Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Still crabby as an apple

There’s a very sad thing that happens to you when you get old, which is that you become crabby. In fact, the word “crabby” has become attached to “old man” or “old lady” as if it were impossible to think of anything else.
My mom was the epitome of a crabby old lady, though to be honest she was pretty cranky even before she got old. She got kicked out of her apartment because they told her it would take five days to repair her dishwasher so they could get