# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![wenonahbone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wenonahbone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wenonahbone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/141 "2004-09-29T02:34:08Z")
48 November 12th ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/142 "2004-09-29T02:54:04Z")
> [@ageless6](#): > > Wear really tight collars and 34 can never get to you. Damn, it almost worked, but the top button popped when I hit the floor. :o ---
**Author:** ![Crescent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Crescent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescent)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/143 "2004-09-29T02:56:20Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > Old enough to have clear memories of the attention devoted on TV to the Watergate mess as it was happening but not old enough to remember the original Star Trek when it was in its first run. 45 Watergate I remember all too well and it tainted my trust in the government. Star Trek I remember watching when it first aired. I was in first or second grade. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/144 "2004-09-29T03:11:57Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > 43, but nobody ever believes me Same here…well, except everyone always believes me. ---
**Author:** ![Calliope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Calliope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calliope)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/145 "2004-09-29T04:35:42Z")
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**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/146 "2004-09-29T04:46:00Z")
24 And yet I’m the second-oldest person at one of my jobs. I’m even older than some of my managers, its kind of depressing ☹ ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/147 "2004-09-29T05:13:11Z")
Canada or Britain…probably be the same price and same amount of time to get to either place… (said with the relatively recent realiziation that New Mexico is really really far from, like, absolutely everything. In the universe.) ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/148 "2004-09-29T07:16:08Z")
As of last Saturday, 45. ---
**Author:** ![LuckyMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e36b37/32.png) [@LuckyMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LuckyMe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/149 "2004-09-29T07:26:00Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I’m 27, and I’ll be 40 before I know it. Jeez, I have been 27 for thirty days already and I feel the same way. Scary, the tricks time plays. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/150 "2004-09-29T07:33:57Z")
40 years and 127 days ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/151 "2004-09-29T08:19:31Z")
26 years and 18 hours old. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/152 "2004-09-29T10:35:03Z")
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**Author:** ![Tiggrkitty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggrkitty/32/17966_2.png) [@Tiggrkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggrkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/153 "2004-09-29T11:40:36Z")
I’m 44 and Cardsfan is 29. ---
**Author:** ![ponderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@ponderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ponderer)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/154 "2004-09-29T11:56:17Z")
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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/155 "2004-09-29T12:04:34Z")
I’m 19. I don’t want to stop being a teenager! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/156 "2004-09-29T14:22:18Z")
Officially old enough to join AARP! I’m 50! Now get outta my way you whippersnappers, I gotta early bird special to get to! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cryptic\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@cryptic\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cryptic_j)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/157 "2004-09-29T19:34:15Z")
25 - - can you have a quarter life crisis? * * * Tales of the **cryptic** [http://www.organizedrhyme.co.uk](http://www.organizedrhyme.co.uk) ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/158 "2004-09-29T19:47:41Z")
I cant believe nobody else with a mid-life crisis has posted it this way : I’m 24—for the second time ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/159 "2004-09-29T19:48:45Z")
I 'm kinda surprised that nobody else with a mid-life crisis has posted it this way : I’m 24—for the second time ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/160 "2004-09-29T19:49:19Z")
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