The fly thought himself a big-shot
But Eddy, most certainly not.
His horse would just neigh,
when it got in the way
but Eddy would give him a swat.
Last year I took my husband horseback riding in Poland. It was his first time, and he didn’t know what he was doing. He kept getting left behind because he didn’t want to kick the horse to make it go. So his horse just wandered around the woods on its own, eating leaves and stuff. Now, when he talks about it, he tells everyone he galloped like the wind.
One time I hadn’t been riding for about three years and I went on a three hour trail ride. 
ow ow ow
I haven’t ridden a horse in at least…oh…a zillion years. Not since I was 9 or 10.
My, the years do seem to go by quickly. I’m almost 30, and I’m feeling very old.
My oldest turned 17 earlier this week. That makes me feel old.
What made me feel old a few years ago, was hearing that a certain cousin of mine had gotten married. I remember when she was a baby.
Don’t know why that struck me. Maybe because I am 31 and not yet married myself.
Yeah, RotorHead–I know what you mean. I have friends who’ve been married for a good 5 years or so. I’m still single, though. Which my mother reminds me about. Often.
(Actually, to her credit, she also praises me for not having been dumb enough to get caught in a lousy marriage. But she says she’d like to see me with a good SO, and she wants grandchildren out of me.)
Yanno, now that we’re talking about it, being married 19 years makes me feel old too, but I’m not even ten years older than RotorHead yet. (Heh, never will be either. 
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Well, Scribble, I’m not terribly worried about it. I have had the opportunity several times, but certain things are non-negotiable. I would rather be alone and lonely than married and lonely. Know what I mean?
My mother never bugged me about that. But I was visiting a great aunt a few years ago, who was 97 years old at the time, (just turned 100!) and she pointed her finger at me and reprimanded me for not getting married yet. What can you say to that? I had to just smile.
Abby, one other advantage you have over me: percentage-wise, you are aging more slowly than I am. One year from now, I will have aged 3.2%, while you will have aged less than that.
And the advantage you have over me is that you understand it and I don’t. :o
Taking aging over the course of one year, as a percentage of the total years you have aged since birth. I’m 31 now, so in one year I will be 32, which is an increase of 3.2%. 
Sorry, Abby, I’m a math and physics kind of guy. I’ll try to refrain in the future.
RotorHead–I’m not too worried about it myself. Actually, my mom’s pretty reasonable about the whole thing. My grandma, on the other hand–don’t get me started.
Incidentally–I started off as a physics major. I had an argument over a homework problem (I was a total geek and hadn’t yet learned to pick my battles. Take that back–I hadn’t yet learned that sometimes there’s simply no battle to be had, no matter how annoyed I get) and switched to philosophy.
Oh, I’m not upset.
TeenSthrnAccent is a math and physics kind of guy too. When he gets excited about numbers or talks about sin cos graph whatevermajacallits, I just smile and think how cool it is to raise someone smarter than myself.
He’s got to do a physics project soon, I asked is there anything to do with physics with your wakeboarding as examples and he went off into mathchatter talking about arcs and stuff.
I was a physics major for a while, but I decided late, so changed my mind, just wanting to finish school as quickly as possible. I was a bit cynical toward the whole system by that point. So I took a religion major, because I calculated that it would get me out the fastest. (I already had plenty of classes in that).
But my geek side comes through. A few years ago, I read an entire physics textbook for pleasure. I have an advanced aerodynamics/ engineering book I am trying to work through right now, but I had forgotten all my calculus, so in my spare time, I re-read a calculus textbook.
So what did you end up doing with that religion degree? Just asking out of curiosity. Heaven only knows (sorry–puns like that pop up spontaneously for me) that my philosophy degree didn’t seem to be leading to much.
What makes me feel old is knowing that my friend Sarah is going to get married… and she’s three years younger than I am! :eek:
Now, if people I knew as babies were getting married… that would make me feel ancient.
F_X
Uh, Scribble, that is a strange story. I was in sales for a while, and discovered that I was good, but despised it. For a little while, I was in construction management as a project safety manager, then as an architectural superintendent. Now I am a pilot and working in my spare time on an entrepreneurial project.
Scribble, you hit on the main problem about college; the one that opened my eyes a bit. Most bachelor degrees don’t prepare you to do anything. Experience and pursuit of what you really want, are more important. My business partner never even attended college, but his experience and desire are far more beneficial than any degree.