# I'm 45 today! Get off the lawn! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687 "2006-10-24T09:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/1 "2006-10-24T09:38:16Z")
OK, yesterday, but yesterday I was really down because my son wasn’t there for the birthday, and didn’t feel like posting, but I’m feeling better today. I’m old now! This is great, I get excuses for why I can’t use the latest technology. I don’t have to worry if I can’t drink everyone under the table, and I can lose at sports to these whippersnappers. This has been the best and worst year of my life. Let’s see what next year brings. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/2 "2006-10-24T09:43:33Z")
Happy birthday for yesterday! Enjoy the fact that you can now be a grumpy old git! ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/3 "2006-10-24T09:49:35Z")
No, _you_ get off _my_ lawn, you young whippersnapper, you. (OK, I’m only 4 years older than you, but still…) My brother is a marathoner and actually enjoys milestone birthdays that move him into the next age bracket. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Hope the good things vastly outnumber the bad in the coming year. GT ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/4 "2006-10-24T10:56:43Z")
45 is swell! (It sounds _especially_ swell to someone who is about to become 52.) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/5 "2006-10-24T11:12:55Z")
Happy Birthday! Now git off’n mah lawn afore I whack you with mah cane you dand whippersnapper! -swampbear (52. Hmmph! Youngins today!) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/6 "2006-10-24T11:14:31Z")
Happy Birthday, sir! _hands TP some chocolatey presents and hurriedly gets her 38yo ass off his lawn_ ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/7 "2006-10-24T11:22:08Z")
Happy Birthday! **insolently inches her own damn walker onto TP’s lawn** twicks, 51 ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/8 "2006-10-24T11:36:51Z")
Happy birthday. Welcome to curmudgeonness. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/9 "2006-10-24T11:58:32Z")
Forty-five??? Just go naff-off and come back when you’ve got a few more years under 'yer belt mister. Gawd, the young people of today really piss me off with their sense of entitlement!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-45-today-get-off-the-lawn/377687/10 "2006-10-24T12:23:19Z")
Wishing you a good day, a good year and a great life. 🙂