I guess my best friends have always been about ten years or more older than me.
I go to my facebook and can hardly stand what I see, it's not exclusive to my age group (55), but I just hate to see all those former "hippies" turn into "me-centric" poster children and so many racists too, I have abandoned that depressing website, can't bear to look at it anymore!
We had an older fella at work when I was about 25, a man named Tom Barnes.
Tom was a machinist, about 85 years old, had already sold his company for more than a million dollars, but worked at this company because he just liked his profession.
Well, old Tom was pretty hard to get along with, no "respecter of persons" necessarily let's say, especially some green 25 y/o whelp like me.
But, after a few years I was one of the few people in the company who could get along with him: you see, we both liked the Britcom "Yes Minister", the show featured in my avvie.
"Hey, did you see the Minister last night, did you see old "monkey face" (Sir Humphrey) locked out of Number 10?" :adoration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wahzt2a1k
Company owner has to stand there and listen to us for 20 minutes because he's too scared to interrupt Tom, lol.
Something else that has always tended to break down barriers between myself and folks much older (any age) is my love of classic movies.
I've read a lot of Hollywood bios and can often tell someone things about their favorite star they might not have known.
Thx :untroubled: