HOLY CRAP, is he still alive?
Jeez, some of us have been out of high school just a tad bit longer than that.
And, unfortunately, some of us are much older than that. 
Roger
Meh, actual calendar age is irrelevant.
The fall of 2013 we put up three more grain bins on the farm, did the cement ourselves and the actual installation of the bins (we own our own bin jacks).
Had the hired mans boy and one of his friends working for us on that project, they are less than half my age, I could work their little d*cks in the dirt, work a couple more hours after they left, then go and throw darts that night on the league, end up at the VFW and drink beer with the old farts till 1AM then be up hours before the "kids" showed up and work their little d*cks into the dirt again.
Genetics play a big part on your actual physical age compared to your calendar age. My great grandfather was still farming in his 90's, driving the baling tractor, milking cows, etc. When he fell down and broke his hip at 96 he didn't last another 18 months when he couldn't work anymore. My paternal grandma is reaching her late 90's as did all her siblings, grandfather didn't last that long but all his siblings did. My maternal grandmother made 94, grandpa didn't but his siblings did. On my Dads side when you goto a funeral for somebody that was only in their late 70's or early 80's you'll hear more than once "they were young yet". I'm serious, no joke on that one.
Unfortunately nobody on the wife's side seems to be very long lived, high blood pressure, cancer, strokes, glaucoma, cataracts, kidney issues, etc.
As cliche as it sounds, you're really only as old as you let yourself feel. A lot of the friends that the wife and I hang with are in the late 20's or early 30's.
Someday I'll have to grow up and act my age but I plan on kicking and screaming all the way.
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