You Know You Are Old When

[scootr]

My parents have been married over 70 yrs. They are 95 and 100 yrs old.

 

[ultrarunner]

My in laws were married 67 years.

That is the longest marriage of anyone I knew personally.

Anyone on TBN exceed 67 years of marriage?

Can't say but had a patient yesterday for eye surgery brought in by her husband and they are 76 years married and it was a very short courtship as they both knew.

They came in holding hands...

 

[drssg]

My in laws were married 67 years.

That is the longest marriage of anyone I knew personally.

Anyone on TBN exceed 67 years of marriage?

I can't remember the exact date, but my in-laws are close to that. A good while ago, we had a dual 50th wedding anniversary party for my wife's parents and her aunt and uncle.

At her father's wedding, the best man was the groom's brother. The maid of honor was the bride's cousin. The maid of honor was already engaged to be married to someone else at the time, but she met the best man at the wedding, and they got along REALLY well! Within a couple of months, her engagement was called off, and she married the best man instead.

It doesn't sound like the start of a long and stable marriage, but both couples are still alive and together.

 

[MoKelly]

Dang!
Since I got married Feb 29th I'll be well over 300 at my 70th anniversary

My oldest was born Feb. 29.

He likes to say he is 7 years old!

 

[sixdogs]

My oldest was born Feb. 29.

He likes to say he is 7 years old!

Ask him about returning the extra birthday gifts he got.

 

[zzvyb6]

You pee at 6:00 a.m., poop at 6:30 a.m., and wake up at 7:00 a.m. !

 

[WinterDeere]

I'm beginning to think one of the key differences between "young" and "old" is a basic understanding of the first amendment. Watching interviews with protesting students at Columbia and UCLA, so many of them claim their first amendment rights are being trampled by their university. How simultaneously ignorant and entitled can one be?

The 1st Amendment only protects one against arrest and persecution for expressing your thoughts and ideas. But it does not preclude any employer or university from deciding you're more trouble than you are worth, and asking you to leave. Freedom works both ways, and these student protests are negatively impacting the student life of the majority of students who are actually complying with university policies.

 

[Hay Dude]

I'm beginning to think one of the key differences between "young" and "old" is a basic understanding of the first amendment. Watching interviews with protesting students at Columbia and UCLA, so many of them claim their first amendment rights are being trampled by their university. How simultaneously ignorant and entitled can one be?

The 1st Amendment only protects one against arrest and persecution for expressing your thoughts and ideas. But it does not preclude any employer or university from deciding you're more trouble than you are worth, and asking you to leave. Freedom works both ways, and these student protests are negatively impacting the student life of the majority of students who are actually complying with university policies.

True, but the way our rights have been trampled on in the last 10-20 years is such a disgrace that nothing surprises me.

“no joke”

 

[DarkBlack]

 

[Oaktree]

Same. We tend to get a later start in life, these days.

When I look back at the family tree, most branches of mine are traced back into the early 1500's, it's amusing to see the spacing between generations in years prior to WW2 versus everything after. Couples getting married by 20 and first kids in early 20's were common, at least in my family's past, meaning you could realistically see 5 or even 6 generations gathered at the same time.

Now, with so many not having kids until their mid-30's, it's a notable event any time a family can put more than 3 generations in the same photo.

Not everyone got married young in the old days either. My father was in his early 30s when he and my mother got married, my wife's parents were even older. Mine made it to the low 50s together, I don't think hers made it to 50. Of the 4 only my mother made it past 84. (never met my wife's parents...both were gone before we met).
For my wife and I to hit our 70th anniversary we'd have to make it to 2078.

 

[Oaktree]

True, but the way our rights have been trampled on in the last 10-20 years is such a disgrace that nothing surprises me.

“no joke”

Rights have been "trampled on" since the beginning of time, especially if you're considered somehow inferior to the masses. Would you have wanted to be a black man in the south much more than 50 years ago (for one example)? Or most anyone not part of the "master race" in Germany in the first half of the last century.
Humans have always only paid lip service to "equality" and "rights".

 

[MoKelly]

“Stupid is as stupid does”.

You feel old when you see Forest Gump was made 30 years ago.

Maybe it seems younger to me because it’s replayed all the time!

 

[WinterDeere]

Not everyone got married young in the old days either. My father was in his early 30s when he and my mother got married, my wife's parents were even older. Mine made it to the low 50s together, I don't think hers made it to 50. Of the 4 only my mother made it past 84. (never met my wife's parents...both were gone before we met).
For my wife and I to hit our 70th anniversary we'd have to make it to 2078.

Oh, definitely true. But I think the trend or average really skipped out over the last ~80 years, probably linked to college enrollment making such a huge jump with the baby boomers. Add 4-8 years of post-secondary education, to your early-20's, and it has a way of delaying one's starting a family.

The costs of housing, and so many millennials failing to launch at what prior generations would consider a "normal" age, probably also play into it in more recent years.

 

[ultrarunner]

My grandfather was 30 and grandmother 18

He said a man couldn’t think of marriage until he made his way and could provide for a family.

I said didn’t anyone get married young and he said yes… the oldest son taking over the family business often married young because his future was set… like the son taking over the family farm.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

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[scootr]

Happy happy happy boy!

 

[NHBX]

By the look on his face money can buy happiness!

 

[scootr]

The saying is 'Anybody who says money can't buy happiness never bought a puppy'

 

[deserteagle71]

He said a man couldn’t think of marriage until he made his way and could provide for a family.

Sure wish more people today would have that state of mind!

 

[scootr]

Sure wish more people today would have that state of mind!

Some do. They are still living in Mom's basement well into their 30s