# Where were you in '62? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2001, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201 "2001-12-06T09:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/41 "2001-12-06T18:23:58Z")
I wasn’t born yet. I think my mommy was 10. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/42 "2001-12-06T18:35:33Z")
My parents were a 4 years younger then than I am now. I didn’t show up until the very end of the Bicentennial year. Okay, math geeks, how old are my parents now? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/43 "2001-12-06T18:50:13Z")
Big Daddy D writes: > [@](#): > > My parents were a 4 years younger then than I am now. I didn’t show up until the very end of the Bicentennial year. Okay, math geeks, how old are my parents now? Sheesh! I graduated from college in the bicentennial year. I even have a letter from Gerald Ford congratulating me for being a member of a bicentennial graduating class. Grabbing a bottle of Geritol and a tube of Ben-Gay and going off to get a “senior high”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/44 "2001-12-06T18:51:55Z")
My parents were 15. I was born 20 years later. -Loopus ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/45 "2001-12-06T19:00:30Z")
Dad was 17, mom was 16. I was two years away from being born. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/46 "2001-12-06T19:08:28Z")
Just curious, IMWOMAN, why 1962? ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/47 "2001-12-06T19:11:02Z")
Sorry, but I wasn’t around in '62. But. With the sequential thread title I just saw, I can tell you where **Parisx** was. Where were you in '62? I was peeing in Denny’s Lord, that’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/48 "2001-12-06T19:20:40Z")
In the last months of 1962 I was in my mothers stomach, got borned in June of 1963. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/49 "2001-12-06T19:25:32Z")
I was born Valentine’s Day 1962. Eve - I may be wrong, but I think “Where were you in ‘62” came from **American Graffiti**. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/50 "2001-12-06T19:38:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\* I was in kindergarten—I still remmeber the name of my teacher: Priscilla Dunkirk. That’s what happens when you don’t do drugs; you remember EVERY GODDAM MINUTE of your life. \*\* Hell, I did drugs in High School ( they don’t call it High School for nothing. :D) and college and I STILL remember every goddamn minute of my life. I have a memory that is from my infancy- age of approximately 9 months. I told my mother what I could see, and she went pale and explained why I couldn’t have even been a year old. Oh, I was born in July 1962 so I was alternately squirming **In Utero** or squirming **Ex Utero**. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/51 "2001-12-06T19:42:57Z")
In 1962, I was 5 days away from my 4th birthday, praying real hard for a certain red tricycle (which I got, but became very frustrated with, because no matter how hard you pedal, tricycles do NOT work in Loco Hills, New Mexico sand.) I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous. ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/52 "2001-12-06T19:51:53Z")
I became a tax deduction in February, 1962. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/53 "2001-12-06T19:54:48Z")
Crawling and drooling mostly. I didn’t turn one until mid '62. Diane, you are correct dear lady, that was the tagline to _American Graffiti_. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/54 "2001-12-06T19:59:28Z")
i also was not born yet. My mom was 14, i didn’t show up til 16 years later! ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/55 "2001-12-06T20:59:04Z")
I was in CA., and a Freshman in HS. I came to the realization that I hated math, but I liked being in the marching band. I thought the 1962 Stude GT Hawk, and a girl named Deborah were the two prettiest things on earth, and I wanted them both big time. I had a PT job working at an egg producing chicken ranch. It was a good year. Deborah and I did date in 1980, she was still just as pretty, but it just wasn’t the same. And that '62 Stude? Well, I finally got one a couple of years ago. Still think it is beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/56 "2001-12-06T21:20:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*In diapers. > > I was born in January \*\* Class of '80 Rocks!!! (Doing head banging motion, while holding lighter above my head) I was born in February of that year! Arden Ranger and I went to different high schools together! E3 ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/57 "2001-12-06T21:28:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Knighted Vorpal Sword \* > \*\*I became a tax deduction in February, 1962. \*\* February 19, 1962 here. E3 ---
**Author:** ![Satyagraha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Satyagraha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyagraha)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/58 "2001-12-06T22:26:08Z")
Well, I may not be thrilled to be quite this old…but I guess I prefer it to the alternative… In '62, I was a sophomore in high school and _ **desperate** _ to get laid. Considering that it was an all-male high school, my chances were not good. I might feel out of place with all you children, but luckily I have an emotional age of about 12. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/59 "2001-12-06T22:46:18Z")
> [@](#): > > February 19, 1962 here > [@](#): > > I became a tax deduction in February, 1962. Dang, lots of us Feb 1962’ers. Where’s UncleBeer? > [@](#): > > Diane, you are correct dear lady, that was the tagline to American Graffiti. I am very proud of myself that I actually remembered! By the looks of some of the ages here, a lot of Dopers weren’t even born the last time I saw American Graffiti. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201/60 "2001-12-06T23:04:32Z")
I was born in 61, so I was probably drooling a lot and pooping my pants. Not much has changed, I don’t drool anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-62/97201.md?page=4)