If Only I were a Mouse

I would probably be living to be about 150 or so years before I even started to get gray hair.... if I were a mouse.

I see there is now a thing identified as resveratrol that is helping our little fuzzy experimental animals to live longer. Best of all, this fountain of youth juice is found in red wine..... need I say more. Probably not but.....

The good news gets even better when it was also announced that if the mouse stays cool they will also live longer.So breakout the mouse sunglasses, get a thimble of wine and just chill. No problem mon.

Heck, if it works for a mouse surely it will work for this old phart. Isn't that what people get out of these announcements. If it works on a mouse it will work on me!

On the other hand it would also seem to me that the lucky mouse's, as in mice, are the ones who get to do the maze tests or the breeding test (do you think a mouse testing Viagra is hot and thus having a shorter life?).

Based on what I have seen on the tube most of the mice live in rectangular tupperware with a floor of sawdust. I imagine one mouse says to the other, "hey honey, lets go for a walk." Yep, takes about 3 seconds. That sounds stimulating... wish I could live like that.Maybe being a long living mouse isn't all that it's made out to be.

You know, getting old isn't easy or painless.