When I was your age.

Say what you want, but I can't wait to start using this more often! Now, of course, thanks to friends and family there are a few young minds I have already infected with these things, but man oh man, I can't wait to use this phrase daily! The thought popped into my head as I was delightedly filling my gas tank with $1.96 gas today. What a deal! Hooray! I thought back to when I started driving and remembered getting gas for less than $1 per gallon, and then I immediately thought about the little bean. In 16 years from now, will cars still even run on gas? Will they fill up their tank with water, rubbing alcohol, urine? If the greenies have anything to say in this, it won't be gas.

When I was your age, I used to listen to something called records. When I was your age, Michael Jackson was cool. When I was your age, cartoons were on Saturdays! When I was your age, school lunches were 75 cents, and we didn't get to pick what we wanted. When I was your age, I had to learn the Dewey decimal system to use the library. When I was your age, no one had 3 game systems, there was only one to have. When I was your age, no one had a cell phone, we used pay phones. When I was your age, a worn out pair of jeans or a sweatshirt was 25 cents at goodwill, not 100 dollars at Abercrombie. When I was your age, there were no CDs, no ipods, and no laptops. When I was your age, people took Polaroids. When I was your age, there were no ATMs. When I was your age, people wrote checks for things. When I was your age, people just pierced their ears. When I was your age, Aerosmith was already old. When I was your age, people wrote their own music instead of singing and rapping over everyone else's. When I was your age, people read books...the paper kind. When I was your age, people wrote letters, because long distance wasn't free.

Then it dawned on me. Nothing is stopping me from putting whatever I want at the end of that sentence.
When I was your age, I got 2 dollars a week for allowance. When I was your age, I did 4 chores a day. When I was your age, I had to be home at 7pm. When I was your age, I had my mouth washed out with soap. When I was your age, I never would have said that!

Yep. This could be fun.