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Getting Old
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Hopalong - if you're definition is true, I should retire before I graduate!! I'm 22 and watch the news AND read the obituaries! I think this may mean I don't have a life, which is hopefully different from being near the end of it!!
In my opinion, it's the first time you say "the youth of today.." (or words to that effect) coupled with any of the following:
- a "tsk" noise
- a shaking of the head
- eyes raised to the Heavens
- your friends nodding in agreement
When I hear one of the current top 40 'covers' and tell the younger colleagues in work that I remember the original.
Then they look at me in a confused manner with "but this is the original........." written all over their faces.
Like the girl in work who hasn't heard I'm Not In Love by 10cc, even though her teacher once told her and her classmates that they were named after a famous band(the classes in her school were known as 8cc, 9cc, 10cc, of which she was a pupil).
ohh no this is reakly depressing
one day i'm gonna be old : (
btw netibiza, my dad was complaining about that the other day - a couple of years ago, if someone beeped as he was walking along the road with us it was because they knew him. these days, it's because he has one of his 3 (gorgeous!) teenage daughters with him!