# OK so now i'm 20 ! Now what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2002, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369 "2002-12-22T11:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369/21 "2003-01-31T16:19:26Z")
Twenty, eh? All the good times don’t start for another year. \*When I was twenty-one It was a very good year It was a very good year for city girls Who lived up the stair With all that perfumed hair And it came undone When I was twenty-one \* ---
**Author:** ![robertwa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@robertwa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertwa)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369/22 "2003-01-31T18:36:59Z")
Find a way to make enough money to pay all of your bills without working, legally of course. Then, you can do anything you want to, and you won’t spend 50 years working will your life ends slowly. That’s my plan, at least. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369/23 "2003-01-31T23:57:50Z")
Turning 20? Look on the bright side: You have 10 years before the crystal in your palm starts blinking red and you have to turn yourself in for Carousel. – **tracer** , who’s been a Runner for 7-and-a-half years now. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369/24 "2003-02-02T23:16:17Z")
For a start, stop hitting yourself in the head at the end of every second sentence. It just _can’t_ be good for you. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369/25 "2003-02-03T01:23:44Z")
[Wear Sunscreen](http://www.stanford.edu/~calbear/sunlyrics.html) ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369/26 "2003-02-03T01:55:42Z")
That’s pretty dumb, **Unintentionally Blank**. If anyone wants to read the famous “sunscreen” column, without the idiocy (and _with_ attribution), click [here](http://sree.net/stories/sunscreen.html#1). ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369/27 "2003-02-03T02:15:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*That’s pretty dumb, **Unintentionally Blank**. > > If anyone wants to read the famous “sunscreen” column, without the idiocy (and _with_ attribution), click [here](http://sree.net/stories/sunscreen.html#1). \*\* Yeah, mea culpa. I _read_ the page after I submitted, it wasn’t what I initially thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369/28 "2003-02-03T04:44:42Z")
I thought that might have been the case. Too-quick Google trigger finger strikes again. I didn’t meant to come off as if I was calling _you_ dumb, by the way. Welcome to the SDMB, **Unintentionally Blank**. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-now-im-20-now-what/144369.md?page=1)