im starting my LA marathon training in a couple months. Also having a 2 year old granddaughter who likes to pick flowers so I have to squat down with her for what seems like hours would kill my knees and hips if I didn’t take care of them. Father Time always wins but I can keep that bitch at bay for a little longer lol
I don't interact with a lot of Gen Z'ers regularly so when I do there are lots of words I have to start googling. Also 34.
I have 2 Gen Z kids and 2 millennial kids and boy is it a wild ride it’s a trip to be both a young dad and an old one. With my two oldest I was always the youngest dad in the get together now I’m finally age appropriate.
I've put a lot of focus in strengthening my lower body this past year and it has almost entirely alleviated the pain in my knees that I previously had. Makes doing all activities with the kiddos much more enjoyable. Good luck with your marathon!
Playing lame trivia game at work function with a grown man who knew his shit. Told him we needed to go out to some sportsbar's trivia night. People will start handing in their keyboards once we start taking them down. And this grown man (who was something like 23) went, Hand in their keyboards? That's when I realized that the long-ago days of big black blocky beer-resistant rubber keyboards with little antennas on the corners have likely been replaced by some goddam app by now. Spoiler Cheers.
That was 20 plus years ago though I feel like I'm an older guy here and remember when we could google sports facts faster than waiting for espn and that was a big deal. Like 2000 or so But somehow sportscenter lived on in daily replays for a long time after
I do remember specifically realizing that phones/google killed the old sports bar argument of whoever had better stats than whomever else Like that was life changing, and I kind of feel like most of the guys on this board arnt old enough to remember when you couldn't verify some random sports stat at the tip of your fingers in a bar while discussing A Rod
As a teacher, I had a moment when I walked into a school and saw a former student that I had my first year teaching 8th grade English. She's been teaching in my district for 9 years now.
So I turned to that young boy, placed my hand on his shoulder, and explained, ‘Son, the hate u give little infants fucks everyone.’ I smiled, a job well done, turned to the register and winked at the checkout clerk. Another life touched. #grattitude #growthmindset
I was talking to one of the youths at work about houses. I said I bought my first house when I was 23 and instantly I became the Boomer who bought a house for $500 and some hard candy. I’m under 40.
Five years ago at the gym a 30yo guy told me I had that "old man strength" Whenever I tell people that I watched an Apollo moon landing I'm now older than my mother was when she died of melanoma, and I'm five years older than my wife's parents were when I met them
Seeing Druski show up everywhere and having no idea who he is or where he came from while everyone else seems to.
I mean you never knew who you were going to see in a blockbuster on a Friday night! That place was buzzing on a Friday afternoon/night!
I was playing NBA2k on my Switch yesterday as my favorite team of all time - the mid-90s Supersonics. Realizing that shit was almost 20 years ago blew my mind. I was talking to my kid this morning and he didn't understand that they don't exist anymore. LeBron having a kid entering the NBA is bizarro world too. I remember when he was on the cover of SI in high school. Hearing RHCP, Pearl Jam and Nirvana on the classic rock station sucked too.
In 1991, one of my friends tried to get me to road trip to Cincinnati to see this show, but I didn’t go because I wasn’t that into RHCP and didn’t want to spend the $17.50 or whatever it cost.
Yeah yeah, I'm bad at math. Thanks for making me feel worse. I wish I could still fit into my Shawn Kemp jersey.
It’s okay. I did get to see the remaining members of Foghat at a bar attached to a mini golf course in Ocean City, MD in 1996, so it all evens out.
I bought a pair of Air Maxes the other day. Brought them home. The wife said they were Dad shoes. I buy Dad shoes now by default. I had to take them back.
We were talking proper drainage, what was the best width, should you have a leaf guard and I specifically remember being deep into the conversation and thinking I’ve been talking about gutters way longer than any human should.
This conversation assuredly involved New Balances and some waistline adjustments of 7" inseam shorts. Possibly a braided belt.
Anytime I'm walking the dog at night and see a neighbor in their garage, sitting in a lazyboy, watching whatever game is on, and enjoying a garage beer, I always think "man, that is the pinnacle of living."
when turning on an nba playoff game had me asking about the flex zone & realizing i in fact did not know better
My body can’t change levels without me making a sound. If I’m kneeling and come up, I physically have to grunt. If I bend over I moan, “¡aye papi si!”
I got roasted by a bunch of teens for not wearing socks with my sandals. I got caught with “my dogs out”.
Not me, but Today I got in an elevator with a girl that was in college and a woman that was probably her mom’s age (they weren’t related). The young one said “that’s trippy” when the elevator opened on the opposite side. The older woman said “yes very tricky” back. The young one and I made eye contact and smiled in a laughing manner. I’m 33 and there’s plenty of lingo I don’t understand. Like “ick”
This isn’t the point I discovered but a good one was watching Too Gun Maverick and think an approximately 56 year old Jennifer Connelly was the hottest woman alive
Took my son to Zaxby’s after his baseball practice. They gave us extra napkins and I took them and put them in the glove box. Never know when you’ll need extra napkins.