Quote Originally Posted by lph View Post
I'm curious as to why several of you mention being surprised that co-workers have parents your age. I'm 43, and some of my youngest co-workers are in the early twenties, young enough for me technically to be their mother. Though I'll admit that I would be surprised too if they had parents my age, since the average age for a first birth is late twenties. But I'd pretty much expect that to be the case if I were ten years older.
lph, my take on this is that it isn't so much being surprised that co-workers have parents my age, it's more a sense of realization that I am the same age as my co-workers' parents. As in - 'how did that happen?' or 'where did all those years go?'. Conversely, what often startles me is to realize that some of my co-workers are the same age (or younger) than my children!!! Yikes! Again, it's an in-your-face realization that I've forgotten how old I actually am (54).

Hope that makes sense.