# Since when are all the cops younger than me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2018, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787 "2018-04-04T06:57:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787/21 "2018-04-06T03:13:36Z")
Just last week, an officer pulled me over for making a u-turn in front of my house, which I happen to do every day after coming home from work, just to park my car so that it’s directly in front of my house. I thought it was a joke, since I know a couple of cops in my town. He rolled the window down and yells “don’t do it again!”. I then realized that it was this twirpy annoying kid that grew up in my neighborhood that all of us older kids would make fun of. Instinctively I was about to yell at him back, and then realized “oh wait”. I just walked up my steps glaring at him without saying a word. He was not getting a “yes sir” out of me, and he knew it. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787/22 "2018-04-06T04:53:32Z")
Don’t feel bad. The last four presidents were younger than me. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787/23 "2018-04-06T06:25:12Z")
You’re not old til they offer to help you across the street. When I got jury duty summons I was excused because the judge had dated my sister in college. Love living in a rural area, just love it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787/24 "2018-04-06T23:58:20Z")
One day I thought “hey, I’m not in the target demographic anymore”. Another day it occurred to me “holy crap, more than half the people on the planet are younger than I am”. And every day now, that percentage gets larger and larger. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787/25 "2018-04-07T14:30:12Z")
Pshaw, I plotzed when my gynecologist was way younger than me. And hot! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787/26 "2018-04-07T15:46:20Z")
Doctors, for me. Actually, all the medical professionals. I’ve had occasion to spend time in the hospitality of our local general hospital a bit lately and they’re ALL SO YOUNG! Doctors, nurses, aides…the only ones who still seem to be older than me are the folks from the social services department. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787/27 "2018-04-07T18:41:01Z")
My first “they are younger than me!” moment was with Playboy centerfolds. As a pimply-faced callow youth, they always looked like a hot older sister or cousin. Then suddenly, they were younger than me! There is no going back across that bridge. I also remember the first time James Bond was younger than me. And has stayed that way. One president so far has been younger than me. Not the current one, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-when-are-all-the-cops-younger-than-me/811787.md?page=1)