# What age would you stop the clock at? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715 "2013-01-10T03:50:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/21 "2013-01-10T22:44:34Z")
1. Before I started using coke in the 80’s. I was in decent shape, and hadn’t yet met my 3rd husband who was, shall we say, not good for me, even though I was clean. But the flip side to that coin is I wouldn’t have met my now husband who is the love of my life and more than wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/22 "2013-01-10T22:47:22Z")
Right now. I’m 32, best shape of my life, perfect health, great marriage, enough money, happy as a clam. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/23 "2013-01-11T01:33:23Z")
I’d go back 8.5 years to 40. My body was slim and healthy, my hot new relationship was at a high simmer - in general, a very happy time. Also, that was before the Lyme disease that went undiagnosed for so long and 4 subsequent years of illness and misery. Plus, my mom and her partner and my brother were still alive. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/24 "2013-01-11T02:03:26Z")
28 was the perfect age, but at 29 I was in my prime. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/25 "2013-01-11T02:46:48Z")
1. I was getting more ass than a toilet seat. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/26 "2013-01-11T18:05:40Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > 1. I had just arrived in NYC, with $17 in my pocket and no job or contacts, and not much of a resume. I got a job the second day . . . not much pay, but a springboard to my ultimate career. I was living in the Y, but that was soon to change. 28 was a similar time for me. I had also just arrived in NYC, but I was starting my new post-MBA job at a big management consulting firm downtown. Yup. Monday Sept 10, 2001 was going to be the start of a great week! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/27 "2013-01-11T19:42:14Z")
1. Young enough to do it. Old enough to know better. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/28 "2013-01-11T19:57:25Z")
Yeah I’m only 26 myself right now and I wouldn’t freeze my age where it’s at or at any other age I’ve been. Theoretically I’ll go with 35. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/29 "2013-01-12T13:53:38Z")
Of what I’ve experienced so far? Probably age 14, when school started. In retrospect, some things weren’t as great as they seemed, but, if I were perpetually 14, I’d never find that out. That was the year I was popular, actually got some athletic ability, lost a ton of weight, had a “fan club” full of girls, and would sometimes just lay on my bed and think about how happy I was. (It was also when I started taking Adderall. Wonder if there’s a connection?) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715/30 "2013-01-12T14:17:23Z")
I’d say 35. Top of my form physically. That was the age I married my wife, and I’d returned to Thailand after a four-year absence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-age-would-you-stop-the-clock-at/646715.md?page=1)