# How old are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037 "2006-06-25T01:33:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/121 "2006-06-27T03:23:38Z")
I guess Im another young’un at 18. My Birthdays too far away for me to even claim the “almost 19” line! ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/122 "2006-06-27T04:45:21Z")
> [@bubble pop electric](#): > > 1. Is that some kind of record? Maybe. When’s your birthday? I’m fifteen years, one month, and twenty nine days old. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/123 "2006-06-27T05:05:57Z")
Too young to have known the “summer of love”. I was technically issued a draft card for 'Nam, but by that time it was winding down and out. At the same time, too old to have had to worry about any follow-up military action. Old enough to have lived through some of the real social issues of the sixties. Segregation was a real thing (still is, in some ways) - the power of “that’s just the way it is” should never be underestimated. I was pretty young during the Watts riots, but I remember my parents being very worried about the whole thing. Middle-aged, sort of, during the more recent L.A. riots; very strange times. Lived through the information revolution. There was a time when computers were geeky beyond words, and being a geek was a real social crime. When there was only one telephone in the house. When there were no remote controls. …Is that what the OP meant by “how old are you?” ---
**Author:** ![Hirundo82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@Hirundo82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirundo82)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/124 "2006-06-27T05:16:54Z")
23.719834474885844748858447488584 ---
**Author:** ![bubble\_pop\_electric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@bubble\_pop\_electric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubble_pop_electric)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/125 "2006-06-27T05:27:52Z")
**Dorothy** , you’re older than me. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/126 "2006-06-27T12:50:27Z")
1. Hit the big 5-0 in October… ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/127 "2006-06-27T15:28:37Z")
Physically Im 33 years old, but mentally around 12 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/128 "2006-06-27T16:34:19Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > My mom, 83 this past Sat., always said: "I never thought of myself as old, until I had to send you a birthday card for your 60th B’day. I CAN’T have a kid who’s 60! she thought. THEN she felt old. For the first time. This reminds me of the time I showed my grandmother, who was around 93 at the time, a picture of her three kids…my dad & my two uncles, taken at my wedding. She looked at the picture and said “I can’t believe it…are those 3 OLD MEN my SONS?” Hate to say it, but she was right…they DID look old! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![montana\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@montana\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montana_cricket)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/129 "2006-06-27T17:00:10Z")
just turned 38!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/130 "2006-06-27T17:31:57Z")
57 ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/131 "2006-06-27T20:54:06Z")
I’ll be 36 on August 1. Till then, I’m still 35, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![biometricks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@biometricks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biometricks)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/132 "2006-06-28T03:15:40Z")
1979 was my year. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/133 "2006-06-28T11:31:14Z")
32, 33 in September. ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/134 "2006-06-28T16:16:35Z")
> [@Miss Purl McKnittington](#): > > Well, I’m assuming that most people’s parents, y’know, _did it_ about nine months before said child was born. Even you, darling **mrald**. Don’t believe that stuff about a cabbage patch and a goose putting a dew drop under a cabbage leaf and the dew drop turning into a diamond and then the diamond putting a gleam in your father’s eye and reflecting back into the diamond so that the diamond cracked and a baby popped out. Biology is way cooler than that. I still don’t get how both our 22nd birthdays are only a month apart and we were born in two different years. ---
**Author:** ![scott62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@scott62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott62)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/135 "2006-06-28T16:55:05Z")
18/02/1974 ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/136 "2006-06-28T17:56:09Z")
17.1260273 ---
**Author:** ![scott62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@scott62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott62)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/137 "2006-06-28T18:31:51Z")
69 posts. Aaaaaaallllllriiiiiigggghhhht ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/138 "2006-06-28T18:45:36Z")
1. Old enough to reach the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/139 "2006-06-28T18:47:17Z")
21 as of last month. That still sounds strange. ---
**Author:** ![neutiquam\_erro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba8739/32.png) [@neutiquam\_erro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutiquam_erro)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/362037/140 "2006-06-29T02:07:46Z")
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