Back in the day, my grandmothers, who weren’t nearly as ancient as I imagined at the time, got to focus their energies on things like visiting their grown children and beating the crap out of their grandchildren at Chinese checkers. I grew up when old folks still hung out in rocking chairs on their porches for real, not just in the movies, and they were to be respected regardless of their behavior. There was something respectful just about making it past 70 back then.