Well, THIS makes me feel old...

[RandyS]

My father turns 70 next week and it's really making ME feel old. I'm used to thinking of my parents as middle-aged. My very definition of middle age has always been whatever age my parents currently are.

But 70 suddenly seems much much older than 69. It makes me realize that in a few years I'll be crossing into my 40s. Then I'LL be middle-aged. Ouch.

Ah, don't sweat it. I did it three years ago and survived. So will you. it doesn't hurt.

Much.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Punks. I was born when Eisenhower was president.

Ditto.

You know what really makes you feel old, when people who grew up in eighties or later start feeling old . . . .

I could make cracks about your ages, but I used to be married to an Eisenhower-era-born baby boomer. I've since considered myself to be a baby-boomer-in-law.

On a related note, having been accustomed to being a grand-uncle many times over by marriage softened the impact when I became one by biology a couple of years ago.

 

[Greg Cox]

Punks. I was born when Eisenhower was president.

Ditto.

You know what really makes you feel old, when people who grew up in eighties or later start feeling old . . . .

I could make cracks about your ages, but I used to be married to an Eisenhower-era-born baby boomer. I've since considered myself to be a baby-boomer-in-law.

On a related note, having been accustomed to being a grand-uncle many times over by marriage softened the impact when I became one by biology a couple of years ago.

I'm reminded of a funny-sad exchange on Frasier several years ago. Frasier is trying to cope with the realization that he's middle-aged.

"How do you think I feel?" his dad asked. "I have a son who is middle-aged."

 

[Velocity]

I learned to use a slide rule in high school chemistry class, but practically the next year in college everyone had handheld calculators and slide rules went the way of shoe button hooks. Yes, I was born in the 50's and just retired from my job which is one of the best things about getting older.