# Not young, not old? Check in here. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004 "2000-07-18T19:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/1 "2000-07-18T19:02:03Z")
My teenage years are way behind me; but I’m still a few years from the big 3-0. I’m not in bad shape, but the only thing faster than the rate my hairline is receding is how often the new white hairs are showing up. The old farts have a thread. The young kids have a thread. Dammit, we of the middle years need a thread, too. So check in. ---
**Author:** ![lunapark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lunapark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunapark)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/2 "2000-07-18T19:10:27Z")
I’m turning 21, July 31. I’m having a quarter life crisis. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/3 "2000-07-18T19:11:04Z")
Wait a sec, you’re in your TWENTIES and you think you’re in your middle years? You’re still a pup by my reckoning. I’m 38, and I’m still in TV advertisers’ prime demographic, the guy they pitch beer and car ads to(except in my case, guys in Speedos is a better advertising gimmick than women in bikinis. However when I hit 45, I’ll consider myself in my middle years. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/4 "2000-07-18T19:17:41Z")
I’m 31. I consider that 18 with 13 years training. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tracie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@Tracie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracie)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/5 "2000-07-18T19:21:38Z")
3-0 is NOT old! ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/6 "2000-07-18T19:24:27Z")
If **lunapark** makes the middle aged doper cut at twenty-one, then I’m a shoe-in at twenty-three. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/7 "2000-07-18T19:24:35Z")
A 29 year old checking in. In my head I’m still 18 but luckily my wallet is 29 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/8 "2000-07-18T19:27:07Z")
37 and in my prime, gotta love that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/9 "2000-07-18T19:34:17Z")
I turned the big 4-0. Forty is not young and not old. In terms of “development” and maturity level, I just turned 21. Whoooo Hoooo!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DarkHeart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@DarkHeart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkHeart)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/10 "2000-07-18T19:35:41Z")
26, but feel like 50. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/11 "2000-07-18T19:41:56Z")
Definitely. I was going to check into the old farts thread until I realized I didn’t remember most of what they were talking about. I the second best 37 Canadian doper, after sue,of course ;). Keith ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/12 "2000-07-18T19:44:36Z")
32 seems to be about as middle-aged as you can be around here, so sign me up! “Old enough to know better, young enough not to care!” I always say! ---
**Author:** ![Falula\_Guinea\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@Falula\_Guinea\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falula_Guinea_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/13 "2000-07-18T19:57:09Z")
I’m 25 next Friday and I feel soooooooooo old!! Well no actually, I physically feel about the right age, but mentally, 25 just sounds so old to me - I still feel like I should be about 12 or something like that!! I have walked the earth for very nearly a quarter of a century - wow ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigJoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BigJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigJoe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/14 "2000-07-18T20:01:21Z")
Just hit the big 3 0 last month - it didn’t hurt a bit 😃 ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/15 "2000-07-18T20:04:30Z")
yeah for us middle of the road people. 31, turning 32 next month. I still listen to my stereo loud, car and home. Occasionally I still get carded. I think they do it cuz they have to but I like to believe otherwise. I’m too young to get married, I still have me to figure out. Bugs Bunny is my favorite cartoon and would watch it if I had cable. (ABC pulled it from their network the buttheads, guess that Time Warner thing got in the way) At Christmas time I am always devastated because I didn’t get everything I wanted. hehe ---
**Author:** ![Pandora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pandora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandora)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/16 "2000-07-18T20:06:52Z")
I’m 25 Single And according to my friends and relatives an “old maid”. Life Sucks ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/17 "2000-07-18T20:08:26Z")
I’m 27. I was fine with that until my cousin pointed out I’m no longer in my mid-20’s, I’m in my late-20’s. _(I’m pretty sure the bruises & swelling have gone away from the beating I was required to give her.)_😉 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/18 "2000-07-18T20:09:27Z")
37 here. _::now where did I leave my Geritol?::_ ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/19 "2000-07-18T20:31:57Z")
29 year old here and I will be 30 in a little over one month. No big deal either I just do not like the fact that I can’t say I’m twenty-something anymore. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004/20 "2000-07-18T20:32:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pandora \* > \*\*I’m 25 > Single > And according to my friends and relatives an “old maid”. Life Sucks \*\* Just turned 30 unmarried librarian with cats!!! Luckily I live with my boyfriend. Otherwise I’d be a bona fide spinster! :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-young-not-old-check-in-here/26004.md?page=2)