STICK A FORK IN ME...

I'm talking to my girlfriend and she's telling me a little anecdote about some dude she knows who she wants to hook me up with. Sidenote: why is someone always trying to hook me up? I am perfectly capable of handling that area of my life thank you very much. Anyway. (hey boo)

Dude happens to be 35.

Of course im me, and me be age obsessed and i focus on the fact that he's 35. My internal dialogue reverbs:

"like dangggg he's old." Keyshia cole style.

So im bristling with insult that she would even think i'd be interested in somebody that age when...*record scratch* it dawns on me.

"hey idiot...he's only a few years older than you."

Oh no i didn't. Oh yes i did. I had to call myself back to myself yall. From an outsiders standpoint we'd totally be in the same age group. That is galling to me. Especially considering the fact that i still think of myself as that 21 yr old, with a a dollar and a dream, reading word up magazine. Just with better boobs and eyebrows. lol

I mean i got one of those life insurance forms in the mail, and i looked for my age group to see what the quote would be(cuz you can never have too much life insurance) for a non-smoker w/no known health problems, and would you believe i'm in a new age bracket?? WTF when did this happen? Oh its cruel i tell you. I mean the fact that i'm even looking for more life insurance is bad enough, but i could just chalk that up to being responsible. But the fact that i've moved up in the age range, well i can't spin that one. I'm so over yall.

*grasps at the remaining threads of youth*

Its just that i never thought i'd see the day when someone in his mid thirties would be considered a suitable suitor. And not "oooh...older man" dateable, just dateable as in "yall are peers, get over it". Not that people i'm interested in are super young or nothing -no cougar here(yet))-truth be told they are all 30ish, but none are that...old. Like to me, 35 is some new frontier ish. And i'm not trying to conquer any new frontiers. Not yet anyway.