Crappy Boy walks into the room repeating this:
At first, it is kinda cute. For a minute, I think about how all kids must be born knowing that repeating stuff is a clever way to annoy their parents.
After that minute is over, I realize that yep, it is annoying.
I need to get him to stop saying that.
So I distract him by changing the subject:
I ask him what a record is and he says he has no idea.
Ha! Here he is being annoying with a phrase he doesn’t even know the meaning of. This will not stand.
I must educate him.
I start with computers and don’t even plan to mention CDs or cassettes or 8-tracks. That would just be confusing.
But he interrupts me with the “were you alive” question that he always asks when I talk about the past. It helps him put it in perspective I guess.
So I answer:
And I’m interrupted again! He is impressed. Impressed that I was “alive before computers” apparently.
And he asks if cars and houses existed way back then.
Seriously? Houses?
A cave.
Oh, now I see where he is coming from. Earlier this week we read about Cro-Magnon and early humans. Nice. I think this makes me roughly 40,000 years old?
He laughs.
And I realize that broken records aren’t all that bad:
At least they don’t make you feel old.
———————-
I did eventually explain what a record is.
Remind me to show him some photos of me as a child so he can see how “normal” it all was way back then in the Paleolithic period. (Aka, the ’70s & ’80s.)
HAHAHA! We get this all the time. And our kids are teenager. Jerks.
So true! But my dear 18 yr old son is leaving for college now. I was so ready these last 3 months for him to get out already as I patiently listened to my hubby whine about how he’d miss him. Then, right after he left, I cried and sat in his “old” room. I’m gonna miss my little shithead. (;
My theory is this: God makes teenagers SO irritating and expensive, so we won’t mind them leaving so much….it does get easier over time
I have released 3 onto the world.
God gave us teenagers so we’d know what it’s like to create someone in our own image who denies our existence.
Bah hahahaha! Rose, that’s an amazing saying. I’ve never heard it before. So true.
Love your saying!!
Perfect!
Crazy clever!!!!
Lol oh, this is SO my daughter!!
I was recently asked by my 7 year old if I remembered ‘the war’. He meant the Civil War. I said yes and that I was a nurse who helped to amputate limbs and that I was so good that I was often called upon to cut off limbs even if they weren’t hurt ‘just in case’. =]
This makes me think of ALL SORTS of things I can try to convince my daughter I was around for. That’s right, that movie Highlander was a true story about my life. I even got to suggest Christopher Lambert for the role.
My stepdad had my (much younger) sister convinced that the world was actually all black&white during his childhood after she saw a few old movies. He made up this crazy story about how color was invented and how everone was so excited about how different life was afterward. It was cute to see her get so interested in the concept of colors after that.
Oh Neal, LAUGHING out LOUD!
Love that, perfect!
I used to ask my grandmother to tell me about the “olden days”
She was born in 1925 though and to a 6 year old (born in 1986) that was a LONG time ago! Heck, I’ll be 26 this year and 1925 still seems like a really long time ago 
I know! I am 28 now, and my Granny was born in 1913, she’ll be 99 this October, and I love hearing about her childhood- she even met Amelia Earhart! Can you imagine how much the world around her has changed?!
I now live in Europe and she is in LA, and we video call with
Skype (with help of course)- she says she loves that “show”.
When she was only 93 she decided she wanted a new car, so my boyfriend (now husband) and I took her to test drive cars- the Honda Element and Scion box…anyways, you should have seen the salesmen’s faces when they took and copied her driver’s license!! She stopped driving at 95.
LB I applaud your gran! It’s awesome to see people embrace life – my mom is in her 60s and very old in her mind – it makes me sad .
That will teach you to not try to educate your children.
LOL!!! Lesson learned!
I had a similar experience a while back… *sigh*
http://asortofpurplething.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/and-we-wore-flour-sacks-to-school-too.html
We still have a record player and use it to play my kid’s records from the 70′s and 80′s. I have not given our address to the museum so it hopefully won’t be confiscated!!
A kid asked me how old I was and I asked “How old do you think I am?” Big mistake… The answer? “70.” FML, I’m only 27!
My toddler can’t count that high yet. She says I’m twelve. Which my wife agrees with.
My 2 year old daughter said I was 10 when she was asked, when my wife laughed, I asked how old she was, and was told 5. She wasn’t quite as amused then when I equated her mental age to what was said.
My almost five year old always says she’s nineteen and a half. And that I’m seven.
My son tells me I am 20 when I asked him how old I was on Mother’s Day. He kept singing the birthday song to me because I was getting presents, so it must be my birthday and not some other special occasion.
Ha ha, you’r so old! (Me too.) Do you remember those books that had the little record on the page? You put the player on the book and it would read it to you? that was like the orginal leap frog book. Tell him about those, it would blow his little mind! We had the Disney ones.
THESE http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Talk-to-Me_Books are what I am talking about
I won a set of Gremlin ones when I was little!
I really really wish I could get some for my kids – I had the record player too, all plastic and primary colors. Sigh. Progress ain’t all it’s cracked up to be sometimes.
My 20mo son tried to use my Nintendo DS. You know, the one without a touchscreen.
Oh, your posts make me feel SO ridiculously normal
I LOVE THEM!
My 6 year old *told* me the other day that it must have been pretty cool to ride dinosaurs to school, since I’m all old and stuff. >.>
I told him “No, they were dead by the time I got to high school, but Maw Maw did. You should go ask her about it.”
And for the record, I’m only 25. I was in high school in 2000.
Wow! I guess it all depends on what you mean by “computer” but computers were certainly around by 1950. So you must be at least 62 if you were alive “before computers.” And you have two little kids? The wonders of medical science!
Way to take a fun and silly entry and be all literal. For the rest of us, it’s pretty clear she meant before computers were an integral part of society, before most people had them in their homes with access to the internet. Come on now, lighten up a teeny bit!
Actually, I think you may need to lighten up too… I think Tillerman was just being silly by making it literal. =P
If you’re getting that technical the first computers were invented by the Greeks, in 300-ish B.C. One logic gate is a computer by strict definition.
Yes, but in the context of her conversation, she clearly meant personally owned computers for music playing purposes.
… I just had a flashback to .midi files. Now I feel OLD……..
I can relate. My in-laws have one of the old Fisher Price record players. You know the one with plastic records that work like a music box? Anyway, when my kids play with that toy they don’t call them records, they call them CDs.
My in-laws also have my husband’s from his childhood and my two kids say the same thing!
They make those still! My MIL got one for my son; they’re marketed as “retro” toys to us old fart parents in our 30s.
I love it when they use the ‘wrong’ words for old technology, usually makes total sense. Last summer there was a little girl next to us in a bird sanctuary calling the paper map the Sat nav! I had loads more examples but my brain is fully non functional given chicken pox toddler induced lack of sleep…
That just made me tear up…. the same way I do when my 18 month old son thinks that all headphones are headsets (I wear my bluetooth nearly constantly) and uses them to play phone…. and that he thinks all my old pdas and mp3 players are phones as well….
I had one of these when I was a kid! I was thinking of looking for one for my son, I think I saw them at Target with the “retro” toys.
I feel like I have this whole conversation verbatim every single day with my sons.
Their favorite is to tell me that I am so old… and Dad (one month older than me) is so young.
And then there is the five year old. “I love your wrinkles, Mom! I love your fat tummy, Mom!”
Sweet, but no…
I know I never called my parents old, despite the fact that they had me when my dad was forty…
Hahaha. My 7 y/o, upon learning that when I was a child we didn’t have the Internet, said to me, “oh man, what a bummer for you!” I was like, no really, we went out and played and stayed outside for hours. His reply, “I would never do that to you, mom.” Like his being away from me would cause me such great emotional harm that it’s just better for everyone involved if I allow him to play on the computer rather than go outside and play. LOL
“I would never do that to you, mom.” LOL. So funny.
My daughter thought the world had no color because of black and white movies. She used to say “Mama, remember when everything was just black and white…..”
I remember over hearing a conversation beteween my 6 year old and 4 year old years ago.. the 4 y.o. asked what a record was and the 6 y.o. told her it was “one of those really big black cd’s”.. Made me feel old.
This might make you feel even older…
When I was little (around 6), I called them “big black cds” too!!! That was seventeen years ago!
But I’ve always been a fan of “you’re only as old as you act,” so none of you are in danger of being old, but possibly the husbands (including mine) are already classified as extra children.
In my final year at college (1986/7) we did a course in Quantitative Methods. One of the modules had a single 3 hour open book exam at the end, for which we were given the question at the beginning of the year. We had to show how we reached the answer to the question “Will CDs be the “next big thing” in the music industry?”
My 9-year-old stepdaughter, yesterday, while making fun of Trader Joe’s “Vintage” root beer for tasting a whole lot like “contemporary” root beer: (in old-person voice) “We had root beer just like this back in my day…I remember it as if it was yesterday…It was 1984…”
Wait, you mean 1984 wasn’t yesterday??? I seem to be missing some decades!
LOL.
Kids are born to torture parents. Just wait until they are 17 and 20.
one evening we had a power cut, my daughter was about 7. i lit loads of candles and said we’d read to each other by candle light, it would be fun.
my daughter asked if that’s what we had to do ‘in the olden days when you were young, mummy’. (i was young in the 1970s and 80s. in london. we did have electricity.)
Not in some bits of the 70s, when we had 3 day weeks and power cuts and Daddy wired up a car battery to run lights in the living room and we cooked on the camping stove.
Oh, yeah, it’s happened to me too–but over phones. Wow. We’re those old adult people now!
http://and-then-ill-sit-down.blogspot.com/2012/01/12-hours-of-random-8am-to-8pm.html
My 4-year-old asked me what it was like to have to hide from dinosaurs when I was a little girl…
Hiding from dinosaurs is something you should never grow out of.
The next time my daughter finds me cowering in a corner, I’m going to tell her to “Shhh! We’ve got to hide from the Dinosaurs!
I figure if I’m afflicted with dinosaur dreams, everybody else should be too.
Although, for my daughter, it may be that cows are just as scary as dinosaurs:
http://raisedbymydaughter.blogspot.com/2012/07/our-2-year-olds-first-nightmare.html
Cute. I love Neal’s reply as well. Must remember that for my kids.
My three year old asked me do I remember dinosaurs when I was little, did I live in a house, were there any people alive then? How old does she think I am!
I am a retired teacher and where kids are concerned, age has no basis in any fact LoL I had kids guessing my age anywhere from 70 to 21 (I would have hugged the ones who guessed low, but it was against the rules!!)
Against the rules to hug kids??? Now THAT’S a sign of how far is too far beyond ridiculous!
Yes, it is the same in our district. Against the rules to hug. Don’t even get me started.
I taught at a science summer camp one time for college co-op experience. The segment that was mine was the kids got to take apart electronic gadgets to see what was inside to make them work. At age 20, I was made to feel old when an 8 year old asked me what the Atari system he had just pulled out of the donation box was. I told him it was like a Nintendo game from when I was a kid. He promptly turned to his buddy and said “LOOK! It’s an ANCIENT Nintendo!”
Nice, kid. I could totally take you at Space Invaders.
You were so totally not alive before computers.
The Programma 101, released in 1965, was the first commercial “desktop computer”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
Are you older than 47?
Wow, I missed it by one year, I was born in 1966. LOL and I have a 5 year old now, so when he tells me I’m old, I have to agree
If it came out in October 65, then yes, I’m older. My birthday is in July.
You must be fun at parties.
But that computer did not play music, replacing CDs. That was the context of her conversation. If you have reading comprehension skills she was saying “before we used computers to play music” so I still think as long as Amber was born before the late 90s it is accurate.
At my household, all we ever listen to is RECORDS… and I’m 28
So my son, Spider will definitley know what a record is. He’ll probably have no clue what a MP3 file is though!
This post, and the resulting comments have me laughing.
I once offered to play a Puff the Magic Dragon record on an old cabinet stereo inherited from my Grandfather for my niece, then 5 (she is now 21!). And even ‘way’ back then, her response was “What’s a record.”
I was seriously floored. It had not occurred to me that she might not know what that was.
If you really want to floor your kids, let them know you are:
Pre-computer (mostly. I actually am but shhh about that)
Pre-dishwasher (other than the kids)
Pre-cell phone? Heck we are pre-portable phone. I spent a good part of my early teen years stuck to a wall by a curly cord. Can you remember all the work and pre-planning that went into sneaking out. No texting for us. nuh uh.
Also: pre-cable, pre-satellite, pre-electronic toys of any kind, and pre-children’s programming (thankful for Saturday morning cartoons and G-Force!)
My daughter is about to turn 10 and she doesn’t think I’m old. In fact she likes to tell her friends that “when me and my mom grow up, we are going to be old ladies together”. She’s right, when she is 60 I will be 80 and we WILL be old ladies together
This must be the sweetest child ever to grace this earth… until she tells me she hope she doesn’t look like me when she gets bigger… and the spell is broken!
That is so sweet – and humorous! I laughed out loud.
Once when my nephew was little, he asked my parents if they had a pet dinosaur when they were kids. Like Pebbles and Bam-Bam. My mother was deeply offended. My father grinned and said “Yes. Yes we did! Want to hear all about it?”. And then he proceeded to lie through his teeth. My nephew said he couldn’t wait to tell his teacher, and my father said “You go ahead and do that! Tell all your classmates, too!”. And so he did. Did NOT go well for him. As you can imagine. This is how my father teaches lessons. lol
Oh my gosh, so funny. I love parents who have a sense of humor.
My daughter is 2 1/2, and she’s just starting to understand about age. The other day, my husband asked her “How old do you think Daddy is?”
She replied: “Um… 5?” and he told her “I’m 36.”
She stared at him and said “Yeah… You’re 36…” as if he was crazy!
My 4-year-old has asked me how old I am and I replied, “You can tell everyone I’m 26″ – so he did. He walked up to his preschool teacher the very next day, tapped her on the shoulder and said, “My mom is 26.” At least she didn’t snicker too loudly…
My 6-year-old wanted to know if, in the world before mobile phones, there were grocery stores and money.
This reminds me of a friend of mine. When we were kids she was convinced the world was in black and white when her mum was growing up (because all the old tv shows were in black and white) She thought the world started to be in colour in the 70′s LOL. Her mum still teases her about it now ”remember when you asked me what it was like in the Black and White days?” Cracks me up every time.
I teach in a college and I feel old when I realize my students were born in the 90′s… but I also subscribe to the “you’re as old as you feel” group like one of the other comments said. A student called me “middle-aged” once and I did NOT like that but I forgave her because she is actually older than me by about 10 years. She was trying to include me in her peer group.
Recently we has a storm in the neighborhood and many trees came down including a humungous oak a block from our house. Well, it split in half but was still standing, mostly. We watch the workers cut it down. It took three days… (great free entertainment). Afterwards, we went over to stand on the stump and count the rings to tell how old the tree was. This is new to my 4 year old. We start at the middle and when we get to 4 I stop and say: “that’s how old you are”, then we pause at 35: “that’s how old I am”, then we paused at 60: “that’s how old grandpa is”, then we paused at 120: “that’s as old as 2 grandpas!”, then I stopped counting. The tree must have been between 130 and 160 years old.
oops, sorry for the typos.
You are not old BTW
I told one of my older apprentices last week that I graduated in 1987. He looked at me and said “I wasn’t even born then!” Most of my cherubs were born in the 90s, but the new ones coming onto the programme were born in 1996. That’s the latter part of the 90s. I have clothing older than they are (which I still wear!!!).
wow, that’s an old oak
We still listen to music in much the same way, though. What really blows my mind and my kids’ minds is when I explain that when I was a kid we didn’t have DVDs, VCRs or even, in my house at least, cable television. Once a movie was out of the theater, that was it, unless they happened to show it on TV. That’s probably, for my kids, one of the most significant differences in our lives (since we still don’t have cable). Well besides, not having a remote control.
Yeah… I get “Maman is soooo old that when she was a little grils, phone were tied up to the wall!!! To the wall! I mean, you could not walk around with them, there was that thing to get tangled in…. blah, blah, blah… ” “And she did not EVEN have a cellphone! Haaaa!”
Have you lost weight? All I could think was “she looks so skinny”. Haha. I guess I just figure there’s an actual stick figure lady trolling the East Coast. No big deal.
Ha! All I could think was “her dress keeps getting more and more scandalous”! I think it must be above the knee now.
Well it is summer, maybe she shortens her dress for the warm months.
And I totally meant WEST coast. Duh.
Yep, above the knee. LIke you said, maybe it’s seasonal. Maybe she’ll have sleeves in the winter?
I love the evolution of the stick figure.
We are totally in the “why” phase, but not the broken record phase yet. I think my husband might go a little nutty when that happens. Though he does love explaining the “Why” of things. So much so that S just loses interest.
*laughs* This is totally going to be my son and I. Right now he’s in the “What’s That?” stage, and I’m usually WAY too specific (ie: That’s a Toyota Highlander SUV), and have to correct myself “it’s a kind of CAR,” and he says “Car!!”
My sister’s ice maker in the fridge broke and her 4 and 6 year-olds were beyond impressed that she actually knew how to make ice.
http://www.food.com/recipe/ice-cubes-420398
Read the ratings & reviews!!!
That’s hilarious!
that. is. awesome!
Our fridge doesn’t have an ice maker in the front so it does amaze the boy when we see one in someone else’s house and he doesn’t know why it is there. Never thought about kids growing not knowing how to make ice.
I really am old. Older than all of you probably, and certainly older than you Amber. But my 3 year old thinks I’m “maybe 11″. Which sounds momentarily flattering, but to him is, of course, also ancient.
Betcher not older than me!
Wait until you have to explain why we “dial” the phone…
My husband asked our eight year old who left the phone off the hook and she said,”off the hook? what hook? that doesn’t even make sense.”
10 years ago, I was ill and left my job. I went back to college to do a horticulture course. Most of the students were “mature” (old, like me!), but there were a few who were 19-20 and one lad who was 16 and a complete pain in the butt.
I had a vague feeling that I’d met one of the lecturers before somewhere, but couldn’t place his face or his name. I, OTOH, have a very unusual name, which you might think people would recognise (lots of people down the years have told me they know a family member, or ask if I’m related to someone, as we’re the only family with our surname in the country!). Some time later, I was looking through my old photo album and came across my junior school class photos. My lecturer and I had been in the same class for 4 years, then gone to different secondary schools in 1976. He was best friends with my goddaughter’s uncle (also in our class).
The following week, I took the photo in to show it to him. The 16yr old came over and wanted to know what it was. We explained we’d been at school together and this was the class photo. He looked at it, looked at us and said “Did they really have colour photos back then?”
I so remember my mother getting really cross and saying ‘I’m not that old’ when I asked her if she drove in a horse and carriage when she was young… Given one of her favourite stories was about how they use to worry that London would be submerged in horse dung till they in enter the car, I thought it was a fair question!
My mom still uses her record player as her main source of music and my son calls them “the big, black cd’s” lol!
My 2yr 11month old is very excited about turning 3. He asked me the other day if I was 3 (which I was quite flattered by), but admitted that “No, I’m 33.” To which he replied “Yeah, you are 3!” I thought about trying to explain, but then decided whatever… I’ll take it!
hahaha!
My son (4) usually starts with “muumm…back in the *ooolden days*, when you were little..”
I’m 33! Thanks kiddo!
My mom always joked to us kids when we were little that she sewed dinosaur harnesses as her first job. I must have made her feel old a lot. Don’t worry, mom… my kids are doing it to me now, too.
HAHA, Thanks Kharissa for telling the WORLD my black and white story….lol
Hahahaha! I’m watching some LOs all day all week and they’re endlessly fascinated with this strange idea that all homeless people must live in caves. Now I’m beginning to suspect cave fascination is just a 5 to 6yo thing
My son once asked if they had bread when I was a little girl!
“When I was young…… we had to get up to change the channel on the TV!”
Love your site!
I feel you set yourself up a little bit. Vinyl records are still in use and in distribution. Sounds more like your home doesn’t use them, rather than them being “old”.
They are really only used by collectors and hipsters. They haven’t reached mass market level sales since the mid eighties.
Don’t forget DJ’s.
My aunt *was* a computer, seriously, one of her first job titles was ‘computer’…
So. Several years ago when my then 5 year old grandson was riding home with us from his great grandmother’s house late at night, he noticed some Amish go by in a horse and buggy. He stared hard, then turned to me and thoughtfully asked, “Gramma, did you used to drive a horse and buggy when you were a kid?”
What??!! I sputtered “NO!!” while the whole car busted out laughing, “I drove a car! We had cars back then!” My husband (who is older than me by the way) laughed the hardest. Sheesh.
Fast forward to last month when my 8 year old granddaughter said, “Gramma, was there color you were young?”
Floored, I wisely said, “Huh?”
“You know, was it black and white?”
Omg. I begin to get it and ask her, “You mean like on tv when the shows were black and white?”
Yes. That’s exactly what she meant. Sigh. No dear, we had color, it’s just that people didn’t know how to make color pictures or tv at first.
Yup, I’m old. Apparently. And I am a young gramma thanks to my daughter starting early and I look way younger than all the other grammas. Doesn’t count to kids because we always look old to them lol.
One of the children we drive around recently told my friend after staring at her wrinkles that her “face was cracked”. Isn’t that special?
Well, I bet I have you all beat. I am 52, born in the end of 1959, and my son is only 11. I had him at 41.
I was really flabbergasted after having him and all those kid questions…I thought my grandmother had the corner on all the “inventions when you were growing up”!
But in my time…yeah, I was, hmm…25? when I got my first answering machine. I had a “new” princess phone in my late teens. My parents had to have a 2nd unlisted phone line installed for when my dad was on call, and that was the only phone number the company had, so we’d know if it was them. Boy did my mom get steamed if telemarketers called that line!
And yeah, the main line had a really, really long cord so I could have “privacy” around the corner into the living room to have my phone calls!
We had to get up to change channels. No cable. I lived outside of NYC so very lucky to get 8 channels! Not till I was older did I realize most people got two or three, or even none. I remember cable coming out. You had this huge box, connected to the TV by a really long cord, so you could actually sit on the couch across the room and change channels. HBO was a big deal. A whole movie without commercials, or having to go to the theater!
Records…I told my son that they were “really really BIG CDs”. He’s seen my collection but I have nothing to play them on anymore. Thanks to YouTube he has gotten an idea. We still have cassettes, and I am not up to speed with MP3 and such. No pods in this house, yet.
I remember my family getting a dishwasher. That was great for me, as the family “dishwasher”!
If I think of more, I’ll post them…but yeah. Dialing a phone. LOL. DS has never seen a dial phone. We had a landline till last year or so, but now only my cell. He’ll still say “MOM! PHONE!” even if it’s right next to me. Um, you answer it?
Oh yeah, and my son and I haven’t ever had cable. Only VCRs and now a DVD player. When he was smaller, and first saw a TV show (at my mom’s? I think) he missed a part and said “Mom, can you rewind it?” I couldn’t for the life of me make him get it that you can’t rewind TV. That the show is the show and it goes on and on whether you like it or not. That you wait to pee, or get a snack, till the commercials.
I know they have ways of recording TV now, but I am not up to speed with how that’s done (and we still don’t have cable– just a huge old clunky TV set with a DVD and a VCR and we have Netflix on the Wii).
Reading a children’s book recently, with my son, I looked to see when it was published. 1968! What a co-incidence. I asked my son whether he knew anyone born around that year. He looked at me and said “Jesus?” Yeah, I’m that old.
I can always count on your blog for some much needed levity.
This is one of my favorite little videos, but it definitely makes me feel old… Never mind records…
http://gawker.com/5728003/watch-cute-french-children-attempt-to-understand-80s-technology
You had HOUSES? Man, I had to live in a shelter made of sticks!
Well another funny is when I gave my nephew who is 10 an underwater disposable camera for a school camp… got it processed and handed him the pics… he took out the negatives and looked at them going, gee helen, these are funny pictures….
only had a clue about digital cameras….
Yes, I had a similar conversation with my 8-year old daughter last night. She started her sentence with “Back in the olden days…” I stopped her to clarify what the olden days were – her reply “oh you know, back in the 1980′s like 1987″…….. really?
For my kids, the saying is, “I am a robot” over and over, with a monotone voice. I need to show them an old Jetsons show so that they know what “real” robots look like. Ha ha. Real robots should clean your house for you and make you food instantly. They’d listen to a tv show way more than if I just told them this.
This must be an epidemic. My 8 year old let it slip a few weeks ago that he thought I was born before the invention of plastic. Yeah. I’m 30. I was trying to explain at the time that we didn’t have a computer in the house while I was growing up, and I think it blew his mind.
He’s also the kid that loves Billy Idol, but thinks a record is “when you get the best score” on a video game. I love my kids
Love this. One of my daughter’s school friends asked her if I was her grandmother. This was minutes after talking to a few other moms and saying I was turning 45 the next day. The moms looked at me and said (as they should because I was definitely fishing), “But you look so young. No way are you going to be 45.” I thought to myself, “Hmmm, who is telling the truth here???”
Watching “American Pickers,” when they unearth a phonograph and pull out an album, my 4-yr-old busts out with, “Wow, that’s a really big old CD!”