jollystomper
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When my mom was in her mid 70s, I was telling her that I sometimes go to an ice skating rink with my friend and she said that she used to love ice skating when she was a teenager and she wanted to try it again and asked me to take her. I said no. Do you think I should have taken her? She was visiting me in California from Japan with a travel insurance. There was no way I was going to take any risks like that with her at her age especially as a traveller in a foreign country. I thought she was out of her mind asking me this, but that's her comfort level, I guess.
When my mom was 81 she visited shortly after DW, our kids still at home and I had all gotten new bikes to bring on camping trips. She saw them and began talking about how much she rode bikes as a kid, in her native country cars were scarce and biking was a primary transportation mode. Long story short we ended up driving out to a bike path and letting her bike. Two of her grandchildren walked/jogged alongside her just in case, but she loved it, it brought back so many memories to her of her youth. At times she sped up in front of them, and they would chase after her yelling "Grandma, you're crazy, be careful!!", but she just laughed her head off.