The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

Is it odd that as a 19 year old girl that this is my favorite thread?

I was raised by my Grandparents my whole life and grew up a neighborhood that was 99% family and if they were not blood family they were like family and only 2 kids other than my brother and my self with in a 5 mile radius. So I am much more comfortable around older people than people my age. Plus you can't really learn anything if you hang out with people your own age where as if you are with older people they can teach you so many things!

My favorite stories are those from when they were growing up and had acres upon acres of crops and farm animals...oh how I have dreamt to be able to go back in time a witness that for myself!

Welcome!

I like to think of myself as young too, although like most people on this thread, I'm closer to thirty than twenty.

There are some great people on this thread, and a lot of shared knowledge, so you'll feel comfortable here at the old folks home.

 

[Alaskan]

 
Is it odd that as a 19 year old girl that this is my favorite thread? 


I was raised by my Grandparents my whole life and grew up a neighborhood that was 99% family and if they were not blood family they were like family and only 2 kids other than my brother and my self with in a 5 mile radius. So I am much more comfortable around older people than people my age. Plus you can't really learn anything if you hang out with people your own age where as if you are with older people they can teach you so many things! 


My favorite stories are those from when they were growing up and had acres upon acres of crops and farm animals...oh how I have dreamt to be able to go back in time a witness that for myself! 

Welcome!

I like to think of myself as young too, although like most people on this thread, I'm closer to thirty than twenty.

There are some great people on this thread, and a lot of shared knowledge, so you'll feel comfortable here at the old folks home.

As in.... You are 70? Or, as in, you are 26?

Could go either way.


Hummmmm, I might need to find an 'antique people' thread.

 

[sourland]

Alaskan, we could start a thread, "Relics of Days Gone By"/

I did welcome one newcomer who is older than me - one! out of all of these folks, just one.

 

[lularat]

@Peep_Show...After my FIL had by pass surgery, he went through some extreme mental changes which was only controlled by medication. He went from a mild mannered, funny man into a raging manic-depressive. He would often quit taking his meds because they made him feel drowsy and slow and eventually was court ordered to take them. He got arrested 10 times in one year...definitely not the man I knew.

 

[vehve]

Quote: As in.... You are 70? Or, as in, you are 26?

Could go either way.


Hummmmm, I might need to find an 'antique people' thread.

A few years ago I was still on the other side of that divider.

Antique people as in people who just like old stuff, or are old stuff?

 

[lularat]

Sourland...that's a great idea....cause I'm up there with you.

 

[lularat]

I am old stuff and I like old stuff

 

[lularat]

Ummm, my quote button isn't working...what's up with that?

 

[sourland]

Ummm, my quote button isn't working...what's up with that?

Danged new stuff!

 

[Bunnylady]

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There's quite a few of us that aren't very close to thirty, or even twenty plus thirty ....