Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 04, 2020

Welcome to geezervile, Arlo.

Wow! That hit smarts. Kind of puts things in perspective.

That’s it, Arlo. Nothing for you now except to crumble away where you’re sitting.

Macaulay Culkin just turned 40. I feel ancient.

Arlo, don’t worry about it which will cause you start to worry about your status. When you hit this point they no longer see you. At least not until you start to wander away from your neighborhood in only a bathrobe.

It’s time to sit on the couch or the yard in good weather, and just have those coulda, woulda, shoulda thoughts about life.

Oooooooh, young adults!  I thought he was talking about Meg, and that seemed sooooo wrong!

When it comes to intergenerational attitudes 30 is the new 40.

Boy, that’s gotta make A&J feel ancient, lol.

I can recall when the “man” at the store counter became the "kid"at the store counter. I stood there for a min going “what the… just transpired”?

Wren I was 16 some “little kid” called me “Mister.” I was shocked. “Mister” was my Dad!

The first day you are NOT asked for ID at the liquor store. Very distressing.

And that’s how you know a new generation has come into the world.

And what does that make us Arlo?

I remember when my nephew was first teaching freshman English, in a university.

He must have been about 25, but his students were 18 and 19.

He complained to me about “kids today” and how unprepared they were for college classes.

I was so startled!

He saw the look on my face…

and I had to laugh.

It was the first time I realised that in his mind, he and college freshmen weren’t roughly the same age.

The kids know the truth. Lol

“Youth is an exclusive club" – either Paul Zindel or S.E. Hinton.

Westbrook van Voorhis is on the phone with a reminder, Arlo.

Gene and M.L. are making all the right moves-hope it works for them.

They’re all kids from where I am. But then, age is just a number. A really, really big number.

Well, considering as the strip started in ‘85 and Gene was a little kid then, I’d guess he’s pushing 40 pretty hard now.

My youngest was telling me something the other day about “kids today”…my YOUNGEST!!!

Have they really had no contact with Gene since all this mess started? Otherwise why is he telling them all that they have done? You’d think they would have talked at least once a week. It’s not like it used to be when everybody had a land line and there were long distance charges, nite rates, weekend rates, etc.

I was a teenager when I started reading this strip in the 80’s. Gene was depicted as a little boy then, but not too much younger than myself. Now at 52, I’m clearly closer to Arlo’s age depiction than I am of Gene’s.

Owning a business and raising a daughter Meg’s age gives Gene the right to think of young adults as “kids”.

I’m with you Arlo – my second-born son was complaining to me a month ago about someone younger than him who was arguing with him about a social situation and said “you’re just a boomer, you wouldn’t understand”.(my son’s in his thirties) When he told me I laughed and told him “welcome to my world”

I remember when I was a summer camp counselor. I had a group of kids playing soccer while a boom box radio played. A Beatles song came on and some kids asked what group that was. Incredulously, I said, “The Beatles!” Another kid explained, “yeah, Paul McCartney’s old band.”

My moment was when my son announced that he needs reading glasses…

I’m not that crazy about growing old but, then, some of my friends didn’t get that privilege. When I think of that, it makes me appreciate being alive.

I have redefined old.

I will not be old until a doctor tells me, “If you were my granddad I’d recommend …,” because every frickin’ one of them is telling me what they’d recommend to their dads.

I’m still trying to comprehend that I have great-grandchildren… my 44 year old son has grandchildren. I would say “this ain’t right” but it is.

I can relate Arlo

I was once visiting NYC. While strolling around Greenwich Village, feeling light and young at heart, I stopped in at a pizza place. The kid behind the counter said, “What’ll it be Pops?” Pops!? What a downer.

What blows my mind (a phrase that reveals my age anyway) is that the earliest presidential election I remember, that of John Kennedy, was 60 years ago. I graduated from high school 51 years ago? I started my career 50 years ago last month? That just ain’t right! It must be a hippie conspiracy! Danged long-haired hippies. Wait… I had long hair.

I share Arlo’s pain.

Here ya go, this is what everybody is talking about today.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-DSlnDQrA

I’m the guy your parents warned you about.

His little boy has grown up!

I think of anyone half my age as a “kid.” :-)

I remember the first time I was in a situation and someone called me sir. All of a sudden someone ELSE thought I was an adult!

When I was fifty, I was on a boardwalk with my kids and they got me to go over to this guy that guesses ages. They figured he would say I was much younger. So did I. He took one quick look and said, fifty.

I mentioned my youngest sister who is 12 years younger than me in another post – possibly on another day. My other sister (between the two of us) and I (the oldest) still refer to her as “the baby” and sometimes treat her as such. (Police called husband and me about mom at 4 am and we had to run her house to go to the hospital with her. I called the middle sister to let her know and we both agreed we should call “the baby” we would let her know the next day – why wake her also. One day a short while later it dawned on me that “the baby” is 56.

I decided I was old when I realized my kids were over 40.

One day decades ago a co-worker and I went to lunch. I was in my 20s. He was in his 50s. The waitress came over and asked “What will you kids have?” He said “Wow, I haven’t been called a kid in ages.” The waitress and her sister, both in their 80s, owned the restaurant. To them, he qualified as a kid.