“There is some strange stuff that goes on at those senior centers Dad!”  an adult son of an 80-year-old said as he signed his dad up to attend the Bountiful Senior Center last fall.

Yep, nobody in Davis Co. need be bored or lonely as they age. There is music, Bingo, dancing, Tai Chi and more. The coffee and cookies are top notch. Opening at 8 a.m. we can stay for lunch and great conversation and drama. The rules are that one is not to talk about religion, politics or sex. But heck don’t you think that 70 and 80-year-old’s ought to know something about those things? So we talk about them anyway.  And there are romances, break ups and few engagements and marriages.

Last week a wonderful man who attended reached over 100 years old and passed away and we miss him.  Just a week earlier family had taken his car keys away from him. Earlier I asked the centenarian his secret to living that long and he told me that “He stayed away from wild women!”

The topic this week of course is Trump and at least two attendees still support him. Many of us think Trump should be hung for treason as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Eisenhower would have done.  And as can be expected some of us get frustrated and stomp off and sulk moving to a different table.

The staff bends over backward to please us and is very tolerant and kind. But they have about eight big butcher knives on the wall in the kitchen they can grab if we get too rowdy. But usually when the Sr. Cit. staff get frustrated with us they just drop a chair loudly down on the floor to warn us to settle down. Since many of us have weak hearts that gets our attention.

Despite our reputation for being strange I promise you we are “just people” and act like people. Davis County Seniors do come; I promise you there will be talk of doctors,  politics, religion, sex and drama. No need to stay home and be bored or lonely.