Old-Fashioned

You are too old-fashioned grandma

Stated my granddaughter stretching the word too

Looking at me draped in a sari

For her teenage party.

Then what do you want me to wear? I said

Anything else other than a sari, she said

Because sari makes you look old grandma.

Old or old-fashioned?

Old-fashioned of course, she repeated

As it is you don’t dye your hair

Which makes you also look old, she said looking critically at me.

Well Smitha, I feel myself only when I look and act my age, I stated emphatically.