‘Do You Feel Old Yet?’

“Do you feel old yet” asked one of my Sequoyah County Fun Filosophers this week.

Well, after reading the following, Yes I Do! What a difference 50 years can make!

Hope my faithful one or two readers (most likely my children) don’t feel old yet after reading the following.

-1966: Long hair   

-2016: Longing for hair

-1966: Acid rock   

-2016: Acid reflux

-1966: Moving to California because it's cool

-2016: Moving to Arizona because it's warm

-1966: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

-2016: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

-1966: Seeds and stems

-2016: Roughage 

-1966: Hoping for a BMW

-2016: Hoping for a BM

-1966: Going to a new, hip joint

-2016: Receiving a new hip joint

-1966: Rolling Stones

-2016: Kidney Stones

-1966: Screw the system

-2016: Upgrade the system

-1966: Disco

-2016: Costco

-1966: Parents begging you to get your hair cut.

-2016: Children begging you to get their heads shaved.

-1966: Passing the drivers' test

-2016: Passing the vision test

-1966: Whatever

-2016: Depends

  

Just in case you weren't feeling old enough today, the following will certainly change things.

Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen.

Here's this year's list:

-The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1998. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

-They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

-They never heard: "Where's the Beef?" or "I'd walk a mile for a Camel.”

-They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.

-McDonald's never came in foam containers.

-Their lifetime has always included AIDS. 

 -Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

-The CD was introduced seven years before they were born.

-They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

-They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

-Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

-“Happy Days’ was cancelled before they were born.

-They have never encountered a TV with a dial or a rotary telephone.

Feeling old yet?

Yep.