Elastic Waistbands

Is this blog for you?


Here are a few questions to help you decide if you're a member of the Elastic Waistbands Society.

• Do you use your exercise bike as a coat rack?

• Do you count on the slimming effect of wearing black so much that people often ask if you’re headed to a funeral?

• Have you ever spent an afternoon trying to look “cool” as you search for your car in the mall parking lot?

• Do you believe that cheesecake and Prozac share many of the same healing qualities?

• When a form asks for your hair color, do you write Number 186?

• Have you gotten to that point in life where you realize you’re being nice to people just to be sure you’ve got a crowd at your funeral?

• Do you think that The Night of the Living Dead is a movie about your job?

• Have you ever been called “ma’am” by a young man whom you think is “checking you out”?
  
  
  Scoring: If you took the time to read this quiz, you're one of us -- a member of the Elastic Waistbands Society!
  

And that’s okay. Because we’re all in this together…

Adapted from the book, THREE FEET UNDER: Journal of a Midlife Crisis by Christee Gabour Atwood.