You Know You're Getting Older When...

[Ole_Goat]

Each of us has (or will have) an epiphany that we are in the midst of transforming from 20 somethings into a generation as old as our parents used to be.
For many of us it is getting (needing) our first bifocals or reading glasses. For me, it was spotting an historic licsence plate on a vehicle (1966 Malibu) I remember seeing in the dealership showrooms. A couple of years later, this was reinforced while visiting the Henry Ford Museum and seeing several vehicles on display dating from the 1960's & 70's as if they were rare artifacts. An age were radios were Am, Optional equipment and pushbutton, 8 trac Tape decks were still a futuristic item and Gasoline was sold in only 2 grades - Regular and Eythol and cost 24 and 26 cents a gallon.

My question is what is/has been your epiphany? That our parent's generation had been replaced by us?

[MikeE]

I was talking with some co-workers. One of the younger co-workers responded to my comment with the question, "What's Woodstock?"

[kissya]

Someone, once asked me what an 8-track tape player was. He said he figured I would know because I was old. :(

[Ole_Goat]

Heard someone say they didn't know Paul McCartney wasn't always a single act. After thinking about for a short time, he suddenly remembered "Oh Ya!, it was Wings".

I'm beginning to wonder if the "Kids" of today are as aware of the way things were 30 years ago as we were at their age. When I was 15, I was not only aware of silent movies but who were the stars of the era. Last year my nephew brought over a friend of his. This "kid" was about 18 years old. The friend not only never seen or know anything about silent movies but never even heard of Laurel and Hardy. I did my part, before he left, he watched "Big Business" and a couple other silent L&H shorts.

I hope I'm wrong but at least in these couple examples, there seems to be a clear demarcation line. Nothing remotely interests them that came before their life time.

[Ole_Goat]

Someone, once asked me what an 8-track tape player was. He said he figured I would know because I was old. :(


Hope you hit him with your walker.

[wyldwynd]

The friend not only never seen or know anything about silent movies but never even heard of Laurel and Hardy. This happened over ten years ago,,,but I have a laurel and hardy doll, and this lil kid seen them and said, oh jake and the fat man. lol

[themnax]

i never knew my grand parents. i met my mother's mother. once.
i'm of the generation that is now older then i remember my parents being.
people who are parents now and the age my parents were,
wern't even born yet when most of the big things in the world in my life were going on;
kennidy being nominated, man on the moon, nixxon and 'nam, the whole 'hippie' scene.

as for paul maccartney in a band before wings, i heard THAT ONE almost thirty years ago.

getting married for the first time, after i know longer gave a dam about sex, i guess that would qualify as the kind of moment you describe.

i once feared that before i turned 30 i would be stuck in a time loop and have to keep living my same less then 30 years over and over again. thank the love of nontangable spirits i was spared that hellatious misfortune.

i remeber being amazed that anyone could ever be as old as i am now, and i've still got another 20 years to go before i turn 80. hope i live to see it.

i'd give anything to see what a grandly wonderful world this could be, and hopefully someday will, when people stop putting trying to impress each other ahead of permitting and encouraging each other to create and explore.

it really doesn't matter about my own age or anyone else's other then that.

=^^=
.../\...

[denimstar]

I used to laugh at my Mother because her arm wasn't long enough. It wasn't so funny when it happened to me & I had to get reading glasses. Thinking that old people (40) didn't have sex. That was a totally disgusting thought. Life is all a wonderful process & now we are the teachers.

[Meagain]

I remember open deck 4 tracks....before 8 tracks.

[longhaircountryboy]

I think the first time I heard guns n roses or metallica on the "classic rock" station..my girl sayin"damn baby,your almost 30,I thought you were my age(23)"..or the best..my dad says last week.."so you'll be 25 this year?"I'm like no dad,I'll be 28..blew his mind lol..he said he was thinkin 26 but wasnt sure & didnt wanna make me feel old if he was wrong lmao.boy i'm teachin to play guitar never heard of betamax or coleco vision...dammit..been a lot of em lately.I feel like i'm fuckin geezin..cant even find a damn record player anymore

[Ole_Goat]

*smiling* Your geezin' at 28? Wait until your hairline is receeding higher on your scalp and eating leftover pizza for breakfast is no longer good nutrition.

[denimstar]

Don't blink your 30's will be gone. At what age can I be GEEEEZIN?

[themnax]

my realization of 'getting older', other then sometimes forgetting what i'm doing while i'm doing it, is that nixxon and nam were longer ago now, then wwii was when i was born.

i'm still having trouble getting my head arround that one.

=^^=
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[zeppelin kid]

In todays world you dont need to be going on 40 to realize your getting old. Technology is changing so quickly that even the most technologically sound person will be behind the times.

[themnax]

when the earliest childhood memories of everyone you know are of things that didn't even exist until you were over 30!

=^^=
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[erzebet1961]

you know your getting old when you actually remeber the Bee Gee's BEFORE disco

existed!!

[narec]

im getting older???????? really?


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[MikeE]

Used to go up the stairs two at at time, so I'd get to the top quickly.
Now I go up the stairs two at a time, so I bend my knees fewer times.

[erzebet1961]

When your kids ask you how it was" IN THE OLD DAYS'"

[Ole_Goat]

My consolation of all of these posts is someday, some little kid will look up at their parent(s) and exclaim "Whoa!...You remember a time before IPODS?"

[wichitarick]

hi
funny stuff but true. 8yr. old d.d. and I were in the thrift store and she got very ,extra excited and grabbed a dial up phone and said wow I know how to use this over and over and over really I do. oh boy lol.
my grandmother kept a black dial up for yrs and yrs you know why to be nostalgic ??NO becaise she liked it??NO ... "because it worked" lol.
the converse tennis shoes that I did,nt really like wearing ,then did, then did,nt
have come in and out of fashion 3 times in different colors since I was a kid ..thats a good sign.
checked just the basic t.v. commercials lately ??? you would have got your mouth washed with soap for this .
remember what hot wheels track was good for ???????????
were they still giving swats in school ?? with paddles made in woodshop??????
george carlins ..the 7 things you can,t say on t.v.????
my sister still has her 45,s my bro. still has over 1,000 albums
8tracks sucked.
but I still remember being thrilled by a guys reel to reel collection wow
first concert ???? what was it ??
charlie daniels band,marshall tucker band and pure paraire league at a fairgrounds wow. nostalgia ...
I won KISS tickets and would,nt go because it was dudes in makeup LOL .
I sold joints and the tickets in the parking lot lol.
politicians with long hair ??? wow.
tye die in wal mart wow.
they did,nt beat me up for painting my house pink and purple. wow .. but my dad and his wife would,nt help LOL LOL
I cut my hair because ???????? it was to damn hot at work WOW LOL . reality creeping in lol.
would love to have one of those v.w.,s back for yard art. LOL am serious and have you priced one wow I had 9 once most were free.
I need a bean bag for my bad back lol.
leather coats became cool wow.
hippie clothes in wal mart wow lol.
sister homeade clothes are 200$ per outfit in the antique mall for real wow.
peolple actually make a living faux painting . and they actually allow mural painting in WICHITA KS. wow.
liquor by the drink in KANSAS wow.... times do change trust me this state is last..
remember when the lottery was "GAMBLING" and secluded to a little spot in the desert that is now the fastest growing place in the country?
now the pres. buys tickets.
when you were hyper in school they punished you?? I do now they give you meds without asking first?????????? sorry that ones personal.
remember moms diet pills??? and sleeping pills because she was wired from the diet pills?? I do.
remember when it was a huge deal for a kid to drink coffee or tea??? I do now they have kids coffee drinks wow.
candy was outlawed in school totally ??? now they reward my kid with it without asking me ?????? wow.
if you were shopping at dav or sally for your kids clothes you were a bum now it is cool???
if you repainted all your furn, 2 colors with latex it was junk now they have cable shows to show you how ?? and I,ve sold some whitewashed pcs. for 4times what the original pc was worth ??? lol.
oh boy could go on and on fun .
"it,s not the crazy people you worry about.....it,s the ones that don,t know it..R.C.
thanks Rick

[dollydagger]

There are some kids that know nothing before their time.....but why didn't THEIR parents take the time to introduce them to things? My mom did. Every Saturday afternoon she would bust out her records and play Floyd or Fleetwood Mac....I have a great admiration for old music, movies, etc., and I owe that respect to my mom

[augidog]

...the guy in the mirror looks like your dad with a ponytail :eek:

[Ole_Goat]

A line from a George Harrison song (Wreck of the Hesperus): I'm getting as old as my mother....

[augidog]

yeah, but...You know what the difference is between my dad and me?
I make this look good. http://www.resellerratings.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_rofl.gif

[hippiejessica]

I've always been called an "old soul" and knew what everything from my parents' generation was. I was using a record player long before a CD player. In fact, I don't think we got our CD player until I was about 6 years old! And it was an "old" one from my uncle! I was so confused when we got it because I kept wanting to turn the CD over! Hahaha!

[Mouse47]

I've always been called an "old soul" and knew what everything from my parents' generation was. I was using a record player long before a CD player. In fact, I don't think we got our CD player until I was about 6 years old! And it was an "old" one from my uncle! I was so confused when we got it because I kept wanting to turn the CD over! Hahaha!
You really know how to make a person feel old -- I got my first CD player when I was 55!

[Columbo]

Damn - I just realised ! wow I'm getting old - I'm calling young people - them and they ! Damnation - and there was me at 18 years old I thought 26 was ancient and that I couldnt see myself living that long - now look at me - I've had more 21st and 34th birthdays than betty davies had cigarettes (no dont ask who betty davies was puleeez)

There are some kids that know nothing before their time.....but why didn't THEIR parents take the time to introduce them to things? My mom did. Every Saturday afternoon she would bust out her records and play Floyd or Fleetwood Mac....I have a great admiration for old music, movies, etc., and I owe that respect to my mom
PAH! Fleetwood Mac and you wonder why kids in their 20's know nothing - my mom used to bust out all the hip tunes of Offenbach and Strauss on the old 78rpm player If the needle broke we just used to tape a sparrow to the player arm for an hour, and put its beak on the record.
sparrows have died out have you noticed? Well in the UK theres none left - used to be Billions of em

[ametisti]

......when you have friendships old enough to drink.

[MikeE]

....you are older than a bottle of good wine.

[Commander Dander]

When I saw the anniversary re-airing of the "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" commercial - that really raised my eybrows, and seeing the 30 year anniversary commemoration of Star Trek really spooked me out, but what really woke me up was finding out that I was a contemporary of Albert Einstein.

[06thenewsummeroflove]

for me i know that im getting old when people i watch on reality shows are younger than me and i mumble damn kids under my breath. I'm 18 people is there a way to stop this rapid aging, maybe i just cant relate to my generation, but i think we can all agree that Laguna Beach must end.

PS-
if you dont know what laguna beach is... Yeah you're old.

[MikeE]

OK. How many of us buy a two CD set, look at the song list and think "side 1 and side 2"?

[dollydagger]

man...i still try to break myself from doing that!!!

how about when kids younger than you are dressing up as tv characters from shows that went off the air before they were born???
(and you would never miss the newest episode??)
i.e; dukes of hazard

[Gaston]

I'm still trying to break myself of calling them "albums".

[dollydagger]

i will always and forever call them albums....

[Ole_Goat]

I just read a news item tonight, Bob Barker is retiring from "The Price is Right". I remember seeing him on "Truth or Consequences" during the Vietnam War. Frequently the show would have a Soldier on leave and reunite them with a wife or close family member.

His hair wasn't totally white back then. I think it was brown.

[HonorSeed]

You Know You're Getting Older When...you get senile remembering the past. You Know You're Getting Younger When you start buying the same toys you had as a kid!

[subgoin]

Someone, once asked me what an 8-track tape player was. He said he figured I would know because I was old. :(

Old what ????? Just starting to be full woman

By the way:

Naughty naughty signature - bad bad girl

[subgoin]

This happened over ten years ago,,,but I have a laurel and hardy doll, and this lil kid seen them and said, oh jake and the fat man. lol

Hey, you are fine, super fine - that is for sure.

And also special - very special - who are you ?????
:&

[J0hn]

My epiphany had to be in the form of cassettes and videos. It seems that once upon a time i saw videos and cassettes being sold in HMV and Tesco and then suddenly a few years later, they are being sold in second hand shops or cash converters for less than the price of a mars bar.

[dollydagger]

finding atari video games being sold at a pawn shop for 30 cents a pop

[johnnybravo]

I was at Goodwill looking at record albums and a young girl about 8 years old asked what they were. I told her that records were how we listened to music before CD's were invented.

[johnnybravo]

Remember when Star Wars came out THIRTY years ago. Wow!! Hard to believe that classic is nearly 30 years old, and still a damn good movie. Like a premium wine, Star Wars improves with age, getting better with each viewing, and is a hell of a lot better than the Anakin Skywalker trilogy (Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith) could ever dream of being.

[dollydagger]

you know your getting old when....

you're sitting in class, and someone goes, "yeah, ten years ago, when I was in 3rd grade..." and youre sitting there going, "damn, I graduated high school ten years ago!"

[themnax]

when you realize that what over half the adult working population thinks of as history took place AFTER you turned 30!

that's the one the 'gets me'.

=^^=
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[feralfey]

I work in an antique store. All the time, I see things in there that I had when I was kid. That makes me laugh every time.

[Alaskan]

In my favorite tavern downtown, they have a large collection of memorabilia hanging on the walls. A young man, in his 30's was looking at a mug shot of "Steve McQueen"
taken after a DWI arrest in Anchorage in 1973.
He asked me is he was a mass murderer or something ? I named of a few of his movies, but he had never heard of them either...
Time for another cup of coffee, come on knees dont fail me now.......

[shaggie]

When you can remember when Saddam was a buddy of the U.S and Rummy was special envoy to Saddam and shaking hands with him.

When you talk with people in their 20s currently fighting in Iraq who weren't around when Saddam was a buddy of the U.S.

When you can remember all of the people in the GW Bush administration who were in the Nixon and Ford administration.

When you can remember when people complained about $100 hammers in the military and considered that the biggest government waste.

When you can remember the big national debt clock in NY when people actually cared about national debt.

When you can remember a time when there were no bossy SUVs on the road (and when a truck was called a truck, not an SUV for marketing purposes).

When you can remember when news stations reported news and entertainment channels did entertainment (now the 'news' channels are entertainment and people get their news from comedians such as Stewart)

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[whitlam]

you know your getting old when you can kick your own tits

[PAX-MAN]

remember when your dad told how he had to walk in the show to get to school , and now your tell your children , how you had to get up to turn the TV channels

[al-Hallaj Kabir Ali]

Being 61, nearly 62, I refuse to dignify this thread with an answer! LOL

[PAX-MAN]

you know your getting old when you can live with out sex but not your glasses

[tripoli]

It is a funny process, huh?

I just noticed a "silvery" patch of hair behind my temples today.

Kept trying to convince myself that it was just the play of the lights....

[Ole_Goat]

I use to have the same silvery patch behind my temples.

It spred like a rash, covering almost the entire sides of my head. Currently its attempting to overrun the top. Lucky for me, I'm also thinning out up there, so there'll be less hair to turn silver.

Another sign I just found out, just read of the passing of "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, original guitarist for the "Flying Burritto Bros.". I didn't know anything about their music, but I did hear of them while they were around.

It wasn't his age which surprised me, 72 years old, but the cause of death - Alzheimer's. He must be the first rock musician to die in this manner. Usually its drug overdoses, plane or motorcycle crashes.

[poor_old_dad]

You know you're getting older when...

You go see the new doctor in town and SHE's younger than your children.

Or you can remember that Vanna White was once HOT, but you can't remember when...

Or you remember wondering what it'd be like when men landed on the Moon...

Or what it'd be like when Elvis got out of the Army...

Or when... a... a... what was I going to say....

Oh well.

Peace,
poor_old_dad

[The_Walrus]

Damn, I already feel old and I'm only fifteen.
I have the mentality of an old man.

[MattInVegas]

Someone, once asked me what an 8-track tape player was. He said he figured I would know because I was old. :(
LMAO! I remember repairing those when the tape pulled out! I put an 8-track in my 1970 Olds Delta 88.

[ronald Macdonald]

you will know when you are getting old because your nob wont become erect even if you are bed with the hottest pair of tits in town

[IrishFreeRoller]

You know your getting old when

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me"

Means something to you :P

[PAX-MAN]

I knew were it was at, but then they moved it

[wyldwynd]

You know your getting older when your children tell you,,you have old fashioned first name.

[BeaTx]

It hit me when I was talking with a young adult that wasn't old enough to remember Regan getting shot.


(do any of you remember thinking it was SO cool to get one of those adapter things that allowed you to play a cassette through your 8-track player?) ;)

Peace and Love,
Bea

[shaggie]

When you can remember when triple-blade razors were a comedy sketch on the original Saturday Night Live and now they are real. Actually, triple is outdated now. I saw one that has four blades.

Like the old comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live said, "Why the triple blade? Because you'd buy anything." :)

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[Axis: Bold As Love]

...when you die.

[Alaskan]

Hit me last summer, when a kid was trying to tell me how to fish.
Thought to myself, the line on my reel is older than he is. Guess its time to load my reel with some new line.......

[BudBill]

Your broad mind has changed places with your narrow hips :)

[farmout]

You Know your gettin older when you start attending your high school peer's funerals..
:-(

[Michaela]

It's been brought to my attention twice; just this past year:

The first time was when I was in a check-out line in a store, and the kid at the register said to me cheerfully, "Senior discount, Ma'm?!" To which I said, "H__ No!!" (And, I'm frugal !) I immediately got out of the line and
went and checked out the hair color section.

The second time was when I was in a Rasputin Music Store to peruse their record album collection ... I asked the kid clerk, "Could you kindly direct me to your record section?"

The kid's eyes scanned the people around us, then took my elbow and very politely took me aside, and whispered in my ear, "Ma'm (that word again!) - we don't call them
'records' anymore - they're called 'vinyls' now.."

I was mortified - I felt so out of it! What a reality check!
Vinyls! You don't say! Yikes! When did that happen?!

I am now convinced that it's those youngsters that'll get you every time! The little darlings!


Sincere Regards, Michaela


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one that can't be broken."

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[deezee]

i was at a house of blues show last year. it was benefit and i thought most people were there to see the headliner like i was. turns out most of them were kids who were there to see the opening band who i thought were local and unknown. when the main act came on the kids around me all got confused. one guy turned to me and asked "who is this?". i had to sadly reply "elvis costello". to make matters worse the next day when at my local staples. another customer and i were discusing john lennon. the girl behind the counter sincerely had NO CLUE who john lennon was. when i said "you know john lennon..the beatles".she still was clueless because she THOUGHT she'd heard of the beatles but had never seen a picture of them.
it was a pretty depressing weekend for this old timer.

[420MAN]

I always thought they were called LPs and my 45's out # my LPs 25 to one and all of yellow centre piece so you play your 45s that cover the floor and your mother bitching at you to clean up

[Alaskan]

Feeling old, I'm older now than my dad was when he passed away.

The first time I saw VH1-TV.. about 20 years ago, I recall a phrase they used.
" Music for the generation who took acid to get it together, who now take antacid to keep it together". That about says it all.......

[young_deadhead]

i was at a house of blues show last year. it was benefit and i thought most people were there to see the headliner like i was. turns out most of them were kids who were there to see the opening band who i thought were local and unknown. when the main act came on the kids around me all got confused. one guy turned to me and asked "who is this?". i had to sadly reply "elvis costello". to make matters worse the next day when at my local staples. another customer and i were discusing john lennon. the girl behind the counter sincerely had NO CLUE who john lennon was. when i said "you know john lennon..the beatles".she still was clueless because she THOUGHT she'd heard of the beatles but had never seen a picture of them.
it was a pretty depressing weekend for this old timer.i met a girl who had never heard of the beatles either or the who. I couldnt believe it.

[Musikero]

You know you're getting older when:

you catch yourself thinking: "In the old days, nobody needed a cellphone to store phone numbers and addresses, take pictures, take videos, meet with friends, go on dates, act as alarm clocks, etc."

your earliest memory of a cellphone was a large bulky model that had an extendable antenna and flip cover.

the first time you used a computer the screen was black, the characters were green, and the floppy disk was big.

you complain to your boss that your establishment ought to stop using Windows 98 because it's been obsolete for the longest time, only to realize that the 98 stands for the year you turned eighteen.

you find out your high school principal is dead and most of your former teachers are retired.

you realize that your high school reunion is this year.

that hot, fresh-out-of-college high school teacher you've been fantasizing about for the longest time is now at least ten pounds heavier, married, and a mother.

Even the thin kids in your class are getting fat.

you're watching mtv and the vj introduces a classic rock song: Smells Like Teen Spirit.

you can still remember playing Pacman, Loderunner, Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt and Tetris.

[Freekowtski]

My epiphany had to be in the form of cassettes and videos. It seems that once upon a time i saw videos and cassettes being sold in HMV and Tesco and then suddenly a few years later, they are being sold in second hand shops or cash converters for less than the price of a mars bar.
Yeah, I find it harder to buy some. At least, there are those second hand shops and collectors markets, where I can find them!

[CalicoSilver]

When you think the font in magazines has gotten MUCH SMALLER than it was in the 70's .....

When you buy the biggest flat screen TV you can afford, and STILL CANT SEE IT FROM ACROSS THE ROOM ....

I'd say these were my first, not-so-subtle clues I perhaps was getting a bit long in the tooth ...

[NotDeadYet]

It first hit me that I was old when I saw a list of the current Top Ten songs and only recognized the names of two artists. I was already at the point where I could identify 90% of the songs on the Oldies stations within the first three notes.

[sunfighter]

I was at a party this week where a guy my age was trying to sell his extra Paul McCartney at Fenway Park ticket and he starts telling this story I've heard hundred times about mentioning "Elvis" to some young kid and the kid thought he meant "Elvis Costello" and I'm thinking, "Oh boy, it's much worse than that."

[farmout]

you realize that any child born during the Woodstock festival would be forty years old next month.....:-)

[Ole_Goat]

Totally forgot about this thread, but adding to it, I girl I knew in High School has gotten a partial hip replacement.

[caliente]

My question is what is/has been your epiphany?

I think I have lots of little epiphanies. One of them involves my kids ... they're 20 years old, university students, and one of the epiphanies that I find a bit amusing (although also annoying) is when their friends condescend to me, as if I'm too old to understand their mindset. Or worse, that I'm somehow the "enemy".

I think it's beyond their comprehension that I was once 20, too. Their world is different than mine was, of course, but they're not, and they don't get that.

What's more, they seem to want the "understanding" part to be one-way only. Their expectation is that anyone of their parents' generation has to put forth great effort to try and understand them, but that it doesn't go the other way.

The sex thing is funny, too. My two girls are cool about it ... the three of us have always been very open about discussing sexuality, so they have no problem with me having a sex life.

But again, their friends seem to think that they invented sex, and someone my age couldn't possibly have any knowledge or insight on the subject. Now how funny is that? ... LOL

[DaveHT]

Ear and nose hair. A few years ago it started to grow. At the same speed as my beard.

Last year was my 20 year high school reunion to remind me I was old, even though I didn't attend.

In a few months it will be official that I have joined the old timers, my big four-oh. I just hope that my next decade will be better than the one I am just finishing.

[stoneRah]

having a hand full of memories to look back on, and wishing i could've lived my teens differently made me realized im an old geezer.

[blackcat666]

posting a thread in this sub fourm, on remembering the late night movie spook show; and to my horror finding out, i'm the only person here, who had a childhood.

the other day i was in target (a department store chain in the u.s.a.)
a woman in her mid or late twenties, ask the sixteen year old looking guy who work that department, 'where do you all keep the cd players?'
the guy look funny at her and said, 'what's a cd?'
man, that woman and i, we both felt older then dirt!

[MaccaByrd]

There was a time when there weren't any fads for me to look back on. There are tons now. And a time when I didn't feel protective of people younger than me.

Those are my only real contributions.

[Alternative_Thinker]

When people think I'm weird for acting a certain way, LOL.