Things That Make You Feel Old (9 Viewers)

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Seems like every now and then another brick crumbles reminding me that I'm getting older. Today it was a pickle jar my wife wanted me to open. Never felt so helpless trying to open that damn thing. Finally gave up and ran hot water on the lid to help get it open. There was a time where it felt like I could twist the jar in half if I wanted. Those days are gone....oh...and the icing on the cake is my hand and shoulder hurt when I was done.
 
Being a not too intensive work day today, got into a discussion with a couple of our system techs who are in their 20s. One got onto the topic of 80s movies and going old school. The amount of movies that live line by line in my head that they had never heard of broke my heart. Movies that shaped my childhood didn't even exist in their universe and I got a little sad. Blew their minds when I told them Tom Hanks started out as a TV sitcom star.
 
Madmarsha said:
That reminds me of something that happened to my BFF and I in a history class. It was, I think, 10th grade and we had been assigned to do a report on Puerto Rico. We were in front of the class giving our report and the teacher -- I remember your name, Mr. Ed Howes -- told us to point to where it was on the pull-down map. So we turned around to face the map to do so and for some reason, this map didn't have PR on it!! No idea why but it was not there. We are looking at each other and starting to giggle and then turned around and told Mr. Howes and the class that we couldn't point to it because it wasn't on the map.

Well, he didn't believe us. Of course, the problem was we were dumb female 10th grade students -- and giggling -- and he got mad. So he got up and stormed to the front of the room and HE would show us where Puerto Rico was unaware that the map that had been hanging in his room for who knows how long was completely useless.

To this day, I still don't know where Puerto Rico is.
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Did the teacher apologize to you or say you should at least know where Puerto Rico should be on a map
 
When I was a kid my grandmother would go to bed at like 8pm and wake up at 4, 4:30 in the morning

I would always wonder why she just didn't stay up later and get up later at a normal time

Learning now because your body doesn't work like that, it's tired when it's tired
 
Optimus Prime said:
Did the teacher apologize to you or say you should at least know where Puerto Rico should be on a map
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Nope.

You know, my dad was a history teacher at the same school. I never investigated to see if his map was better.
 
Tapxe said:
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I had to explain to some employees that were complaining that their dad doesn't answer text messages soon enough that your dad is from a time period when you couldn't just contact them at any time... they literally had to be home and usually NOT already on the phone in order to get a hold of someone... He also probably doesn't have his nose glued to his phone like you. so if he isn't answering you fast enough... that is your problem... not his problem. He will get back to you when he feels like answering messages.
 

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