except there hasn’t been a generation gap in music. My kids listen to more or less the same stuff I do.
An older friend tells me that when he was a kid there wasn’t a generation gap. Everyone listened to more or less the same music. Then Rock&Roll happened, and there was. The best theory I’ve heard for this is that the real “gap” is between electrically amplified music and acoustic instruments. People who grew up with loud instruments played as they are never were happy with amplified quieter instruments.
Maybe. But every music player I’ve ever used on my phone knows about albums and plays them in order. Most also do play lists – in order.
My current Android music player is Rocket Player, which I use because it’s compatible with iTunes. I used to use Vanilla Music, which also understands albums. I avoid (and disabled) Google’s default music app because I have recordings by several friends, and when I type their name in the google bar, I want to get their phone number, not a recording of them. But I thought it did albums, too.
They all have an option to play in random order, though.
However hard I try, though the screen be as bright as I can make it, I can’t see much of anything on my screen when I’m outside in the sun. Do people not go outside anymore?
You never expect the Old Man Truck when it comes out of nowhere suddenly and runs you over. A week or two ago I went to Supercuts for a hair and mustache trim. I’d never met this haircutter before, and she seemed to be well into the early years of middle age. When it was over, she wasn’t sure about how much to charge me. “What do you usually get?”, she asked. I thought she meant did I get a full haircut, or just a trim, seeing as how there’s nothing to cut except at the back of my head. But no, she meant, did I take a senior discount? And I’m still two years too young! Their eligibility age is 60 in case you’re wondering.
I tuck my shirt in. I sometimes wear white Reeboks. I know I look old to teens and twentysomethings, and that’s fine. But now I look old to middle aged people!
So…you think teens can perceive your age…but not people of middle age? What? Why would you believe such a thing? If a teenager knows you’re almost 60, why on earth wouldn’t anyone else?
Guessing people’s ages isn’t easy. Being off by only two years is actually a pretty good guess, I think! And she was looking to get you a possible discount? The horror! The horror!
Besides, if you think about it, she wasn’t sure, so she was saying “If you are 60, you don’t look it.”
Before I had a baby, I looked younger than I was. Not too much, but sometimes I got carded in my 30s. Getting carded in your 30s is really no compliment, because I know people are thinking “I’ll give the woman a thrill by carding her.” Yeesh. However, once when I was 34, literally twice 17, someone at Walmart asked me if I was old enough to buy an R-rated movie. That really upset me, because it made me think “How badly dressed am I?” I started trying to be a little less of a slob after that.
Now I’m 49 and look 52, no matter what I wear, so it’s all good.
To a teenager anyone over thirty five is old, but it doesn’t usually mean they can guess within a year or two. I’m sure when I was that young I couldn’t have told fifty from sixty. Likewise with the haircutter, I’m obviously older than she, but I didn’t think by that much. Of course as you say it’s tough to guess ages and she might have been anywhere from forty to fifty herself.
I think most people would prefer to seek the discount than have it offered, in any retail transaction where the other party is a human being. In cases where you have to show your ID, like when buying train tickets, that’s different as they simply apply the discount automatically.
At least my recent experience wasn’t as disheartening as a few years ago when, as an infrequent rider of L.A.'s bus system, I had to ask the driver how much, whereupon he pointed out the senior discount–about ten years too soon!
Give her a break. She probably had recently gotten chewed out for not giving it to someone who didn’t specifically ask but was say, 70, so she was looking for round-about ways of asking anyone who looked over 45.
My mother is 75 and just barely looks 65. When she was 65, if she’d told you she was 50 you’d have believed her. She always comes out and announces that she wants the senior discount, or she’d never get it, because no one wants to offer it to a woman and be wrong.
I am laughing my head off (in a good way) by all you double-space-after-a-period people.
I have never done that because it stopped being taught in the 1980s, but I see many of you are younger than I am and still doing it
The goatee/van dyke is guaranteed to make you look old. My wife keeps wanting me to grow one – I used to have at the turn of the century – but I tell her that it’ll make me look like I’m 20 years older than I really am.
I never think of a van dyke as a sign of old age. On the contrary, it’s the single instance of facial hair that I like (I like it a lot). Now mustaches seem like something only men of a certain age would wear.
I think of facial hair as a sign of (old) age only insofar as it’s gone white. When that does happen then it’s something the wearer has to deal with, as a matter of personal taste. I like goatees in general and wore one for many years, but got rid of it after it had turned snowy white. I think on 99% of guys a grey or white beard is going to make them look at least ten years older; paradoxically, a naturally dark/blond beard can have the opposite effect as it may vaguely suggest youthful associations, say a recent connection with academia as a grad student.
I’m not blaming her personally; after all, she herself is not the Old Man Truck.
As I got into my late thirties and beyond I was like your mother. Nearly everybody thought I was at least ten years younger, and I thought when I became eligible for senior discounts, i.e. reaching the age of sixty or sixty-five depending, that I too would have to ask.
A grey ponytail. My brother-in-law has always been very touchy about his age and has worn his hair long for decades. I’ve never asked, but I assume it’s because he thought it made him look younger. Maybe it did when his hair was brown. Now that it’s grey he looks like a try-hard.
