Old enough to remember the 80's pretty well, young enough to still have our youth. Old enough to be treated as an adult, young enough to toss in some immaturity.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Sign me up. I'm the middle of the mid-20s as we speak. (and even scarier as I post this month I'm in the middle of the middle of my mid-20s too)
AJ
[ June 10, 2004, 12:09 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
Posted by Beca (Member # 4340) on :
...unless people still think you're in high school and a significant number of your friends jokingly call you "Mom" and tell you how old you are.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Bah. Early 30s is the place to be.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Silly afr. Can you 'let loose' with few worries? Do you still hang out with friends on a regular basis? Stay up late some nights, but not every night?
You can be an honorary Mid-20's Hatracker!
Posted by Beca (Member # 4340) on :
BannaOj, does this mean you're also turning 25 this month?
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
turning 25 and a half, so I'm in the middle of Being 25 is what I meant.
AJ
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
AFR,
Just a thought:
As someone who has been there, early 30's (or mid-twenties) are NOT a place to BE.
They are a place you are passing THROUGH on your way to somewhere older.
Have a great day!
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Everyone knows that your life begins and ends with your undergrad. This is just a pathetic attempt by you graduates to recapture the good times before slipping into the dreary reality that will be your 30s.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
No, not to 30! (in a Prince Humperdinck voice)
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
In August I will be 26 Too close to 30. I hope this doesn't mean I have to act like sitcom people.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I will *never* be too old to act immature. Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I'm 23. None of this mid-20s garbage for me. I plan to stay 23 forever (just like I planned to stay 22 forever).
I refuse to join your clique.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
See? All the mid-20's hatrackers are cool!
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Wasn't that Count Rrrrrrugan?
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
25, 1 month, and 21 days.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
</denial> I'm still in my mid twenties! </denial>
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
you're right, it was Count Reugen.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
oh right, paul, we were going to do a dating swap. I haven't forgotten you, things have just gotten nasty here (studying for the boards as we type...).
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of my mid-20s. Does that count?
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:AFR,
Just a thought:
As someone who has been there, early 30's (or mid-twenties) are NOT a place to BE.
They are a place you are passing THROUGH on your way to somewhere older.
I don't know about that - I enjoyed my 30's. The 40's are good, too, though.
My 20's were honestly not my best years.
[ June 10, 2004, 12:27 PM: Message edited by: Ela ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I say good-bye to my 20s in less than two months. Surprisingly, it hasn't really effected me. At least, not yet. Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
I'm 30. And I've noticed that the last few posts are by people who aren't in their 20's. People, I think we can take them. It's time for a revolution of the mid-20's clique! Throw off your walkers and Depends and come on!
space opera
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Oh you people and your families =)
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Do I count?
-Bok
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
Woo!
Go Twenties!
er, mid twenties that is.
Go Mid-Twenties!
[ June 10, 2004, 12:34 PM: Message edited by: Happy Camper ]
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
If we just wait a few years, they will join us. Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I'm turning 30 next year. I have a mortgage, a wife, a car, and a fetus. And yet I'm strangely happy -- and besides a few creaks in the morning, have yet to feel ancient or out of touch. Heck, I even buy CDs of modern music. So who knows?
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Sunuen:
I was not entirely sad to leave my 20s. Like Tom, I am already living the life of a 30-year-old. Might as well have the numbers to prove it. The 20s was for B.A. degrees and getting married. It served its purpose.
Space Opera, it's funny how rarely I run into people who are within a year of my age. Ever since high school, it seems like everyone our age vanished. I don't know what happened to them. Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Can I join? I'm 18?
Posted by BlueJacsFan (Member # 6590) on :
30 didn't bother me a bit. 33, on the other hand.....
And now I'm quickly moving out of the mid 30s into the upper 30s, and life just goes on.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
advice for robots,
I know what happened to them. Remember the big hair of the late 80s and early 90s? The amount of hairspray used killed of at least 2/3 of the women. The men, once they discovered that the trend of women taking 4 hours to do their hair was over were so happy that they ran around leaping in joy, which promptly made 2/3 of them die of heart attacks from second-hand hairspray ingestion.
space opera
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
26 in september and feel like I'm going on 46. Guess the back surgery, receding hair line, and stupid wife will do that to you. But I do still get together with friends some weekends and stay up till 4:00 am drinking beer and playing Halo, so I guess I haven't completely abandoned my 20's.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Am I still mid-20s if I'm turning 28 in September?
-Bok
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
quote: I do still get together with friends some weekends and stay up till 4:00 am drinking beer and playing Halo
I have something to look forward to Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
we're all mid to late 20's. All proffesionals (teachers, lawyers, and pharmacist mostly) and all still stupid about xbox. Life doesn't completely end after college. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
You know, I loved my 20s, but so far I've loved my 30s even more. I've really lucked out--every decade seems to be better than the last for me.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Bok: You're still mid-20's for this summer =)
(BTW, "20's" is probably totally incorrect. If this bothers you, pretend I wrote "20s" instead)
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Or perhaps...
"The Mid-20s' Clique"
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Noemon, I've liked my 30's the best as well. I'm trying to be optimistic about my 40's, but it's hard.
I would also like to point out that someone who is in their mid-20's can't remember the 80's all that well. Remembering the cartoons of that decade doesn't really count.
Posted by Wussy Actor (Member # 5937) on :
quote: turning 25 and a half, so I'm in the middle of Being 25 is what I meant.
Actually, the very middle of the twenties would be 24 and a half. (I'm just ticked that I'm too old to belong so I have to be nit picky.)
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Count me in. I just turned 26 last week.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
27! Count me in!
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
I expect that my 40s will be quite a bit of fun. I'm a little leery of entering my 50s, but that's still a good 18 years away, so I'm not worrying about it quite yet.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
quote: 25, 1 month, and 21 days.
I'm 25, 149 months, and 14 days.
Does that count? Posted by Deirdre (Member # 4200) on :
I'd better post on this thread while I still can.
I turn twenty-seven in about, well, really soon.
Twenty-seven.
And, yeah, I know it isn't all that old, but it seems way too old to be where I am right now.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
<--- Turns 25 in the fairly near future.
beat, I had no idea that you were less than a year older than me. Although, given my generally oblivious nature, it should really be more of a surprise when I do know how old people are.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
*raises hand* I'm 25 and a few months, so I guess I'm in this clique. Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
<-- is letting saxon try 25 out first.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
[ June 13, 2004, 03:21 PM: Message edited by: Suneun ]
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
I just turned 20 on May 5th, and I am looking forward to it. I just moved out permanently, in a year I will be able to legally buy alcohol, and I have a good job. I want to age until I am 23 or 24, then stop. Living alone is fun.
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
I feel like I've been 26 forever. Honestly, my 20's have seemed strange to me because I've been living much older than I am since I got out of college. Its weird to me that I'm starting a family when most of my friends are in grad school and still living with their parents.
My 20s have been such a time of transition that I'm looking forward to 30. Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :
27 years, 4 months, and 25 days. It seems like just last year I was 24. And 30 is coming up far to fast for my liking.
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
Oh, and it's 25. You know that. Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
I thought, but I wasn't sure....
* runs away because she is NOT supposed to be websurfing *
Posted by Professor Funk (Member # 5608) on :
I just turned 23 and then moved home for the summer, and every thing I've done has reminded me how extraordinarily old I am. I've lived in Montana for ten years, half of which has been at college. I'm a leader for girls camp, and the 13-year-olds I was looking forward to being the older-sister model to were born in 1991.
Have I been old for awhile and just don't notice it while I'm in school? Does this just keep getting worse?
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
You're 23? My goodness, I'm just wrong all over the place today. I thought you were way younger than me.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I'm 33. When I graduate, I'll be 35. I've done this calculation so often in my head, that I've started thinking of myself as 35, since that's when the next "real" phase of my life will start.
Probably not a good habit to get into. Enjoy your mid-20s. Then enjoy your late 20s. Then you early 30s.
Just have a good time, and enjoy whatever stage of your life you happen to be in. People slow down their partying because the want to, so don't worry about it.
Dagonee
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I'm 30, but no one believes it. I think it's 'cause still feel 19.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
26.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I'm 22... can I join? (I'll average out those 28 year olds that are jumping on the bandwagon)
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I'm 34, but I married a 28 year old...an she acts 12 most days....does that count?
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Shall I smack him for you Jen?
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Don't forget me! I like this thread much better than my "I feel old" one...
[edit: ...and then I read it.]
[ June 11, 2004, 01:31 AM: Message edited by: fiazko ]
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
Jeez, skipped again on a list that I probably should have started. Shame on you all for not mentioning me. Particularly you celia.
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
I don't normally join cliques, but that's usually because I don't meet the entrance requirements.
I'll be 25 in three months. I'm in.
[edit: for some reason, I thought i was 26, not 24]
[ June 11, 2004, 02:55 AM: Message edited by: Frisco ]
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
Egad.
Suneun, my distant cousin, the Warden of Architraz, who never calls and never writes, is 24, practically the perfect age for our little clique.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Don't forget me! I like this thread much better than my "I feel old" one...
[edit: ...and then I read it.]
::wonders what fiazko meant by that edit::
[ June 11, 2004, 08:58 AM: Message edited by: Ela ]
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
wow, we are a cool bunch aren't we!
AJ
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I'll be 23 in a month.
Posted by Vána (Member # 6593) on :
I'm 24! Lime's 25! Yay, we're in a clique now!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
btw Vana, could you e-mail me your phone number again? I'm probably going to be running to Rockford next Tuesday evening to drop off dogs and if you are free we could maybe have a quick dinner or desert somwhere. (I ate at Beef A Roo for the first time a while back and their shakes are quite good!)
AJ
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
You know, I really wouldn't have pegged myself as one of the younger members of this board. Who knew?
Probably everyone other than me.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Cliques are so vigenarian (if I may coin the word).
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:See what awesome people we have in our ranks?
::idly wonders what age has to do with awesomeness::
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
I am now offically part of the club. I joined the ranks yesterday when I turned 24.
Death is one step closer. I feel old. Do you know how much closer 30 is to 24 vs. 23?!
Posted by Professor Funk (Member # 5608) on :
There are eating establishments called Beef A Roo? :shock:
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Ela, I'm not really sure myself. Just giving people (myself included) another reason to mutter "What a weirdo" I guess.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
I can feel the jealousy all the way over in Rhode Island, my dears.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Val, so 30=old=death?
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
No rivka. 30=old=closer to death.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*glares at Narnia*
Much better.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Oh, sure, the youngster's complaining about being called old now. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*thwaps Dagonee with her cane*
Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
whoa, I thought A/S/L was a BAD thing.
Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :
I'm only 28, and I already feel decrepit...
Of course, that no doubt has something to do with feeling the weather in my joints already. (No kidding! )
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:*thwaps Dagonee with her cane*
Alright whippersnapper - don't make me get off my rocking chair!
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
Why is our clique the only one that's being invaded? Guess they're just jealous that they're not a part of it. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I'm just happy to part of a Hatrack clique besides Lurkers Anonymous. Not that there is such a clique...though, if there were, I don't think anyone would know it.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
You're not a true lurker anymore though Megan because I recognize you now. And I've seen some of your hilarity on threads like "Adjacent Thread Titles" and the like.
But, do you guys notice how many age groups are trying to be like us by forming their own cliques? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, isn't it?
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Rats! And I had this whole cool, lurking-in-the-shadows-type image thing going. Ah, well. Next thing you know, I'll actually break 500 posts! Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:I can feel the jealousy all the way over in Rhode Island, my dears.
If that's what you think, then you just don't get it.
[ June 13, 2004, 12:03 AM: Message edited by: Ela ]
Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :
i feel like i've been away from hatrack so long that i should keep lurking, but... maybe joining a clique will get me involved. <-- 27 last monday.
Posted by kinglear (Member # 6211) on :
23 last week.... long live the mid-twenties!!!
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
It hit me on the way home from visiting the in-laws this week that, by my age, my mother already had two kids and a mortgage.
In three and a half years from my age, my mother would have her third - and last - child. Her destiny was set, her self-identity cemented, and she spent the rest of her life as 'mom', wife and (for the most part) homemaker.
And I have not a flargin' clue what I want to do with my life.
It's... you know. Weird. And stuff.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Yeah. For me the weird part is that both my brother and sister started dating their significant others by my age. Sometimes I worry that I won't find That Person for many more years (though I try not to worry that I'll never find him!).
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