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...I think I have the mentality of a person greater in (mental) years than my phsyical years....




I have always found that to be the case as well. When a youngster, I often found more fun hanging out around people that most would consider to be an older group, too old for the youngster to be interested.

For example, when around the preteen years, musically I found that college level musicians and music students and I had more in common conversationally than I could find from the many friends I had that were my own age.

Most of my friends and aquaintences from within my age group would only listen to the pop and rock offerings that were targeting their age group, for instance. While I dug that music, certainly, I also was into the Classical, the Jazz, Modern Jazz and Bebop, Bluegrass and Country Swing stuff, Religious Musics, Black Gospel, Southern Gospel, etc. even today I don't like traveling long distance on the highways of this great nation and having to put up with others in the car or truck that don't like my habit of punching the
Search button on the FM radio and discovering different things. But more than about an hour of any one genre is what drives me nutzoid. Well, more nutzoid.

Then there was the Ham Radio situation, I was the kid with the horn-rimmed glasses that loved to hang out with old retired guys who could afford Collins equipment and towers with yagis and rotators outside the home... "NOW we're havin' fun!"


--Mac