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It has been suggested that the "average age of most of the participants here is beyond sixty" and I was just wondering what a cross-section of readers might be.  I guess this would be a survey on demographic's or something like that.

BCO

I'm I suppose to guess the average age or enter my age?

I don't count. I'd be in the 60 to 70 category, and there isn't one.

I am over 70 today but bought my bus in 1986.

Ok.. we're clearly confused.  Chris answered the poll with his guess at the average age, but I read it as asking what our age is.  :)

I'm below the suggested average age
Born in the fall of '61
Mark



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Quote from: Brassman on June 30, 2013, 09:21:10 AMI don't count. I'd be in the 60 to 70 category, and there isn't one.

    I noticed that. 

Quote from: Len Silva on June 30, 2013, 09:38:04 AM
I am over 70 today but bought my bus in 1986.

Well happy birthday!

There has to be a mistake on my birth certificate.   There's no way it can be right.

Well there ya go Bob, make today your B-day and you can celebrate with len the age you feel. I didn't vote cause there is no 19-under catagory :P

Since I am almost, but not quite, half way between 60 and 70 which was not given an option to vote.  But then I also do not qualify since I have been bus-less for quite awhile. HB of CJ (old coot) :(

Just voted for my era.  76 06 Bill

I'm an outlier! Though I am not subscribed to the magazine, just a forum goer. 22 years old last month! Possibly still the youngest? I don't know.

I think we should start over. 
Instructions for poll: 
Click on the button that represents the range in which your current age falls.
Vote as many times as you like.
If you're a female, you can lie.
If you lie, you can only vote once.
If you vote more than once, you must use a different age range.
If you're female and you lied on your first vote, then you get one more vote using you're correct age.
You cannot round down.
You can round up if you want.
Include ALL age ranges in 10 year increments - starting with 16-20.
The age range 70 and over includes 80-90. 
Over 90, you can still vote, but, your bus should be permanently parked.
Do not click on more than one button.
Moderators, their immediate family members, the owners of Bus Conversion Magazine, their sponsors and links may not vote.

You mean this about people ages not bus ages?

Don you left out the 2 to 6 year old range

I know I've Pissed Don off in the past but I didn't think that he would cancel my birthday.   ;D ;D ;D

I'm in the group that is NOT represented  :-\ :-\

Melbo

Ok according to the poll my age group is currently leading this poll. Ok I am in the 50-60 age range, but been involved with bus converting 26 years before joining.

Siberyd

Quote from: luvrbus on June 30, 2013, 06:30:54 PM
Don you left out the 2 to 6 year old range

And again Clifford has cost me a mouthful of coffee
Pml
Mark

Born in 82 and wife in 85. We are old fogies.


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So here I sit, intently staring at this photo on CNN and wondering two things.  1. Is that the face of a man in the center of the Milky Way?  2.  What if they are not really black holes but some poor slob with a flashlight trying to find his way out?  And then, there is reality, "the BCM bus poll is not working."


We should not spend a lot of time complaining about old age and my recent boisterous new entrance to Geezerdom, so I thought I might try and blend the two into something (Y'know what is the average age of some old coot that reads this board).  Having in the past posted close to 1400 times and started over 90 subjects, I will now hand the ball to you.  Why don't YOU START A POLL ... that might work.  For the record (if anyone should care?) I am not mad, nor discouraged, somewhat confused, but then again ...   Sometimes I will sit back and chuckle about all this, not often, but every now and then.

Now here I sit, Sunday night, the average reader seems to be about 60 years old (51%) and a lot of you seem to be throughly confused.  Now it is time return to my main pre-occupation in life, typewriter maint and pulling the wings off of small insects I collect on sticky notepad paper.  It aint much but it beats blowing kisses to young upstarts and making new friends, which we all know I am so poorly equipped to do.
 
I will return to my main focus in life (dredging up old memories), which is like remembering standing on the south-rim of the Grand Canyon a few years back and the big Prevost tour bus pulling up, disgorging all of these senior citizens (I think they were eventually headed to Cliffords' for a barbecue).
 
They slowly and methodically made their way to the overlook, and for the next twenty or so minutes, described in great detail, to no one in particular, their operations, their prescriptions, the new doctor and their procedures.  My only thought at that time was "Gawd, I hope I am never like that!" (which meant getting old, not owning a Prevost)


BCO 

Warning: You may experience one or more of the following side effects while reading this comment.  Euphoria, calmness, a sense of well-being, glowing, smooth skin, painless joints, moist refreshing taste in your mouth, the urge to initiate a random-act-of-kindness, the craving of fruit, vegetables and whole-grains, etc., etc. If you experience one or more of these symptoms drop a thank-you note to your doctor and wish three other people a great day, and by all means, do your best to remember their birthday (it seems to be rather important for some reason)."

Boistrous entrance to geezerdom, what age would that be? How do I know I'm a geezer, as opposed to just waking up cranky one day? Can you come in and out of geezerdom or is it a one way only ticket? I've noticed 30 yearolds who seem geezer like or are they capable of backing out of such state? lot of question, from such a youthful like, inquisitive mind, lvmci...

Who said that a man is only as old as the woman he feels?   (Now that can read several ways . . .)

John, still with most of my teeth and a working prostate

What am I supposed to do? there is no 19 or under option?

I've been thinking about my answer as well.  Should it be the age my brain thinks I am just before I climb a ladder or put on roller blades?  Or should it be the age my Grandkids think I am?

LVMCI

Very interesting issues presented here.  Unfortunately, unlike some who walk the hallways of this hallowed bus community haunt, I do not have all the answers.  I wish to however, throw in a few ideas.

You might be an old geezer if:

You start every sentence with "back in my day."

You watch The Price is Right, Days of our lives, Family Feud, but seldom see the ten o'clock news.

You have OD'ed on vitamin E at least two times.

You have Lawrence Welk Remembers Woodstock on vinyl and not CD.

Your wife whispers in your ear, "Do you want to go upstairs and make love?" and you answer, "Make up your mind girl, I aint doing both."

Everyone in a Coke commercial is younger than you and you notice that.

You can remember when a CD was a Certificate of Deposit, and if they kept it two years, you actually made some interest.

Your body parts wake up at different times each morning.

You pull your pants up so much that at your next class reunion, you are going to be a pair of pants with a head on it.

You walk into a room and your eyes are saying "Where is it?" and your brain is saying "What is it?"

When the cop asks you for your lic. you reply, "It aint on the back of the bus?"

You start sentences with the expression ... "Back when the earth was still warm."

You hand the kid your glasses, car keys, and dentures, before you step onto the Bungee Jump platform at the State Fair.

You have bought a coke for a nickle, seven cents if you kept the bottle, and you don't know how to text message.

You look forward to the BOGO at International House of Pancakes and eat supper at 4PM.

You stand 65 inches tall and your waist size is almost the same.

You break your Viagra in half, because at your age, all you want to do is cuddle.

All your shirts have name tags, because your wife caught you introducing yourself at the Eagles Club as "Fruit of the Loom."

You remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

You have been to the Grand Canyon ten times but do not remember it.

The most exciting part of your Love Life is pick-pockets or your last prostrate exam.

You are scratching parts of your body you have not seen in at least five years.

Several members of your graduating class in high school fought in the Civil War.

When you hear B-1 you don't think of a Super-Sonic Bomber, but rather a vitamin supplement.

The only thing regular in your life is the cable bill.

And finally .... You look at your youngest grandson and say to him, "C'mere boy." and when he comes up to you, you say ..... "Pull my finger!"

Yeah, that ought to do it.

BCO

How about another poll?

What is your age plus the age of your bus? We are 98 on this end.

;D

95 ;D

"You have Lawrence Welk Remembers Woodstock on vinyl and not CD"
Hmmmm!
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Quote from: Van on July 01, 2013, 04:48:50 PM
"You have Lawrence Welk Remembers Woodstock on vinyl and not CD"
Hmmmm!
You have Lawrence Welk Remembers Woodstock on vinyl and not CD

Yeppers!  Shure do.
Yeppers!  Shure do.

BCO
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Your Doctor is the age of your children...

Bus  1953  me 1942

About 130 I think. been a long time since school

uncle ned

Bus 1991 me 1953. 82 and feel every year of it!

I am fifty four but will be sixty by the time I finish fixing everything!

Surprised there were any votes in the 20-30 range.

24 here

Ummmmmmmmmm  I fit into 2 choices? Im 50

Quote from: treeplanter on July 03, 2013, 09:58:24 AM
I am fifty four but will be sixty by the time I finish fixing everything!

Lucky you.  I'm 1 year older but I expect to be done when I'm dead.