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You know you’re old when…


your fifth grader asks you if you were alive during the Great Depression.

Unless she’s talking about the early years of marriage?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:48 pm May 12th, 2008 in Politics 

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7 Responses to “You know you’re old when…”

  1. 1 Lara on May 13th, 2008 9:59 am

    That’s ok - my high school students asked me if I had ever heard of a Saturday detention. When I queried, “you mean like the Breakfast Club?”, they looked at me and extremely puzzled said, “no, like school on Saturday. What’s a breakfast club?”.
    Oy!

  2. 2 Gordon on May 13th, 2008 11:56 am

    For what it’s worth, I have a younger sister who used to ask me if it was true that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings.

  3. 3 Jill Miller Zimon on May 13th, 2008 12:01 pm

    Thanks, Lara. I wore my 40th birthday proudly because I was thrilled to have reached that age at all but I’m backtracking a bit on the “just look how old I’ve gotten despite bad choices” thing now. :)

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on May 13th, 2008 12:04 pm

    Hi Gordon, THAT had me laughing out loud! That’s a really good one, lol. Still snickering.

    So - this morning, my second grader declares that some character in the comic strip “Baby Blues” resembles Sarge in Beetle Bailey. And I say, “do you read Beetle Bailey? And he says, “no but I used to when I was a child.”

    Sigh - kids. Thank GOD for kids. :)

  5. 5 Jeff Hess on May 13th, 2008 12:18 pm

    Shalom Jill,

    I thought the great depression was the weeks immediately following the 2004 election.

    B’shalom,

    Jeff

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on May 13th, 2008 12:19 pm

    Hmm - there are a lot of time periods vying for that distinction. Maybe we need to start re-naming with words like “super” depression and “uber” and so on - like superduper majorities, you know?

  7. 7 Have Coffee Will Write » Blog Archive » MY COMMENTS… on May 13th, 2008 12:24 pm

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