[PRCo] Still more reading from the Pittsburgh Press

[Fred Schneider]

Absolutely.   When you are 15, nobody could possibly be older than your parents.   

Then one day you wake up.   You are 70.   And everyone from 50 to 90 is in your age group.   Right?   

I love to tell the story about a day in 1959 when I was hitchhiking across the Ohio Turnpike (in a military uniform).   An old man picked me up.   He told me a wonderful story about how he had finally figured out what he wanted to do with his life and he was supremely happy.   He was 40.   Of course, when you are 19, a man who is 40 is an old man because that might be the age of your girl friend's father.   


On May 19, 2014, at 3:25 PM, D Brashear wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
> 
>> Some of the guys in the Lancaster NRHS used to hang out once in a while
>> just for the fun of it on the platforms at the Lancaster station in the
>> evenings in the early 1950s just to watch the trains go through.   My
>> mentors in my teenage days were ancient men in their 30s, 40s and some were
>> even in their 50s.   Hey, when you are a teenager, guys in their 30s are
>> ancient, right?
> 
> 
> The trip to Chattanooga was with the Railroad Industries Modeling SIG. At
> 41, I am the second-youngest member. Gwen, one day older than me, is 3rd.
> Most are retired. I guess ancient is relative.
> 
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