1988? I have underwear older than that.

*bangs cane against coffee table, demanding poached vienna sausage. turns on Matlock*

They have never actually dialled a telephone, either.

44. Retin-A has always made America look less wrinkled.

I thought Retin-A was used for acne.

They have never actually dialled a telephone, either.

Well, at least one has: my niece is 18, and I know she's used dial phones.

1988?! Wow! I was a Sophomore in college!

lol, Michael Jackson has always been white!

Feeling Old, Mike Edition: In two weeks, my daughter will start elementary school at the same school my sister went to when we moved here, in 1992.

Come to think of it, the last time I can recall using a rotary phone is 1996.

I have a rotary phone.

They grew up pushing their own miniature shopping carts in the supermarket.

Yeah, kids just get more attention in the culture today. When I was a kid, it really seemed as though the world was about adults, and I couldn't wait to be an adult and get to use all of it. Now the world seems so organized around kids.

Here's an example. I see kids in town wearing these sneakers that have skate wheels embedded in them. Kids can make the skate wheels pop out and start gliding along, then go back to walking. Now, when I was a kid, we imagined shoes like that. But we knew there was no way the adult world was ever going to agree that there was a need for us to have them, let alone invent, manufacture, and market them.

I was just thinking about that today, Miko. Thinking about my friends with kids and how all their weekends and many of their weekdays are tailored around what the kids are doing, activities for the children.

The vast majority of my childhood was spent tagging behind adults as they did what they wanted to do. Playing with the other kids while the adults drank wine and played cards. etc.

kids these days...

Here's where I say that Tom McBride was my advisor.

Before 1988.

Talk about mindsets ...

I had been working at the same company I am now for six years in 1988. Egads.

In 1988, I already had a two-year-old daughter.

*feels old*

The vast majority of my childhood was spent tagging behind adults as they did what they wanted to do.
Either that, or being told to just get out of the house and not come back until tea-time (now known as dinner-time). Which is the other thing that these kids have never known - a world safe enough to send your kids out into unsupervised.

Either that, or being told to just get out of the house and not come back until tea-time (now known as dinner-time).

uh-huh. "I don't want to see your face until it's time to eat. Now go out and play". And we all took off on our bikes. Sans bike helmets, of course.

If I did that now to my kids, I would be thrown in jail for child abuse. Times change, not always for the better.