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You find yourself listening to talk radio.

You fondly remember your powder blue leisure suit.

Your wife buys a flannel nighty and you find that sexy.

You criticize the kids of today for their satanic suicide-inducing music, forgetting that you rocked to Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath.

You call the police on a noisy party next door instead of grabbing beer and joining them.

When grass is something that you cut, not cultivate.

When jogging is something you do to your memory.

Rocking all night means dozing off in your rocking chair.

Sex becomes "all that foolishness."

Getting a little action means your prune juice is working.

All the cars behind you turn on their headlights.

You remember the Rolling Stones as a rock group, not a corporation.

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Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Sad But True)

It's not that I don't want to respond to this. It's just that I'm so embarassed. All these things are so "me." Except the flannel nightie. Oh and the Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath - I never listen to them - my little brother did. And no prune juice. And in California, they don't turn on the headlights, they just ram you and flip you off.

No, there was never a powder blue leisure suit - but there was a powder blue tuxedo - it was a rental for a wedding at which I was the best man - I swear, it was only a rental.

Riiiiiiiiight.

(j/k!)

I don't think I was ever cool in the first place...

It was a pretty awful wedding. The maid of honor looked like Swamp Thing's bride. I swear she looked like she hadn't washed her hair in two weeks. I felt like Marilyn in the Munsters.

... when you contemplate just how you're no longer cool. {g}

I think you're confusing middle age with uncool, Space Ranger - a common but very serious mistake. There are entirely different standards when you pass age 45.

Do you really want to hang out with a bunch of drunken, partying 18-year olds? Well, okay, maybe you do - but that's neither here nor there.

Did the flannel nighty have a starfield?

Powder blue leisure suits and tuxedos are entirely forgivable. We can not be held responsible for the cultural mores of past decades. I myself wore earth shoes and Laura Ashley print dresses at one time. Just be thankful that this is no longer a fashion dictate.

... you've read this thread (D'oh!).

Dammit! I thought I was still pretty cool! Now, I know I was wrong. Oh, fickle fate, to have brought me to this uncool moment! Pardon me while I excuse myself for a gin and tonic and another episode of Angel on the PVR.

See, now everybody knows.

You should have just scanned this thread without posting just like....I.....did.

Oops.

when you no longer see posts by Sonnie and Omni Craig.

When the cute lil' gal you would have tried to find some clever way to hit on before now calls you "Sir".

When you hear some guy peel out and think to yourself... "Damn fool, thats gonna cost him in tires."

When night of wild abandon means you say to hell with it and eat dessert instead of not because of your diabetes.

A hot date on friday/saturday night is sitting in front of the tv waiting for your kid to go to sleep so you can.

bermuda shorts and black socks on the beach. Its a classic, but it's true.

I've never been cool, but I'm cool with that...

... its easy to come up with reasons why you are no longer cool.

...you see the latest fad as the latest fad and just go to sleep instead of either joining in or being outraged.

Oh god, I haven't been cool for 30 years!

... you wake up after lunch because you're exhausted after an 80 hour work week and the first thing you do is boot your laptop to do more work.

That's not old IB, if you askedyour grandkids to boot up the interweb thing then you'd be old. You're just career driven and have a strong work ethic, highly commendable.

Thanks Harbi, I appreciate that. It's more just being responsible than anything else, really - though I have learned to say NO and turn down some projects which I really can't accommodate.

I learned a long time ago to never say 'no', but to say I could do it if I weren't so busy already so maybe if someone was to take over 'x' (usually the most unpleasant task on my list) I'd be more than keen to help. You can always try that line IB as sometimes it works and you get to swap a horrid job for a better one

That sounds like a wonderful suggestion Harbi, and indeed I have been able to swap some horrid projects out for better ones already

...you realize that you never actually were cool.

... the temperature reached 90 degrees (F)