OLD SMTC SOB wrote:
Sprintgeezer wrote:
Also, I caught 3 girls checking me out. I’ve still got it...
...from behind.?
2 even said hi, even after they realized I was their dad’s age.
Then I swear a different girl tried to make good with me, after she saw my newer Prius.
Campus street cred?
Well, back to the office
As Dirty Harry put it "You're a legend in your own mind".
Apparently sarcasm is beyond your reach. Back in the day, I looked up to SMTC, but I moved on. Maybe you should, too, and just go with “OLD SOB”.
Long ago I thought about the concept of “getting old” vs “aging”. I found it interesting to think of aging as physical, and “old” as a character, and to try not to get old as I age.
There are, after all, different kinds of people. Some 20-year-old’s are already “old”, while some who have aged have not become old with time.
And it’s not about wisdom, or judgement. Neither are those synonymous with being old, nor is being “old” their prerequisite—quite the opposite, in fact.
OTOH, neither does aging necessarily remove a person from adolescence. As boomers age, some become old, while some (possibly a fair proportion) never leave adolescence. More than anything they can be narcissistic and lack grace. It is no wonder that kids today seem especially useless, pathetic, or rebellious—consider who is judging, and that there has never before that we know of been a generation like the boomers to which kids need to respond.
I’m an “X’er”, and I can’t stand boomers either. From kids’ perspectives, at first sight I am no different than a boomer, and I accept such uninformed judgment as reasonable. Only from ones who know me do I expect anything else.
Similarly I accept that my being in a college gym might bring them down. I get it, and I understand—I mean I REALLY understand, which is why I put my own needs/desires/conveniences aside.
Aging people need to think about something other than themselves, which is something I am finding is increasingly rare as the boomer generation ages.