I'm a little tired of how people exaggerate by reduction. For example, if you're running late, the exaggerator will say you have less time than you actually have. If you're balancing your checkbook, the exaggerator will say you have less money in the bank.
Recent studies have shown that fertility starts to drop off at 35 for most women. The exaggerator says that fertility starts to drop off by your thirties. People hear "thirties" and think 30. That makes a lot of women in their late twenties who are being needlessly threatened with barrenness.
As I prepare for the big 3-0, I'm trying to remember how little numbers mean. Scott Adams has a theory of permanent age. Here's what he says:
"Some people are kids all their lives. They will admit they are 12-years old. Other people have always had senior citizen interests and perspectives. If you’re 30-years old in nominal terms, but you love bingo and you think kids should stop wearing those big baggy pants and listening to hip-hop music, your permanent age might be 60."
I think my permanent age is 13. But I may be exaggerating by reduction. I may actually be 14 1/2.
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