What makes you feel old?
POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Monday, August 7, 2006 03:30
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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
I felt old just reading that!
Your post was very heavy.
I'm sorry. I tried to keep it under 5g.
But seriously, I was just amazed that out of nowhere, something could make me lock my mind into a specific time and realize just how much of it has slipped through my fingers. (Metaphorically of course)
While I'm not a member of the "Over the Hill Gang" (only 34 here), I always get floored when I notice the jumps in my chronological memory.
While my daughter will always be my little baby, every now-and-then I look at her and marvel at how much she's changed over the years and wonder where I was when it happened.
Such is life I suppose!
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Quote:You're in the wrong group to be calling something like that odd - we'd wonder what was odd.
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
For me, oddly enough, it's cartoons. DUCK TALES, TAIL SPIN, DARKWING DUCK, CHIP AND DALE RESCUE RANGERS, BONKERS, GOOF TROOP, the various spin offs of the early 90's Disney movies, ANIMANIACS, PINKY AND THE BRAIN, FREAKAZOID and the best of them all, BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES.
For me, it's every time someone calls me "ma'am."
Fellas, young and old, take my advice. Whether she's got white hair or dark, always call a girl either "miss," or "lady" as appropriate. The lady with the white hair will giggle at you and correct you to the fact that she's been married however many years, but I guarantee you, she will blush.
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Originally posted by Channain:
Fellas, young and old, take my advice. Whether she's got white hair or dark, always call a girl either "miss," or "lady" as appropriate. The lady with the white hair will giggle at you and correct you to the fact that she's been married however many years, but I guarantee you, she will blush.
You're absolutely right.
Along those lines, about 10 years ago I used to drive a van for senior citizens (most of them near 90, and most of them female). They used to get a kick out of it when they'd complain about an ache or something, and I'd tell them, "If you think it's bad now, wait until your MY age." Granted, I could've been the grandson of any of them, but they would laugh and enjoy it just the same.
And I was never so embarrassed as one hot summer day I was driving an elderly woman who was wearing a heavy winter coat. I was in short sleeves and shorts, and dying from the heat, and I looked at her and said, "Mrs. So and So, you're making me hot just looking at you in that coat."
Well, she took that she was making me "hot" not in the way I'd intended it, and everyone around had a good laugh.
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Quote:Exactly - Just keep in mind that they're only old on the outside. On the inside, they're still 21 and fearless.
Originally posted by cartoon:
Well, she took that she was making me "hot" not in the way I'd intended it, and everyone around had a good laugh.
Oh, no wait - that's my Dad. Mom's more like 29 forever. They're both in their 70s, though, looking around at all their friends and wondering a little bit about who all those old people are.
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Originally posted by Channain:
Mom's more like 29 forever. They're both in their 70s, though, looking around at all their friends and wondering a little bit about who all those old people are.
My Mom will be 70 this November, and I wish she acted 29. She's more like 14 -- which is frightening.
For the sake of space, I'll skip the story about how she got hurt on a trampoline 2 years ago.
Even I (the fool) knew better than to get on that thing, and I'm in my 40's.
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Quote:See, that's what happens. They get to a certain age and end up in complete denial of their geratric circumstance. Your mom and my dad should talk.
Originally posted by cartoon:
My Mom will be 70 this November, and I wish she acted 29. She's more like 14 -- which is frightening.
For the sake of space, I'll skip the story about how she got hurt on a trampoline 2 years ago.
Even I (the fool) knew better than to get on that thing, and I'm in my 40's.
Difference between us and them is that we've figured out we're not immortal after all. They used to think that too, only now with their lapse in memory, they forgot.
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Do you remember when Mannix wasn't a private investigator? He originally was employed by some kind of spy/detective agency called "Intertect" and his boss was played by Frank Campanella (who, in turn, ended up portraying the ex-husband of Bonnie Franklin's character on "One Day at a Time" (featuring Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie [Van Halen] Bertinelli)).
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'When a candidate ... faces the voters, he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men [who] ... are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental--men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.'— H.L. Mencken, in The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920
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Nostalgic and retospective?
I'll get back to ya.
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When a student says " hey my mom is your age." I teach jr. high (13-15 age group in case you're not American)It used to be when they said that it meant their mom was a teen pregnancy stat...now it means their mom was like 20....argh!
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Yes, I remember Dark Shadows-used to run home from school to watch it only to run out of the TV room (yes, we called it that back then) screaming and laughing with fright and thrills.
I remember Mike Conners as Mannix, too-ultra cool guy and standing in a long line at the movie theater to see Jaws and looking at every wave at the beach that summer to see if a shark was there.
BTW what really made me feel old was the mail this week. My daughter got her invitation to the Senior Breakfast the first day of school to kick off her senior year in high school. She can also vote in the next election for President so I'm feeling ultra old right now.
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