Middle-Age Is Humbling

Me: “So, you were born under Reagan.”
Her: “Yep.”
Me: “Have you ever heard of Kennedy?”
Her: “I think I read about him in an Ancient History book.”

Ouch!

From Jim Reams over at FBI Memos 

No Responses to “Middle-Age Is Humbling”

  1. claudia says:

    i hope she was good lookin’ cause she’s gonna need to be!

  2. gavin says:

    i’m a nixon baby.. i’ve still heard of kennedy, saw it on the history channel… haha!

    wife is a carter kid. i’ll ask her if she knows of kennedy

  3. Rachel says:

    Carter here, but only for a couple of years. ;)

  4. chez bez says:

    I’m 37 and most of my colleagues are in their early 20s. I don’t even want to know what they don’t know.

    It’s OK. One day it’ll be them talking to people who are only vaguely aware of Bushes and Clintons. Maybe.

  5. LeBlanc says:

    Yikes, that hurts huh? At least I was born under the Nixon administration. It annoys me that some people know nothing about history.

  6. newscoma says:

    I was born in the Johnson years.
    Yeah, I’m an old coot.

  7. Rachel says:

    I was born in the Johnson years. – Andrew? ;)

  8. Rachel says:

    (‘coma, of course I’m just teasing, if you couldn’t tell)

  9. newscoma says:

    Hee. :)
    I guess I should have written during the Snoop Lyndon B. days. Or Daze.
    Not sure which one.
    Heh, again.