# How old are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 28, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132 "2001-01-28T15:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Pismonque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/46a35a/32.png) [@Pismonque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pismonque)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/61 "2001-01-29T05:31:54Z")
I’m 35. Incidentally, I’ve decided that age is relative to one’s individual lifespan. For example, if I get squished by a falling Russian space station next month, then right now I am a very old man. On the other hand, if I make it to see Dick Clark usher in the year 2100, then I’m still quite the youngster. This way, “old” and “young” have little or no meaning unless you have some special insight into the subject’s impending demise. Only problem is, how will I know when to have a mid-life crisis? ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/62 "2001-01-29T05:36:27Z")
“An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!’” –Henry VIII, Act 4, Scene ii [sub]However, I AM immature[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/63 "2001-01-29T05:38:08Z")
Pis: be on the safe side. Have one every year. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/64 "2001-01-29T06:03:57Z")
Well, despite what you may think from looking at my People Page pic (as I look quite a bit older than I am), I’m only 19. Which is good here, because it is the legal drinking age. Thing is, I don’t really drink much, but at least I don’t have to worry about going into bars and such. ---
**Author:** ![mkmiller99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@mkmiller99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkmiller99)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/65 "2001-01-29T06:14:28Z")
I’m a 29 year old Texas gal, hitting 30 this year, and not too thrilled. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/66 "2001-01-29T06:48:12Z")
I’m 27. I’ll be 28 on 5/12. ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/67 "2001-01-29T07:07:51Z")
19, here. Old enough to die for my country, not old enough to get drunk. Damned laws. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/68 "2001-01-29T07:25:32Z")
I am 26. ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/69 "2001-01-29T09:08:37Z")
older than god younger than dirt the alternative to passion is to become inert (if you really wanna know the score my age rhymes with wordy bore)\* \*disclaimer-- the above doggerl is excusable only by the fact that I am now so addicted to SDMB that I’m falling asleep at my keyboard. Good night. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/70 "2001-01-29T11:36:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caesar0211 \* > \*\*Booya! rack up another 15 year old. well…I turn 16 this February 11th…woohoo, and I will get a car. 71 Superbug. I bet all you geezers out there remeber them dontcha? 🙂 \*\* **Caesar** we share a birthday, though I was born in 1958. //hijack// And, I used to have a '71 Superbeetle. Worst car I ever owned. It made me resolve to never ever set foot in another VW as long as I live. 🙂 But it was cheap maintenance. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/71 "2001-01-29T11:38:52Z")
Old enough to know better. ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/72 "2001-01-29T12:53:47Z")
Turned 18 yesterday and I didn’t even get a birthday thread. ☹ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Caesar0211](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caesar0211](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar0211)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/73 "2001-01-29T14:10:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Carina42 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Caesar0211 \* > > \*\*Booya! rack up another 15 year old. well…I turn 16 this February 11th…woohoo, and I will get a car. 71 Superbug. I bet all you geezers out there remeber them dontcha? 🙂 \*\* > > **Caesar** we share a birthday, though I was born in 1958. > > //hijack// And, I used to have a '71 Superbeetle. Worst car I ever owned. It made me resolve to never ever set foot in another VW as long as I live. 🙂 But it was cheap maintenance. Enjoy! \*\* lol! thanks for the advice. I wanted a microbus but my dad said that they have weak engines. heck if I had the money I’d _somehow_ figure out how to jam a V8 engine in a bus. can you imagine that driving that down the road? 🙂 I know I got off the OP, but ohwell! shoot me. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/74 "2001-01-29T14:36:18Z")
39, and I turn 40 in August. Yikes, I should have gone through Carousel on my 30th instead of dodging the Sandmen. Now, I’m stuck in the dacaying ruins of Washington DC, and Peter Ustinov won’t shut up about his damned cats! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/75 "2001-01-29T14:57:16Z")
I am sixty, soon to be sixty-one. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/76 "2001-01-29T15:28:25Z")
1. I refuse to divulge my birthday for fear anyone will remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Tiburon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/77 "2001-01-29T15:35:38Z")
Just turned 28 in January. Tibs. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/78 "2001-01-29T15:48:38Z")
I’m 25. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/79 "2001-01-29T15:57:17Z")
Younger than my hair and older than my teeth. Or, almost 6 in dog years. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132/80 "2001-01-29T16:14:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caesar0211 \* > lol! thanks for the advice. I wanted a microbus but my dad said that they have weak engines. heck if I had the money I’d _somehow_ figure out how to jam a V8 engine in a bus. can you imagine that driving that down the road? 🙂 I know I got off the OP, but ohwell! shoot me. \*\* Many, many moons ago I had a roommate with a microbus that had a Porsche engine in it. That thing would really haul! But it was pretty high maintenance. 🙂 [/hijack] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/52132.md?page=5)