Reply #84: When I get older? [View All]

I was born in 1970. I have a 14 year old daughter.

And there's that condescension again. Yes your generation was the most awesome ever or that ever will be! Oye. Yes, we do get sick of hearing about it and hearing about it and hearing about it.

At least my teenage daughter hasn't grown up being beat around the head and shoulders with my generation.

"I have no doubt that when their children get to be your, and their, ages, they'll be hearing about the "good old days" when their parents (my kids) rock and rolled to the likes of "Ratt", "Def Leppard", "Kiss", "Guns n Roses", etc., and Big Hair was the Fashion du Jour, along with lots of spandex."

See, there's the thing right there--I didn't have to get to my 30s to hear about the Amazing Wonderful Baby Boomers and the Incredible 60s. I just had to be born to hear about it. Ad infinitum. Ad naseum. All my born days. There's nothing at all wrong with getting older, growing up and hearing about the cool things in your parent's generation. Or discovering it on your own. But being pummeled with it your whole life does give one a case of fatigue, I hope you understand.