, every time I run off by myself and my mother has a panic attack, I assure her that I will not be killed in a fiery car crash or murdered by a maniac. I will die from not flossing every day.
(The irony here is that I actually do floss regularly. I don't like dirty teeth.)
Where does it say what your "real" age is? I'm supposed to last til I'm 102 years old. I guess we'd better beef up the 401K.
That's on Allifunn's quiz, over on the left (I think!)