Think I'll join jkath - different reasons

buckytom said:
karen i understand where you are coming from, and will certainly miss you.

but i also will say that i'd be really disappointed to see you go back to that other place. we all left there for various but in some way similar reasons. was it really so bad here that would make you forget the bs over there?

nct is growing and will certainly change. there are bound to be rough spots. i just hope that you would consider keeping an open mind, and check back here to see if things improve to your liking.
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Extremely well said.
 
MexicoKaren said:
I came across the complaint that most people had "middle-aged" children and made a reference to an AARP Forum. Obviously, I was reluctant to post my own info at that point,
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Not obvious to me.

Not to say I don't know how you feel.

About 15 years ago Wife notes the students she worked with were young enough to be her children. She started at KSU as a student and now (then) they were young enough to be her kids.

And now I see, at 50, there are those my age having GrandBabies. ... How the hell early did they start????

I can't dodge the fact that I'm getting old .... :whistling:

I've been on a car car forum since '98*, there's one kid young enough to be my kid, biologically, and another kid young enough to be this other guys kid ... My "Grandson" is trying to tell us all about things like Weed. :dizzy: And the GrandPuppy is trying to tell how 'we' don't know what it's like to be a child today, when the truth is there isn't a whole hell of allot going on today that we didn't do back then, except we did it without pads and helmets.

So I guess you could choose to get pissed off when reminded of your age, or you could choose to use your age to your advantage, because you don't get 65 years of life experience by living less than 65 years, normally.


but to me it felt like I was not welcome here because of my age (65).
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Your choice[/i].

this is probably the first time I have experienced a negative response because of age...
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This is where I believe your actively looking for something to be angry about.

I'm 50, I carry the AARP card. I thought nothing of the statement. For someone 15 years older than me to get a burr under their saddle over that statement is preposterous.


I know it sounds like a cliché, but it is true that freedom carries with it a sense of responsibility.
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True.

It's the responsibility of the reader not to go looking for things to get pissed off about.


I don't function well in an environment where you don't know where the next snipe is coming from –
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True.

I'll reference post numbers 1 and 114 in this thread.

Methinks thou dost protest too much

Seems to me the snipe is directed to the whole forum.

* Like I say, I've been on and in forums since 1998, mail lists and usenet since ~ 95. In those years there has never been someone announcing their leaving a forum without there being an ulterior motive. At most the non-manipulative may have sent a PM or eMail to a couple of people.

At 50 I'm starting to wonder how to rig a "Dead Mans Switch" to inform people of my passing. Some will see it as a reason to grieve, many others will see the notification as an occasion to have a party. But mostly it will just be trivia.
 
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Wart said:
Not obvious to me.

Not to say I don't know how you feel.

About 15 years ago Wife notes the students she worked with were young enough to be her children. She started at KSU as a student and now (then) they were young enough to be her kids.

And now I see, at 50, there are those my age having GrandBabies. ... How the hell early did they start????

I can't dodge the fact that I'm getting old .... :whistling:
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Wart, I had 4 kids before my 22 birthday and became a grandfather at 40 so it happens. I was married when I was 17. Some of us start younger than others. :wink:
 
Well I could be an AARP member....I've never joined! Dh is a Golden Buckeye member though. lol
I was a grandmother at 47 and so was my mother. I'm 55 now but I don't feel it and don't act like it either! It's all in how you perceive it I guess.
 
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