AARP, really?

So, yesterday, I am going through the mail at the office and lo, and behold, I have been invited to join the AARP. Frankly, I was pretty devastated to realize that I am old enough to be in the largest association for senior citizens in the country. I mean, it seems like yesterday that I was in college, but my teenage daughters often remind me, it was not. I guess because they like to torture me, one of my daughters told me recently that she had taken an informal poll of all her friends, and the conclusion is that I AM THE OLDEST OF ALL THE MOMS.
Even though their dad is older than I am, he is not the oldest because one of her friends' moms was a "mail order bride," so the dad is in his seventies and the mom is in her early thirties. When I asked why this was even a topic of consideration, she smilingly said that it is because I look older than all the others in a tone that implied this was a good thing. Anyway, I always like to look on the bright side of things, so the positive to all of this is that apparently President Obama and the Democrats are now going to pay for all my health care costs!