# Oh, fuck. I’m 60! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416 "2020-10-31T16:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/21 "2020-11-01T13:24:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I had my 29th birthday last year. I have had more 29th birthdays than all of the other ones put together. In a couple months, I will have my 29th birthday. Just keep practicing until you get it right. 😉 They say 10,000 hours of practice is enough. At 24 hours per birthday, that says after about 400 years you’ll be good enough to graduate to practicing turning 30. Or so I tell myself. I’ve got about 800 hours’ practice so just 9200 to go! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/22 "2020-11-01T14:07:35Z")
Happy Birthday! I’ll reach 4.4 decades on this obloid in January. Working on 6.0 for the relaxation of economic contribution purposes, aiming for 10.0, so we’ll see how the statistics roll out. Statistics reminds me of some sage advice I once learned: > [@](#): > > 98% of us will experience death at some point in our lives. . . Tripler I am grateful I have fallen into that 2%, so far. . . ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/23 "2020-11-01T14:10:03Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Man, I know this feeling. I’m now closer the 65 than 60 and still feel like the gawky teen inside. > > Happy Birthday anyway! Got any mid-life crisis stuff planned? Motorcycle? RV? C’mon, fill us in! And that was the point of the OP: how time flies. I always figured by the time I hit 40 I’d be all serious and humorless like my old man. I wasn’t. Now I’m 60 and I still love cartoons, candy, and video games. As for mid-life crisis acts, I’ve nothing left. I’ve always ridden Hogs and owned sports cars, already been to all 50 states and 30 countries, have jumped out of an airplane…Twice. Still give it to the woman at least thrice a week, and I own a profitable sporting goods and gun store. I have about 2 years left before I can collect another pension from my second career as a LEO, a career that has been double the adventure I knew it would be. Life is good. It just goes by too quickly. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/24 "2020-11-01T14:45:37Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I turned 58 earlier this week. 40 didn’t bother me, 50 didn’t seem like a big deal, but I’m really not looking forward to 60. Same with me. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/25 "2020-11-11T12:22:20Z")
Another thing, if someone offers you their seat on the bus, accept graciously with thanks. Don’t get huffy like you’re being insulted. Yep, that’s the response I got a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![cytop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f17d59/32.png) [@cytop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cytop)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/26 "2020-11-11T12:40:06Z")
… 60? I’ve got a bit to go then. Just passed my fifty-thirteenth birthday! PS: Happy birthday to you. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/27 "2020-11-14T04:39:21Z")
Wait until puberty kicks in… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/28 "2020-11-15T02:09:52Z")
Oh, to be 60 again. Well, at least I’m nearer to retirement. Turned 63 on Oct. 30th. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/29 "2020-11-15T03:32:38Z")
My birthday is New Year’s Eve, and I’ll be 66, on the downward slide to 70. _Shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/30 "2020-11-15T04:00:33Z")
Oh fuck, I’m 82. Don’t worry, at 60 you still have a quarter of your good-life ahead of you. In your final days, you will not regret anything you did – only what you did not do. Now is the time. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/31 "2020-11-19T02:13:46Z")
Fuck off, kid! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/32 "2020-11-19T10:47:47Z")
You arrive at a point - well, I did, anyway - where you no longer dread aging because every birthday brings you closer to retirement, which suddenly seems like a realistic eventuality. Hell, I’m 62 and I wish I were a couple years _older_. mmm ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/33 "2020-11-19T14:38:47Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Hell, I’m 62 and I wish I were a couple years _older_. Good thought. But try this on for size instead: > Hell, I’m 62\* and wish I was enough dollars richer. I’d instantly be old enough to retire without wasting another 3 precious years of my remaining vigor getting there. * * * \* @LSLGuy really is 62. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/34 "2020-11-19T14:59:23Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > I turn 60 today. > > How can I be this old? I could swear I was 17 just yesterday! > > I’m going to try to look at it this way: I’m either a quarter of the way done with a long life, or half way done with a short one. > I do intend on living forever. So far my plan is working. Happy Birthday **pkbites**! Myself, I’m 59½. Next June I’ll be saying Oh fuck! I could swear I was 17 just yesterday! I hope your life journey, with its twists and turns and ups and downs, has been for the most part enjoyable. We’re as young as we feel! ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/35 "2020-11-19T16:26:45Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > You arrive at a point - well, I did, anyway - where you no longer dread aging because every birthday brings you closer to retirement, which suddenly seems like a realistic eventuality WTH you talking about, slick? I’m already retired. I retired as a Sheriffs Deputy in 2007 after 25 years. 75% of my income as a pension and paid health insurance. But I got bored so when the department I was working part-time with offered me full time I took it. 2 more years and I’m eligible for another pension. Plus my gun dealership really took off in 2009 after Obama got elected. You should see what it’s doing now! I could quit everything now, sell my properties and business, and take disbursements from my deferred compensation fund and kick back a millionaire with an additional 140K in pension income every year. I plan on doing just that in a couple of years. But not just yet. I still have some fun to have and bucks to make. But in meantime, getting another step closer to my eventual demise isn’t a fun thought. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/36 "2020-11-19T17:12:32Z")
Cheer up. You should be in one of the first groups to receive the COVID vaccine, if they ever figure out how to release the stuff. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416/37 "2020-11-19T18:12:25Z")
I turned 63 in May. The pisser about that age is it is still too far from being able to go on Medicare. Forcing me to continue to work. Oh well, 18 months til I can retire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-fuck-i-m-60/924416.md?page=1)