One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well
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Justin Derrick
in reply to Laura Manach • • •Or alternately, being a source of information from a decade or two before your friend's kids were born.
Describing what it was like on Sept. 11th... Telling them about concerts you saw from bands that fell apart when they were still in diapers...
It's neat to be asked, but it ages you. 😀
Pseudo Nym
in reply to Laura Manach • • •Curious, if you want to share, what the topic was that prompted this post?
I like telling younger coworkers that I'm not only older than Google, but was an adult working professionally with computers before then.
It's like you told them you are literally older than dirt.
Eh Eye Ate Dub Yah ✡︎
in reply to Laura Manach • • •Wait... You mean spinning history is a bad thing now? Politicians are going to be very disappointed.
We did it in our day, too.... We just didn't have the worldwide platform we do today.
Fwiw, I hear you. I watched Columbia explode on live TV. Had a kid try to tell me there were no shuttle accidents ever.... Of course, the same kid thinks birds aren't real, so...
Edit: Challenger, not Columbia. Thanks for the correction.
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Ms. Denie
in reply to Eh Eye Ate Dub Yah ✡︎ • • •Incredibish
in reply to Eh Eye Ate Dub Yah ✡︎ • • •You mean Challenger? It was on my 25th Birthday. I was excited to have such a gift... and then. But Columbia broke up on re-entry and I don't remember that being shown live on tv. Maybe I'm wrong too.
Eh Eye Ate Dub Yah ✡︎
in reply to Incredibish • • •Yes.. Brain fart. Call it old-timer's disease.
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Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Laura Manach • •Oh yeah, been there done that a gazillion times, and in the mix when I recount what happened, the outraged person will demand a web link to what I just said. Good friggin grief.
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