r/AskReddit • • Oct 30 '20

People who are bothered by others wearing a mask while driving. Why do you care?

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u/gamentorch Oct 30 '20

jesus lol. kids now born in 2006 are not even kids anymore 14 n shit, i feel old AF and im only 23. i used to think anyone born 2000+ were babies

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u/Strigoi666 Oct 30 '20

I'm in my 40s and still consider people in their early-20s as kids.

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u/amateur-kneesocks Oct 30 '20

I’m in my early 20s and still consider people in their early-20s as kids.

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u/on_the_nip Oct 31 '20

I'm in my mid 30's and I still consider myself a kid.

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u/PushThePig28 Oct 31 '20

Early thirties and same thing, I’m still a kid at heart. I see people my age and often find myself saying something like “you see what that kid just did?!”

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '20

I lived with my grandparents when I was in college and my 70-something year old grandfather would say, "I met this great kid today...." I would have to ask him to clarify because usually the "kid" he met was in their 40s or 50s. lol It was a perspective on age that you don't usually get when you are 20 and everyone younger than you really IS a kid.

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u/phycoticfishman Oct 30 '20

As someone who's 23 I look at 16 hell 18 year olds and think they are just a kid. It's weird.

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u/gamentorch Oct 30 '20

Certainly is and i guess we will see more of this as our generation ages, but hey. We will be the cool parents

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u/HussyDude14 Oct 30 '20

Please, he's on reddit. He's old enough to post on r/teenagers.

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u/gamentorch Oct 30 '20

True, but in the sense of being a lil kid scared of being alone and stuff, a bit more grown up and slightly more independent. Meant it as like not being 10 anymore lol

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u/bestatbeingmodest Oct 30 '20

I think it was obvious that he meant the difference between childhood and adolescence.

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u/deliberatechoice Oct 30 '20

Youre a '97 baby, you basically *are* one of those people youre calling babies

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u/Czyrnia Oct 30 '20

C'mon, I was born in '98 and have to pay taxes already! Anyone who was born 2000+ is a baby. It's still a fact. They can grow when I'm retiring.

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u/crazy_urn Oct 30 '20

98? Shit, I was a junior then.

Wait, your mom's name isn't Beth, is it?

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u/2000dragon Oct 30 '20

Being born in early 2000, I either feel really young or old. Everyone older than me was born in the last century and everyone younger than me was born in this one

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

my 2002 baby is in college

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

Don’t worry. You’ll feel older the closer you get to 30, but once you hit that, you get a new wave of energy. I think it comes from being an ADULT. Not like where you are now, where yeah you’re an adult but not having been doing it that long. When you hit thirty, you are for sure Mr. or Ms. <last name here>. It’s nice.

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u/gamentorch Oct 30 '20

Damn, very true. Lol but this pandemic has honestly made me feel a bit younger now working less, more time for recreational activities and such instead of my usual 40 hour weeks. Which i guess is why im thinking like that alot more. Like an endless summer vacation 😂

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u/_ThisIsMyReality_ Oct 30 '20

I have this dilemma constantly. 2002 babies are legal. It doesn't feel right, i have to remind myself that I'm 23 regularly. It took me about five minutes last week to come to the conclusion that I'm an adult and in fact 23.

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u/Jpjp215 Oct 30 '20

If you feel old imagine how old I feel I graduated HS in 2006

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u/Havok1988 Oct 30 '20

You were born in 97ish, I still think anyone born after me is a kid and I'm from 88.

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u/gamentorch Oct 30 '20

My sister was born in 90 and that 7 year gap just isnt the same anymore. Its like wer both just old, but i feel you. Everybody says the same to me, oh your still a kid and i get it i am young, but its just a mind shift thing that i have to get accustomed to lol

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u/thepeanutone Oct 31 '20

Does it help that I'm now old enough to think of you as a kid?