<p>jym626- I was also in 5th grade, remember coming home finding my mom in tears - at first I thought something happened to my dad. Ah, yes…the air raid drills. Like being in a crouching position in the hallway would save you in a nuclear attack! Also, funny how that word never fails to amuse kids that age. A few weeks ago some of my 5th grade students were playing hangman on the board at recess. The word was “bassoon”, and of course A and S were the first letters guessed!
I knew I was old when…just last week a fellow teacher mentioned that they were having a big family celebration for her mom’s 50th that weekend. I turned 51 the week before! Still can’t believe I’m older than her mom!!!</p>
<p>Little Mother,</p>
<p>I feel your pain, but did catch the distinction of your first “legal” drink.</p>
<p>In view of the expiration of the statute of limitations, I’ll confess to having celebrated my 21st birthday at the same bar where I had partied the night before.</p>
<p>amethyst-
You are in good company here-- many of us seem to be old geezers with young kids.
I remember when I was 37 and pregnant with my second kid, I was testing a woman who was 35 and a grandmother TWICE! Well, I am in the south now-- does that explain it??</p>
<p>I knew I was old when…</p>
<p>I remember listening to 8tracks in the car. That’s what they were called, right? Those things that looked like overgrown cassette tapes, which incidentally, are getting archaic too. My younger D only listens to CDs. The other day my older D said she wanted a MP3, to which I replied, ‘What’s that?’ I don’t keep up with these things. My car still has a cassette deck.</p>
<p>I’m still in denial here, but when my friends started telling me their colonoscopy stories, I knew something was up! I don’t want to know about anyone else’s orifices.</p>
<p>sluggbugg-
Thank you for sharing…(shiver…) and for the pun (unintended, I assume). 
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<p>Not just colonosopy (which I suffered through w/o sedation–the IV fell out)–but also a bone scan for osteoporosis.</p>
<p>I was listening to an Eagles CD, and ‘Hotel California’ was playing when 3 of my sons friends walked in the house, and one said, “Whoa, Mrs.P, you are so cool, listening to our music”.
lol.
I did not disillusiom him on my 
ness factor.</p>
<p>lol, jym! 
Yeah, let’s not go…well, you know…there.</p>
<p>I knew H was old when he got up one morning, hobbled toward the bathroom and groaned, “God, I feel like f***ing Ozzie Osborne!” </p>
<p>EXCUUUZE ME?! He’ll NEVER live that one down. :D</p>
<p>I knew I was old when:
…my fellow worker on a recent project asked me when I’d graduated from college. I told her “1975”, and she then responded that she hadn’t even been <em>born</em> then.</p>