When Did You Start Realizing Your Age?

Indeed I have. You wouldn't believe how self-centered I used to be, but I think Mac Davis sums it up pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCsNunGnqE0

 

This reminds me of when I was first starting out at my job. I was a foreman when I was still only 18. I was in charge of guys much older than me. I had the responsibility to hire, fire and discipline them...as well as training them. These were kind of tough guys but the guys who gave me my position were pretty old-school, tough guys themselves. So one day, this guy gets transferred to me. He's maybe 50 or so and a biker type of guy. I expected him to be a pain in my ass but he wasn't. After a couple of days, he told me something like "When I heard I was coming here...I thought 'I've been doing this for 25 years...why the hell am I working under this kid?' But then I watched you do your job for a couple of days. We're good. You won't have any problems coming from me."

That isn't really me realizing how old I think I am or am not but but it's probably a fairly unusual age-related situation. At 18...almost 19, I was pretty much in a situation of being in charge of these older employees.

 

i guess probably a couple years ago when i suddenly became capable of gaining weight.

around the same time i also started working with teenagers, which was a pretty good reminder of how differently the young folks think.

eh, i don't think that's as unusual as you think. lots of young folks in management positions.

 

Around 2, when i understood what 2 meant

 

When I asked a teenager - around 15 - if he could give me a haysack for my boy (around 10) - 'well if you could do 3 tricks - you get the ball for free' 'OK...'
First was some kind of juggling,
the second I couldn't think about something useful therefore made some stupid action - made a surprising face like 'OMG the trick failed' but toooo obvious to be taken serious
'Well... and the third one is ..... ahm, well, let me think.... ahm....'
'Yeah, for the third let your age be a valid offer and here have a haysack' :bomb: Thinking 'Hey, guy I'm not THAT old.' - but obviously for the kid I was beyond limit :blush5:

 

I don't doubt that in general but it's highly unusual in my line of work. I'm sure there have been others but I've only heard of two 18 yr. olds ever who made foreman that young. One of them was me....and by the time I was 20 I was the top foreman in my state (out of 36 crews the company had in the state at that time). The other guy was a young man who made a very bad decision that resulted in an accident which killed a crew member. I am adamantly against people that young running crews....I was the exception to the rule. They just got lucky with me. Kids have no business calling the shots around live high-voltage power lines.

 

Ihave always been young. I have always been old. Figure out that dichotomy.....

Seriously, I don't think about such things unless I am around age-ists....

I have known very mature children and very immature adults

 

Me too, Moonie.

 

I feel older today than I did yesterday...












Wait!

 

I have one most of us can probably relate to...hangovers. I've never been able to handle hangovers well but now I go into this deep body sickness/mental depression after drinking and pretty much have to lay on the couch all day whereas in my 20s I could drink an energy drink and I was good for round 2 the next day

 

That's why I stopped getting shit-faced drunk when I was 30. That hangovers were too bad. I can't even imagine what a hangover would do to me when I have this much trouble with my body on a regular morning.

 

If you guys stop drinking the hard stuff and rice-based domestic beers.....no hang-overs...ever, But you still might wake up on a Saturday morning and think...I better check my HF posts from last night to see what kind of dumb shit I said. You'll still have that.

 

When did I start realizing my age?

Just now... damn.....

Thanks a LOT

 

When all my cute disappeared! Used to get first, second and third looks. Now the women run screaming and crying if I get too close!!

 

^^^ Hell... they were doing that with me when I was young.


The running and screaming part.

 

LOL Then you should have left the Trench coat at home and put some clothes on instead

 

I just got my entire back coated with capsacian creame. That's how I roll on Friday night!

 

Would The First Available Mod Please Move This To The "Love & Sex"


Forums.....K..Thanks......



Cheers Glen.

 

I should correct the wording before somebody busts a nut.

I had roll-on applicator capsacian cream applied to my back.

No flesh touched my flesh.

Story of my life.

 

Bummer