Posted on 02/27/2011 3:03:31 AM PST by Scanian
Baby Boomers are having a hard time. Not just with the economy, or the health issues that crop up in your 50s and 60s, or even getting caught between taking care of our aging parents and unemployed kids.
No, Im talking about the fact that many Boomers, of which I am one, do not want to grow up.
Those of us born in the Baby Boomer period, between 1946 and 1964, range in age from 47 to 65. We are either on the young side of old, or were just a hop, skip and hopefully not a fall into 70.
I dont know that we mind growing up, but many of us dont want to grow old. But certain Boomer minds have somehow merged the two. In order not to grow old, they have taken the position that they will simply not grow up.
You see it in the absurd notion put forward by journalists and advertisers 50 is the new 30. 60 is the new 40. We buck each other up by dressing and behaving like its true, as though if we repeat it enough we will actually make it so.
And because we are Boomers and have been at the forefront of so many innovations, from rock n roll to the computer, some have this misguided impulse to act hip. Have you ever seen so many 50-year-olds dressed like teenagers? In my grandfathers and even my fathers era, grown men did not wear sneakers, shorts, T-shirts and caps unless they were actually involved in an athletic activity. Grown men did not go to work looking like they were headed for sleep-away camp.
My grandfather dressed in slacks and a shirt and sensible shoes and a suit every day for work.
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Hell, up cheer in Maine it’s dead wintah and ah’ve still got my Topsiders on... :O)
In my grandfathers and even my fathers era, grown men did not wear sneakers, shorts, T-shirts and caps unless they were actually involved in an athletic activity.
I had to think about that a few minutes.
Yes, my father and uncles all wore slacks and shirts. None would have been caught dead outside wearing a t-shirt as outer wear. But what they wore in their 60s is the same style they grew up with. Jeans were for miners and cowboys. I dont think any even owned a pair. They didnt dress like their fathers, they dressed in what they felt comfortable with.
I usually wear jeans and t-shirt in warm weather and jeans and sweat shirt in cold weather. Its what I grew up with, why should I dress like my father?
You are living proof that the older folks run rings around the younger generations in terms of common sense and taste.
The sags, bulges, and-—gasp!!-—bared midrifts of the silly snowbirds are exactly what I was talking about.
And you haven’t lived until you’ve seen the topless 55+ German woman who frequent certain Miami Beach hotels.
Yuck!!
Then those participating in generational warfare have succeeded. You won't feel badly at all when they kill Grandma under Obamacare because she polluted the world with bad ideas.
What did grandpa do that he dressed like that?? Work on an assembly line?? I don’t think so.
“There is NO WAY on Earth that you can dispute me with this post.”
And I suppose that statement is your way of showing how mature your generation is?
You sound like the libs — showing offense that anyone would dare to disagree with you.
While I definitely believe in dressing up for work and would never go to work in jeans and sneakers, even if it was "casual" day, the implication of the article that grown men should never wear shorts in T-shirts is a bit ridiculous (though I think the author is being tongue-in-cheek).
During the summer, when I'm not at work, hiking in the woods or doing yard work, I will only wear shorts, short-sleeve shirts and I'll go sockless in a pair of boat shoes. It's all about comfort and staying cool (as in not hot).
I was so unbelievably selfish that I only did one hitch. After that it was party, party, party.
Never a more useless, disgusting group of people have ever existed than to spend ONE DIME researching and advertising this garbage while people truly suffer.
It would seem suffering is relative. Especially where money is concerned.
On another subject, I’m hoping your screen name is more descriptive than “Memphis Belle”, a B-17, a crew, a generation, or a shorthaired pointer.
“Nor did they wear backpacks...”
Where I work they come in with backpacks and those little wheeled luggage carts. They bring all the comforts of home except their mommies.
;D! Topsiders are a tough habit to break even in winter.
Well, I guess wearing the military uniform for the past umteen years would be a disgrace to the writer. The reason I wear, sneakers, shorts and tee shirts is beacuse it is HOT in Texas during the summer.
I grew up, went from a lever action Marlin .45-70
to a CSAR, in .223 caliber with 40 round mags. The neighborhood is getting rough with all of these immigrants who hate America.
I was so unbelievably selfish that I only did one hitch. After that it was party, party, party.
I’m betting after one hitch you were pretty partied out.
:-)
“Im betting after one hitch you were pretty partied out.”
Well, I did learn about projectile vomiting in the Navy.
Yep, whenever I go to Tea Party rallies and see pictures of others it's all full of Gen X'ers.... Er, no wait. That's not right.
It's full of "boomers". Not a Gen X'er in sight.
Please, you're making me laugh.
Well, I did learn about projectile vomiting in the Navy.
I didn’t know that a tin can in a typhoon could cause that.
Is this the same Tracey Jackson that writes for the Huffington Post???
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