Worst World's Record?

There are some world's records that people work their whole lives for...but this has to top them all: World's Oldest Living Person. I saw this obituary about a Dutch woman who (according to the article) held the record for being the world's oldest living person; she held that record for fifteen months.

This has to be the worst record to hold: First, you don't get this record because of hard work-- you really inherit it because someone else died! Worse-- it totally sucks to "give up" this record! Besides-- when you're that old I imagine such things don't mean a heckuvalot to you: either your so wise that you've long-since realized the superficial nature of such things...or you're so out of it that you barely recognize jello as food.

Still, from the article she seemed a feisty old biddy and she had her wits to the end. Imagine someone who was old enough to have seen and remember the coming of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries! Living through both world wars...seen the destruction and rebuilding (twice!) of Europe...watched the age of manufacturing change to the age of the computer chip. Amazing. I hope someone did extensive interviews with her!

And at least she was able to meet the queen and the star of the soccer team (which she'd followed for nearly a century! gad!)

Fine advice (especially that last bit):
Her personal advice on how to live a long life was to eat pickled herring, drink orange juice and "keep breathing."

Worst World's Record?

There are some world's records that people work their whole lives for...but this has to top them all: World's Oldest Living Person. I saw this obituary about a Dutch woman who (according to the article) held the record for being the world's oldest living person; she held that record for fifteen months.

This has to be the worst record to hold: First, you don't get this record because of hard work-- you really inherit it because someone else died! Worse-- it totally sucks to "give up" this record! Besides-- when you're that old I imagine such things don't mean a heckuvalot to you: either your so wise that you've long-since realized the superficial nature of such things...or you're so out of it that you barely recognize jello as food.

Still, from the article she seemed a feisty old biddy and she had her wits to the end. Imagine someone who was old enough to have seen and remember the coming of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries! Living through both world wars...seen the destruction and rebuilding (twice!) of Europe...watched the age of manufacturing change to the age of the computer chip. Amazing. I hope someone did extensive interviews with her!

And at least she was able to meet the queen and the star of the soccer team (which she'd followed for nearly a century! gad!)

Fine advice (especially that last bit):
Her personal advice on how to live a long life was to eat pickled herring, drink orange juice and "keep breathing."

Worst World's Record?

There are some world's records that people work their whole lives for...but this has to top them all: World's Oldest Living Person. I saw this obituary about a Dutch woman who (according to the article) held the record for being the world's oldest living person; she held that record for fifteen months.

This has to be the worst record to hold: First, you don't get this record because of hard work-- you really inherit it because someone else died! Worse-- it totally sucks to "give up" this record! Besides-- when you're that old I imagine such things don't mean a heckuvalot to you: either your so wise that you've long-since realized the superficial nature of such things...or you're so out of it that you barely recognize jello as food.

Still, from the article she seemed a feisty old biddy and she had her wits to the end. Imagine someone who was old enough to have seen and remember the coming of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries! Living through both world wars...seen the destruction and rebuilding (twice!) of Europe...watched the age of manufacturing change to the age of the computer chip. Amazing. I hope someone did extensive interviews with her!

And at least she was able to meet the queen and the star of the soccer team (which she'd followed for nearly a century! gad!)

Fine advice (especially that last bit):
Her personal advice on how to live a long life was to eat pickled herring, drink orange juice and "keep breathing."