<p>garland and kat - You have kids who are 22? I would be sympathetic except that : S is 18 (born 12/86); GrandS(step) is 19 (born 3/86!). What that means, I’m horrified to say, is H’s daughter is (sputter, cough, gulp…) (deep calming breath)… 41.</p>
<p>I was 6 when Kennedy was shot, so I’m older than Garland! I do remember sitting around the radio (we did not have television in our corner of the world in India then) and listening to it.</p>
<p>ha ha…</p>
<p>When my favorite songs from my teen years are now on the “oldies” station.</p>
<p>My H was driving his car (a sporty convertible import) down a street in Philly and a group of teens yelled " YEAH! go on old man!!" He still looks heartbroken when he tells that story!</p>
<p>I knew I was old the first time I thought the check out boy at Target was flirting with me…and then realized he was actually flirting with my then-14 year old daughter.</p>
<p>When I try to explain to my son and staff in my office what life was like before: photo copies, computers, the Internet, cellphones (even touchtone phones), video, fax, and on and on. Anyone remember mimeographing?</p>
<p>Oddly enough when JFK was shot I was in my 10th grade TYPING class (asdfasdf) thinking about a future career as a secretary. By the time RFK was shot I was having my own personal summer of love in Manhattan thinking about a future career as a counterculturist. And when MLK was shot I was in college not thinking about a career at all. </p>
<p>What thoroughly mystifies me is the predominance of 60’s and 70’s rock and roll.
Back in the 60’s we prided ourselves on only listening to OUR music. Don’t kids today have any musical culture of their own?</p>
<p>I knew I was old when I drove up to McDonald’s and asked for a “Malt”, and they said, “What’s a malt?”</p>
<p>Or when I drove up to the Jack-in-the-Box and asked for a “Jack Cola” and they said, “What’s a ‘Jack Cola’?” (For those not old enough to remember, when I was a teenager, the person in the speaker always insisted you say Jack Cola!)</p>
<p>backhandgrip I hate that as well, I do not feel like a mam</p>
<p>“Except someone else (Momsdream, maybe) will probably come along to say she wasn’t born yet.”</p>
<p>LOL - not even close to being born. I also hadn’t yet been born when MLK was shot. I missed it all!!</p>
<p>C’mon - ok, I can see that most people here would have been born by the time MLK was shot. But, JFK? Didn’t ANYONE give birth under the age of 25? 
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<p>I knew I was old when I noticed one day that I no longer looked at the pretty girls very much but looked at their pretty mothers instead. Sort of the reverse of Carolyn’s experience. I don’t remember when or how long ago this switch occured; it just snuck up on me.</p>
<p>Another “I’m old” realization: When rap/hip-hop became popular, and just I didn’t get it (still don’t). I basically turned into my dad and said all the same things about rap that he once had said about The Beatles and other rock music: “You call this music? You can’t understand the words! Those guys look ridiculous!”, etc, etc.</p>
<p>coureur, though you may not get their music, I understand you resemble quite a few rock stars…</p>
<p>Geez, I am old. I was over 8 1/2 when Kennedy was shot. And 10 when I first heard the Beatles.</p>
<p>I felt old when I got the AARP application (2 years ago). I haven’t sent it in yet.</p>
<p>Ah yes, the AARP app. My H who is older than I am gets those. I think they are funny and he does not. (Such a great way to feel perpetually young, by the way-- marry an older guy.)</p>
<p>Lately we’ve been wondering if he should take an early retirement pension just to pay for tuition!</p>
<p>a really cool thing about my daughters school is that they have both a nationally recognized orchestra and a jazz band. Kids listen to hiphop but they also listen to alt rock, blues and bluegrass.</p>
<p>I don’t mind the rhythm of rap, but I will not tolerate violent, racist and misogynist lyric.
I think the kids are getting tired of it as well, at least I haven’t noticed kids playing it around here. Most kids are also able to walk without one hand holding their pants up.
Just in time!
I was beginning to despair of that fad ever going away.</p>
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My older S just informed me with dismay last night that they don’t, in fact. He’s been stealing all our CDs to rip before he goes away next fall. It’s a little disconcerting to hear “Rubber Soul” coming out of his room as I walk by, or Hendrix or Zappa or Cream coming out the windows of his car as he pulls up in the afternoon. But I guess I don’t mind that they can identify which Beatle is singing and when Clapton takes the lead.</p>
<p>It’s just weird is all. I wouldn’t have been caught dead humming along with Glenn Miller when I was their age. (Although I can appreciate his orchestra now that I’m older!)</p>
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<p>Yeah, I look like those guys but only on the other thread.</p>
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<p>Your local radio stations must have been slow jumping on the Beatles bandwagon, because both of those events happened at almost the same time. Kennedy was shot in late November of '63 and the Beatles kicked off their first US tour (including appearances on Ed Sullivan) just three months later in Feb. of '64. I was 12 for both. </p>
<p>I remember the fun around the Beatles tour was the first lifting of the national gloom that had pervaded everything every day since Kennedy’s assassination.</p>
<p>I was in 7th grade English class when Kennedy was shot. I saw the Beatles in August '64, then the next big event was the “The Eagle Has Landed.”</p>
<p>BTW, I had 2 kids before the age of 25 and 2 kids after the age of 35.</p>
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This has been the case for me for a minimum of 20 years. Sad.</p>
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momsdream - you emphatically do not belong on this thread (lol). You are younger than H’s daughter! My new post for this thread is:</p>
<p>** I knew I was old when…** momsdream tried to compete on this thread</p>
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H did - he was a prom night dad. H’s DD did, too. Which is why we have a gS who is older than our S, and why we are ooold and you, my pretty, are not.</p>