Makes an old man feel good

[Angel Tarragon]

I may be close to 30, but in my heart I feel close to everyone, I look at people for who they are or for the potential they have. Age doesn't mean a dime to me.

 

[diaglo]

It'll happen more and more as you get older. Chicks dig flirting with old guys 'cause they're "safe." But if you hit on them, they get freaked.

And then you get kicked out of the library for three months.

nah, what's weird when you get older and older are the flashbacks.

i have to remember my niece has two kids and graduated college 6 years ago. i can't expect her to be calling me Unca Da anymore when i phone. but the whole time i'm on the phone i'm flashing back to when she was 3 and talking on the phone to me.

 

[Templetroll]

Being 31, I feel somewhat "out of touch" with people in their early 20's and below. But this week has been good. I caught the eye of a cute, young girl and she smiled at me, and not in a "why is this old man staring at me? be cool, he'll leave soon" kind of way. This has happened twice this week (different girls). Made this old man feel really good, I tell you what.

31? Old?!? Man, I'm 50 and I'm only middle-aged!

[geek out] I once had an excellent character concept for "Orc Jamima"... she was a very large, very motherly Orcish woman that used an ENORMOUS wooden spoon as a great club. The DM told me it was silly, stupid, and not conducive to "serious roleplaying." Pish - What a load. [/geek out]

Yeah, I once told a DM I was gonna play a 'serious gnome'......

Unfortunately, the character I came up with was Jedediah Bumblebutt and his mule, Amaryllis. He used spitting tobacco as a short range missile weapon, on a critical he could blind a foe for a couple of rounds. Why are all the great RP concepts held in such disdain?

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Huh?! I thought I was the sexy beast!!!!

Who said that there can be only one sexy beast?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Who said that there can be only one sexy beast?

Oh. Well, it is good to know that Reveal and I are in the Sexy Beast club.

 

[Desdichado]

While I cannot actually say that I feel "old" - it does make me feel very grown up when I think about the fact that, despite my age, I am actually a Frau/Mrs... Being married young creates some strange mixes of youngness and oldness.

That's quite true, although I had a lot of friends that were "young marrieds" with me. I was 22½ when I got married and my wife was just shy of turning 21. In fact, I was trying to push the wedding back three weeks to her birthday so I only had one "event" in June to worry about--a combination birthday/anniversary that half the time was right around Father's Day anyway.

Didn't work. But yeah, being married young is kinda weird in a way. Having kids young is even weirder. My wife used to get really ticked off when she'd be out pregnant, or with young kids (or both) and have strangers always look to her hand, as if she were just some kind of teenage tramp that got knocked up. She also looks younger than she is, though--even as she was approaching 30, she looked like she had just turned 20. Complete strangers would say things to her like "you're so young to have two kids!" in the store, and she'd go "that's nothing; I've got an older one in 1^st grade. Besides; how old do I have to be' I'm 28?"

And all of youse guys can just get off my lawn and turn down that blasted noise that you call music. I'm turning 34 in about four or five weeks.

 

[Desdichado]

IT still feels odd.

Boy, you are old. We've had an Information Technology department at our company for decades now. It doesn't feel odd to me anymore at all.

 

[reveal]

Boy, you are old. We've had an Information Technology department at our company for decades now. It doesn't feel odd to me anymore at all.

We still use punch cards and reel-to-reel tapes.

 

[reveal]

Oh. Well, it is good to know that Reveal and I are in the Sexy Beast club.

I'm dead sexay!

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I'm dead sexay!

Me too.