Monday, September 10, 2007

Is it just me???

I feel like I should be writing one of those "top ten" columns. Like top 10 reasons you know you're a redneck, or whatever. This column should probably be entitled "top 10 indications that I'm getting old". I went to a new church this Sunday, one that is within walking distance of Grove City College. I'm not kidding, I think college freshman are now being admitted at the age of 16. I was surrounded by a sea of fashionably dressed midgets. And what is with the lack of independence? A third of the church is sitting empty, and there are probably 25 students crammed in directly behind me and "oh, we need to save seats for Susan, and Troy, and Doug." On one level it did make sense that they could cram into that row because they all seemed so...tiny. Most of the conversations I heard seemed to revolve around things that are not even worth putting into words. Was I ever that vapid??? Don't answer that. [As a side note: one indication that these were Grovers that we were dealing with here (and you Grovers know who you are) was that I heard an entire conversation detailing the grammatical errors in the bulletin. ] So, I walked out feeling a little...old. But, as I watched all of those freshman trudging back to campus in the rain, I felt very thankful for my car, my house, no homework, and best of all, a life outside of the bubble.

4 comments:

Renee said...

So what are the other nine reasons you know you are getting old?

Anonymous said...

I'm glad you have started blogging again. I was talking to a lady at work today who works for us part-time. She was commenting on how nice it is to be able to go home and forget about work. She said, "I just don't really give a darn about work". I told her that I wouldn't either if I didn't have a mortgage to pay. She said, "well, there are advantages to getting old".

Terri Miller said...

Just wait until you get preggo, and begin to get fat, then you really feel old and you feel hatred towards those little teeny boppers with their stick thin bodies... I want to sit on them all and squash them!

Anonymous said...

This made me laugh....the first time I felt "old" was when I saw a news anchor on the Today show that was younger than me---I wasn't yet married and felt like I hadn't even started life yet. And I guess hadn't...

It's amazing how different life looks when you get to start in the "real world" a year earlier than most! the college world is what it is---ignorance is bliss.... BTW, was Freddy Adams in that row of Grovers?:)