You Where Born When?!

When was the first time you became conscious of your age, or that you felt old...

I think for me it must have been in 1997, I was at the Wimbledon versus Liverpool game where Michael Owen scored his first goal. I think he must have been 17 and I was soon to become 19.

I thought about this when reading an article today about the making of Tron, which for those of you who are old enough, is 25 years old now...

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I know I'm not as old as some of you and I'm certainly not OLD, but, I'm going to be 23 in November. I am feeling old now. I think that time really does fly by as you age.

I felt old at 24. Now 25. yikes. And I agree with you sexy time really does fly faster as you age. School seemed like an eternity, today feels like a second.

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When I was 19, working as a hostess in a restaraunt, and some guy handed his little son the money to pay, then told him to say, "thank you ma'am"... I was stunned. STUNNED, I say.

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On my Silver Duke of Edinburgh Expedition. I was 17, the other people I was with were 15. I had good fun but I felt a generation older, they felt that also...they said I could be their mum and look after them...

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when I was 13, many people thought I was about 17...now that I am 21, many people think I am about 16...good deal, I say.

I found this quiz yesterday ...it tries to guess your age...it told me I was 31.

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letterboxd

Got me wrong by a few weeks. Not bad.

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I have always looked younger than my age. It used to get me angry because people sometimes talked to me thinking I was 15, when I was 20. It's pretty funny when the person saying this to me is younger than me LOL.

Why did that get you so stunned? I like those polite terms. You were just a young lady. A blossoming belle.

I've got a friend who's a doctor and he delighted in telling me how good the human body was at recovering from hard living. Until the age of 25, that is...

On my 25th birthday I realised that I'd become mortal. Still, I'll leave a reasonably good lookin' corpse.

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

Well, I dunno about central Ohio, but in northern Ohio, "ma'am" means "mature lady".

i don't mind when people call me ma'am...i think its nice actually. hum. i don't know if that feeling will change in ample time though.

good point, Delilah is after all ample old

she will kill me.

Just tried that quiz it said i was 18. Wow, just shaved off 7 years with that. I'm young at heart at least.

Before I turned about twenty I never imagined living past thirty-fourty, but ever since then I've continually been trying to push my projected middle age point farther and farther away from me.

Slowly.


I guess the "ma'am" thing is generational? I've known of women who've burst into tears at being called it.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

I'm 17 and I feel it's soooo late.

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my mother always says that her younger years (teen and 20s) were tough, emotional, scary...and that her 30s and so-far 40s have been much more enjoyable...anyway, food for though

i look forward to getting up there...i'll take all the changes with a grain of salt and treasure all the good things about being "middle-aged"...and hopefully, have someone to share it with.

I feel old because my time share kid is 10 this year!!!!
The last 5 years have passed so quickly, I don't feel 33, especially not first thing in the morning where I feel 133!
Just as well I look really young for my age, my classmates thought I was 25, must be all that rain, good for the skin?


P.S. Note to single foxy Mofo women, my timeshare kid actually belongs to my best mate, I have no kids that I know of, but I'm always up for the practising bit.......... ( must resist randy smilie! )

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour?

Yeah, I knew people who had tough adolescenses too, so I don't want to give the false impression that I was a particularly depressed kid or living in tough circumstances. In my case I think it was just really tough to imagine an adulthood that was anything but mediocre and disappointing. Plus I was a pretty active teenager, which made the dayjob lifestyle even more unfathomable. I've always assumed that this is how growing up looks to most other kids too.