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How old is Grandpa???


Stay with this -- the answer is at the end. It will blow you away.

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events.
The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.

The Grandfather replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:

' television

' penicillin

SNIPPED - long list of stuff

Your Grandmother and I got married first, . . . and then lived together.

Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.

Draft dodgers were people who closed their front doors when the evening breeze started.

SNIP

In my day:

' "grass" was mowed,

' "coke" was a cold drink,

' "pot" was something your mother cooked in and

' "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.


And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby. No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap... and how old do you think I am?
I bet you have this old man in mind...you are in for a shock!

Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time.

This man would be only 59 years old



Entertaining perhaps, but nothing at all surprising on the list. But maybe that's because I actually am 59. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

As Cleglaw pointed out, quite a few things on the list are simply not true either. Remember that anybody who is now 59 had their teenage years and early twenties in the 1960s.

So all that stuff about not living with his wife before marriage, and the waffle about the terms grass, pot, coke and rock music is bunkum. And "draft dodging" was done by our age group (and younger) during the Vietnam war. I lived with my wife before we married, and in fact I can't think offhand of any contemporary friends who didn't. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />

I used to be pretty impressed by a similar list for my own Grandmother though. She was born in the eighteen-hundreds and when she arrived there were no cars or airoplanes. Most journeys were done by foot or horse power. The house she was born in not only had no TV but it also had no telephone, radio or electricity either. And the majority of housing not only had no inside toilet but it had no bathroom either. Instead most people used a portable tin bath or a jug and basin set to wash.

Now that really WAS a different era. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />