Bringing Home the Story

This year, I got to attend AARP’s annual member event for the first time. This year it was in Boston. (That's me with a friendly robot!)

It was a good thing I took the train because a plane would never have gotten off the ground with all the stuff I lugged home. There were hundreds of exhibitors there – everything from vitamin and pear people to travel booths where you could sign up for a barge trip. But most of the 100 pounds of extra weight that I crammed into my huge suitcase was paper, stuff about all the cool things boomers should know, will care about, and want reports on.

My suitcase was so heavy it took two of us to drag it across the wide gap on the train platform. A policeman even asked me if I had a body in there. I couldn’t blame him. It was a lot of dead weight.

It took six trips out to the car to unload that thing. There was no way I was going to try to wheel it up my front steps.

Now I’ve got to sort it all out…

I’m glad I went. I got to see a lot of interesting things including a simulated driving test for seniors, a talking bear that may one day show up in nursing homes and a rack for my kitchen that will help me get to the top shelf without reaching up on a ladder.

Next time I’m hoping I won’t be lugging quite so much. I like my heavy lifting to be a little microphone.