The Onset of Maturity

[infanttyrone]

In some respects, I am a late bloomer. I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was about eight years old, nor did I learn how to swim until the year after (an embarrassing admission for someone who grew up on the Mississippi River-- I did almost-drown a lot as a kid.) I didn't learn to drive until I was 25. And I don't just mean I didn't have my

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[spider88]

'Staches terrify me, and now you've added to my phobia.

I call them "boogers" and dislike the British pronunciation "bogey."

[infanttyrone]

I just really like the little kid pronunciation, where you put the emphasis on the "boooo". That might be a midwestern thing, though.

[spider88]

Yeah, I pronounce it somewhere between "buh" and "booo". Like the u in sugar. In fact, "booger sugar" rhymes, and as I found out, was slang for coke in SD.

[infanttyrone]

Ha ha gross. I go with boo-gers, as it's one of my all-purpose names for dogs and cats, along with butters, stinky, darlin' and bear.

I spend too much time with animals.

[spider88]

Oh, and the speeding of time as you get older is the cruelest goddamn fucking thing in the world. OTOH, it has an awesome side-effect. Waiting for things to happen, good and bad, doesn't feel much like waiting, and even better, when someone says, "it'll take you two years to reach that goal" you think, "Wow, only two years!" I remember when a six-week project sounded like slow torture.

For reference, I turn 35 in Feb. I noticed the speeding of time around 28. It goes so fast now I want to cry. If only 10 years passed between age 10 to 20, only about 6 years passed between age 20 to 30, and 30 to 35 cruelly felt like less than a year. I can't imagine what it must be like at 60, and how fast 80 might come at you.

[infanttyrone]

I don't know when I first noticed it, but it's been pissing me off lately. Like I said, I've gotten good at wishing the work-week into the cornfield, but I need to learn how to switch gears so that my weekend days don't go down the drain along with it. It would have worked out better if the years 13-19 had lasted about twenty minutes, and then my twenties could have taken about twenty years (ah for the days when I could be an asshole and not know it.)
Although I think you've got the right idea. if it's going to be like this anyway, I should use the speediness of time to my advantage and get into some kind of four-year program, which would be all over and done with by next week.

[dusty_chenille]

haha! I wouldn't know about mustache etiquette, but I assume you just hold the handkerchief or Kleenex tightly under your nostrils to prevent any straying of the BOOG-ers. Pronounced like 'book er' but with a G you know, not a K. But if you just have a runny nose..that's when I would worry. although the 'stache WOULD be helpful to catch any runny snot and keep it from driveling all the way down your face... hmm.

Also.. I didn't learn to drive til I was 30! And I still can't swim. It's a surprise I can leave my house unescorted!

[infanttyrone]

When I was a lad in hippie-school, we had a huge collection of National Geographics, and one of the most popular photos was of the arctic explorer with a big beard and mustache, totally encrusted with frozen snot. It was like a big ol' booger glacier with goggles in a furry hood. That's my Halloween costume next year.

And you really have to lean on the 'boo', as in Hey buddy, might want to check you 'stash for booooogers, man.

And driving is over-rated.

Speeding of time

[knick_knack]

Cultivate a fascination of the mundane
Break out of routines (kind of hard when you have a regular work schedule)

Ive heard both of those work?

Re: Speeding of time

[infanttyrone]

Both good tips. But the time I want to stretch is the time I get to lay on the couch not doing anything, which is very pleasantly mundane, yet also routine. Perhaps ether?

[micheinnz]

I'm 38 years old and still can't drive (in the sense you give above).

Or grow a moustache.

Oh, and I call it "buhg-err", as in the first example there.

[micheinnz]

Oh, you mean as in the nasal mucus? That's BOGEYS!

That's BOGEYS!

[infanttyrone]

Ha ha ha ha ha right! I was curious about the pronunciation of the word "booger". It can be the dignified "buh-ger" or the more childlike and fun "BOOOO-gers".

Re: That's BOGEYS!

[micheinnz]

Ah yes.

I thought you meant Bugger!.