<p>, HS sophomore, when JFK died. Can anybody top that one? :-)</p>
<p>College senior.</p>
<p>I think I feel better</p>
<p>College junior. . . .</p>
<p>Sluggbugg, a HUGE LOL to the story above. Hilarious!!</p>
<p>KYDad - You missed a few posts or need work on your reading comprehension. I was also HS soph and I believe we have been trumped by Greybeard, tsdad or someone… Not sure anyone has beat me on my 19 yr-old grandson (ok, step grandson) yet, tho…</p>
<p>a college junior and senior. I’m feeling MUCH better now. :-)</p>
<p>Why am I hanging around with these children?</p>
<p>tsdad - don’t I get ANY credit for the step gS? H was college soph on 11/22/63 (would have been college jr but took a year off due to that gS detour), so perhaps that will increase your comfort level. H plays “geezer golf” now, too. That’s what I call it - the retired guys who play golf every morning. They call H “the kid.” Maybe you’d like to join them?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that I’ve aged 5 years for every one since my kids started high school and college. That would put me somewhere around…Old Bagness. :::hommmmm::: I embrace my bagitude. ::::hommmmm:::: 
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<p>OK jmmom if you want to be old–take credit for it. </p>
<p>I never “got” golf.</p>
<p>Out of college and working; sorry, Tsdad.</p>
<p>I surrender to dadofam as the oldest fart on the board.</p>
<p>Now listen to this all you young people. In today’s Daily Cardinal there was a summary article detailing a local arrest of a couple of people who allegedly robbed a 50-year old woman. The article then goes on to say that the thieves “stole money from the ELDERLY woman.” If 50 is elderly what does that make me? Dead?</p>
<p>I called the Cardinal about it to complain. After I said my piece all I got was dead air. I don’t think they understood what I was complaining about</p>
<p>Our receptionist sent out a note saying a guy would be around Monday selling roses for Valentine’s Day. I asked her if the guy was a Moonie. She looked at me like I was from the moon myself. Ahh to be 22 again.</p>
<p>Are moonies a form of beatnik?</p>
<p>uhhhhhh…sorta, jmmom. More like followers of the teachings of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (Sp?). Think communal living with limited contact with your previous family, thousand yard stares, and earnest sales pitches.</p>
<p>You might be confused with the Rev. Moondoggy -boyfriend of Annette Funicello as played by Frankie Avalon. Definitely not a beatnik though.</p>
<p>Moonies = Washington Times newspaper.</p>
<p>If the dividing line between old and young is the ability to remember JFK’s assasination, then I’m one of the youngest old people around. I have a flashbulb memory of hearing the annoucement that he had been shot over the P.A. while we were having milk and graham crackers in kindergarden, and the ensuing discussion about whether it’s possible to survive being shot.</p>
<p>“If 50 is elderly what does that make me? Dead?”</p>
<p>LOL x 100</p>
<p>I was at a University book store to pick up a text book for my wife who was doing some graduate work at the time. I had our, at the time, 3 year old son Tristan with me. I was about 40 years old.
When we got to the register, the bright young lady behind the counter smiled at me, I didn’t take it as overly flirtacious but her smile caught me off guard so I supose I felt a slight sense of youth and virility overcome me just before she looked down at my son and said, </p>
<p>“he’s so cute. Is he your grandson?”</p>
<p>I was so flush with machismo from her original coy smile that I replied, “no he’s my son…and I have a hot young wife too!” I took the book from her hands as she stared at me in bewilderment and I walked away with what was left of my self-esteem.</p>
<p>For the record, I’m only two years older than my wife…but I still think she’s hot and young.</p>