I liked the 'ironclad opinions' and am going to use it in real life.

Being elderly is not the way young people think it is. I do not spend the day feeling old; I just spend it feeling me - not in that way, I meant, feeling I am me, the person who has lived from day to day. My face is mostly sensed as being what it was when I was in my twenties, so, when I come across a pretty young woman, I am attracted.

I am not attracted to having to deal with their ironclad opinions, so I regretfully walk by without giving myself the opportunity to be a dirty old man.