Would you say you act your age?

[Anonymous]

I think I act like an old man but a cooler than normal old man lol

[wolfcat87]

Ha ha, depends on the situation. 99% of the time I'm running around acting like a bratty kiddo. Super immature, but it's a choice. I fuss, play dress up, whine, goof off, play on playgrounds, sing and dance around, tell dumb jokes, etc. There's no rule book saying I have to behave in any way except what makes me happy. I'm certainly not going to put on a mask and act out a stereotypical adult just because I'm supposed to for some unspoken reason. That would be a waste of my life.

When it comes to business, finance, education, some hobbies, making sure my responsibilities are handled, etc. I act way more mature than most people, like an elderly woman with a lifetime of experience. Which is probably why I married a man who is an old soul as well. We bonded over old black and white shows like The Andy Griffith Show and I Love Lucy. He's way more into old westerns though.

Been like this my whole life. Either hanging with old people or babies. I don't think I've ever been one to act my age.

[Screenwriter]

I don't know what my "age" is supposed to act like. I like to exercise, ride my bike, take care of my garden, yard and house, I'm painting the interior of it now, room by room. Fixing what I can, and getting help when I can't do the work myself.

Maybe some people my chronological age are sitting around doing nothing. I've never been like that as a young woman, and unless I become too handicapped, I'll always be as active as possible, involved with my family, friends, politics and grassroots community activism.

I'm a Greater New Orleans Master Naturalist and am on their board of directors and minority recruitment committee. We are citizen scientists who study the flora and fauna of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. I volunteer with a city tree planting organization and with a homeless advocacy group. I donate to PBS, Planned Parenthood and Ducks Unlimited. I've given to veterans' support groups. I'm a duck hunter.

[exitseven]

You are a duck hunter? If it flies , it dies?

[Screenwriter]

@exitseven No. I occasionally go out duck hunting. Just because you go OUT to hunt doesn't mean you come home with anything. And the hunting seasons are short. Thanksgiving to end of January for ducks. Deer overlap. Rabbits are too fast for me. Plus I've never tried. Their meat is bland. Sort of like frog. White and tasteless.

I'm also a bird watcher. Most birds I simply watch and send info to INaturalist. They keep track of numbers and movement of US birds and visiting birds migrating. There are bald eagles nesting just outside New Orleans. GIANT nests atop high light poles. Stunning birds.

A few blocks from my house are horned owls and merlins. Red tailed hawks are always hunting along the river. Lots of squirrels and rats near the river. Also certain times of the year Mississippi Kites. One was in the bald cypress in my front yard. Had never seen one before and had to look it up in my bird books. Beautiful bird.

I live at the crossroads of urban and rural. My cuz and I will be deer hunting this Saturday afternoon. I'm pretty sure we might SEE some deer. Could care less if we bag any. It's about hanging around with my cousin and having a good time. Last time we did that, we saw a bobcat.

It's the seeing.

I have a poetry contest to enter and have some work to do. So, I'll see you later.

[exitseven]

I was selling equipment to a fire dept. Once day I got there after shift tobtalk to one of the guys. It was supper time and one of the guys served a duck that he recently shot. They invited me to have some. It tasted like steak and the guy told me to be careful because he might have missed some of the buckshot.

[Screenwriter]

@exitseven That would be not be buckshot. It's called buckshot for a reason. Big slug to take down a deer. You use shotgun shells to take down ducks. There are lots of small pellets. Sometimes hard to dig out if they're No. 7s. (very small). But most hunters of ducks use No. 3s. Much larger pellets and have more shooting power, but won't blow the darned duck to pieces.

Duck makes the best gumbo. Just about as good as snapping turtle soup. Excellent dark, lean meat. And when you go out and get it yourself, which means you buy ahunting license and shells and practice shooting and gear to get out in the marsh, you appreciate how difficult and rare it is to get such meat.

98 percent of hunters are conservationists and belong to conservation groups. If you're NOT a conservationist, like my dad before me, there won't be any habitat for these animals to live in and there won't be anything to hunt.

By supporting animal habitat, the wild areas, you support the animals and protect areas, such as marshes, that support hunting fishing and natural beauty.

Oh. Chew slowly and carefully. Dad brought home some duck that were a little crunchy!! I remember this as a young girl. But they were delicious. I use his gun. 1963 Remington with a dark wood stock. The 12 gauges I see not are all camouflaged and such. I dunno if you can get wood stock shotguns anymore.

[exitseven]

I have a Remington 870 with a walnut stock.

[Screenwriter]

@exitseven Yes. But you paid for that, didn't you. I looked up some prices. Quite a shock. $700 dollars on up. Hoo! I'll look to see what my number is. Sorry. Wrong maker. Winchester model 1400, MK II. Made in 1964. Thought it was 1963. Think my dad said it was that year. But, close enough.

[exitseven]

I bought a hand gun and a shotgun. I have a friend that is a retitled Sheriff's Deputy that runs a training facility for mostly law enforcement. I spent a week taking gun safety, tactical shotgun and advanced pistol. I visit a gun range every few weeks. I never wanted to own firearms. I am angry that it felt like I need them for protection. When I was younger I could probably do okay with a baseball bat. Now I don't move around like I used to.

[Screenwriter]

@exitseven I don't want a handgun. If someone breaks in your house, that's what they're going to steal. No one wants a 12 gauge, unless it's a marauding group of thieving duck hunters! But I jest.

I don't have a bat. But at my bedside is a big crowbar. I lock my doors at night. The only thing I own that's worth stealing is my laptop and right now, its screen is partially blacked out. So, not even THAT! My cell phone is an old Iphone7. Not sure if anyone wants one that old. I never buy anything new unless the previous model breaks or fails. I drive a 2006 standard shift Civic LX. Good gas mileage and no fancy stuff to break. It has 160.000K on it.

So, don't know what they'd steal from my house. I've got 15 dollars in my wallet. My discover card is frozen because of a scam attempt on it. It's the only credit card I have in my wallet and it can't be used.

I don't move around like a gazelle either, but I know I could hide that crowbar under the covers and slip behind my bed if I heard the front door open. I'm 15 feet from my front door and usually al ight sleeper...

Thing is, I don't want to kill anyone other stuff. Take the fucking stuff and go. I've got insurance.

Some guy was robbed in the French Quarter and killed the other day. I don't want to blame the victim, but I wonder if it was a crazed druggie, or if the person tried to resist and the robber became angry, or frightened or both and shot him. It was in a badly lit part of town. The person was a tourist.

Take my shit. All of it. It's replaceable. My life isn't. I don't want to fight with someone irrational enough to break into a house where there's a person who might or might not be armed. That's crazy.

And to risk THEIR life to get stuff? Just as crazy. I hate crazy people.

[exitseven]

The problem is that if you do not have the means to defend yourself you make yourself a target. If there are no real consequences then the criminals will come back and do it again. I do not want to take a life but if my home is invaded I have thought long and hard and I have no doubt that i will shoot somebody., The fabric of our civilization is unravelling and there is no stopping it. The only recourse is that you have to be able to defend yourself.
A person like yourself would be an easy target if you could not get to that shotgun in time.

[Screenwriter]

@exitseven WHich is why a shotgun is not a defense. I have my crowbar at bedside. I can swing it, I have my ww2 marine knife.. all 8 inches of it. I know how to kill someone and if my life is threatened. I'll do it. Aim for the gonads, the foot arch, break the nose. I am able to do all t hose things, though I'd prefer to use a crowbar. Keep my distance. I don't keep a loaded gun in the house. HIghly unsafe. I've already shot my bed accidentally because I THOUGHT my shotgun was unloaded and it wasn't. I don't want anyone killed because of carelessness. And I was careless once.

I don't live in fear. There's no reason to. You can't make news reports, which are always sensationalized, as the way you live your life. Be mindful and thoughtful, but live in joy. Otherwise, we should all just kill ourselves because someone's coming to get us.

Only thing coming to get us is death. Not random crime. Plus, I give all the dog walkers in the neighborhood cookies. Everyone knows me and the DOGS THEY LOVE ME..

Neighbor gave me a Christmas cake because I gave her dog sausage bits. I've got everybody's number!! ha ha! I feel extremely safe.

[systemsareyo]

At 29, almost 30 this year, I'm certainly a person who's already semi-retired lol. I mean sure I'm 29, I work full time, I haven't moved into my own home, and I don't own my own transport. however, with savings, my lifestyle, my hobbies and my habits: I'd say physically and mentally and all considered, I'm basically like a semi-retired man in his 60s if not his 50s. Nearing retired, lol or may as well be. Ironically, I'm 29 and still have many decades to go of working life. Irony, lol 😂😆 how some people act their age, some people are already grumpy old people, and some are like they're aging without aging (no aches or pains) lol 😂

[systemsareyo]

I mean that's what I may as well act like, I guess even in my earlier 20s, I've always had the hobbies, interests and mindset as if I'm an old fart, always nearer pension age, always nearer nearer. Lol. Yet im not 69, still decades to go lol im 29 lol hahaha ah well. Some say you act how you feel, or you are the age you are or aren't lol 😆

[sawno]

People usually guess me over 30. Now that I am almost 30 its becoming more accurate.

[Asker]

Yep you got one more year lol

[sawno]

More like 2 more months haha, but to be fair if they only know my behavior and voice they usually expect like 35 or something. I just think thats less of a behavior gap than when I was 25 and they thought it haha.

[Asker]

Damn you are crossing from being young to no longer being known as young lol

[sawno]

Yup, I feel like I'm an adult now but thats also a good thing. Still ironing out a few last blockers and then I am really looking forward to that phase of my life. I'm really longing to settle with someone and take up the provider role for her.

[Asker]

That's what's up bro

[Sonorous]

ehh probably but if not oh well

[Asker]

Lol fair enough

[IslaTheWitch]

I think to answer, I would have to know how a woman my age is expected to act... Because I never paid much attention to social expectations... and I think I'm totally detached :D

But something tells me I shouldn't write opinions on g@g :D

[7Phoenix7]

MHO 🤌 lol

[Asker]

You are right, I'd say you seem to act your age tho lol

[exitseven]

Yes, it;s just for the young.

[Cutegirl06]

I think I act 17. My mom once told me to stop acting like a high school girl 😆 I told her I am a high school girl 🤣🤣

[Asker]

Sounds like you act your age lol

[midnightmoon05]

Nope…I spend a lot of time with 6-7 yr old kids…I have to be an adult…once I am not with them…. i become there age…so no…I act like a little kids most of the time.

[Asker]

It's kinda hard to tell with you midnight 😂

[midnightmoon05]

Why? I act old here?

[Asker]

No but you have a maturity side too tho lol

[7Phoenix7]

Nah you don't act old at all to me lol

I don't know if I act 33... probably not

[Asker]

Well thank you for acting blind to my oldness, mostly coming from you since you act younger than your age lol

[7Phoenix7]

Lol yea I can be pretty playful and childish 😅

You probably act older than most people your age, I'll give you that

[Asker]

Thank you, that's what makes me on old man ☻

You got your childish side tho and mature side.

[EmmaMary]

I have been told on countless occasions that I act far older than my years... To be honest I've never been too sure whether this is a compliment or an insult.

[systemsareyo]

Was it an insult at 20, or a comment at 30, or vice versa? Past or present, happy to hear both 😊

[systemsareyo]

*compliment (autocorrect)

[EmmaMary]

@systemsareyo

From time to time it's still mentioned to me even today.

[systemsareyo]

Compliment or insult in today's world? To you? May I ask 🤯🙏

[EmmaMary]

@systemsareyo

That's what I'm asking here, how others would view this comment.

[systemsareyo]

Hmm. I'd say at 30 it's a compliment to be mistaken for being 25 or 20! :)

[molonski2]

Sht , I certainly hope I dont , nah , I just dont.. Never !

[Asker]

Lol.

[Miah04]

Old man chico😂

I'm kinda act older, and younger depending on the situation

[Asker]

So both? 😂

[Miah04]

Yup. I'm complicated like that

[Asker]

I should've saw that coming tbh lol

[Miah04]

Yeah nothing comes easy when dealing with me

[Asker]

So what makes you hard to deal with? 😂

[Miah04]

I'm just mouthy especially if i don't agree with you. I'm stubborn af.
I been told i think I'm all my friend's mother. You act up, you gonna get a very long lecture.
If I decide I need a break, I just completely disappear until i feel healed. No warnings, no communication

[Asker]

Yea I guess that makes you somewhat more complicated than the normal but it's at least a trait you'll be remembered for lol

[Miah04]

Oh yeah. But I'm loyal till the end. So i make my friends happy. So i make up for it

[Asker]

Now loyalty is a trait that's hard to come by lol

[Miah04]

Agree. It's a small circle of 4 of us. But we are always gonna protect, and take care of eachother.☺️

[Asker]

Small circles stand the strongest, that's what's up tho 😌👌

[Miah04]

Yup. TTYL bouta hop off

[Asker]

Alright bet lol

[exitseven]

I say I am young at heart. My wife says I am immature.

[Asker]

So the world would never know I guess ha

[TheSpaceGnome]

No such thing.

People are individuals, there is no particular way that any age acts.

[Asker]

Fair enough lol

[Bella2423]

I act my age and sometimes like a child depending on the situation and the people you are with

[Asker]

Yea I'm not realizing everyone is most likely going to say sometimes 🙃

[Asker]

Now*

[Bella2423]

Because specially for us girls we can't act the same

[Asker]

Why is that tho? 😆

[Bella2423]

Idk😊

[Asker]

Damn 🙃

[Bella2423]

Yeah🤪

[Anonymous]

Lmao nice joke. You act like a 15 year old most of the time

[Asker]

I know, I have the rights to do so cause I'm not stupid lmao

[Opinion Owner]

If you say so

[PrettyCrumblBb]

In person mature. But on the internet... yeah sometimes I'm immature 😂😂

[Asker]

Yea you act younger than your age on here 🙂💯

[PrettyCrumblBb]

How young? 🤔

[Asker]

Like 25 lol

[PrettyCrumblBb]

4 years younger 😂

[Asker]

Sure, isn't it gonna be 5 this year tho? 🙃

[PrettyCrumblBb]

Yup. In April. You can send me my gift 🙃

[Asker]

Gift? What gift? 😂

[PrettyCrumblBb]

Um excuse me? My bday gift. You gonna leave me empty handed? 😧

[Asker]

No I'll leave you with a thoughtful HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🤗😂

[PrettyCrumblBb]

🙄 🤗

[LiamJHayden]

No. I act twice my age at work and half my age at play.

[Asker]

That's pretty cool bro 😂

[sage2021]

No. I'm young at ❤️ heart and don't act like an old hag. I look a lot younger for my age as well. 😎

[Traianus]

Because there is no any option. I'm 31 and don't want to act like a child.

[Asker]

Can't argue with not wanting to act like a child lol

[Lisia]

I think I act my age 😅

[Asker]

I've seen a lot of a mature side tho if you are foreal 19 then you seem mature for your age 🤔

[Lisia]

Huh I didn't know 🤔 and well almost 20

[Asker]

You are about to leave the last year of your teens Lisa :,)

[Lisia]

😬 I'm becoming an adult

[Asker]

One more year and you'd be at the drinking age here, Europe is 18 right?

[Lisia]

In Belgium we're allowed to drink beer & wine at 16 and liquor at 18

[Asker]

That is wild, interesting 🤔

So how you've been Lisa?

[Lisia]

Good good, you?

[Asker]

Same lol

[Lisia]

That's great :)

[Asker]

Indeed, I'm glad everything is alright on that side too 🤣👌

[NathanDavis]

most of the time, yes...

[Asker]

Lmao most of the time, felt that

[mandyfire98]

I can definitely act silly and goofy

[Asker]

Normally do you act your age tho Mandy? 😂

[mandyfire98]

In certain situations I act older I think. In other situations I act younger for sure.

[Asker]

Can't argue with that lol

[Siri137]

Ah hell no. I act like a 13 year old. :)

[Asker]

Oof lol

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't know. I've never been this old before.

[systemsareyo]

Sir you're almost at pension age, just another decade or more to go, lucky you, no? If there's no joints pains or back pains, life's peachy 😀

[FunkyMonkee]

@systemsareyo I plan to stick around for another 60 years. Just remember, you're only about 30 years behind me and 30 years goes by in a flash!! Who's to say you won't die before me? I'm still alive but I've heard of hundreds, if not thousands of people your age dying!

[KostasKouvalis]

Absolutely not. That's lame

[Asker]

Lmao

[douride2]

Now that would depend on the day. LOL

[Asker]

Fair enough lol

[RedInnocent68]

I definitely oscillate.

[Asker]

Sure thing lol

[RedInnocent68]

I often pout about being called childish and told to act my age. Especially by prudes.

[Asker]

Lmao fair enough

[Likes2drive]

Not usually unless I have to

[Asker]

Fair enough lol

[serenalovesramen]

it really depends on who I’m with

[Asker]

Yep that makes perfect sense to me sniffles 🙂

[serenalovesramen]

see i fuck with you, so you get the goofy me

[Asker]

Well since we are in the topic, let me see brainy sniffles too 😂

[serenalovesramen]

yeahhh that’s not happening 💀

[Asker]

Damn Worth a try 🙃

[serenalovesramen]

OLD MAN

[Asker]

👉💺👈

[Staximus]

I definitely act like a grumpy old man

[Asker]

It be like that sometimes lol

[Staximus]

It's getting hard to find the old man shirts I've been wearing since high school, though. Might have to change it up.

[Asker]

What shirts are those? Online it should be easy lol

[Staximus]

I don't know what they are called. They are short sleeve button up, usually plaid and are made of thin lightweight cotton and polyester. Like the same material as a lightweight cowboy shirt. My friend's dad and the old maintenance guys at my high school would always wear them.

[Asker]

Yep I've never heard anything like it ha

[Staximus]

I used to get them at JC Penney in the 90's and early 2000's. Most of the guys that wore them were like 10 years older than my parents, so that would be like 86 now haha

[Asker]

What are the odds they still have them at JC Penney? 💀

[Staximus]

Well I'm going back to check this spring. These dipshit stores over here only sell summer shirts in the spring and fall shirts in summertime.

[Asker]

Sounds like they got a routine lol

[nokia927]

I'm 43 and feel like I act like a 20 year old

[TiaNour]

Tbh I got no idea what age I act

[Asker]

You actually seem pretty mature, so I'd say you act older

[TiaNour]

At least on gag..

[Asker]

☻☻☻☻

[TiaNour]

It’ll be a mystery now

[Asker]

You've always been a mystery Tia, your name literally means aunt in Spanish, mysteriously

[TiaNour]

I legit forgot all about that

[Asker]

Everyone calls you aunty 💀

[TiaNour]

I also got a question which is off topic lol

[Asker]

Go ahead lol

[TiaNour]

Did you have a account called themajesticking or some like that

[Asker]

Yea I did, damn how you know? 😂💀

[jcampbell115]

@TiaNour don't you act 69?

[TiaNour]

Bruh cuz when I made a account I saw you lmao, and I kept getting this vibe it was you

[TiaNour]

@jcampbell115 I’m any age

[jcampbell115]

wowza

[Asker]

You are old too Tia 😂

I don't recall ever seeing you before this account 💀

[TiaNour]

Nah cuz i made a account then dipped lol

[jcampbell115]

you're both old souls in young bodies

[Asker]

Creating an account to leave it is just crazy 😂

[Asker]

And that would mean I'll be ancient in my 30s bro ☻

[TiaNour]

Bruh I thought this site was useless at first 😭

[Asker]

it never stopped being useless for what it was designed for but at least one can somewhat socialize ha

[TiaNour]

And plus i was in school so I didn’t even care lol

[TiaNour]

@jcampbell115 more like a kid in a adult body

[Asker]

Yep school most def kept you busy or off your phone... kinda 😆

[TiaNour]

Aight gotta dip and get high again

[Asker]

Lol Alright, feel better 👌💯

[Luméa]

I think I act my age

[Asker]

You always seemed more mature to me Luma

[Luméa]

Really, glad to hear that 😅

[Asker]

Yea that's what I've picked up from you so far tho

[Luméa]

great 😌