OLD AS THE HILLS
The census taker knocked on the lady's door. She answered all his questions except one. She refused to tell him her age. "But everyone tells their age to the census taker," he said. "Did Miss Maisy Hill, and Miss Daisy Hill tell you their ages?" she asked. "Certainly," he replied. "Well, I'm the same age as they are," she snapped. The census taker simply wrote on the form, "As old as the Hills." You may have heard that our nation's oldest person, a 113-year-old woman, died recently just weeks before her 114th birthday. The world's oldest person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group, is a Japanese man, who will turn 116 next week. The oldest person ever on record was a Frenchwoman who was 122 when she died in 1997. All of these could easily be described with the phrase, "As old as the hills." ...