Even I remember 8 tracks Nessie, and I’m 21. We used to have an 8 track player in the old station wagon when I was really little. Another thing I remember, and people 4 years younger than me don’t is those Beta tapes. You know, the really fat ones, that gave horrible picture “quality?”
I’m 30 now. Two years ago I horribly threw out my knee while cavorting in Daytona Beach with a barely-18-year-old female. Clearly my aging body was too frail for the task at hand.
The knee still hurts quite often, and as I gimp around the razzing from friends and family has been relentless.
Ha! I have 78’s - and know someone with a wind-up machine that will play them. I have to say that I can’t wait until “Come On Eileen” is relegated to the trash-heap of music (any guesses about my name?)
The reason gentlemen prefer blondes is that there are not enough redheads to go around.
Back when I was teaching college classes we used to do an exercise where I would draw a timeline on the board and have students fill in various life “milestones” as part of a discussion of development. It was marked with the decades of a person’s life and each student had to think of a milestone and put it in it’s appropriate place. One semester a student chose “midlife crisis”–and he put it at 30. (I was 31 at the time. Whew–glad I got that out of the way.) The years between 40 and 65 were always left almost totally blank.
the biggest time when I feel old is when I am worried or upset/stressed about something, with my job it takes a lot out of you emotionally and physically. You can never go into work tired cause working with geriatrics you always have to be on guard when you are ambulating them incase of loss of balance. when i get home from work some nights I feel loike I am 100
In '97, when Star Wars Episode Four was being rereleased, one of my coworkers said that this would be his first time seeing it in a theater. I asked why, and he said, “Because I wasn’t born till the next year.” I busted out laughing. All my life I had been lorded over by the everlasting baby boomers and their Beatles this and Woodstock that, and finally, I got to say I was there when someone else wasn’t. He wasn’t offended, fortunately, and I wasn’t mocking him; I was just caught off guard because what went around had finally come around.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
My first year of college physics I had the joy of telling the professor that I had taken the course before, though he didn’t remember me, and I didn’t remember him…my mother had him as a teacher when she was pregant with me…in fact he used to joke with her about her getting out of the final by going into labor during the test. I later worked for him, was a cool boss.
I feel old every time I price computer equipment…remember all to clearly having to scrape $400 together to buy half a meg of ram for my A500.
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