Michael Douglas can look 70 years old and marry Catherine Zeta-Jones and nobody bats a fucking eyelid.

I was more like, Good I hate her too, so now I can hate them both together. Also, his plastic surgeon would disagree strenuously with the idea that he looks 70. (I think he looks like a frightening robot.)

The real question I have is, what do an 18 y.o. and a 50 y.o. have to say to each other? I can imagine certain rare cases when two people of these ages turn out to be alike, but I am only 11 years older than 18, and usually after 20 minutes talking with an 18 y.o. I have rolled my eyes so hard they've fallen out of my head.

I mean, I know I am pickier than most, but sheesh.

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and usually after 20 minutes talking with an 18 y.o. I have rolled my eyes so hard they've fallen out of my head.

See, that's your problem. It's not about talking.

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Homework is finished with time to spare. Clearly, I must reward myself with ice cream. Right? Insanely over-priced Ben-and-Jerry's store down the road? Or possibly Marble Slab sundae?

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But, like, they have to talk eventually, right?

Also, if I am any example, your average adult does not learn to do the dishes until at least age 30. Possibly later; I'll let you know when it happens.

It's only in the past year that I have reconciled myself to a semi-regular schedule of vacuuming up cat litter.

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Who is BW again? I must have skipped and skimmed, but the only BW I know is Bradley Witford, and I am fairly sure that he is not dating Linsay Lohan (I think this is the LL)

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I am only 11 years older than 18, and usually after 20 minutes talking with an 18 y.o. I have rolled my eyes so hard they've fallen out of my head.

At only 11 years older than 18, I found myself more than capable of having hours-long conversations with people as dramatically young as sixteen years old. Without compromising my ability to have lengthy conversations with people as old as 50. It's a gift I have.

Allyson's plan of not talking worked with both age groups too.

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The LL and BW thing doesn't bother me nearly as much as I thought it would. Naveen Andrews just said something in EW the other day--something like Michael Douglas can look 70 years old and marry Catherine Zeta-Jones and nobody bats a fucking eyelid. Which is true. Naveen is 36 and living with Barbara Hershey (57). I < heart > him muchly.

I think for me, it's because she's 18. Naveen and Barbara don't bother me. I don't think Ashton and Demi bother me, despite the fact that I made a crack about them earlier. I assume he's well in his 20s. In 7 years, I probably wouldn't care about LL and BW, either. In my head, 21 and under, with people too much over thirty makes me sad.

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As for the non-talking, in my experience 19 year olds don't know any more about what they're doing than they would know about what they were saying. Best to look at them from afar.

MBNA is SATAN

I've got to speak up for them - since I transferred my television purchase debt to them from President's Club VISA all but about $3 of my payments have gone toward principal rather than being eaten by high interest rates and excessive fees.

President's Club now shows that I've overpayed them by $40... I'm waiting til next month's statement to see if that credit mysteriously evaporates due to some hidden fee (as I expect), and if it's still there I'll buy a nice meal for exactly that and then cancel the account.

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I am hoping he hung out with a group of peeps and she was one--maybe he was scamming autographs for his daughters. I know someone BW pursued in the last year, and she was 38, so he isn't all about the youth.

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As I've gotten older, I've become more intellectually flexible; but when I was 18, I was a notable dingbat. I think there must be some kind of sine curve on a chart somewhere that explains the sudden "worthwhile conversationalist" threshold that people cross at a certain point, after which they may be taken generally to be adults. I think I didn't make the threshold till I was at least 23.

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