My son came over today with two of his three children. I had my teak wood stereo cabinet open as I was treating it with oil. My 12 year old grandson pointed to my reel to reel and asked what that was. My 11 year old granddaughter pointed to my turn table and said, “I saw one of those in a museum”. I am glad they didn’t ask about my collection of record albums. Now at the age of 60 I feel really old. [:(][:(]
hey dont worry - same things will be said to them by their grand children in years to come ! when that happens they’ll remember their old ‘gramp’ for sure.
Hey:
A lot of the toys I played with (and destroyed) as a kid are now available at premium prices at an antique store near you!
Hey Berny,
Don’t show them your 8-tracks. [:D]
Has anyone noticed the original Star Trek discs look a lot like todays 3.5" floppys? Future deja vu or what?
You noticed that too Hoser?!?! I remember watching re-runs of old Star Trek in the early '90s and I had to wonder if those square things they were inserting in the computers was foresight in motion. They really look like 3.5 floppys in size and shape.
DJ
The TNG isolinear memory chips look a lot like FLASH memory cards too.
Well, you don’t need to be in your 60s to feel old, I hadn’t hit 30 yet when I got to feeling a bit old:
I was 28 and managing a shop in a local mall, we had a job opening to fill and the company had a very firm rule that we weren’t to hire anyone under 18 years old. I was weeding through the applications and seeing birthdates from the early 80s and thinking “I can’t hire them, they’re just kids” Then the horror of the math hit me like a brick, at the time, folks born in 80 or 81 were hitting their 20s and I COULD hire them!
Footnote: that was just a few years ago, I just hit 31 last month.
bloody hell the same happened to me. My cousin;s son is in the last junior high school year. I realized that when i was talking about my basketball hero he did not even heard of him let alone see him play since he retired the year the kid was born. The who’s that guy question ripped my heart apart…
Certainly don’t need to be in your 60s. I turned 30 recently, it’s like a swtich went off in my head that stopped me liking modern music. I’m turning into my Dad!
I just realized that most of my sports heroes are not only retired, but I keep reading their obituaries! Scary thoughts!!! [:(]
I think the first old feelig was in my early 30’s when a friend of my son’s said Mr. so&so can Joe sleep over. I stood for a minute thinking and realized thats what my Dad was called MR.
I may be getting a bit older (33 next month) but I still feel like a kid every time I go into a model store. [:)] Just imagining all the fun I could have with each and every kit on the shelves makes me feel like an 8-year-old child on Christmas Eve. Of course, I feel the same way when I look at all the unbuilt kits on my shelves at home but I also feel like I should really build some of them someday…[|)]
I know how you feel Berny. I feel very old when it comes to computers and have to ask my stepson for help. [V] I must admit I feel technically challenged at times with electronics(just so many buttons and options). On the plus side I’m nearing 40 and I still get carded buying beer at the store! [:D] Funny story: Some years back my wife and I went to dinner for her birthday and I was carded and she wasn’t. She’s 3 years younger than me! Needless to say she wasn’t happy and I haven’t let her forget it. [}:)]
I feel a little old every time someone runs down Monogram kits. I remember when we prized them over the Strombecker, Renwal, and Aurora kits! [;)]
TO Papalazerblue
So you turned 30, well youve still got a long way to go yet, from one of your replys i see you live in Manchester, so did i when i came over from Ireland when i was 5 yrs old we lived in Ardwick and were known as the Dead End Kids from Ardwick, but now i live in Australia have been here from 1st january 1965 never been back yet, hope to one day who knows?
Sean Sewell
St Marys
Sydney
Australia
Berny - Don’t take it as getting OLD, just more experienced! I still proudly have my Pioneer turntable and vinyl (along with my minidisc’s and MP3 player), and I take as good of care of them as I did the day I bought them in my early twenties. I still say that there is no better sound than from an anolog format, but that discussion is for a different forum. Next time your grandkids are over, just let them listen to a really great recording and see their reaction (don’t let them know ahead of time the source).
As B.LeCren says, those are now valuable items, but not just because they are rare. Good things endure.
As I tell my son (24) and my daughter (19), and myself when I’m feeling old (50!, what the hell is going on here?) “Embrace life, you’re only here once”. Or, if I may ramble, from my father who is a glorious 92 years of age: “Life is tough, I don’t know if I can survive it”
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To all you thirty somethings - We all become our Dads. Just make sure that “new and improved”, truly is so.
Tally Ho,
Stinger
I was recently at a Welcome Home party for a Marine son friend of our family. He was saying that he had been asking while in Iraq if anybody knew Captain Ryan. When I realized that Captain Ryan was my oldest son, I felt VERY old. (but VERY proud!)
But you know when you are older than dirt when you fondly remember Monogram Speedee-Built kits. Now that’s OLD!!
Look at it this way: getting older sure beats the limited number of attractive available options.
My son told me at the start of the school year he felt so old because his oldest son was starting high school. My son is only 37.
I remember the day he was born. Five months later I left for Vietnam and didn’t get to see him again untill he was walkin and talking. I looked at him and asked myself, “Where is that baby that I last saw”? My how time flies.
Berny, I know just how you feel. I went off to Vietnam and came back to see the guys and girls I had grown up with now with families of their own. Sure changed my perspective on things. It keeps marching on, doesn’t it?