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Mon Jun-27-05 09:44 PM
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Fifteen minutes into a rainy afternoon nap today, I woke up with this disturbing thought pin-pricking my conciousness: At fifty-two, I'm old. Old, dammit.
Dang. I guess I'm not a teenager anymore. I think I missed middle-age completely. It never happened.
Should I stop wearing jeans? Do I have to be respectable now that I'm old? Should my house not resemble a grungy hybrid of a dorm room and a hippie crash pad? Should I start dating women my own age? Cut my hair? Turn down the music?
Old. This is quite a revelation. And I'm pissed that I had to wake up for it. Why didn't anybody tell me?
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:47 PM
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1. Nap???? Time to worry about getting old???? |
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Damnit to hell, I am 55 and I didn't have no nap today. Sat at my damn desk for damn nearly nine hours with my nose to the grindstone.
You definitely are getting old.
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teach1st
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:48 PM
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3. Not an old man's nap, dammit! |
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:47 PM
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2. my god, youre like me... |
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Edited on Mon Jun-27-05 09:48 PM by LastKnight
cept youre old...
hey... do what you want... personally ive never minded somone 2 and 1/2 times my age acting like me...
oh - and never turn the music down. :headbang: till the end.
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:50 PM
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he won't do that, then his old, deaf ears couldn't hear it!!:rofl:
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:51 PM
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7. you have a point... lol |
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:50 PM
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6. My daughters are embarrased... |
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..they're older than me now! (I did have a middle age when I was raising them.)
I'm cranking up the music now!
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:51 PM
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9. thats the way to get things done... nt |
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:49 PM
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4. You grow old, you grow old, you will wear your trousers rolled. |
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Or else you'll just grab a beer and slice of pizza and say what old Jack Burton always says at a time like this. "What the hell."
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:51 PM
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8. Just make sure that the paramedics can't hear each other for the |
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volume of the Zappa or Hendrix solo, can't see for the thick haze of smoke you've left, and then get distracted by the cool black light posters.
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:52 PM
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10. Zappa and Hendrix are in the mix... |
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..but no black light posters. They make my dentures shine.
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:56 PM
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13. That'd creep 'em out good. |
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Keep one ready for the Doors' "The End."
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:59 PM
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16. Or "When the Music's Over"... |
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:01 PM
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17. Why did that time produce so many "death songs"? |
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:02 PM
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:07 PM
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Viet Nam?
Fixin' to Die Rag. Country Joe and the Fish.
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:11 PM
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Country Joe and the Fish also did "Death Sound Blues."
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:13 PM
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26. Time to crank that shit up again and let your freak flag fly! |
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You're kids will be impressed. Mine have rediscovered that music. And they are astounded at the messages in it.
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:53 PM
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11. I decided to go with an all-out midlife crisis |
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(I just turned fifty). My only problem is, I can't decide if it should involve a Ferrari Testarossa or a Harley Lowrider. Having been a biker in years gone by, I'm leaning toward the Harley.
And the music should definitely be CRANKED UP.
It's not the fifty years that have gone by-- it's the thirty five or so years still ahead.
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teach1st
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:55 PM
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If I lived where there were waves more than one each three months, I might take up surfing again.
Maybe I'll get a damn skimboard.
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:58 PM
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14. Got a chin strap for the toupee? |
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:02 PM
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18. I'll focus the glare from my extended forehead onto you! |
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The light will blind you in a second. That'll teach you... :evilgrin:
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:08 PM
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22. That's the only way this transparent Irish skin is getting any color. |
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Or is that the high blood pressure?
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:22 PM
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27. I have perfect blood pressure, thankyouverymuch. |
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It's one of the few good things I have going for me. :woohoo:
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:24 PM
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We need all the points we can get. I'm eating a lot more fruit these days myself. And I still have most of my teeth.
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Mon Jun-27-05 09:59 PM
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I got one at 48. Love it love it love it
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:05 PM
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20. Keep wearing your jeans. |
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Only be as respectable as you wanna be. Keep your house the way it feels comfortable for you. Yeh, date women who remember the times you remember. Don't cut your hair. Turn up the music. You are not old. Just experienced enough to do all the things you did in your 20's a lot better.:applause:
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:12 PM
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24. That's what I wanted to hear! |
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:13 PM
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25. At least you're in bad company. |
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Anyway, 52 is the new 16.
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Mon Jun-27-05 10:26 PM
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29. I'm 55, still wear my jeans, listen to my music loud |
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still go to rock concerts, go dancing, play pool (although I can't see the other end of a regulation size table anymore) and to bars. I've come to realize, that being old doesn't mean being like my parents....They grew old staying the way they were when they were young...and so shall I, but when they were young, everybody ate at the kitchen table and dressed for dinner, they had clean orderly homes, using specific pieces of furniture for their intended use, listened to music at lower levels etc. , when I was young, I ate in the living room on the cocktail table in front of the TV, I still do, I use dressers in the living room and dining table in my bedroom, I put on my finest nightgown for dinner, and listen to loud music...so my conclusion, as you are in your late teens, early twenties, you'll remain.......
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