Subject: Re: Getting old.
From: "RogueXV"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.irish, alt.folklore.computers
"Chris Hedley" wrote:
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> A short whinge...
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> I'm worried that something weird's happening to me. Maybe it's old
> age, since I'm now the wrong side of 35, maybe it's a subliminal side-
> effect of living in Oxford. I'm off to see a Shakespeare play tonight,
> I find that more often than not the radio's tuned into Classic FM, I
> even own the full 20 volume OED. Hell, I can even remember how to
> use a pen, even if it is a biro. I'm a subscriber to the Folio Society
> and increasingly I find that cheap fizzy lager is being eschewed in
> favour of quality bottled beers and fine Irish whiskeys. I've just
> eaten a bloody _salad_. I find I'm tentatively hanging on to bawdy
> youth by still listening to the Macc Lads occasionally, but I fear
> it's a losing battle. Rather than drive everywhere and get irate
> with other drivers I walk "to stay healthy." Don't even talk to me
> about wireless telephones or today's popular "yoof" scene, whatever
> one of those looks like.
>
> I am now Old.
>
Chris, not to worry you're not old, you've simply grown up. You are now mature and cultured with an eye for the finer things in life.
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You old folks are so gullible sometimes.