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26 January 2011

I just realized that my niece, whose diapers I used to change, is about to turn 21.
People who were born in the 1990s aren't supposed to go out to bars and get drunk legally. They're supposed to watch Barney tapes, and play with Power Rangers, and shit. WTF, space-time continuum??

post by: Atom Eyes at: 20:00 | 17 comments

My son turned 21 a few months ago. Not sure how that happened so quickly.

posted by octothorpe 26 January | 20:21

My nephew is almost 30. He has two kids.

posted by JanetLand 26 January | 20:30

My baby cousin is applying to colleges. Also, my students were all born in 1999. I mentioned something about the 80s recently and one actually said "you were alive in the 80s??? You're OLD." But . . . the 80s were like, recent!

posted by leesh 26 January | 21:31

Imagine what the world looks like if you were born, say, in 1945.

posted by Obscure Reference 26 January | 21:52

I was born in 1989 which is almost 1990 and I'm so drunk I kept pressing control instead of shift and typing random hotkeys instead of capital letters and then it was really hard to cancel and anyway I'm going to bed but the times they are a changing and 1990 was not that long ago and shit whatever.
on preview: I totaly bought all tghe liquor I;m drunk on.

posted by martinxs bellbottoms 26 January | 22:28

My oldest grandson is getting his driver's license and has a girlfriend. Good grief, where has the time gone?

posted by pjern 26 January | 23:32

I'm still dealing with the fact that my brother can A) drink and B) IS TALLER THEN ME.

That's not how it's supposed to go, it's like in Shepherd stories, he's always 9 and annoying not like startin' a business and LOOMING OVER ME.

BAH.

posted by The Whelk 26 January | 23:50

I'm 41. I still have this rapidly fading idea that maybe I can have babies, if I meet the right person. This puts me in the mindset of, ooh! Babies! Playgrounds! Coo noises! Can I do that? That I realize that a high school classmate of mine, same age, has a daughter who's 21. Very strange.

posted by Melismata 27 January | 00:00

THEN I realize.

posted by Melismata 27 January | 00:00

I had a kid pretty young but a lot of my classmates still have babies and little kids at my age.

posted by octothorpe 27 January | 00:18

Yeah an old buddy from high school commented recently that it felt weird to have a teenager while the rest of us have little ones.

posted by gomichild 27 January | 00:52

I get this felling often and then I remember my mother and father in-law were born in the 20s. I do find it hard to relate to other 40 somethings who have kids in grade school.

posted by arse_hat 27 January | 02:05

My mother was 39 when she had me. 42 when she had my younger brother.

posted by Obscure Reference 27 January | 09:17

My great-grandmother didn't have her two kids until she was 44 and 48 respectively. The wild thing to think about is that is means that my great-grandparents were born during the civil war. Her dad was a colonel for the confederacy in North Carolina, lost everything after the war and moved the family to NYC to run a boarding house on Central Park West.

posted by octothorpe 27 January | 11:38

My baby boy is 18 and almost six feet tall. How the hell did that happen?

posted by toastedbeagle 27 January | 11:40

My parents have been married 50 years. Also my father was born within a month of John Lennon. None of this makes any sense.

posted by philipy 27 January | 12:05

One of my undergrad students a few years ago, in an essay on a mid-90s play, wrote something like "[Quoted string of swear words] is very offensive language, and would probably have even been considered so in 1995." There's nothing for it: we grew up in The Past.

posted by Catseye 27 January | 12:09

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