Comic, Playwright, Non-Essential Artist

Aging

No Good After 40

I spent last Saturday with a friend in China Town, eating real Chinese food (aka, very cheap), and shopping for $5 earrings, when we walked by an old man reading palms.

“I think I should get my palm read,” I told her. “I could use some misguided advice from a total stranger.”

“Ten dollars for ten minutes seems like kind of a rip off,” she replied.

“Well, at least he seems more authentic than the New Age-y palm readers in Venice,” I replied.

If by authentic I meant Speaks No English, this guy is the real deal. I’m sure his reading of my palm would have been riveting, had I been able to understand it. He did know how to say, “pay first,” “no good,” “very good,” and “no good after 40.” I assumed he meant to say this in reference to my chances of finding a partner and giving birth, but he could have been talking about my liver. The use of drugs You can find a range of viagra 20mg browse around for more info for our erectile dysfunction customers, from traditional Herbal levitra to powerful Herbal Dynamite purchase generic levitra, Herbal V Extra and Herbal V All Night. Fact Not all ED pill are levitra on line harmful. If it is found early and is still confined to the gland itself then the chances cialis buy online of survival are excellent. Solution: There might be viagra no prescription fast all sorts of products in the market to enhance orgasms and increase the volume of Semen one ejaculates. What? No good after 40? You mean someone doesn’t believe that women can be held in esteem and value by a man and, possibly, procreate after 40?!

“Really, I don’t need to go to a palm reader to hear that,” I told my friend’s boyfriend later. “I think that reading was more about his old man prejudices than anything else.”

“I think you could be right,” replied Friend’s Boyfriend.

Still, he did tell me that I need to wear more gold (I never wear gold), and not date men born in The Year of The Rooster (that would be “no good). Hey, no argument here. I do not get along with Roosters.

Just for today, I can seek guidance from dubious sources.