Do I look burnt out and ready to give up the ghost?

[fflo]

Just sent this shot to vjsmom, who is, right now, the oldest person in the Caribou Coffee she's in somewhere in or near Rockville, MD.



That made her the second oldest person in there. Sort of.

Under what sorts of circumstances do you, reader, find yourself thinking, if you ever do, something like "I'm the oldest person in here" or "I'll be the oldest person there" or "I hope there's somebody else there somewhere near as old as I am"? Answer with "young" for "old" if that's more appropriate.

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[wednes.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the oldest people in my department at work. It's kind of a drag in a wistful sort of way. It seems like it was not that long ago I was considered one of the "kids".

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I'm so used to being the oldest person around at work--teaching 20-year-old whippersnappers where the occasional thirty-something is an old coot--that it's weird being the youngest person--like at the ukulele group sessions in the basement under the hammered dulcimer meetings.

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

My buddy Jon and I went to a Bright Eyes concert when he was 24 and I was 23, and we were pretty much the oldest people there. It was a jarring experience.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I forget how old the spy and I were when he won tix to White Zombie @ the outdoor concert venue in the planned community between DC & Bawlmer: Merriwhether Post Pavillion. He had backstage passes and everything. I had no idea who White Zombie were or what they played (beyond what one's imagination comes up with from the name) (which was about right). We were decidedly the oldest in that crowd too. 26? 28? Really getting up there. ;)

By then, though, I had a fair amount of experience with being an oddball in a gathering, whether it was 6 for dinner or 300 on the dancefloor, so I was a bit less jarred than the conformist.

[bigfinedaddy.livejournal.com]

I first read this as "By then, though, I had a fair amount of excellence with being an oddball at a gathering." Which I thought was totally true of you, and which made me smile.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

well, ty! i would be pleased to think i excelled in such a thing.