Time Travel

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I just saw a discussion thread on another site headed "have you used time travel in any of your books?" and thought for a minute that they meant to conduct research.

Possibly I need to fit a nap in between four days with five grandkids and the business world.

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I use internet archive wayback machine sometimes, would that count as time travel?

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@Tiffany S wrote:

I just saw a discussion thread on another site headed "have you used time travel in any of your books?" and thought for a minute that they meant to conduct research.

Possibly I need to fit a nap in between four days with five grandkids and the business world.

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Either you must have had kids and started working really young, or your picture is very old. 

I'm not good with telling age, but you look like you are in your mid/late 30's, but you also say that you've been working for 30 years, so I figured maybe 45 or something. But now grandkids? 

No need to reply of course. Would never ask a lady about her age. I'll just keep on wondering, and maybe more little pieces to the puzzle will come later on. 🙂

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Eve:

If somebody has indeed used time travel (as the original post alludes to), she could have gone back in time and had children. Depending on how far back in time she travelled, she could have 5 grandchildren or even hundreds of descendants spanning many generations.

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Eve, I'm 51. The picture I have here is about two years old. 

My grandchildren are courtesy of a stepdaughter, so I got to double up on the timeline a bit there--she and her brother were being born while I was attending law school and beginning my freelance writing career. 

She's the one who started young, though. All she ever wanted was her own family. She met her husband when she was 14, married him at 18 and started having kids right away. She's just about to turn 28 and has kids who are 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9.

For her sake, I wish she'd waited a few years longer, but for mine it's been awesome because I can still run behind a bicycle or climb a tree or whatever.

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@Tiffany S wrote:

Eve, I'm 51. The picture I have here is about two years old. 

My grandchildren are courtesy of a stepdaughter, so I got to double up on the timeline a bit there--she and her brother were being born while I was attending law school and beginning my freelance writing career. 

She's the one who started young, though. All she ever wanted was her own family. She met her husband when she was 14, married him at 18 and started having kids right away. She's just about to turn 28 and has kids who are 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9.

For her sake, I wish she'd waited a few years longer, but for mine it's been awesome because I can still run behind a bicycle or climb a tree or whatever.

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 Wow! You really age well then. Good for you!

And stephdaughter explains a lot. Law school and a long freelancing career + 5 grandkids and your picture didn't really add up. 🙂

Can't imagine having kids at 18 or 19. My older half-sister had a kid when she was 19, and I remember my dad was not happy about that. I was only 7 and couldn't see the issue, as for me she was a grown up. I did understand when I turned 19 myself though.

Don't think I'll ever want to have children, and even if that would be the case I still think I'm too young. I'm 32 now and the average age for a woman to have her first child in Oslo is 31, so it's not like I'm horrible late if I would change my mind in a couple of years anyway. But I don't think I will. The world has enough people to feed already.

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I still occasionally get carded for alcohol even when the people with me don't, and my 43-year-old sister always does. It's a bit of a mixed blessing. 

My only biological child was born just before I turned 30, which turned out to be about the perfect age for me. And, I was only the second among my friends from high school and college to have a child; most of my friends didn't have theirs until their early to mid-thirties. But my stepdaughter (who I will henceforth refer to as my older daughter, further confusing the picture/timeline, because I don't really make that differentiation in my mind) aspired to having her own home and family the way some people aspire to be doctors or rock stars. 

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@Tiffany S wrote:

I still occasionally get carded for alcohol

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 In California you have to show an ID if you look like you are 30, but I have to admit that the enforcement of this law makes me want to bang my head against the wall sometimes. I’m 49, five years ago I went to a bar in LA with my ex. She was carded, which I could understand since she was younger than me and looked even younger, so OK, why not. But the fact that they asked me to show an ID was plain stupid. I didn’t look like 30 at all. I almost went into an argument with the bouncer and decided to shut up just so we could get in. But I still find all of this totally ridiculous.

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Couple of weeks ago I didn't get in to two different pubs in Stockholm as I didn't bring my id. Only id I have that's valid abroad is my passport, and not bringing that when I go out. This was also the first time in 10 years someone asked me for an id, so it didn't even cross my mind that I should bring one. Age limit was 20. And last week I took the bus, and the driver gave me a kids ticket. Hahaha! (Age limit for that is 15) Joke's on him, I got a ticket for half price.

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@Rene K wrote:

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@Tiffany S wrote:

I still occasionally get carded for alcohol

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 In California you have to show an ID if you look like you are 30, but I have to admit that the enforcement of this law makes me want to bang my head against the wall sometimes. I’m 49, five years ago I went to a bar in LA with my ex. She was carded, which I could understand since she was younger than me and looked even younger, so OK, why not. But the fact that they asked me to show an ID was plain stupid. I didn’t look like 30 at all. I almost went into an argument with the bouncer and decided to shut up just so we could get in. But I still find all of this totally ridiculous.

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 The only time it bothers me is when I'm with a group of people who are my age or a bit younger and I'm the only one who gets carded. A couple of years ago, I was at a birthday dinner for a friend who is a few years younger than me, and everyone at the table was 35-50. I was 48 or 49, and was the only one to get carded, which wouldn't have been so bad except that the waitress then turned to my friends, many of whom were younger than me and had not been carded, and started exclaiming things to them like "We should all have her genes, hm?"

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In NZ the drinking age used to be 20. But I was drinking and going to clubs and bars from when I was 15 and never got carded. The same year I turned 20, it was lowered to 18. Since then in both NZ and Oz I've intermittently been carded and I'm 38 now. I know they're just protecting themselves but it's always amusing. Now that I'm using Apple Pay more and more I've had to buy a wallet case for my phone so I have ID on me all the time, because I've stopped carrying my wallet everywhere.

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@Jennifer D wrote:

In NZ the drinking age used to be 20. But I was drinking and going to clubs and bars from when I was 15 and never got carded. The same year I turned 20, it was lowered to 18. Since then in both NZ and Oz I've intermittently been carded and I'm 38 now. I know they're just protecting themselves but it's always amusing. Now that I'm using Apple Pay more and more I've had to buy a wallet case for my phone so I have ID on me all the time, because I've stopped carrying my wallet everywhere.

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 What does "getting carded" mean? Is it good, or bad?

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Reinier, "getting carded" means being checked for ID to prove you are the legal age to buy wine, spirits, cigs, etc.

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@Wendy C wrote:

Reinier, "getting carded" means being checked for ID to prove you are the legal age to buy wine, spirits, cigs, etc.

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Thanks for the clarification Wendy! Perhaps we should start doing that in this country again...