# Another year, another dollar . . .
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 7, 2000, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844 "2000-07-07T12:54:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/1 "2000-07-07T12:54:07Z")
Actually, I’m not completely blue over my birthday, just a bit shocked that time has started to fly by so much faster. This is my last year in my 20s and then . . . the big 3 0. Wow. When I was (much) younger, I used to think that this was an old age. But I don’t feel old at all. As a matter of fact, I can’t think of an age before 70 that really seems old. But, to teenagers I’m old. To kids, I’m old. Even to kids in their early 20s, I’m a bit oldish. Sigh. I think I don’t mind the thought of getting older, I mind the world’s perspective on getting older. Ugh. Let me stop before I wax philosophical, and end with “Happy Birthday to me.” Cheers!
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/2 "2000-07-07T12:59:57Z")
Congrats, Heloise! And really, you don’t look a day over 27!
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### Author:  [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/3 "2000-07-07T14:35:44Z")
😃 Why, thank you!
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### Author:  [@BigJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigJoe)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/4 "2000-07-07T14:42:14Z")
Happy B-day Heloise.
I know how you feel - I just hit the big 3 0 last month - seems like I just turned 21, where the hell did the time go? To make it worse, I catch myself saying “Kid’s these days…” :: shudder :: 😃
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### Author:  [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/5 "2000-07-07T14:44:25Z")
Heloise, I’ll be 30 in September, which doesn’t bother me a bit. Know what does bother me, though? My daughter’s birthdays. She is twelve today.
12? How can she be 12 already? I’m not old enough for her to be 12!!!
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### Author:  [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/6 "2000-07-07T14:45:19Z")
Happy Birthday Heloise! Dont feel so bad, I’m going to be out of my 20’s in two **very** short months. :eek:
But I hear life just gets better so again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Have a great day! 😃
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### Author:  [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/7 "2000-07-07T14:58:26Z")
Happy Birthday Heloise!
Don’t sweat the big 3-0. I went through it a few years ago and I don’t feel any different. Nosiree. Never felt younger!I was just saying to…um…my brother…what’s his name again?..it starts with a C…or is it a T…Damn, the memory is the first thing to go…
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### Author:  [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/8 "2000-07-07T15:20:20Z")
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> I’ll be 30 in September
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KimKatt my birthday is September 11th, what day is yours on?
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### Author:  [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/9 "2000-07-07T16:06:30Z")
I know you didn’t ask me. But mine, too, is September 11.
Won’t be 30 though. I’ll never be **that** old!
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### Author:  [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/10 "2000-07-07T21:39:44Z")
Not talking like that you won’t.
Nothing wrong with being 30.
Or being almost 31.
Dammit.
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### Author:  [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/11 "2000-07-07T22:01:17Z")
Congratulation but no sympathy from someone who is already one and a half times “the big three-oh”. I’m also rolling the odometer one more time this September (28th, not the 11th).
I would like to mention, for no reason, that for me age 30 was the start of the great metabolism shift. I didn’t change the way I ate, I didn’t change my activity level but my weight started to creep up. I’m still waiting for the great metabolism downshift, but I’m no longer optimistic.
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/12 "2000-07-07T22:30:44Z")
JK
Happy Birthday!
It just goes faster and faster. College doesn’t seem like all _that_ long ago, but here I am with 50 just a few years away. I feel that old age doesn’t start until about 75.
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### Author:  [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/13 "2000-07-07T22:34:44Z")
Happy B-day!
And don’t worry about being 30! If you don’t like it, it only lasts a year anyway …
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### Author:  [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/14 "2000-07-08T05:22:42Z")
Happy Birthday, Heloise!
As to being almost 30, you’ve got a year to prepare for that.
Go out and buy a drink! Hopefully, you’ll get carded.
And if you don’t there’s always that drink to console you.
Sage advice from an ancient, shiftless 34 year old.
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### Author:  [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/15 "2000-07-08T05:42:55Z")
And just think, as young as you are, you can do all the things that “real” grownups can do, even though you know better!
Happy Birthday, Heloise!
~~Baloo
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/16 "2000-07-08T05:52:04Z")
HB, H!
CS
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### Author:  [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/17 "2000-07-08T06:49:14Z")
Happy Birthday. Just remeber that it’s better to be over the hill than under it.
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### Author:  [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2000, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/18 "2000-07-08T08:57:25Z")
Especially if you’re Sisyphus.
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### Author:  [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2000, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/19 "2000-07-08T10:17:49Z")
Happy Birthday Heloise. Don’t worry about 30 creeping up. It’s a breeze. 31 was harder for me. I think I looked at 30 as I’m just barely out of my 20s. I hit 31 and I realized “I’m a grownup!!!”
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### Author:  [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2000, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-another-dollar/24844/20 "2000-07-08T13:29:57Z")
Happy Birthday Heloise
From an “old” boy (I’m only 10 years older) but young at heart. The big 40 is coming soon.
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