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ninjava · 3209 days ago · link · · parent · post: What was the pivotal moment in which you realized you'd gotten old?
A mother was walking hand-in-hand with her young daughter. The girl tugged on the mother's jacketed arm and pointed at me. "Look mommy, a man on a bicycle!" A man. Was I a man? No, I was that kid people mistake for a teenage employee at department stores. The kid whose ID get squinted looks when buying aerosols, who can't buy PEGI-18 without an interrogation. Men are old. Not like me.