How’re you doing?
I had a facebook friend request from an old friend and we started looking for more of our elementary school class to put together a reunion. We have about a dozen people on the list now. I started thinking back and realized that we all started kindergarten together in 1958…
Benny Hill is being rerun on WGN’s subchannel 9.2 (aka Antenna TV) here in Chicago. I was watching it and waiting to see the few things I remember from when I last saw it. Then I realized that was the late 70s. Over 30 years ago. 
This winter my husband was out of town and I was shoveling my driveway. A car full of young men pulled up and one asked if I’d pay them $20 to do the drive and walk. I usually refuse but that was really cheap, so I said yes. They all jumped out and started shoveling like madmen. I kept working and one of them said “you can let us do it; we’re young.” Damn, that was harsh. They were done in less than 10 minutes and were on to somebody else’s house.
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Whatever flavor-of-the-month actress, including Angelina Jolie, are young enough to be my daughters.
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A movie run on cable TV will often be one I distinctly remember standing in line for at the movie theater, often being sold out, back in my dating days. And here it is how many years later and that must-see movie is on TV in the middle of the night!
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Corollary: Marvel comic characters on t-shirts in department stores. I was into reading Marvel comics in my young teens, and here I am later in life, and my childhood interest is still relevant.
This is a sign of progress, not your age 
Teaching a college class and every year seeing the students look younger, and younger, and younger…
Noticing beautiful actresses and models who were born while I was already in college.
Grayer hair and a thicker waistline.
My 14-year-old keeps me up to date with current music. He plays snippets of stuff for me that he thinks I might like, and about a third of the time, he’s right. I like to think my iPod has more new music than most other 46-year-old dads’. I’m hip, dammit!
You?
Another thread just mentioned Abigail and Brittany Hensel. I googled them to see how those two little girls I remember reading about were doing today.
They’re 21.
Damn.
I think what makes me feel old is the implication that I’m not supposed to like hip, current music just because I’m old. I went to Lollapallooza last year… with several other 40-something friends. We were very much focused on the newer bands rather than the ones we saw in the clubs 15 years ago.
I might be an old fogey in a lot of other ways, but it has always been important to me to stay current with music. There’s so much that’s so new and fresh out there; I’d hate to be the kind of person who has to turn off my ears just because a bit of music was created after I was graduated from college. Think of all the terrific music I could have shorted myself from enjoying if I thought I was “too old” (for Lady Gaga, for example. Who I’m not all that fond of. But I do have some of her music on my iPod.)
This morning I had to limber up for several minutes by stretching and bending – just to be flexible enough to cut my toenails and put on my pantyhose.
That brings up another age-related issue. Apparently, only old women wear pantyhose or knee-hi’s nowadays. The young 'uns don’t.
Bless you.
Wow, never heard of them before. Fascinating story: Abby and Brittany Hensel - Wikipedia
Dogzilla, I have some Lady Gaga on my iPod, too. Us old farts’ve gotta stick together.
[any old person from the last 100 years]
“Kids today, the hair, the music, I don’t know.”
[/any old person from the last 100 years]
Yeah, I’ve got a bunch of brand new shiny stuff on my iPod that the 20-somethings I work out with have never heard of. They come to* me* to find out what’s new. Keep on rockin’ it! 
It’s not so much the gray that bothers me, it’s the texture of these hairs. They are not like the others. They break off easy and “stand out” from the rest. I often find myself plucking the wild, stray gray out when I’m watching TV. <TMI> The few grays on my head are like this too.
Having my niece ask me about my life and then realizing she is writing a school report on “the past”
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[li]Talking about Seinfeld to youngsters today is like when my mom told me about Fibber McGee and Molly on the radio when she was young.[/li]
[li]Oh, and explaining Truman & Potsdam to my kid for his history study and having him ask if I was around then…um, no…[/li][/ol]
I just started a new job last week, and my client has required me to have the general checkup required by Spanish Labor Law at the end of any new job and once a year after that. Today I went to get the results of the analysis they did last week, and to see the doc and nurse for their parts of the checkup.
I am in very good health
for my age :smack:
(The checkup is at the start of any new job… but I do think this isn’t a sign of senility. Yet. It’s just my usual level of brainfarts, right. Right?)