Have you ever had somebody say something to you that made you feel old all of a sudden? My first such moment was about 10 years ago when I was interviewing a student to work in the college computer lab I managed, and she called me "Sir."
Most recently, this afternoon we were doing some almost-last-minute Christmas shopping at the mall. I was looking for a hat for myself, and I was at a department store examining a grey fedora and calculating the sale price. As I stood there with the hat in my hand, a chick-let dressed like a somewhat younger, not-as-rich version of Paris Hilton went by with a guy. They paused for a moment, and then walked on. As they passed, the girl said, "No, not those hats... we need the kind of stuff
young people would wear!"
