Conference quark::human_relations-v1

    My brother relayed a story to me along these lines.  He
    is an attorney (late 30's) and his young secretary came
    into his office to say that a Mr. Roy Rogers was waiting
    in the lobby.  Not to let a humorous opportunity pass him
    by, he said "Did he bring Trigger?"  She just looked at him
    with a blank stare and made him feel really old!!
    
    Helaine

    That reminds me of a report my 8 year old daughter wrote on
    dinosaurs...
    
    According to Erin, dinosaurs roamed the earth for thousands of years
    with the last one being seen in 1945.  I was born in 1947.  Does
    this make me old or what?
    
    
    :)Barb

    
    
    Billy Crystal has a funny line, you know your getting
    older when your kids ask you if Paul McCathey was in another
    group besides Wings.
    
    Kathi
    

    
    
    re: .3
    
    My ex and I were talking about the Beatles one day when my
    17 year old ex brother-in-law walked in.  He actually did
    say, "Oh, the Beatles...wasn't that the group Paul McCartney
    was in before Wings?"  I couldn't believe he was serious!
    
    Nanci

I hate to break it to you, but according to current youth, if you can even
remember "Wings", you're history... :-)

Jim.

    I was in California earlier this week on business but had the chance
    to spend a couple of hours with my sister and nephew.  I'd not seen
    my nephew in 3-1/2 years.  My sister told him that morning that
    Aunt Pattie would be here when he go home from school.  He was excited
    and was telling all his friends at the bus stop that Aunt Pattie
    was coming to visit.
    
    My sister and I walked to the bus stop to greet Nicholas. When he
    got off he quietly asked my sister, "Who's that?"  She told him
    it was Aunt Pattie.  We got back to the house, I went to freshen
    up and when I came out my sister was laughing.  Nicholas was in
    another part of the house.  She said "while you were freshening
    up, Nicholas asked 'Mom, now who is that again?'  I told him it
    was Aunt Pattie.  Well he looked me straight in the eye and said,
    'I thought she'd be OLD.' ".  Guess he figures all aunts should
    have white hair as the only ones he's ever seen were my and my sisters
    aunts who had white hair.
    
    P.
    

    
    
    A few years ago I went to the Monkee's (singing group of the 60's)
    concert.  It was their 25th anniversary tour.  I grew up
    with their shows and albums and had always wanted to go to
    their concert.  
    
    Well anyway, they were alot of young kids there.  This one boy
    was so excited, he was carrying all the album plus bootleg
    albums so that the Monkees could autograph them.  I asked
    him how old he was and he said 16.  Then I asked him how he
    got hook on the group.  He told me through reruns of their show
    and MTV started having a Monkee Marathon.
    
    
    Then he asked my how old I was and I said 23, he said "Wow a first
    generation Monkee fan".  Boy did I feel old!! ;-)
    
    Kathi
    

    
    re: .5
    
    WHAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    You mean that I am considered old even though I remember Wings and
    their hit songs.   I am only 26 !!!
    
    peter
    
    

    Yup, I am only 25 and people tell me I am old.... how dare they....
    I am in the begining of my time and I mean prime time....
    It's all a matter of the brain..
    
                            Jules

    re: the last several
    
    Audaciously (and with no authority whatsoever) speaking for
    my contemporaries (thou knowst whom thou art. . .):
    
    You young whippersnappers sure know how to hurt a 'body. . .
    
    Steve
    

    in re .10
    
    Mr M - young is only relative :-)
    
    Bonnie

    My 21-year old sister is the head of one of the larger Monkees
    fan clubs, and actually answers Mickey Dolenz' mail that gets sent
    to him at Columbia Records.  What is amazing, and more than
    frightening, to me, is that this young woman wasn't even born when
    the show first aired, and was all of two when it ended its first
    run (don't hold me to the exact dates, but you get the idea.)
    
    On top of this, I remember helping to change her diaper when she was
    a baby.  To see her as an adult woman makes me wonder where the
    years went.
    
    But, at 33, I don't think of myself as old, just not as young as I 
    used to be!  However, I wouldn't turn back the clock for anything...
    
    					Steve

	RE:.10...11

	Steve...how does it feel to be "Mr M"????...[chuckle]

	First time someone stuck "Mrs" in front of me, I looked
	around trying to find my mother-in-law...[sigh]...

	How embarassing....

	(Yes, I know when I am being called a "contemporary...")

	...Mel...

    You know the years are creeping up when the local Oldies radio station
    is playing songs that you introduced on the air as a college station
    DJ! Or when the family gets together and you start talking about
    YOUR KIDS!!!
    
    Eric

    	This past saturday I took my 9 yr old niece into see the Muppet
    Babies at the Centrum.  While in the car, she asked me how old I
    will be on my next birthday?  Not upset over the fact that I am
    going to be forty, I told her "Forty".  Her come back was 'Boy,
    are you getting old'.  I should of expected this, because earlier
    that morning, she informed her mother that 20 was middle age.
    
    Bev
    

  I remember back when I was but a wee tot thinking that my uncle, who was
then 13, was just about ancient.  I couldn't imagine ever getting that old!

  And my other uncle, who was 20, ... lets just say I thought of him as having
one foot in the grave already.

  Boy, how times change!  ;^)

    After reading all the previous notes, I understand that most of
    you have your tongues pushed tightly into a cheek, however...
    
    How many of you, deep down, *really* do feel you are *getting
    older* and think, "ugh".  Because I guess---by your standards of
    being o_l_d, *I* am *ancient*.
    
    Any old movie buffs out there?  Well, I was a movie buff from
    a very early age.  Those of you who are watching "Casablanca"
    on the TV should have seen it when it first came out in the
    movie houses.  I was somewhere around 12 when I first saw it
    at the Royal in my hometown.
    
    *Now you think you feel old?*  I will have to go now--its
    time to take my Geritol and find my wheelchair.
    
    Marilyn

    Hi Marilyn,
    
    If you are "ancient" you sure hide it well!
    
    Bonnie

    re:  .18


    Hey, she is *older* than we are!!!  Dig that, we are the kids again!

    justme....jacqui

    .. then there was the date who asked me in all seriousness, "Who
    was Robert Kennedy?"
    
    ... one_who_remembers_the_McCarthy_who_wasn't_Gene
          

    I aged several years one day. I was lecturing to graduate students
    on  statistics  and  mentioned  the  increase  in the birth rate 9
    months  after  the  great  (east  coast) blackout (oct. 65 for you
    younguns)  and  realized  when nobody recognized it, that not only
    did  they  not remember the blackout, but they *were part* of that
    increase in births.  I wonder if any of them asked their parents.

--David

    re: all previous ..
    
    After all this reading, I get the same feeling when I overhear
    conversations amongst my other kids.
    
    Homigosh ... if you  feel old when the Oldies (103 FM) play the
    "yesterhits' from the 60's ... what are you gonna feel when your
    grandchildren ask about life in the '80's ? 
    
    Seriously, and in all frankness, the bottom line truth is this ...
    
    Don't take life too seriously, or you'll never get out of it  alive!
    
Pops_the_Hiker (tongue_in_cheek_extraction_tool_needed.. pls hurry)
    :^(||)