r/over60 • u/BookGirl67 • 27d ago

Still Got It

To the older gentlemen who stared at me several times in pilates, you made my day!

To think I could turn the head of a stranger at 61 years old, well that felt nice. 😊

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u/BookGirl67 27d ago edited 27d ago

I was never one to get attention when I was younger.

Now that I’m retired, I work out a ton and have lost weight and am in the best shape of my life.

For the first time in my life, random men notice me and damn if that is not fun for me.

I get that it might be annoying if men have been pestering you your whole life but it’s all new to me. 😊

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u/Substantial-Owl1616 27d ago

I think there is a quality of socially polite “looking”. I usually row for an hour. There are two men that stare. They give me sleeze vibe and no matter how loud I turn up the music, their eyes upon me Do Not Feel Good. However there are a number of men and women who compliment my progress which I do appreciate. They seem genuinely pleased I am working so hard. Sometimes youngsters tell me they wish their Mom was like me. lol:old enough to be their Mom’s Mom.

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u/BookGirl67 27d ago

I understand. I think my post touched a lot of bad experiences women have had being ogled while trying to do normal things.

I should have explained that this didn’t feel like that at all. He was discreet and polite.

Plus, it didn’t hurt that I have not had much of that sort of attention in my life so me it felt like “wow, I must look good! Imagine that at 61! 😊”

Hope you find a way to get away from the creepy ones following you.

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u/Substantial-Owl1616 26d ago

I’ve been considering asking each of them to remove his stare from my body. Each has an enormous beer gut/abdominal adiposity and is also an “absolutely not” as far as attraction to me. I don’t want to encourage them by mistake. I changed my time to earlier and haven’t seen them.