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> I had one of those moments with you... at the RinkUnion in Manchester, when I was asked to drive the rental van and realized I wasn't the youngest one in the crowd this time, I was the oldest.

The flip side of that is when you get so old you *expect* to be the oldest in the crowd - and then suddenly realize that you are not. Several times, when Willette and I were in a group, one of us has looked at the other and said,"Do you realize that we are the youngest people here?"
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> Mou"I certainly feel 12 years old most of the time"sie

Yep, I'm older. I feel like 16 or 17.
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> Oh. And I DID grow up in the 70's and 80's. My parents were divorced before it was commonplace -- certainly the only couple any of their friends knew who'd done it. My father and stepmother were the first people I knew who owned a microwave. My mother never even had one until after I'd graduated from high school. My stepmother bought a computer that used the tv as a monitor -- an Atari -- and the games we could play on it were just like the arcade versions! of Frogger and Pacman. I actually remember, however, my uncle having a Pong game when I was even younger than that, and how amazing it seemed to us. I also remember Egg McMuffins being Mcdonald's new product. I remember when cable tv was new, and not in every household -- and when MTV debuted. Madonna was a new artist when I was in high school. I could go on and on, if I hadn't already. And I certainly don't think of it as the good old days. The only thing I pine for from that time, ironically enough (though it may just be the normal progression), is the stronger sense of propriety, discretion, modesty we had then -- and which we, as teenagers,of course rallied against. I want to tell half the young women I see to put some more clothes on and respect themselves and that acting out sexually doesn't make them powerful. I guess that's why you have kids... so you CAN tell somebody that.

I grew up in the 30's, 40's and I guess I was still growing a little in the early 50's. I remember the first time I saw a TV set, a car with an automatic transmission, a diesel engine pulling a train, an air conditioned store, florescent lights, an airplane on the ground. I remember when we got our first telephone. I remember the first time I ever saw color TV. I remember the first Atari I ever saw like it was yesterday. I was middle aged before I ever saw a microwave oven.
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I also remember Jack Benny on the radio, Hopalong Cassity at the movies, and Tommy Dorsey in person. I remember when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, when Glenn Miller's plane disappeared, when WWII ended, when Kennedy was shot, and the day Franklin Roosevelt died. I remember when John Glenn orbited the earth three times, and came home with a loose heat shield. I remember when three astronauts died in a fire at Cape Canaveral, and when three more astronauts landed on the moon. Some of that stuff doesn't seem like it was very long ago.
Howard