Today is "back to school" day for teachers, but the subject of this post stems from the fact that my daughter is freaking out about Hillary Duff being pregnant, because "Hillary Duff can't be pregnant. She's Lizzy McGuire." (I started this post a LONG time ago, and never finished it. Here it is.)
So I started thinking about the things that served as a "yes, you're really that old" slap in my face over the years. Here's the list as I can think of it now; I might edit it as I think of other things. Feel free to chime in.
Watching a baseball game and realizing the starting pitcher was younger than I was.
Learning that someone I knew pretty well at P&G was now CMO of the company. (And a handful of others I knew at P&G being CEOs of fairly significant enterprises.)
My daughter going to college.
My daughter getting married.
1/20/2009, when, for the first time, the President of the United States was younger than me.
My son starting to drive. (For some reason, my older daughters starting to drive didn't hit me the same way. Maybe it's related to my concern about the driving skills of teenage boys versus teenage girls...)
Dad, it's LIZZIE. LIZZIE MCGUIRE.
ReplyDeleteYOU ARE SO OLD/OUT OF TOUCH.
Ha. Love you. No worries; I will make you feel old, because I will not be getting married.