ME: Yeah, lately I’ve been feeling my age.
HE: Oh, you’re starting to get some aches and pains?
ME: Nah, physically I feel great. Best I’ve ever been.
HE: Then you’re starting to forget things?
ME: I’ve always forgotten things. Now is no different.
HE: Then why do you feel your age?
ME: Because I realized that in a few years, if you were to travel back in time and attend the world premiere of Back to the Future, you’d be traversing the same span of years that Marty McFly did when he visited his parents in the ‘50s.
HE: ...
ME: My ‘80s is like the ‘50s to the kids of today, see.
HE: ....
ME: ....
HE: ...maybe you should be very selective about the people you make that analogy to.
ME: I know! I don’t want to just randomly depress people.
Thanks soooo much for this. Having my 4? birthday this week wasn’t depressing enough. Sigh.
I never would have thought of that...it’s really depressing.
OH. GOD.
What is truly distressing to me is when I go to see the latest science fiction movie and we are still projecting the same technological advances we did in 1950. Sure, we’ve gotten better at pretending to be advanced. Special effects have come a long way. But where are the flying cars already? Why can’t I get to work by transporter or jet pack or something? How come I don’t live on a spaceship for crying out loud?
Instead of interstellar space travel, what have we got? myspace cadets.
MCFLY!! I recently did a Back to the Future marathon (well, I could not get through #3). Where is my hovor board?!
OMG! That’s soooo funny. And frightening as well. I never really thought of it that way!
Over my sleepy head. Insomnia makes you feel your age, too.
Egads! You’re right about the Back to the Future thing. Totally depressing…
How cool is it that the Goodle ad is for DeLorean parts?