# Do you determine an event's date by the year, how old you were, its relation to other events, or...?

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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
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> [@Athena](#):
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> For teenage/kid things, I can usually narrow it down by what grade I was in, who my friends were at the time, etc.
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> Older than that, I tend to go a lot with where I was living at the time. I moved around a lot in my 20s, so I can usually correlate with “I was in Minneapolis, living on \<X\> St when I saw that movie because I remember the shower broke before we left” or “It must have been between 93 and 95, because I was living on \<Y\> street with my friend Jane, who was only there from late summer 93 and then she moved to Washington in the winter of 94…” that kind of thing.

I tend to remember stuff the same way (i.e., grade in school or place of residence). Now that I’ve been in the same condo for almost 4 1/2 years, it’s becoming harder to remember exactly when fairly recent events happened.

Slightly off-topic: yesterday I did pub trivia. One question asked the year that McDonald’s introduced Chicken McNuggets, among a couple other events. I somehow remember that I was in first grade when McNuggets were introduced! This narrowed down the possibilities to 1983 or 1984, and we picked the right one (1983).

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> [@Ponch8](#):
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> Slightly off-topic: yesterday I did pub trivia. One question asked the year that McDonald’s introduced Chicken McNuggets, among a couple other events. I somehow remember that I was in first grade when McNuggets were introduced! This narrowed down the possibilities to 1983 or 1984, and we picked the right one (1983).

Ha! I could’ve gotten that one too, except I was in college. 😃 :shakes cane:

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