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Teaching classes at my homeschool group is starting to make me notice how old I'm getting. Yesterday, I asked the students to share their favorite songs. Got an interesting response when I told the kids my favorite songs were "Breakfast At Tiffanys" (Deep Blue Something) & "40 Dogs" (Bob Schiender).
Student- I don't know that song (40 Dogs).
Another Student- It's probably because it's really old or something. (Then he looks at me, with this well-look-at-her-it-has-to-be-old-if-she-likes-it look.)
Me- It is actually quite current.
I ended up getting out my Evo and playing it for them.

In another class I was telling the students a ghost story (we are studying Sleepy Hollow, so it was relevant.) when I mentioned that I used to listen to this ghost story on *gasp* a RECORD PLAYER! They all looked at me with smirks and snickerings, you could just see the "You actually listened to records, that's hilarious" in their expressions. I told them, "Well, way back in the dark ages we listened to records. Then we had cassettes, then cds." That's when they reminded me cds are long gone now too.

Later a student asked me if I was alive when Jack London was alive. Yeah, that smarted. Got me thinking, "Why do I even allow questions in this class that encourages discussion?". Clearly I wasn't alive when Jack London was alive, I'm only 3-, oh whoopsie, looks like my computer is missing the key for that second number. I'm just going to continue to ignore the aging and hopefully it will go away. Oh wait, that will just mean I'm dead.