Deceptive age differences?
I don’t know if any of you all do this, but I associate age differences as greater than they are with the people I grew up with. Case in point: my sister’s friends I was in school with: most aren’t any more than 12 months younger than me, but in my mind they’re still younger than other people I know or associate with who are even younger. And some of her friends have become quite the fetching young ladies (or “professional women” I guess now, eh?).
We are all growing rapidly into old farts. You know what that means? oh yeah. Golf. All day. Every Day. Early Retirement. Heck yeah.
May 28, 2001 at 9:20 PM
I have issues looking at old yearbooks. If I'm looking at my second grade yearbook, all the kids third grade and beyond are burned into my mind as being older than me. I can't look at these kids as however old they were at the time. Even if the kid was 7 years old and missing teeth in the picture, he will always appear a thousand years older than me in my head.
May 29, 2001 at 12:21 AM
Yeah, it's bad - especially with the sister. I mean, they're starting to get married. We'll be sitting around tables playing bridge soon. Oh wait, we already do that. Hmm. "So, um Frank, how's that game?" "Ah, pretty good Tom! I've been a bit rough getting through the 16th green, all those sand traps you know" :)
May 29, 2001 at 11:51 AM
Aye.
I have this mental image of my little sister (year and a half younger) at age 8 stuck in my mind.
She's turning 21 this year (shudder). My baby sister can actually legally drink in just a few months. Damn.
June 01, 2001 at 11:00 PM
alas- the paradox has arrived.... funny, i think of my sister as younger and she is actually one year older than me.
June 11, 2001 at 12:42 AM
The nerve of all you whippersnappers. . .life certainly does not end at any pre-destined point. I'd have shot myself a long time ago if it did. :D
John, look at Stanley, fer the sake of Pete!