I know I’m starting to get gray hair. But I’m told chicks dig it, and it’s better than losing my hair, so I’m cool with it.
I’m having more trouble losing weight than I did just ten years ago, and it’s all settled in my gut, making me look like a beach ball with legs. Oh well.
I’m dealing with the fact that I am the father of a high-school senior. She still concedes that, as dads go, I’m pretty cool, and I don’t have to watch my language so much around her, and I can make more adult-type jokes and she appreciates them. And her friends think I’m one of the cool dads, too. So that’s not so bad.
But when she came home from the first day of school and told me her Physics teacher looks like Sandra Bullock, I started to really, really look forward to Parents Night.
Hard ain’t it. I now answer my phone with “Hi this is Dougs (my teenager) party line”. The phone is never for me. Yesterday I was in the grocery store and there were a bunch of teenaged girls in front of me. My first thought was that “geez, they should go put some clothes on.” I can’t even remember how many times I’ve begun a sentence “When I was your age…”
No, no, Dave, you’re young! A mere spring chicken. A babe in arms, a callow youth. I mean, hey, I’m older than you, so if you’re old, I may as well start ordering headstones…
I think Sandra Bullock is great and very underrated. So there. The Offspring says her Am. Lit. teacher looks like Donald Duck BUT her Math teacher looks like Brad Pitt. So when’s Parents’ Night…?
What really makes me feel old is that one of my teachers is a young hot surfer dude with an arm tattoo. Going back to school at this age is ill-advised.
Didn’t you say you were gonna go back to school yourself?
Hmmmm…
Also, to samclem, I can absolutely appreciate Sophia Loren, and if Sakura had told me her Physics teacher looked liked the Italian Siren, I’d be looking forward to 'Rents Night just as much.
Hell, if I were told she looked like Betty Bacall in Key Largo, or like Josephine Baker, I’d be drooling.
Okay, the fact is, in spite of feeling old, I just like good-lookin’ wimminz. There, I said it.
When you stop liking good looking wimminz/ menz.
That makes you old.
My uncles 90th birth-day party was when I noticed this. He was looking over his grand sons date and commented to me “At that age, my wife looked better, hell she looks better now”. He’s still young
Heh, I am in the same boat! My ex just told my daughters’ teacher (3rd grade) is a tall blonde hottie. Parents night is on the 19th and I’m ever so looking forward to it:)
