Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

While I grudgingly acknowledge the passage of time, shall never acknowledge growing old.

I note the passage of time largely by reading obituaries of people I knew or knew of. 50th high school reunion is this summer, many I went to school with pushing up daisies, some for decades. Haven't attended a single reunion, see no reason to go a couple of thousand miles to hang with a bunch of old people I have literally nothing in common with.

The body ages, but inside I still feel much like a little kid. Wearing the Gumby sweatshirt today, a favorite. 👍
 
Had some teens and their mother stay over one time. Most of them were boys pretending to be girls, or girls pretending to be boys. One was a munchie with a wheelchair. She would walk when she was sick of sitting down. One of them was obsessed with BTS and she wanted to be a male Kpop star. They rarely showered. On their phones half the time. When they got onto the console in the lounge room they would watch some VR comedy roleplay series on youtube. The rest of the time they were playing fortnite. They spent all their money and their mothers money on Fortnite, sometimes they wouldn't be able to afford food because of it. None of them went to high school. One earnt some side cash training 12 year olds in Fortnite.
 
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My daughter was rooting through a pile of my old stuff and when we found my Gameboy Advance SP.

She thought it was a broken Galaxy Z Flip and when I showed her how to turn it after charging it. She commented that the lower half of the screen was broken.

i feel old
 
When I had to get an ebike. Normally I'm a pretty regular hybrid cyclist (but not quite CRAZY LYCRA PSYCHO) and I had to go for a 30 mile ride with some younger friends and they then seriously said, "perhaps you should get an ebike"*sigh*

(On the up-side I then built an ebike that was powered four times the legal limit and now I fly past them....)
 
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