# Random topic MMP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-topic-mmp/634955>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** mmp\
**Created:** [September 17, 2012, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-topic-mmp/634955 "2012-09-17T10:28:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-topic-mmp/634955/261 "2012-09-24T02:20:28Z")

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Shortly before my Mother died in her eighties, she complained to me that one of her cohorts could still drive at ninety, when Mother couldn’t, and my Father died at fifty two.  
I can only offer now the same thing I said to her, “Mama, sometimes shit happens.”

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