50...&^$(!!

When did THAT happen?...i turned 50....things hurt more...talk about ailments and who is in the hospital and for what....AARP....what???...oh yeah im 50....i am happy to have got here but what happened to 30?...i know a ton of junk i wish i hadnt...i have seen things...in my work this is all fine..nothing is a shock..nothing to hard.... nothing i cant handle....i remember working with the old bakers when i was younger..they all walked funny...but seemed happy and funny...^&%!!!...i may become one of them!...recipes are in my head...songs of the 60's and 70's plastered in my brain instead of knowing what day it is...some of to days celebrity chefs were having a symposium of some sort and the marketing boss asked if i wanted tickets...i'm sure i shocked her a bit but i had zero interest...find me a cold beer and an old chef and we can swap stories for hours i don't need a prima donna or some ego maniacal young pup to tell me HIS stories...i have some great ones...you got a cold beer or two just call.....my personal life i remember as a teenager having my parents car...we raced across the parking lot and BAM...something bad happened to the car...it stopped some transmission issue...i called my father and he showed up...says what happened? i said...well dad we were just driving out about 30 miles an hour and heard this small noise so we stopped...he looked around and said...nope.....you were racing across the parking lot about 65 and when you got to this point right here you gunned it.....ah...ah...ahh....what?....there is nothing my son can get by me now...i'm becoming my father...and old creaky walking baker and my father...good...its about time!