At What Age...(poll)

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  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,770 Member
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    Learn to ride a bicycle? 9...late, but prior to that I lived in an NYC apartment.
    Have your first kiss? 8...the boy next door...but my first "real" kiss was 15.
    Graduate high school?...17
    Graduate college (if applicable)?...21
    Experience the worst stuff? 33
    Experience the best stuff? 49
    Feel best about your body? 26...46
    Get your first job? 16...as a restaurant hostess...prior to that I did a lot of babysitting
    Marry (if applicable)? 30...almost 31
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)? 27
    Have your first child (if applicable)? 34
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 17
    Start working at your current job? 34
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? 3 (family trip to Canada)
    Meet your current best friend? 19
    Hit your heaviest weight? 34 (heaviest non-pregnant weight was 15)
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 18 (first)
    Learn to drive? 16
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? 18 for college...23 for good
  • k8eekins
    k8eekins Posts: 2,264 Member
    edited April 2019
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    At what age did you ...

    1 Learn to ride a bicycle?
    Disallowed.  To even ride a horse, sideways (ie "sidesaddle") only and never alone either. 

    2  Have your first kiss? 
    Age 18.  

    3  Graduate high school? 
    Private & confidential.

    4  Graduate college (if applicable)?  
    Private & confidential.

    5  Experience the worst stuff? 
    In my 30s.  The loss of my father and being told/informed of his passing well after they'd buried him.

    6  Experience the best stuff? 
    From age 17.  Adulting responsibilities, exposures, immersions, conditioning and socialisation.

    7  Feel best about your body?  
    Before and after I'd lost the freight weight.  I'm comfortable big, plump and when in the fit phase I'm particularly conscious of my muscle to fat density ratios. 

    8  Get your first job?  
    Age 16.  Reserve Bank (IT) + Media & Communications (Producer/Presenter - Local & Regional + Presenter for VOA and the Israeli High Commission)

    9  Marry (if applicable)?
    N/A

    10  Meet your current significant other (if applicable)?  
    N/A

    11  Have your first child (if applicable)?  
    N/A

    12  Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)?
    Didn't get drunk and disorderly.  First socially drank at age 17 (UK).

    13  Start working at your current job?   
    Living the life like I'm in Retirement, yet am still active enough in parts to affect my personal economy, where it's necessary has been my minimum norm since forever.   

    14  Travel outside your home country for the first time?
    In my babyhood with my parents, at my paternal grandfather's insistence. 

    15  Meet your current best friend? 
    In the delivery room.  I also pinched her because she had a headful of long wavy curly hair, had sooty long and dark lashes, was lighter complexioned which matters in my culture, whereas I was still bald, shorter than her, skinny and sun-scorched bronze - a wildling, only the girl Mugli :laugh:  

    16  Hit your heaviest weight?
    In my 30s.  Started my commitment to drop weight early enough after living that massive for about a year only, fortunately for me.

    17  Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 
    First and the longest time.  Loved this one man for a good majority of my life, since childhood.  Loved him so much - not with the romantic nuances, more so as my Protector and Match I'd respected with reverence,  where I chose and opted out of everything familiar, to never once allow for any awkwardness - for him and me and our families.  I still hurt and tear up when I recall how I'd arrived at that decision and what it meant for me.

    18  Learn to drive? 
    Age 7 - 4WD Jeep, manual.  Necessitated by our location - a rural area like the outback.  Oh the adventures :laugh:  ... Wild country fun.

    19  Move out on your own (away from parents)? 
    Lived between boarding school and luxe hotels during holidays mainly.  Full emancipation at age 16 - Penthouse to penthouse mostly + Minimum of 3 jobs.   
  • asliceofjackie
    asliceofjackie Posts: 112 Member
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    Learn to ride a bicycle? 6-7~ish? I don't really remember.
    Have your first kiss? 10
    Graduate high school? 19 (That's standard here in Sweden)
    Experience the worst stuff? 16-17
    Experience the best stuff? 25 (birth of my nephew)
    Get your first job? 19
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 19
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? 6-7~ish from what I remember
    Meet your current best friend? 24
    Hit your heaviest weight? 26-27
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 16 (first time)
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? 19
  • Glazed_and_Confused
    Glazed_and_Confused Posts: 1,307 Member
    edited April 2019
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    Learn to ride a bicycle? like 7 or so, I'm not really sure.
    Have your first kiss? 13 for first peck, 15 for first real kiss
    Graduate high school? 18
    Experience the worst stuff? 18
    Experience the best stuff? early 30s
    Feel the best about your body? 30
    Get your first job? 19
    Marry? 33
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)? 30
    Have your first child (if applicable)? no kids yet
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 31. I'm a late bloomer to the drinking game.[/b]
    Start working at your current job? 32
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? about 12 or so, just across the border to Canada. 15 for the first time overseas.
    Meet your current best friend? 5, first day of kindergarten.
    Hit your heaviest weight? mid 20s
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 18 for the 1st time
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? 18 but it was a dorm so I feel like it doesn't count; 22 or so when I moved about 4 hours north for university

  • Jelaan
    Jelaan Posts: 815 Member
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    Learn to ride a bicycle? 6
    Have your first kiss? 10, first "real" one 16
    Graduate high school? 17
    Graduate college (if applicable)? 21
    Experience the worst stuff? 33 and 53
    Experience the best stuff? 28, 34 and 38
    Feel best about your body? 52
    Get your first job? Full time 22, had part time jobs in University
    Marry (if applicable)? 28
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)? 18
    Have your first child (if applicable)? 33
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 18
    Start working at your current job? 51
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? 3
    Meet your current best friend? None
    Hit your heaviest weight? Non preggo 58
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 25 and 48
    Learn to drive? 23
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? 18


  • CoffeeAndContour
    CoffeeAndContour Posts: 1,466 Member
    edited April 2019
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    seltzermint555 wrote: »
    At what age did you...

    Learn to ride a bicycle?
    Without trainers? 6.
    Have your first kiss?
    Grade 5, in the cloak room at school, during a game of truth or dare.
    Graduate high school?
    17
    Graduate college (if applicable)?
    20, the first time.
    Experience the worst stuff?
    Ages 7-14, and while better still very bad 14-22.
    Experience the best stuff?
    23 and these last few months too.
    Feel best about your body?
    Right now. I don’t think I’ll ever be fully content unless they develop a way to stretch me 6 or so inches.
    Get your first job?
    9, it was a paper route. 16, I was a barista.
    Marry (if applicable)?
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)?
    Met 13 years ago, but that isn’t when we started dating.
    Have your first child (if applicable)?
    23
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)?
    14
    Start working at your current job?
    7 years ago but I opened an office recently.
    Travel outside your home country for the first time?
    I was just a few months old.
    Meet your current best friend?
    At birth. Our parents shared a hospital room and we’re a day apart. The other, we met when I was 7, and she was my first friend at my new school.
    Hit your heaviest weight?
    If not at pregnancy then at 28.
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)?
    Real love, I was 19.
    Learn to drive?
    16
    Move out on your own (away from parents)?
    21, moved back home a few months later and moved out again when I was 22

  • CoffeeAndContour
    CoffeeAndContour Posts: 1,466 Member
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    Hmm not sure why it did that but I don’t really understand this quoting stuff.
  • bootyrubsandtacos
    bootyrubsandtacos Posts: 775 Member
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    Learn to ride a bicycle? 7
    Have your first kiss? 16
    Graduate high school? 32
    Graduate college (if applicable)?
    Experience the worst stuff? 24-25
    Experience the best stuff? Still waiting
    Feel best about your body? Still waiting
    Get your first job? 14
    Marry (if applicable)?
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)?
    Have your first child (if applicable)?
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 22
    Start working at your current job? 24
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? Haven’t yet
    Meet your current best friend? 28
    Hit your heaviest weight? 32
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? Haven’t yet
    Learn to drive? 31
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? Haven’t yet.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,742 Member
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    CoffeeAndContour wrote: »
    Hmm not sure why it did that but I don’t really understand this quoting stuff.

    I don't think it matters! :smile:

    Also, love your best friend story. My best friend and I were 4 and 5 when we met watching Independence Day fireworks with our parents at a city event. She was from a town 2 hours away but we talked our parents into a play date now and then and are still friends at 41 and 42.
  • Gould118
    Gould118 Posts: 544 Member
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    Learn to ride a bicycle? 4 or 5
    Have your first kiss? 16
    Graduate high school? 17
    Graduate college (if applicable)? 22
    Experience the worst stuff? 27
    Experience the best stuff? Just keeps gettin better
    Feel best about your body? 26
    Get your first job? 12
    Marry (if applicable)? One day...
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)? 27
    Have your first child (if applicable)? Heck NO
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 15
    Start working at your current job? 19
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? 6
    Meet your current best friend? 27
    Hit your heaviest weight? 21
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 24
    Learn to drive? 16
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? 24...bought my first place at 24
  • newmeadow
    newmeadow Posts: 1,295 Member
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    I didn't fill out the form but here's the gist of it:

    I did all the stupid mistakes in my 20s. I was an extremist.

    I dedicated my 30s to meditate on those stupidities and to allow the full consequences of those stupidities to sink in. I

    I reserved my 40s to sink into a deep, solitary despair about those consequences. I spent the majority of that time eating pasta then lying on the couch staring at the wall.

    I'm now dedicating my 50s to pulling myself up from my proverbial bootstraps and meeting all challenges head on.
  • melissawill2017
    melissawill2017 Posts: 1,131 Member
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    At what age did you...

    Learn to ride a bicycle? 6 years old
    Have your first kiss? 13
    Graduate high school? 18
    Graduate college (if applicable)? 30- late to start
    Experience the worst stuff? 14- lost my dad😭
    Experience the best stuff? 30 & 35 (children born)
    Feel best about your body?
    Get your first job? 15
    Marry (if applicable)? 29
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)? 29
    Have your first child (if applicable)? 30
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 15
    Start working at your current job? NA
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? 17
    Meet your current best friend? 29
    Hit your heaviest weight? 39
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 17- man, that one hurt!
    Learn to drive? 16
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? 17
  • Lkav88
    Lkav88 Posts: 50 Member
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    Learn to ride a bicycle? 7
    Have your first kiss? 14
    Graduate high school? 16
    Graduate college (if applicable)? 18
    Experience the worst stuff? 29
    Experience the best stuff? 19 + 30
    Feel best about your body? 29
    Get your first job? 16
    Marry (if applicable)? Nope
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)? Nope
    Have your first child (if applicable)? 19
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 15
    Start working at your current job? 19
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? 15
    Meet your current best friend? 12
    Hit your heaviest weight? 27
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 14
    Learn to drive? 18
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? 18
  • Deanner03
    Deanner03 Posts: 371 Member
    edited April 2019
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    seltzermint555 wrote: »
    At what age did you...

    Learn to ride a bicycle? 5
    Have your first kiss? 12
    Graduate high school? 18
    Graduate college (if applicable)? 24 (LPN) 29 (RN) 34 (BSN), 37 (MSN)
    Experience the worst stuff? Not sure
    Experience the best stuff? 24 and 26 when I had my babies
    Feel best about your body? 30
    Get your first job? 14
    Marry (if applicable)? 25
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)? 22
    Have your first child (if applicable)? 24
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)? 16
    Start working at your current job? 34
    Travel outside your home country for the first time? 1 day old. I went from NNY to Montreal Children's Hospital
    Meet your current best friend? 26
    Hit your heaviest weight? 29
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)? 19 (first time) 22 last time
    Learn to drive? 16
    Move out on your own (away from parents)? 18

  • xGreatWhiteNorthx
    xGreatWhiteNorthx Posts: 335 Member
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    seltzermint555 wrote: »
    At what age did you...

    Learn to ride a bicycle?4
    Have your first kiss?6
    Graduate high school?17
    Graduate college (if applicable)?19 & 21
    Experience the worst stuff? 3,10,25
    Experience the best stuff?26+
    Feel best about your body?24
    Get your first job?14
    Marry (if applicable)?20 & 29
    Meet your current significant other (if applicable)?25
    Have your first child (if applicable)?23
    Get drunk for the first time (if applicable)?15
    Start working at your current job?28
    Travel outside your home country for the first time?5
    Meet your current best friend?12
    Hit your heaviest weight?21
    Fall in love (first time or last time, your pick)?26
    Learn to drive?16
    Move out on your own (away from parents)?17

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