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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLOL...I'm old.
Here's how I started three of my posts from just this morning...two of them in the same thread!
"When I was a kid..."
"When I was younger..."
"When I was a teenager..."
Arkansas Granny
(31,535 posts)I had an experience recently that really brought it home to me. I went to a liquor store with my granddaughter and she didn't get carded.
(In all fairness, she had gone to school with the cashier, so he already knew her age.)
sarge43
(28,946 posts)"It's not my grey hair that bothers me; it's my children's."
Arkansas Granny
(31,535 posts)Iggo
(47,574 posts)CincyDem
(6,404 posts)"Back in the day..."
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,879 posts)Iggo
(47,574 posts)Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Back when I was just old, we used to have to hike uphill in the snow to talk to our elders about when we were young, and we were thankful to do it. If not for that hike, we'd never have gotten a chance to kill and eat the dinosaurs. You kids today, with your cooked food! It spoils you, I tell you.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)sarge43
(28,946 posts)3catwoman3
(24,055 posts)...years ago), being a bit take aback when I realized that I could speak of something that happpened 10 years ago, and I wasnt a kid when it happened.
Ive been a pediatric nurse practitioner for 42 years. At 40 years, I said, Gee, that sounds like a long time. Then I said, that doesnt just sound like a long time, that damn well IS a long time.