Feeling my age.

[Scott Tschirhart]

I took Kathy to lunch today.

Our server is Lauren and I asked if she was named after Lauren Bacall. She said that she didn’t know who that was. OUCH!!

[Lassiter]

LOL...Children!

[Scott Tschirhart]

Hell I know about Little Egypt and Tempest Storm. You would think that everyone would know who Lauren Bacall was.

[Griff]

I think the first time I felt like that was when I stopped a young girl for speeding and she commented that I reminded her of her grandfather, a high school classmate of mine! Yes... she got the ticket!

[jeepnik]

For an opposing view, recently had a server at one of our favorite restaurants. Her name is Evangeline. I jokingly ask if she was named after the star. With a mock shocked look on her face face she said "I'm not that young".

[Ray Newman]

Put a charge on my MasterCard about two years ago and the clerk wanted an ID. Easier for me to pull out my USMC retired ID card, I utilized it. Clerk looked at it then asked which war I was in. Told her Vietnam 7/65-3/67. She looked at me and said "you're that old?"

[Walt]

I went into an auto parts store several years ago and asked for kerosene. Huh? ...blank stares. Nobody in the store knew what that was. Lucky I didn't ask for coal oil.

[COSteve]

I went into an ACE Hardware a couple weeks back to get a quart of mineral spirits as it's a great cleaner for the kitchen cabinets when they get greasy. Anyway, I mentioned that to the clerk who was ringing it up, a 20 something, and she asked me what 'hack' I seen that on.

When I told her I'd been using mineral spirits for that job for over 60 years I thought she was going to freeze up. She asked, "How old are you?" and when I said 77 last November, she mumbled that I was older than all of her grandparents. I just smiled, paid my bill and walked out the store.

[samsi]

Yup, I was doing a transaction at the bank a few years back and the young gal who was the teller remarked "Wow, you've had this account longer than I've been alive!" To add insult to injury, the last time in service award I received at work, someone joked that my EOD date and our youngest guys birthday were the same date...

On the bright side, all the ribbing is preferable to the alternative!

[Ysabel Kid]

My old manager, a decade younger than me, usually introduces me as "employee number 000002".

[JimT]

I stopped to get a bottle of Angel's Envy and had to verify I was over 21.
Almost made me want to go back the next day and buy another!

[Ysabel Kid]

I stopped to get a bottle of Angel's Envy and had to verify I was over 21.
Almost made me want to go back the next day and buy another!

[Drawdown]

Few years before I retired, crew having one them, "How long they'd worked underground conversations?"
When theys about finished, one younger guys put his light on me said "Harris there, he's been here longer than the coal!"
At that time I just laughed. But that's been, idk, bout 10 years ago

[COSteve]

When he was young, my son use to tell his friends that I helped invent dirt.

[rock-steady]

Hell I know about Little Egypt and Tempest Storm.

That's why I love this forum. I learn something new everyday.

I had to look up Little Egypt and Tempest Storm.....now I know what Ray Wylie Hubbard was singing about! Ramona!

https://youtu.be/Qgy7PLAgF-Y

[marlinman93]

Nothing makes us feel older than to talk to a young person about something we know so well and have them give that blank stare of bewilderment from having no idea.

[Bronco]

I was once asked if I had the time, held out my watch to show my analog Timex.. the stated they did not know how to read that
Asked another youngster if they knew who Roy Rogers was,,, the did not
Another did not know who the Lone Ranger waa... I give up!

[Streetstar]

Ugghhh

timely thread --

separated my shoulder a few days ago in an accident (motocross) - yep, i still do that, but i'm only 53 - I've heard it all from my occasional ex- girlfriend , several doctors etc.

"Dont you think youre getting a little old for motocross?"

"You dont need to be taking unnecessary chances at your age " - all the way to

"I expect you to sell that bike, and i want to be present to witness it when you do !" (with undertones that she would start "withholding" if id i didnt get it listed soon)

What do they expect me to do -- play golf? - wait - that takes a bit of shoulder mobility too -- but i can drive the snot out of a golf cart while consuming dozens of Michelob's

[BobM]

I’ve been doing some part time bailiff work since retiring a few years ago. Last year I was in the judge’s chambers with two young assistant prosecutors. The judge, in his seventies, told them about an Andy Griffith show episode that related to a situation at hand at the time. The youngsters had never seen any episodes and one of them hadn’t heard of the show.

[Scott Tschirhart]

Hell I know about Little Egypt and Tempest Storm.

That's why I love this forum. I learn something new everyday.

I had to look up Little Egypt and Tempest Storm.....now I know what Ray Wylie Hubbard was singing about! Ramona!

https://youtu.be/Qgy7PLAgF-Y

I was happy to see that somebody keyed into that!!

[Scott Tschirhart]

About Tempest Storm.

https://youtu.be/YynZ9IpNbtg?si=3zJicSpBqFKwwSel

Little Egypt.

https://youtu.be/LObvE8C5dGI?si=j-YZmvYUb9EVUYoy

To be fair, there were several ladies who claimed to be the original Little Egypt. See the article about Mark Twain and Little Egypt

http://1890swriters.blogspot.com/2014/0 ... s.html?m=1

[Ysabel Kid]

When he was young, my son use to tell his friends that I helped invent dirt.

If I tell Y2K that one, he'll start using it!

[samsi]

Was Tempest Storm also the gal on the Charmettes air freshener display board at the service station? If it wasn't her, she had similar...attributes.

[RIHMFIRE]

Lauren Bacall......
on a scale of 1-10.........15

[Scott Tschirhart]

Lauren Bacall......
on a scale of 1-10.........15

I totally agree.

[bmtshooter]

Lately when I have a doctor's appointment, I am struck by the realization that "I have T-shirts older than this guy".

[jeepnik]

I too have a doctor much younger than I. Over the last few years I have lost my primary care and several specialist doctors. Most, though younger than me retired.

The new specialists have been even younger but extremely competent. The primary care is where issues have arisen. I'm on my fourth. One, the oldest of the bunch relocated. Two were simply incompatible and unresponsive.

These two bent to the will of the medical corporation over the needs of the patient. This is especially sad because doctors were once driven almost solely by patient needs.

My current doctor is young with a capital "Y". If he is thirty it's just barely. Either they are again teaching patients first in med school, doubtful, or this man has a strong sense of right and wrong. And he's willing to buck the system to do the right thing.

There are still some morally and ethically driven younger doctors out there. But I am saddened to find they are thin on the ground.

[Walt]

Yeah, I think my several doctors are teenagers.

[mickbr]

Guess they dont know who Sophia Lauren is either, now thats sad.

[jeepnik]

Guess they dont know who Sophia Lauren is either, now thats sad.

I was always more partial to Gina.