AND FINALLY: Continuing (for the last time) with the old age theme.

Your Editor recently passed through an airport where the safety measures are particularly thorough and the staff profile the passengers.

Being of the chatty sort he said to the young security person.

“I first passed through this airport before you were born.”

“And what year was that?” he replied.

I answered.

“That was a long time ago,” he said.  “Even before my father was born!”

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