Getting Old or Turing into Parents?
Getting old is a side effect of life. Hey the alternative it Death so I quite enjoy getting old, Cheaper Car Insurace, More stories to tell, Staring down the barrel of 40, I feel slighty smug about having grown out of Binge Drinking, I still maintain my fasion sense is better than the Bus Stop Feral Kids, And its allways nice to Compare Origianal Films/Music/Media Trends to the Original. I had a great time introducing my 15 Year old Stepston to The Original Wicker Man, Barberella and Repo Man. He thinks the Clash are as good as Green Day and we can listen to both bands. And he comes to me when he has Girlfreind Trouble.

Its sobering at times to see how far things have come since I was a child, The Young Ones - once my favrote TV show now reeks of the 80's, Madonna has gone from a Sex Godess to a double bagger, The Inteweb has been invented, as have ASBOS, Happy Slapping and Emos.

As far as Turning into my Parents goes, I take steps for it not to happen, Like many of the I neither want to be a Narrow Minded Bitter Man whos Standards are so incredibly High No one can live up to them or a Alaholic who could polish off a bottle of Gin a day (Untill I was 15 I thught eveyone had Bottles of Gin hidden under the sink, I just assumed that was where you put the booze if you couldn't afford a drinks cabient)
It took me 20 years to undo a lot of the Damage caused by my Father. It took me 20 years to speak to my Mother and i'm slowly building that relationship up now.
Hey theres people on the board with much much worse tales than mine so I'm not bitter.
But these days I watch how much I drink and carefull not to set the bar too high with the kids, after all they are just kids. They need support rules and guideance but they also need a bit of slack, Teenage hormones are a terrible thing.

Apart from the Physical side effects of getting old Male Pattern Baldness and Moobs, I'm quite enjoying it.
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Mon 4 May 2009, 10:04, 1 reply)

My eyes
Odd capitalization there, my friend....
Is that a getting old thing, too? :)
Although I do agree that "Bottles of Gin" should always be in capitals. Looks so much more sophisticated.
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Mon 4 May 2009, 13:40, closed)