How old are you?

[AndyC]

I'm 37. I was OK with everything up to 35. Now that I'm closer to 40 than 30, it's freaking me out a little. Every once in a while, it hits me that people probably don't see me as a young guy anymore. In some ways, it's good. I get more respect from some people. On the other hand, I don't get cut as much slack, and I don't feel comfortable doing some of the things I used to enjoy (getting drunk, for example).

Doesn't help that my parents moved into a seniors' complex a couple of years ago, and my oldest brother turns 50 next year. To top it off, I've come to realize that I'm gradually turning into my dad. Now that I think about it, the real freakiness started at 36, when I went from being less than half my parents' age to more than half. And a few of the grownups I knew as a kid started kicking off around the same time. Makes a guy feel old.

[Newt]

  Oh good grief: am I the oldest?  (At least, to post on this thread so far...)  I'll be 51 in a couple of months.  I have to stop and think when asked my age: in the privacy of my own head I still think of myself as being about 28.  (Though recently I have noticed I am working my way up to...hmmm...32?) *Sigh*

There are kids  who cannot keep up with me, so it's not so bad.

If I start acting my age, my husband has instructions to take me out behind the barn and shoot me.

[Hammock Rider]

I'm 43 but I've got that Benjamin Button disease so I'm middle-aged either way.

[The Burgomaster]

But I swear to God, if I have one more little punk try to tell me I have no idea who Led Zeppelin (or Bob Dylan or anyone else I listened to before they were nut stains in their mama's dainties), I'm gonna hurt some people.

That's kind of the same problem I have when young folks ask me what my favourite group is, Java. When I tell them "The Moody Blues", they say: "You favourite group, idiot: not your favourite music genre!"

Oh well......

In 2007, I went to Belgium to do some work for a client.  They sent 2 young ladies from the U.S. office to work with me.  One was about 20 years old and the other was about 22 or 23.  One day, we were listening to a U.S. radio station on my laptop while we were working.  A song from the 1980s came on (can't remember what it was) and the 20 year old said, "This reminds me of an aerobics class I took.  We used to work out to 'oldies' all the time."  To me, the song seemed to be fairly recent . . . then I realized it was at least 20 years old.  I just looked at her and said, "Oldies?  I was about 20 years old when this was popular.  Does that mean I'm old?"  To me, "oldies" means the Platters, Drifters, Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley . . .

[AndyC]

Reminds me of watching American Idol last week and realizing that Randy Travis is now considered a country music legend. Wasn't he 'new' country?

Songs from the 80s don't worry me too much, but music from the 90s is falling more and more into the classic category.

[Doggett]

I'm 21.

[Rev. Powell]

40, and I'm not at all happy about getting closer and closer to death. 

I hope I'm never OK with it. 

I now have the wisdom to realize that I should have been more irresponsible in my youth.

[Nukie 2]

I'm 24, I kinda want to be 30, or just done with school and have a real job.
None of this homework and studying  bulls**t, I just pay my bills and keep up a house.

[Saucerman]

21...22 in 52 days -- it's not that I'm keeping a count-down, it's that I was informed today that this coming Friday marks 50 days until graduation...and graduation falls on my birthday.  One hell of a present, being chucked from the cozy world of academia into the cold, cruel "real" world.  At least I get to wear a funny hat.

I'm not so much worried about getting old -- I'm a "young fogey" -- I have a bum knee that acts up according to the barometer, and I yell at punk kids to pull their damn pants up as well. 

I've seen definite changes in myself since 17-18 though -- I don't know how much of it's the college experience and how much is biological/hormonal changes -- but I'm much more relaxed, much more mellow, no longer so angry or loud.  Well, still loud, but moderating it better. 

[HappyGilmore]

I'm 25.  Angry, bitter and p**sed off at the world.  Apparently, all that 'teen angst' I never went through as a teen has now found it's way into me.  I'm going through that 'rebellion' thing, but without the blue hair and boots up to my knees.  That's not rebelling.  That's fashion. 

Although, I'm also a bit of an old man.  My back hurts, my knees, my neck, my hands.  And I hate that people can't keep their pants up.  I see kids, with a belt on no less, but yet the pants aren't actually above the knees.  Then they get offended when someone says something.  It looks moronic and they should be slapped in the face.

[Derf]

Although, I'm also a bit of an old man.  My back hurts, my knees, my neck, my hands.  And I hate that people can't keep their pants up.  I see kids, with a belt on no less, but yet the pants aren't actually above the knees.  Then they get offended when someone says something.  It looks moronic and they should be slapped in the face.

So go ahead and slap 'em, then run. It's not like they'll be able to catch you with their pants around their ankles. 

[Torgo]

I just turned 34 back on March 7th.

The idea of getting older doesn't bother me too much but as I'm right at my mid 30's I do find myself thinking about the future a whole lot more than I used to in terms of finances and paying off my house and usual life stuff like that.

[Paquita]

The oldest I've ever been is 26, which is way older than I should be.

[HappyGilmore]

Although, I'm also a bit of an old man.  My back hurts, my knees, my neck, my hands.  And I hate that people can't keep their pants up.  I see kids, with a belt on no less, but yet the pants aren't actually above the knees.  Then they get offended when someone says something.  It looks moronic and they should be slapped in the face.

So go ahead and slap 'em, then run. It's not like they'll be able to catch you with their pants around their ankles. 

I work in a restaurant.  Fun, has it's drawbacks, etc.  We have a cook who has a belt on, yet, everytime I walk by him, I see his boxer's out and, I"m like, "Dude, when we rang in 2 weiners, one wasn't the one in your pants.  Pull em up."

[Pilgermann]

I'm 26 and I'm convinced that my hair is thinning (in spite of my natural widow's peak).