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From: Mel Grindol <grindol_at_my-dejanews.com>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Old vs Young
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 18:47:00 -0000
Mike wrote:

>It isn't just this mail list that is older.  My paddling club is
>filled with members of comparable age, as is my ski club.
>The youth are left out or have dropped out of all sorts of
>these things.  Sigh...
>

And Chuck wrote:

>Maybe today's
>generation just isn't as interested in creating or joining organizations.   
>Or maybe they don't have time enough.

Geez, you'd think we had wandered into a retirement home.  How much of "Those dang kids today" stories do we have to hear?  :)

What's next?  "When I was a kid we had to paddle up river _both_ ways to and from school" ?  :)

Mel
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Don't trust anyone over 30!


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From: Sisler, Clyde <Clyde.Sisler_at_wang.com>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Old vs Young
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:40:17 -0500
What's next?  "When I was a kid we had to paddle up river _both_ ways to and
from school" ?  :)

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When I was a lot younger (2 years ago) I made a 24 mile circumnavigation of
an island... against the tide (about 1 mph)... both ways... at night (full
moon)... by myself... against moderate rips on the way up... and against
serious rips on the way back... and I didn't stop (hardly) at all... and I
wasn't even tired (much)...  Damn kids think they have it tough now-a-days
when they don't have a full ebb/flood time behind them the whole ways.  Why
real men..... :-)


Don't trust anyone over 30!

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And certainly don't trust anyone under 50.  So who does that leave?
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