Seen in my feed

[james_davis_nicoll]

"$11, $9 for students and 55+"

But I'll be too young for the discount! Whoot!

BY TWO WEEKS. WHAT THE HELL, INEXORABLE PASSAGE OF TIME?

Oh, 55 is the new 30. In base 18...

Comments

[wild_irises]

Senior discounts are indeed a weird experience. In the States, there are a few at 55, a reasonable number at 60 and 62, and lots at 65. I'll be 65 in July, and I still am surprised when I qualify for one. But I am so looking forward to reducing my transit costs by 2/3.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

You are only an egg?

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Getting older sure beats the alternative.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

I remember visiting Imperiums To Order (with great excitement) when I was *thirteen*.

I'll be *forty-three* next month.

I'm treating this as proof that we live in a simulation...

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

You should file a bug report with the simulation programmer--he missed a break in a case statement in do_politics(), and that's really been screwing things up lately...

[connactic.livejournal.com]

(the new 31 in base 18)

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

You've got ten months on me, and I, too, occasionally get senior discounts without asking for them. I used to be a little resentful, now I'm just bemused and appreciate saving a couple of kopecks.

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that was bugging me too. :)

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I've been 55 (base 10) for three weeks now, and it's not that bad, really, touch wood / superstitious tic of one's choice.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

My recent version: There's feeling old because you have grey in your beard, and there's feeling old because your ex-undergrads have grey in their beard.

[(Anonymous)]

And when some of your former students are grandparents.

William Hyde

[laetitia-apis.livejournal.com]

Then there's learning that your little baby is a grandfather.

[james-angove.livejournal.com]

This comment made me realize in 11 months (when I turn 40, Oh Christ I didn't order that, take it back!) I will be the age you were when I first started making a point of reading your comments and commentary, back in the Last Days of Usenet. Christ, I may be wrong about that. I may be that age now.

Damnit James, I'm not sure how, but I'm convinced that this is your fault. Stop getting older and bringing the rest of us with you.