Velo Dog

I've never called anybody "Son," even my son. Otherwise, though...
Re the flowers: We have daffodils all over one side of the yard, and wildflowers in the pasture next door since the horses moved out a couple of years ago. For years I'd go get my wife when I saw the first ones. Thie spring I came in and got my camera.

Tom Stormcrowe

I never thought I'd get a headache from loud screaming rock and roll!

SlimAgainSoon

... still be living in the same town.

BengeBoy 

Some of the posts of above make it seem like the late 70's and early 80's were the Stone Ages - are you forgetting how much technology was around when we were young?

I started working on my first "workstation" computers when I was still in college -- they weren't PC's yet, but "mid-range" computers had already started to trickle down into individual offices and industrial applications. Remember the Wang or other similar systems? We had desk-top editing stations on the college newspaper I worked at when I was 19....

I got my first "notebook computer" when I was 27; this was what I worked on every day for several years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

Technology has come a long way, but a lot of the trends we're experiencing today were visible even then. If you are 50 today, you were only 15 when Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft.

bikegeek57

you can't trust anyone over 30. so at 25.... we're all untrustworthy. hah!

amazed I've survived this long. never mind all the buck roger stuff.

DiabloScott

My first experience with computers involved punch cards in 8th grade math ~ 1972 (lived in a university town and they let us use their computers sometimes).

In 1979 I bought my first basic trig functions scientific calculator (TI something with LEDs) for $30... which was a lot back then!

In the Navy ~1984 when I was 25, I used the shipyard computer that required memorizing some obscure lines of code just to log on and get a print out of work items. TRS-80 and Commodore 64 were the symbols of personal high tech, and the first Macintosh came out toward the end of that year (with the 1984 Orwellian commercials). So at 25, I did think I'd own a computer some day.

First computer I owned was an Apple IIe (used) in 1986. No hard disk, monitor resolution was suboptimal.

So... Bronze Age maybe.

Artkansas 

Make sure your first family knows.

I know one man who did it. Even sent both sets of kids through the same exclusive prep school. But everything came unraveled the night his wife (mother of the first set) died. There were a lot of surprised people.

cehowardGS

Now, this is really weird. When I was 25, I couldn't do 5 push ups if my life depending on it. I was a professional gambler. My trade/hustle was pool and old style REAL poker. At 49 years old, I quit the gambling and went back to school and college. Been working in IT for the pass 20 years. Now at 69, I can do 50 push ups with ease. At 65 I was kicking 75 pushups. Arthiritis has came in..

At 25, after seeing several motorcyle accidents, I said I would never ride one of those things. At 34 years old, I got a motorcyle an rode that for about 5 years and then quit. Came back to motorcyles when I turned 61. Started hangin with group rides, then fast mountain rides. I was 65 years old when I first set foot on a racetrack. At 67 years old, I started roadracing motorcyles. Packed about 25 races in the last 2 years, had several 100mph+ crashes too. Did two AFF skydives when I was 68 and I got married again to a lady 23 my junior. She has put a damp on the racing but, I will be doing at least two races this month. Want to hit another skydive too.. I roadrace with WERA and CCS. All of this happened after I was 65 years old.. That proves that age is nothing but a number. No, i am not going to race bicyles, going to enjoy the bicycle ride ...

Some of my over 65 year old antics...

https://www.cehoward.net/skydawn3.jpg

https://www.cehoward.net/1poster.jpg
https://www.cehoward.net/kit_1247.jpg
https://www.cehoward.net/trail105.jpg

https://www.cehoward.net/suity34.jpg

https://www.cehoward.net/stclock.wmv

Not bragging or anything, but just showing that LIFE begins at 65 years old!!:D

ahsposo 

cehoward you are an inspiration! Thanks for sharing.

cehowardGS

Glad it was taken way, I wasn't bragging, just sharing that after 60 years old the mind and the body can breach new thresholds even ones we couldn'y do when we were younger.

I must add, that I hit the gym 6 days a weak.

Safe peddling to you,

trackhub

I think everyone has had the fantasy where you "quantum leap" into yourself at a young age, usually teenaged, and fixing everything you screwed up. I've had that one a lot myself.

Anyway, when I was 25, I never thought I would:

-Be proud of my collection of Slide Rules. Really, you should see the eyeballs on the 20-somethings bug out when I pull out one of those. It's actually quite funny. I'm waiting for one to ask me what operating system it uses.....

-Still be slapping myself upside the head, for not buying a Raleigh Professional when I could have, and should have.

-Love riding a fixie.

-Ever see the day when Bicycle headlamps would be so advanced. And they just keep getting better. (Thinks of when they were tinny pieces of junk....)

-Look at my copy of "Richard's Bicycle Book", with a cover price of $1.95, and chuckle.

-Be contemplating retirement, in about 9-12 years. (I hope!!)

Wogster

Hmm going back to 18, I would have never taken computers, thinking back on it, should have gone into photojournalism, I like taking pictures and I actually like writing more then I would like to admit. At 25, I would have kept my bicycle I had then, it wasn't anything spectacular, but that old frame would still be in service, probably be on the 3rd drive train by now.....

ecrider

I remember the Radio Shack "Trash 80" from my newspaper days. It allowed us to write a story and file it remotely via a modem that required you to place the handset on modem cups. I remember you could only view a line or two of type at a time on the display. Still, it was a very convenient device at the time. Great for Friday night football.

Connell

Thing is, even if I could go back in time and talk to my 25-year old self...the little pillock probably wouldn't listen. After all, what advice could an old guy like me possibly have worth listening to?

Plus we'd have that awkward conversation when I explain that no, we never did ask out that blonde girl from the bank.

Lauraspark

Wait...does this mean I'm *NOT* 25 anymore? Another delusion bites the dust...

Allegheny Jet

I did and she turned me down. I'm still hurting over the rejection 37 years later over.

miss kenton

cranky old dude

When I was 25:

I never thought I would ever grow to hate my employer much less reach the point of just not caring about the company at all anymore.

I never thought I would be terrified of the availability of health care for my wife (another reason to hate my employer).

I never thought I would work 40 years, the last 16 of them with numerous pay cuts and no pay increases. It sucked raising three kids with a wife who became physicaly unable work.

I never thought I would actually ride 100 miles in a day (Funny, I imagined I could but never actually thought I would).

I never thought cars would become so unimportant to me. 'If it goes it's good' simply was not me back then.

I never even dreamed I would have a phone in my pocket, without a cord!

But mostly...at the threshold of 60 years old I never thought I would be so poor, so beat down, so uncertain of our next 10 to 20 years and yet still be relatively at peace and content.

DiabloScott

Thanks to Facebook and reunion committees:

I never thought all the cute girls I was too shy to ask out would turn into frumpy blimps.
OK, the ones I did go out with turned into frumpy blimps too.
The losers remained losers... no surprise there.
It's the ones nobody noticed that turned into the real pearls.

ahsposo 

Thanks, Lenny.

Did you work for the Great Yellow Father?

Your comment about healthcare strikes a really big nerve with me. I am having to restrain myself from getting on a soap box. Another thread, perhaps.

ahsposo 

I'm just guessing but I'll bet it's that way with us guys, too.

miss kenton

I worked as a high school reunion photographer for a number of years and got to view thousands and thousands of alumni through the lens of a camera at various milestones in their lives.
There are key essentials for looking good when you return for a reunion:

1)Don't sweat a few extra pounds as many people have packed on some groceries.

However,
2)wear an outfit that is age appropriate and fits you well. (have your kids shop with you, they will be brutally honest)

3) Women: Wear a little bit of make up or lipstick or you'll look old and washed out, much like the Crypt-Keeper. Wear a skirt; the legs are the last to go!

4)Men & Women- have your hair cut and styled in a modern style. You will not look the same as you did 30 or 40 years ago just because you have the same hair!

5) Men- if you are bald - own it! You look fine. DON'T, under any circumstances, wear a toupee or a large cowboy hat! You are not fooling anyone and you look "peculiar"...unless you are from Texas and everyone is wearing a cowboy hat.

Trust me.

LAriverRat

that my heart rate would be 46 (like it was this a.m. after breakfast and doing some chores) just by riding a bicycle.

DiabloScott

Any especially heinous examples you can share here?

Wogster

Can I add one thing to this list, if your past 60, don't dye your hair a dark colour, the funniest thing to see is a 70 year old face with chocolate brown hair, EVERYONE knows it's a dye job.