Things Your Parents Said

I'm in the same position now my dad was
in his 60's. All the comedians he saw
in the movies were old or getting old.
Groucho, Bob Hope, who he saw
in the war, Bing, Jack Benny, George
Burns, Milton Berle, Jackie Gleason.

I'm going through the same thing.
Chevy, Steve Martin, Dan Akroyd.
Leno and Letterman, Billy Crystal,
David Spade, Martin Short, all of
Monty Python, Dennis Miller,
on and on.

They're all 60's and 70's, when you
see them all they talk about is the
past. Now I know why this made
my dad sad, Hope and Crosby
and Jack Benny were young when
he was young. Steve Martin was
supposed stay young forever.
Even Seinfeld is 64..

I hear ya. I used to wonder how people let that happen. Now I just do not care. I hear about this or that celeb and do not even know who they are. OTOH, I don't really care who they are.

Quote: AZDuffman

I hear ya. I used to wonder how people let that happen. Now I just do not care. I hear about this or that celeb and do not even know who they are. OTOH, I don't really care who they are.

Miriam Margolyes is a British character actress in her 70's, meeting a rapper from East LA, "Will I Am". Of course she has no idea who he is and as she points out she doesn't meet many black people. She is most famous for her one woman show, Dicken's Women. Miriam is trying to correct Will's diction.


The two characters are very funny as Miriam is clearly charmed by Will and Will seems like he met a throwback to the Days of the Empire.

More and more I'm my old man. He
always kept every scrap of wood,
every screw and nail, because you
would need them some day. In
all the work I've been doing on the
house, I'm using stuff I kept from
35 years ago, 20 years ago. Even
found some baby food jars my dad
had in the 50's full of screws and
washers and nuts and bolts. Good
to have when you need them.

Lots of dads had one of these baby
food jar racks in the 50's. Every
dads garage I went into had one.

when my wife's father passed away, it was discovered he not only had a coffee can full of nails, but a separate coffee can full of *bent* nails just in case they would do

Such things avoided a trip to a hardware store as well as memories of times when they could not afford to buy such simple low-cost items. Self reliance, once learned, sticks.

Quote: odiousgambit

when my wife's father passed away, it was discovered he not only had a coffee can full of nails, but a separate coffee can full of *bent* nails just in case they would do

Yesterday I removed 30 screws that had
been in place for 40 years. I put them all
in the can of screws I have. Throwing
them away would be unthinkable. It's
not the cost of new screws, it's the availability
of them when you need some.

Found a letter my dad wrote me 40 years
ago, when I lived in Calif. He was 69 and
lamenting how he was going to be 70
next year. I'm 69 now, but my dad always
seemed older than his age.

He was always an old guy to me.
He was 35 when I was born, he had
a family before ours. Men got married
young in the 1940's, so all my friends
and classmates dads were in their late
30's when they were 15, my dad was
an ancient 50.

It's different now, men are getting married
later. Lots of older dads these days.

Quote: Evenbob

It's different now, men are getting married
later. Lots of older dads these days.

It is as much women waiting. Many think they can "have it all" and wait. Then many spend a fortune as they passed by their prime childbearing years by the time they decide they want to be a mother.

All of adulthood is delayed these days. People are in their late 20s before they even get a "real" job in many cases.

Quote: AZDuffman

People are in their late 20s before they even get a "real" job in many cases.
"

The doofus dingbat Cortez, the new
congress person, the only job she
ever had was a part time bartender.
She's 29 and this is her first 'real' job.