I'm old. by hughff

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I'm old.

POSTED BY: HUGHFF
UPDATED: Friday, November 3, 2006 17:09
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:30 AM

It had to happen; I have been expecting it for the last couple of years. Yesterday, I enrolled a new pupil for 2007 and his father was a former pupil of mine. I have finally reached the stage where I am teaching second generation. Pity me.

www.cpfc.org - my life
www.nbhs.school.nz - my work

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:35 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

I might not have been in the game as long as you, but we've already had several children of past clients end up here. And I've only been here seven years.
Its all good. Its a sign that your work is important enough to stick around for future generations. Thats just cool.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:47 AM

MSG

Haven't quite gotten there as I've only taugh for 8 years, but as I've been invited to weddings and christenings and such I'm sure it's only a matter of time...but hey at least we have the greatest job ever

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 12:30 PM

AKUKODOGO

I haven't stayed in one school long enough for the next generation to catch up. Just watching children growing up in the school is enough of a mind blowing situation

Come on little cazy person....

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 5:20 PM

FLORALBUNNY

You don't have to be a teacher to experience
something like this. In my (non-teaching) career
I've eventually welcomed as co-workers kids I'd
met when my daughter started kindergarten, and
customers' kids whom I'd "met" while they were
still big bumps.

So.
Might make you an icon.
Or an institution.
Does it make you old?
Not.

bun, not exactly creaking
~Bastards singed my turtle~

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 5:47 PM

TRAVELER

Lets see. I saw the first Mercury flight into space. I remember shows on TV like "Our Miss Brooks", "Oh Susanna", and "December Bride". I'm sure I watched even earlier programs, but was to young to remember them.

I remember the pink and black 56 Buick my dad bought. Can you imagine driving around town in a pink and black car. We kept that car for six years. God help me.

Traveler

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 5:55 PM

GED

Yeah... well I'm single, and it sucks.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 7:24 PM

FLORALBUNNY

traveler wrote in part:
I remember the pink and black 56 Buick my dad bought. Can you imagine driving around town in a pink and black car. We kept that car for six years. God help me.
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The time for "God help me" is when you are truly old and can't remember that car.

For the nonce, you are merely not quite young
anymore.

I wore pink and black last weekend, for the sheer
fun of it. And no floral bonnet.

I looked quite beautiful.

Relatively speaking.

bun, bare-headed
~Bastards color-coordinated my turtle~

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 11:51 AM

SAHARA

The incoming freshmen here at the University keep getting younger and younger. And the incidents of me being addressed as "ma'am" increases annually as well.

Sahara
Blackbird fly into the light of the dark, black night.

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 2:42 PM

TRAVELER

Hello FloralBunny:

I don't think I will ever forget that car. I will be like "Citizen Kane" and breathe out my last word "Buick".

Of course you looked beautiful. Women are just naturally beautiful. I bet you could dress up in coveralls like Kaylee and look stunning.

Traveler

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 3:42 PM

BROWNCOATJIM

not only am i old enough to remember the plymoth fury that my father had (not the sissified ones they made towards the end, but the real bad-ass fury) but i am old enough to have owned a '74 ford ranchero, before it was even considered a classic!

Simon: "Were there any Feds?"
mal: "No, no Feds, just an honest brawl between folk."

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 4:07 PM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Uh Oh ... just realised today is my baby sister's 35th birthday...

... what does that make me?

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 4:09 PM

FLORALBUNNY

traveler wrote in part:
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Of course you looked beautiful. Women are just naturally beautiful. I bet you could dress up in coveralls like Kaylee and look stunning.
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Okay. I concede. That kind of old-fashioned
flattery is rarely practiced by the iPod generation.
Coveralls stunning on me? Not so much. Heh.
Skinny I am.

As for "Buick" being your "Rosebud" you should
cheer up. Could be "Pierce-Arrow" or worse.

bun, greasy
~Bastards singed my Terraplane~

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 4:16 PM

FLORALBUNNY

magdalena wrote:
Thursday, November 02, 2006 16:07
Uh Oh ... just realised today is my baby sister's 35th birthday...

... what does that make me?
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Makes you over 35.
Hehe -- also makes you in a hurry to do something happybirthdayish about it.

And let's not mind being called ma'am. Beats *so* many other things we could be called...

bun, getting out the candles
~Hippos birdied my turtle~

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 4:39 PM

HUGHFF

Quote:
Originally posted by sahara:
And the incidents of me being addressed as "ma'am" increases annually as well.

It was quite an experience when I started here, fresh faced and 24, to be called "Sir." Sheesh.

Used to it now.

www.cpfc.org - my life
www.nbhs.school.nz - my work

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 5:25 PM

TRAVELER

Hello FloralBunny:

You are right, I could be saying "Pierce-Arrow."

Age is just mind set. When I was ten I wanted to be twenty. So we are never what we want to be if we allow ourselves to go that route. We are what we are. Or to quote the great philosopher, "I yam what I yam."

I still say you would look great in coveralls.

Traveler

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 7:16 PM

CALHOUN

Yes, yes you are.

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 7:22 PM

CALHOUN

I am old too though.. I can remember the first computer game I had (Pong- the originator!). I also remember the first PC's coming out and 2 megabytes of system ram being heaps!.. sigh.. I could reminisce like that all day(another sign of being old I believe)

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 8:16 PM

COZEN

I remember the day, baby
Done past and gone
When I could love you
Most all night long.
Now my thing done changed
And I done got old.
Can't do the things I used to do.
Because I'm an old man,
And I ain't the same.

- Junior Kimbrough

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Friday, November 3, 2006 5:09 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Oh, Gawd, cozen!
Was that written before Viagra and the rest
of those apparently magic potions?

As to the matter of coveralls, traveler (sir!),
beauty is in the angle of the view.

Trust me. Have I ever lied to you?

bun, getting back onto the creeper and sliding out of sight
~Bastards singed my turtle~

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