BooBop

What a difference 30 years makes:

1972: Long hair
2002: Longing for hair

1972: KEG
2002: EKG

1972: Acid rock
2002: Acid reflux

1972: Moving to California because it's cool
2002: Moving to California because it's warm

1972: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2002: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1972: Hoping for a BMW
2002: Hoping for a BM

1972: The Grateful Dead
2002: Dr. Kevorkian

1972: Going to a new, hip joint
2002: Receiving a new hip joint

1972: Rolling Stones
2002: Kidney Stones

1972: Being called into the principal's office
2002: Calling the principal's office

1972: Disco
2002: Costco

1972: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2002: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1972: Passing the drivers' test
2002: Passing the vision test

1972: Whatever
2002: Depends

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly
change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin
puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset
of this year's incoming freshmen.

Here's this year's list: The people who are starting college this fall
across the nation were born in 1983. They are too young to remember
the space shuttle blowing up. Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic! The CD was
introduced the year they were born. They have always had an
answering machine. They have always had cable. They cannot
fathom not having a remote control. Jay Leno has always been on the
Tonight Show. Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws. They can't imagine
what hard contact lenses are. They don't know who Mork was or where
he was from. They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile
for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane". They do not care who shot
J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is. Michael Jackson has
always been white. McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter. Do you feel old yet?
Pass this on to the other old fogies in your life.

pam

Thanks, Mitzi. I already have IT in my neck and can hardly clean beds today. I needed to be reminded how old I really am!
Pam

Teresa

Pam,
We are not old, we are just maturing (physically, I'll never grow old mentally)

Becky

man, those hit close to home. Ouch!

My children cannot fathom a kitchen without a microwave, no video games, no cell phones.

I remember heating baby bottles in a saucepan, the first atari games, and party line telephones. My oh my, I AM getting old!!!