What? I'm too OLD!???

I believe nearly everyone can relate to being told that they are too old for something. It happens all the time as we age. We become a certain age and then someone younger than us or perhaps more mature than us tells us that we are too old to be doing whatever we're doing. They tell us to grow up---even if some of us are already grown up...

As a kid, I always liked taking trips to the bank with my mother because the nice lady who worked the window would give out lollipops to us kids if she saw us in the back of the car. My siblings and I always made sure that the lady saw us by waving at her in the window or poking our heads out over the front seat of the car. She'd smile at us and walk away. We knew it was candy time. She'd return to the window with three lollipops. These weren't any normal lollipops. They were special bank lollipops with a ring handle and extra sugariness. It was hard to find them anywhere else. Well, about a year ago at age 18, I was making a withdraw at the drive-thru bank window. For some reason, the teller was taking longer than normal. She was new. She came to the window and told me it would just be another minute. I asked her, "You don't happen to have any lollipops do you?" She smiled and said, "Don't you think you're a bit too old? We need to save them for the kids."

What??? Since when have lollipops been just for kids!? I felt like the dopey rabbit in those 'Trix' commercials. I looked at her and said, "No, ma'am. I'm never too old for lollipops." Then, I gave her one of my fake smiles. She walked away and came back with an envelope. No lollipop and I wasn't about to ask twice, so I drove off annoyed that someone, yet again, told me I was too OLD for something. Someone once told me that I was too old to drink juicy juice out of a box. EVERYONE knows juicy juice tastes best with a sippy straw!