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Monday, September 27, 2021

MAPPING YOUR AGE


MAPPING YOUR AGE

You know the classic situation. There’s a carnival worker at the fair. They look at you and tell you exactly what you weigh. You step on the scale there at the fair and they’re right. Spot on. Another carnival worker at the fair listens to you talk. After hearing you speak, they tell you exactly where you were born and exactly where you grew up. These days they have a way to tell a person’s age. They ask if you know what is a paper road map and if use one now or have ever used one? If the answer is “yes,” you are age 61 or older. (Anyone younger uses an iPhone/smartphone or GPS. They don’t know/use a paper map.) Oh, carnival workers have another way to tell your age. The telling question they ask: Do you use a sundial to tell time?