BOOMERPDX SOCIAL TIPS

Boomerpdx social works to help the other guy, or gal.

Whether they need help or not. Do they?

Check the Portland boomer landscape by googling Portland Oregon Baby Boomers.

Page one shows Baby Boomers Social Club in four of the top five slots.

The modern boomer, like everyone else, enjoys a little company.

With a dating site called “The Cadillac of dating websites…” Baby Boomers Social Club shares inspiration with boomerpdx social tips.

“Boomerpdx, the Buick of boomer media?”

We both agree that a dancing boomer is forever young, like Rod Stewart reminds us.

Get up and shake it, just don’t break it.

Your’s truly was at the Waterfront Blues Festival to dance at the Back Porch stage.

It was loaded with boomers who knew how to dance and it showed.

Someone has been practicing?

Don’t have a partner? Step out and trot in place but stay off the perimeter where the traveling dancers pass by.

Getting mowed down by two-steppers isn’t part of the fun.

Don’t Waste Precious Time

Another listing shows Baby Boomer Meet Ups.

You’ll find links for a women’s boomer group looking for more than a high school flashback.

Remember when the girls matured faster than the guys?

Somehow it reverses with age and men look older than the women. One looks golden and vital, the other more silver and burnished.

But don’t feel sorry for the ladies limited choices.

It might not be fair, but who said fair was part of the deal?

For a boomer travel meet up, you’ve found the right place. No jungle hammocks, igloos, or all night boozing?

Instead, it’s “fly in a private charter airplane to an Exotic Island where you can swim with dolphins or stingrays, snorkel the coral reefs, scuba dive in the deep sea, jet ski in the bay, party and dance the night away, go sailing, kayaking, zipline through a rain forest.”

A show of hands for anyone ready for that. Mine’s up. Go, boomer, go.

The ‘Other’ Baby Boomers

You know these people; you may be one of them:

Withdrawn. Shutdown. Cut off. Remote.

They all have good reasons for living that life.

They’ve been hurt, disappointed, abandoned.

They’ve got no one to love and no one loves them.

So you make an effort and you turn into one of the reasons they are withdrawn and remote.

“Your welcome” never feels right.

Now you feel hurt and disappointed?

I’m comfortable saying I would have been a remote guy, but I got married and had kids.

I’ve still got kids and I’m still married.

It’s not a big deal until I hear my wife’s friends ask her, “Are you still married?”

Why wouldn’t she be? What am I, a trial marriage, a starter husband, and experiment?

Yes to all of that, which is why I take no offense at the question of ‘still married.’

My wife tells me she’d want me to remarry if she dies first. The thought comes with time since everyone dies.

Boomerpdx Social In Action

Wife: I want you to remarry if I die first.

Me: What? Are you feeling okay?

Wife: Yes, fine, but I was thinking . . .

Me: Thinking about dying? Think of something else. Besides, I’ve already said I’d never get married again.

Wife: You used to say you’re never get married the first time. Now look at you.

Me: We married the hell out of each other.

Wife: That’s why you should remarry.

Me: Explain it to me. Why?

Wife: I don’t want you to be lonely.

Me: Lonely? Do I look lonely? Maybe lonely isn’t so bad.

Wife: You were lonely when I met you.

Me: No I wasn’t.

Wife: You seemed lonely to me.

Me: That was my chick-gittin’ act. Do you know how many women want to cheer up the lonely guy.

Wife: That sounds devious and pathetic.

Me: Those were my back-up plans.

Wife: Okay, how many women did you con with your lonely guy act?

Me: One.

Wife: Just one. Doesn’t sound too effective. What was her name?

Me:

Wife: Oh, okay.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how to stay happily married.

Of course it helps to have kids you enjoy spending time with, a French press coffee maker so wifey has a hot cup waiting when she gets up, and a good broom to clean up the messes on the family aisle.

These are the boomerpdx social tips to live by.

Thoughts? How do you do it?