# Well, another year down the drain **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207 "2007-04-22T21:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/41 "2007-04-23T21:26:06Z")
Add my congratulations to the heap up above. And I have to ask – what’s that crazy wimple she’s wearing in the older photo? ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/42 "2007-04-23T21:44:32Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/43 "2007-04-23T22:09:12Z")
[QUOTE=lavenderviolet] Wow, 63 years is quite an accomplishment! Big congratulations. Any pointers for the rest of us? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Benjamin Franklin’s receipe was to keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. That wimple was a hat with a turned down brim. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/44 "2007-04-23T22:26:20Z")
Are those aviator wings above your left breast pocket? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/45 "2007-04-23T23:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=Encinitas] mmmmm…I love a man in uniform! [/QUOTE] Woo, so do I! Seriously though, you two are a great-looking couple then and now, and hearty congratulations to you both. I can only hope my husband and I will be together for as long. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/46 "2007-04-24T02:58:35Z")
Add me in with the congratulations, that is some serious commitment – and a fine looking couple you make in both pics, Sir. Cheers! **A.R. Cane** : IIRC, **Simmons** flew medium bombers in the European Theater. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/47 "2007-04-24T03:24:54Z")
Congratulations, so very wonderful to have that longevity! What’s the most strange thing y’all have seen come to pass in these-a-days? Honestly, I want to know, because the world seems so very speeded up to my 45 year old self, and I likeyo hear the perspective of wiser people. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/48 "2007-04-24T06:22:12Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] Are those aviator wings above your left breast pocket? [/QUOTE] Yup. I was a brand new 2nd Lieutenant having been graduated from the aviation cadet program five days previously. > [@elelle](#): > > What’s the most strange thing y’all have seen come to pass in these-a-days? > > Honestly, I want to know, because the world seems so very speeded up to my 45 year old self, and I likeyo hear the perspective of wiser people. I’ll have to think about this a little. Right now I really can’t think of anything I would call strange. The present seems to have arisen reasonably out of the past at every stage along the way. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/49 "2007-04-24T07:37:25Z")
I’m highly impressed. Congrats. You’re a great couple. I’m determined to try to restore respect for the seniors in our society, and you’re one of the many reasons why. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/50 "2007-04-24T07:58:43Z")
Congrats to the OP - 63 years of marriage is one hell of an achievement. [QUOTE=jjimm] I’m determined to try to restore respect for the seniors in our society [/QUOTE] I agree with the general sentiment, but I can see a real problem with your specific case. Why should the youth of tomorrow have to like you any more than your contempories of today 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/51 "2007-04-24T11:55:11Z")
63 years! With the same person? I gots to know one thing (and you can ask your wife this:) Are you trained yet? I love the newlywed picture of the two of you. It looks like she has some kind of thumb cracking grip on you, boy and you aren’t exactly fighting it. 🙂 Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/52 "2007-04-24T18:04:40Z")
[QUOTE=Gary Kumquat] I agree with the general sentiment, but I can see a real problem with your specific case. Why should the youth of tomorrow have to like you any more than your contempories of today 😉 [/QUOTE] Why, you cheeky young… er I mean… get off my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/53 "2007-04-25T01:09:32Z")
Many congratulations to both of you! What a great-looking couple you are! ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/54 "2007-04-25T02:01:40Z")
Congratulations David. That is a wonderfully cheering post. And here’s to many more happy years down the drain. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207/55 "2007-04-25T16:35:19Z")
I’ll just resurrect this long enough to thank everyone for their comments. “Some say” that writer Ring Lardner had a little sign on his desk reading: “The years slip by easily. It’s the days that are tough.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-another-year-down-the-drain/401207.md?page=2)