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Rain Man 09-22-2008 07:15 PM

Wishing you were older or younger.
 
Several-part poll here.

First, at any point in your life, did you consistently wish you were older? If so, at what age did that yearning stop?

Second, at any point in your life, have you consistently wished you were younger, and if so, at what age did that yearning start?

Bugeater 09-22-2008 07:19 PM

Once you're old enough to drink there's really no reason to wish you were older.

beavis 09-22-2008 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 5045666)
Once you're old enough to drink there's really no reason to wish you were older.

Insurance goes down at 25.

After that, it's prety much downhill.

Rain Man 09-22-2008 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by beavis (Post 5045733)
Insurance goes down at 25.

After that, it's prety much downhill.


Movie tickets get cheaper when your 55 or thereabouts. You can also get cheaper food at restaurants, though the food is smaller. That's a sad thing to look forward to, though.

Bugeater 09-22-2008 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by beavis (Post 5045733)
Insurance goes down at 25.

After that, it's prety much downhill.

That's what I always heard, but I don't recall it dropping significantly when I turned 25.

beavis 09-22-2008 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 5045756)
Movie tickets get cheaper when your 55 or thereabouts. You can also get cheaper food at restaurants, though the food is smaller. That's a sad thing to look forward to, though.

Yeah, I figured the cons of aging outweighed the financial benefits.

Frazod 09-22-2008 08:02 PM

Sure I'd love to be thin and have hair again, but not if the price was having to relive all the bullshit I went through in my life again. Now, if I could go back and do it all over again but retain knowledge of the future, that would be completely different. I'd do the Biff thing and bet on all the games, then buy stock in Microsoft and Starbucks with the winnings.

And I'd make sure a couple of bitches who really nuked my life died in horrible "accidents," and nobody could ever be able to establish motive. :grr:

As for the older part, I used to wish that I had been born 10 years earlier, so I would have come of age in the 70s instead of the 80s. But it's not something I feel strongly about.

luv 09-22-2008 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 5045767)
That's what I always heard, but I don't recall it dropping significantly when I turned 25.

Mine did. Dropped again when I turned 30. Now all I need to do is get hitched. LMAO

Bugeater 09-22-2008 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by luv (Post 5045844)
Mine did. Dropped again when I turned 30. Now all I need to do is get hitched. LMAO

Hell I also got married when I was 25. I think I got screwed.

Programmer 09-22-2008 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 5045895)
Hell I also got married when I was 25. I think I got screwed.

Dude! You are supposed to be screwed when you get married! If you get married and don't get screwed you are just ****ed!

Bugeater 09-22-2008 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Programmer (Post 5045913)
Dude! You are supposed to be screwed when you get married! If you get married and don't get screwed you are just ****ed!

ROFL Trust me, I got ****ed too.

boogblaster 09-22-2008 10:59 PM

Lucky to be young in the 70s .. had a great time .. got domesticated in the 80s ... life got more interesting but with children brings joy and burden .. got hurt in the 90s .. life sucks except for my two grandsons and daughter in college .. mid-50s now and pretty much home-bound so life just seems to go on by ... thats it fellers ...

DaKCMan AP 09-23-2008 05:29 AM

I've decided that I'm going to stay this age and look this good forever.

Skip Towne 09-23-2008 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 5045756)
Movie tickets get cheaper when your 55 or thereabouts. You can also get cheaper food at restaurants, though the food is smaller. That's a sad thing to look forward to, though.

Free money starts falling out of the sky at 62.


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