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coureur - a sign of advanced maturity, I’d say. Maybe there’s hope for you yet. Altho, from your latest post, I am having trouble adjusting to the fact that I am older than you.</p>
<p>Okay - Jmmom has officially banished me from this thread, so I’m leaving :o
(feel like I’ve just been caught drinking in a bar when underage)</p>
<p>(momsdream is escorted out by Jmmom’s bouncers 
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<p>Momsdream, before you go, just wanted to point out that I did in fact give birth before the age of 25 also (remember a lot of us have kids older than high school seniors!)</p>
<p>And to all of you who don’t think kids have their own music, my kids listen to The Shins, The Killers, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, not to mention going a little farther back to Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, then farther to U2, Rem, the Clash. They are not listening to “sixties and seventies”. (with exceptions for early Springsteen, Clash, Sex Pistols, etc.)</p>
<p>Seven when Kennedy was shot. First time I knew I was heading toward old was when I was asked to complete a survey a week after turning forty, and had to mark the 40-50 bubble. And now that seems so LOOONNNGGG ago!</p>
<p>Mam and opening doors for me was the tipoff. It has been a while and I have adjusted…I was 16 and on the way to a funeral in Sacramento when we heard JFK had been killed; I was in LA at USC and heard the helicopters and commotion the night RFK was shot. Ah, and some grade in elementary when my class was told about sputnik! Same classroom where we learned how to duck and cover. And this is bad, I vaguely remember being at some family camp in the Sierras one summer and a man had a newspaper on a picnic table and the adults were talking about the end of the war…Korean War that is.</p>
<p>I have had some really disconcerting moments looking at holiday photographs from old friends. Oh, my, she looks so good! But who is that old lady in the photograph? Wait a sec, that great looking young lady is my friend’s daughter, and the daughter now looks exactly as I remember her mom… uhhhhhhhh !!!</p>
<p>Senior discounts are a sure sign of aging.</p>
<p>But what’s a senior? AARP=50, our local movie theaters=55, our community center’s gym membership=60, Soc. Sec. retirement age=65.</p>
<p>I suppose you know you’re REALLY old when you no longer have to ask “How old do you have to be to get the senior discount?”</p>
<p>I was 10 when JFK was shot. Coming back from a 5th grade fieldtrip when we heard the news.
The first time I used my AARP discount was renting a car at LaGuardia for one of the college tours with older s. The girl at the counter asked, no SHOUTED, in a booming voice, to see my AARP card. Gee, maybe it is because I am so young looking that she just couldn’t believe it. Well, I can dream…</p>
<p>I think we also hold onto our sense of relative youth as long as our parents are still alive. From that perspective, as well as others, I’ve benefited from the fact that my parents are still kicking and living independently at ages 86 and 90 (well, that’s jumping the gun: their birthdays are coming tomorrow and Monday). On the other hand, I’ve already lost one older sib, and that adds to my sense of mortality.</p>
<p>H is four yrs older than I. I checked into a hotel using his brand new AARP card that very year and was Rahther offended when the desk clerk didn’t even question my age… (sigh)</p>
<p>ya I would be too 
My husband is turning 50 this year, and he is one of the oldstyle men a la’ Robert Redford, that don’t believe in trying to look younger or even wearing sunscreen, so while he is still the Sam Shepard lanky type, he looks older than peers who pay more attention to their skin.
Personally, I don’t think being the same size you were in high school is a sign of superior morality, as I get older I am more attracted to Bob Hoskins types than Ralph Fiennes. ( however I have seen the English Patient 4 Xs)</p>
<p>i realize that compared to everyone else i’m not considered old, but i live with kids that are 17,16,and 6… </p>
<p>but i realized i was old when my little sisters DVD player wasn’t working right and i told her to blow in it. she looked at me like I was nuts… but it worked! look at all the knowledge we have from our good old nintendo days!</p>
<p>i still have a working nintendo in my apartment :)</p>
<p>also, i’m not a teenager, but i know who paul mccartney is and to garland, your kids listen to great music… modest mouse is just awesome :)</p>
<p>When I starting finding older actors such as Sean Connery and Howard Keel (from “Dallas”) cute.</p>
<p>ya wanna feel really old?
Get a look at one of the top new bands coming out of Seattle
<a href=“http://www.smoosh.com/[/url]”>http://www.smoosh.com/</a></p>
<p>I was in eight grade when Elvis sang Hearbreak Hotel
I was a senior in college when JFK was shot</p>
<p>One time when we went skiing after I turned 50, I bought a cheaper senior pass, which I had to wear on my jacket. My wife wouldn’t get anywhere near me.</p>
<p>I was 7 years old crying in 2nd grade when JFK was shot.
We were all sent home and I walked home with tears streaming down my cheeks.
It just seemed impossible to me.</p>
<p>Our 18 year old college freshman son routinely steals my H’s CDs of Sting, Beatles, Sinatra, Dr.John, Aretha, etc, etc. It’s amusing.</p>
<p>Very disconcerting that all my doctors (primary, GI, GYN) are retiring and their 16 year old children are filling in for them. I work in a microbiology lab and I am sure some of my petri dish cultures are more mature than some of these resident docs!!! :)</p>
<p>i knew I was old when:</p>
<p>I look at some of the clothes that are out now and remember the first time they were in style.</p>
<p>My daughter listens to music (I tell her it’s a remix, and pull out the orginal version)</p>
<p>Daughter is constantly bugging me about remembering which box has my old coach, gucci and LV bags because they are now classics.</p>
<p>It was a big deal in my house when we got color TV and my daughter has never lived without cable</p>
<p>Some one was trying to flirt with me, told me he was 31 and I called him a child and said my little brother is 40.</p>
<p>I really did not realize how old I was, then one day one of my younger sister and I were joking about our oldest sister recently turned 62, I had an ah-ha moment when she reminded me that I was looking down the street at 50 (and I don’t have to even squint any more because it’s coming sooner than I think) The upside is that Oprah is making 50 look so good that it won’t be too scary.</p>
<p>I knew we were old when H and I started climbing into bed by 8:30 (read/watch tv/doze while waiting for kids to come home). My parents did the exact same thing when I was a teen and I thought it was so weird they did that.</p>
<p>snip: <our oldest=“” sister=“” recently=“” turned=“” 62=“”></our></p>
<p>LOL: my older brother is 74 this year. Of course, he’s a million years older than me, but still. I am the youngest of 5, spread over 25 years (and assorted marriages). Imagine their gloating, as I am turning 50 this year. “Just wait until <em>you</em> get that copy of Modern Maturity in your mailbox: you won’t think it’s that funny.” </p>
<p>When my brother turned 65 and retired, I sent him an email to ask him how it felt (I’m so old, I’ve been emailing for thirteen years!) and the reply came back promptly: “Beats the alternative.”</p>
<p>Courer, yep, I typed it wrong. Should have been 9 1/2 (January birthday). </p>
<p>However, we didn’t have much in the way of radio stations (and only 2 tv stations then). My sister and I would sit up late at night trying to pick up WLS in Chicago, since they always seemed to have the newest music. (This was on a rather large radio with a knob you turned.)</p>