A good friend, still sharp as a tack at 80, fixed me with her bright blue eyes the other day and said: "Sometimes, I think I have lived too long." And then she laughed and said she had delivered that line in front of her young granddaughter.

"But Grandma, you take a lot of pills," the child observed.

"Yes, I do," my friend replied.

"Well, if you think you've live too long, why don't you stop taking the pills?" the girl asked.

Don't kids have an amazing ability to call our bluffs?