childhood memories and curiosity

When I was a kid in the late 1950s, while I was a student at Paoli Elementary School, I read the famous children's book that talks about the Kid from Leftfield. Also around that time, I always said to myself, What is it going to be like in the year 2000? I'll be fifty years old! I couldn't comprehend being that old; the thought of it scared me, and I'd probably be in a wheelchair or something worse. I bet a lot of people my age thought the same thing.

the story of the fifty-year-old kid

This is the story of what that kid did when he reached the age of fifty.