‘GET ME A STRIPPER for my 100 th!’
GRAN’S SAUCY BIRTHDAY WISH
As her 100th birthday approached, there was only one thing Iris Kent wanted – a stripper! The great-grandmother, who lives at Seasons Waterford West aged care facility, tells New Idea: ‘We are all old people here, and I thought it might brighten the place up!’
Staff at the Queensland retirement home certainly didn’t disappoint.
‘I had a wonderful party. They gave me some lovely roses, and we had sandwiches and cakes.
‘They pushed in this great big box – it looked like a Dr Who phone box – and they got me to sit out in the middle of the floor.
‘Suddenly the top broke open and a figure started to emerge. He was naked up to the waist. He sort of leapt out and gyrated about a bit.
‘He never came near me, I noticed. I don’t think he dared come too close! He was a bit shy I reckon, [but] I’ve seen it all before – remember, I’m 100.’
Iris was thrilled with her special pressie – in fact, she says all the residents were.
‘I had a good laugh... It was the talk of the town!’
Though the sprightly centenarian’s eyes may not be as good as they once were, Iris recognised the stripper immediately.
‘He is our bus driver. He said he’ll do the full monty when I’m 105, but now he’s changed it to 110. I think he’s getting nervous.’
When local radio station Brisbane HIT105 got wind of Iris’ party, they invited her on air, and she subsequently got her own segment, Ask Iris.
‘They get people to ring up with a love question and I have to give them the answer,’ says Iris, who is enjoying her newfound fame as a romance guru.
‘When I was younger, I just liked to have a good time and enjoy life. I seemed to fall in love rather often. But I don’t know if you’d call that a vice,’ she laughs.
These days, Iris – who lost her second husband when she was 70 – has no interest in finding a new man.
‘Who wants a woman of 100? Some creaky old thing who wants looking after? I can’t even look after myself,’ she chuckles.
‘No younger man is going to want a woman of 100 unless she pays him, let me tell you, or unless he’s a bit funny in the head – and I do like my men sensible.
‘They used to line up for me... I’m not paying them now!’
BUS PASS! Never mind a telegram from the Queen – this Aussie wanted something seriously racy to mark a century