Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

I know I'm not an old person...not by a long shot but I'm beginning to get those reminders that I'm not as young as I once was. I visited my old school and dropped into a classroom to visit my old history teacher. At that point a current student asked me when I graduated and I told him in 2005. He says to me, "I was 11 years old then." Thanks, man...thanks.

No sooner had I gotten over that did I get a text message from a friend of mine. Turns out a girl who was a year behind me in my first high school is five months pregnant. She's a beautiful girl...I hope the guy who got her pregnant is a good person, stands behind her and realizes how lucky he is to have her. But still, the fact that a person I knew at age 14 is already having a kid is enough to make me feel ancient.

Off to dye my gray hairs now....

You still have a long way to go my friend!

I graduated high school in 1988. I'm guessing you were probably still in diapers that year... or at least close to it.

I graduated in 1998, nearly 11 years ago.

cabman701 wrote:You still have a long way to go my friend!

I graduated high school in 1988. I'm guessing you were probably still in diapers that year... or at least close to it.

You would be correct, sir. I was born in December of '86.

Yeah, we feel old at 22-23. Scary. My best friend (whom I've also known since age 14) is married and has a kid. My junior and senior years of high school (5-6 years ago!) we would stand around our lockers and remark what a bunch of egotistical, narcissistic @&&holes the new freshman classes were.

"Why, when I was that age I showed some respect for my elders!"

"Kids these days! Get offa my lawn!"

I was born in 1993; I'm 15.

I took a trip to BC, Canada in 1997, when I was 3.

Yet I still remember parts of it like it was yesterday:

Taking a ferry to Victoria from Port Angeles, WA;

Going to Buchart Gardens;

Sleeping on the floor of a closet in a upscale hotel (if you're wondering ( ) there wasn't anywhere else, & I was so small at the time that I fit perfectly in there );

and lastly, taking a ferry to Vancouver.

I graduated HS in 2006. In less than a week, I'll already be a senior in college.

My latest set of shockwaves is seeing my brother go through all the things I went through: getting his license, going to prom, soon I'll be seeing him graduate. It REALLY seems like it was just yesterday that i was going all of those things. My brother is almost 4 years younger than I am.

Most people say it's your age that makes you feel old. To me, it's just seeing my brother go through everything I did only a few years ago.

I'll be celebrating another decade birthday this year as I turn 30.

AndrewFields wrote:I know I'm not an old person...not by a long shot but I'm beginning to get those reminders that I'm not as young as I once was. I visited my old school and dropped into a classroom to visit my old history teacher. At that point a current student asked me when I graduated and I told him in 2005. He says to me, "I was 11 years old then." Thanks, man...thanks.

No sooner had I gotten over that did I get a text message from a friend of mine. Turns out a girl who was a year behind me in my first high school is five months pregnant. She's a beautiful girl...I hope the guy who got her pregnant is a good person, stands behind her and realizes how lucky he is to have her. But still, the fact that a person I knew at age 14 is already having a kid is enough to make me feel ancient.

Off to dye my gray hairs now....

KARMA''S A BITCH ISNT IT

Happy birthday, ya old fart! rember that

yep life keeps on tickin i rember when the up jeff city sub only HAD 1 E-BELL (GORE AVE) now iam luckey to see an m-bell on that sub
bnsf doesnt have a single m-bell left on the mainline untill valley park mo
seems like yesturday i was 10 years old but iam that was over 6 years ago

TRAINMANKIGHT wrote:

AndrewFields wrote:I know I'm not an old person...not by a long shot but I'm beginning to get those reminders that I'm not as young as I once was. I visited my old school and dropped into a classroom to visit my old history teacher. At that point a current student asked me when I graduated and I told him in 2005. He says to me, "I was 11 years old then." Thanks, man...thanks.

No sooner had I gotten over that did I get a text message from a friend of mine. Turns out a girl who was a year behind me in my first high school is five months pregnant. She's a beautiful girl...I hope the guy who got her pregnant is a good person, stands behind her and realizes how lucky he is to have her. But still, the fact that a person I knew at age 14 is already having a kid is enough to make me feel ancient.

Off to dye my gray hairs now....

CARMA'S A BITCH ISNT IT

Happy birthday, ya old fart! rember that

yep life keeps on tickin i rember when the up jeff city sub only HAD 1 E-BELL (GORE AVE) now iam luckey to see an m-bell on that sub
bnsf doesnt have a single m-bell left on the mainline untill valley park mo
seems like yesturday i was 10 years old but iam that was over 6 years ago

It's spelled Karma. But I do subscribe to that theory and I got my comeuppance. It takes time...but it happens.