“Back in your day”

I’ve already mentioned in a previous essay how one of our younger cruising friends said to me, “but we love you guys,” referring to the old, or rather, middle aged crowd, but this really takes the cake.

We met a couple of young guys taking some time off from their lives to cross the Pacific from Mexico to Australia.  We hung out a few times, and they also went diving with Tim a few times.  The first time they came over to Exodus they brought a horrendous bottle of pink wine, and I thanked them by pouring them glasses and sharing it with them.  Well, it turns out one, or maybe both of them, I don’t remember, are also engineers, and one evening the rum was flowing, and one of them asked me what it was like being a woman in engineering back in my day.  Ha!