I don't how it happened. Or why it had to for that fact. But now I must admit it. Yes, I am... Old.
Now, now... Let's keep our head about this. It wasn't like it would never happen. It's just that I wasn't ready for it; it just sort'a crept up on me. Insidious little bugger... Well, no use worrying about it now. Best just to get on with what little is left of my life. But for you young whipper-snappers out there, I might as well give you the whole sordid story so you won't be caught off guard like I was.
It started innocently enough. There I was trying to explain what a pixel was to someone from our graphics department. It was going well. Laughing, making jokes, little knowing that my precious youth was about to slip through my fingers. So ignorant, but such is youth. Well, it happened.
Again, I don't know how-- but I said the six little words that ended my youthful days... I said `It sort'a works like a Lite-Brite'. The blank look on her face said it all. You know that look, `just smile, and when he's calm and relaxed we'll ship him off to the nursing home'.
Not wanting to give up that easily, I continued. "you know, It was a popular kids' toy back in the 70's, everyone wanted one..."
But the blank look on her face said it all. Yet, I still had to save some of my youth, so I continued. "It was a box with black paper on the front, you plugged little plastic pegs into it..." Still no response, but it was too late....for by now I had begun to babble! "you know like... it... Then you would... But not in the bath tub... The rain in Spain... No one expects the Spanish inquisition!!! Is In Berlin..."
As her hand gracefully danced over the numbers 911 on the telephone dial, I knew my youth had gone. Yet another generation was now ready to push the old and infirm aside and blaze new trails. No longer will the name `KC and the Sunshine Band' roll off the lips with such abandon. Disco was truly dead! And it was time to throw out the old white leisure suit and large gold medallions.
So here I sit, Old and infirm at 33. Life is over and now I must accept the fact. I will just sit here, and bother people as they pass by, saying to them...