# How old are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377 "2004-09-27T23:29:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/81 "2004-09-28T06:23:45Z")
1. But give me another week or so. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/82 "2004-09-28T06:30:22Z")
48 until January. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/83 "2004-09-28T06:38:51Z")
Thirty-something. Ok, 39. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/84 "2004-09-28T07:10:19Z")
27, in about 28 days. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/85 "2004-09-28T07:11:38Z")
27 ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/86 "2004-09-28T07:12:10Z")
19, and I look every day of it! ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/87 "2004-09-28T07:16:38Z")
20, going on 40. My dad, whom I have a symbiotic living arrangement with, is 43 going on 17. We make an interesting pair. If only I could convince people that he’s honestly not my brother… ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/88 "2004-09-28T07:33:49Z")
I’m 27. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/89 "2004-09-28T09:25:26Z")
31… Jesus, I was 20 like last week. What happened? ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/90 "2004-09-28T10:51:17Z")
49 and 9/12ths ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/91 "2004-09-28T10:54:30Z")
1. ---
**Author:** ![Daftbugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Daftbugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daftbugger)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/92 "2004-09-28T11:04:06Z")
26 ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/93 "2004-09-28T11:07:02Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Shouldn’t you be in bed, or at school, or at the mall? > > 😃 LoL!!1 Watt3va _j3rk!_ (:D) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/94 "2004-09-28T11:17:46Z")
I’m 27, and I’ll be 40 before I know it. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/95 "2004-09-28T11:20:52Z")
I’ve just turned 37. I am pleased to say that the other day one of my coworkers thought I was 30. Strange to think that I was only 34 when I joined. This place ages you. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/96 "2004-09-28T11:24:03Z")
I’m 41, but people tell me I look much younger. It’s payback for when I was in my teens and twenties and couldn’t get the girl for my lack of atavism. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/97 "2004-09-28T12:27:37Z")
I’m 38. :eek: Did I just say that? I meant 29–yeah, 29, that’s it! ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/98 "2004-09-28T12:46:21Z")
> [@Mirrored Indigo Shadows](#): > > 1. Some days I act like I’m 21 going on 5, and others I’m 21 going on 50. Either way, I tend to balance out as a fairly well-adjusted young adult. Pretty much what she said. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/99 "2004-09-28T12:50:30Z")
1. Hi **cazzle**! ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/100 "2004-09-28T12:57:16Z")
also 28 no 28’s at all on the 1st page, we seem to all have gravitated here on the 2nd page [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377.md?page=6)