It's just a difference in culture. I can easily say old people like you burned out all your fun in the 70s tripping acid and whatever else stereotypical older people did in their youth, but i wouldnt be correct. I wear hats backwards, have tattoos and had piercings for years and I'm twenty. I've learned my fair share of life lessons, one of them being that no matter how many life lessons i think is a fair share you have a million more to go. The majority of the people like this are idiots trying to rebel, just like most older people grow out of their more energetic stage. I'm sure people your parents age thought you were a hooligan too.
My parents, nor any of their peers ever thought I was a hooligan. I was a what is now called a 'nerd' all through high school. I worked my ass off before and after school in the first two years on a paper route via bicycle.
I never dressed like or affected the mannerisms of the 'cool guys' at the time. (The location was Medford, Mass. a suburb of Boston in '57 and '58)
The style was greasy ducktail haircuts (like Travolta in 'Grease'), dungarees (blue jeans), and white T-shirts with a pack of cigarettes rolled into the sleeves and smoking unfiltered cigarettes. Marlon Brando and James Dean played characters like this; rebellious and alienated. But that was for the cool guys. I just wanted a career in technology. I didn't want to fight or intimidate anyone or put on an act that wansn't who I saw myself as.
I thought my Dad was a square (he was 26 years older than me) but I respected his judgement and his achievement in his field; as a salesman for industrial rubber products. We was the ultimate can-do, self-starter kind of guy. He was able to support five boys and a stay-at-home wife. That can't be said of a lot of men these days.
So what do you do? Stockbroker, bouncer, produce clerk, what?
IIN that I can't stand guys with pork pie hats or backwards ball caps?
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It's just a difference in culture. I can easily say old people like you burned out all your fun in the 70s tripping acid and whatever else stereotypical older people did in their youth, but i wouldnt be correct. I wear hats backwards, have tattoos and had piercings for years and I'm twenty. I've learned my fair share of life lessons, one of them being that no matter how many life lessons i think is a fair share you have a million more to go. The majority of the people like this are idiots trying to rebel, just like most older people grow out of their more energetic stage. I'm sure people your parents age thought you were a hooligan too.
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My parents, nor any of their peers ever thought I was a hooligan. I was a what is now called a 'nerd' all through high school. I worked my ass off before and after school in the first two years on a paper route via bicycle.
I never dressed like or affected the mannerisms of the 'cool guys' at the time. (The location was Medford, Mass. a suburb of Boston in '57 and '58)
The style was greasy ducktail haircuts (like Travolta in 'Grease'), dungarees (blue jeans), and white T-shirts with a pack of cigarettes rolled into the sleeves and smoking unfiltered cigarettes. Marlon Brando and James Dean played characters like this; rebellious and alienated. But that was for the cool guys. I just wanted a career in technology. I didn't want to fight or intimidate anyone or put on an act that wansn't who I saw myself as.
I thought my Dad was a square (he was 26 years older than me) but I respected his judgement and his achievement in his field; as a salesman for industrial rubber products. We was the ultimate can-do, self-starter kind of guy. He was able to support five boys and a stay-at-home wife. That can't be said of a lot of men these days.
So what do you do? Stockbroker, bouncer, produce clerk, what?