# How old do you feel?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370 "2002-11-12T03:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/41 "2002-11-16T14:43:00Z")
I say you become a bona fide adult when you dont laugh at spongebob squaerpants anymore. Now how many of you are adults, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/42 "2002-11-16T15:51:21Z")
I’m 43 but because I in the middle of my annual cold right now, I’d say I’m feeling at least 53. (Yes, I do think I average about one cold per year.) ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/43 "2002-11-17T02:13:55Z")
I’m currently 23, almost 24. Up until about 2 years ago, I was always mistaken for being about 7 years older than my actual age. Now, I’m mistaken for 18 or 19, which probably isn’t all bad. When I’m with my good friends, I can feel as though I’m 10. Sometimes when I’m with the guy who became my friend 'cause I had a mad crush on him earlier in the semester, asked him out (he declined), & got to know him, I feel about 13. When I see some of the 18 year olds on campus or the 16 year olds whom I’m observing for my education class, or get home from a late night out & realize that I don’t bounce back the way I did when i was 20, I feel 40. Averaging out my chronological age & my various other ages, I seem to feel about 21, which isn’t too bad. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/44 "2002-11-17T11:56:14Z")
I am 23. When I am at work I feel 50 (I am amongst many immature people) And I wish I was 12, but had the same knowledge and intelligence that I do now. There is a way of answering the op (particularly the subject line) that is both funny and sick. I am not going to risk it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/45 "2002-11-17T12:01:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\*I say you become a bona fide adult when you dont laugh at spongebob squaerpants anymore. Now how many of you are adults, huh? \*\* I’ve been an adult since I was born then. btw - Regardless of how I feel - I am about 2. And everyone else here is about 2. If I remember correctly the life-expectancy of the [longest lasting] human cell is 2 years. so there is nothing about us older than 2. 2 could be the wrong figure, but the theory is right (I think) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/46 "2002-11-17T12:04:17Z")
ahhh, stuffing the pie-hole, napping, playing computer games, laughing when people fall over. do any of us really grow up? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/47 "2002-11-17T12:17:30Z")
I feel about, oh, stupid. This is a difficult question to answer, during the course of a day I can feel anywhere between 6 and 600. I am listening to classical music right now (50) I was listening to Britney spears last night (12 or 20 depending on weither I am appreciating the music or ‘appreciating’ the visuals) I was coming home last night from work disaproving of all the loutish drunk behaviour (39) I stuffed my face (‘face’ being the operative word) with KFC _at_ work (2) I played Unreal torunament 2003 when I got home (15) watched an episode of Jeeves and wooster (30). Saw a cat outside and rushed out to stroke it (10). Woke up the next day, bought ‘the daily star’ because it had a picture of a big-breasted Jennifer Ellison on the front (16). Developed a rotten cold (90) ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/48 "2002-11-17T18:36:00Z")
About seventy. Just waiting to die. ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/49 "2002-11-17T19:08:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*I’ll be 49 in January. Most of the time, I’m amazed that I’m that old. I feel like I should still be in my 30s. But there are times when mortality stares me in the face, or maybe I’m just dwelling on it since my dad’s death. \*\* FCM, I really want to meet you some day. If you ever want to visit the Oregon coast, let’s go! I’ll be 49 in June, and ditto (though my father is still with us). I’ve always looked younger than my age. I hated it when I was in my teens. The “getting into movies cheaper” part was nice, but once I hit driving age, I got pulled over frequently. After three stops in one day, my wonderful dad called the Downey CA cops the next day, and requested that they stopped pulling me over… “she’s 16, she drives a green '53 Chevy…” Okay, to today. I feel about 35. When my daughter was in 3rd grade, I was 31. Classes were crowded, so at a school board meeting, I proposed a solution… Gosh, I was SO SO nervous! The speaker asked if I were old enough to vote. (What a jerk.) I told him I’d been voting in Grants Pass for twelve years… ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/50 "2002-11-17T19:27:58Z")
In two weeks I’ll be 40, but today I feel 102. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/51 "2002-11-18T01:15:06Z")
I’m 15 and I feel like I’m 50. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/52 "2002-11-18T13:41:05Z")
I’m 22 years old. Although according to my (now) ex-girlfriend apparently 7 years old is probably nearer the mark. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370/53 "2002-11-19T00:23:09Z")
Why , in the name of all that is holy , would a 15-year old feel 50. Miss magic8ball are you sick ? are you depressed ? I’m not all that much older than you and I know it gets worse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-feel/136370.md?page=2)