Comments on: DBTG: The Oblivious Old Guy

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:58:08 +0000

I'm not a fan of this! Probably because I'm "that guy".

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:40:33 +0000

*still think you should have lost…*

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:39:56 +0000

I just turned 28 and had the freak-out moment myself (funny… I thought this was supposed to happen at more momentous birthdays… like 30 or 40??)

Anyway, I had an old boss (old, as in 35) who used to say "peeps"… drove me up a wall. First of all, if you're a 16-year-old black kid I still don't think you should have lost that word somewhere back in 2006, but if you're a 35-year-old white woman, it should have never entered your vocabulary in the first place.

Then I've discovered the thing that I started doing that has sufficiently pushed me into the "oh, wow, she's old" category… Saying things like, "Yeah, you probably weren't even born, yet" to people who are 10 years younger doesn't actually make you look cool. It makes you look both nerdy and old. Simultaneously.

By: darooda

darooda — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:03:33 +0000

Woo Hoo I can use urban dictionary words for another year. One question, is that on the interwebs?

By: Paul Ryden

Paul Ryden — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:21:34 +0000

Playing the Numbers Game- The older I get, the more I do the math. For example, I'm 57, and if I have lunch with a 30 year-old friend and/or colleague I will often think to myself, "Let's see, I started my career five years before he was born. Yet, I feel like we're on the same page. Gosh, that would be like me, when I was 30 years old, having lunch with someone who started their career in 1948!" I would've thought, "Good grief! I'm having lunch with a fossil!" Or (hint to 30 year-olds) I would've picked his brain for nuggets of wisdom and to find out what life was like "back in the day."