User blog comment:TDIwriter/TDIwriter's Birthday, Again/@comment-1874924-20110429025757

Happy birthday, TDIwriter. Enjoy your birthdays whilst having them still means something good. Mine have long since ceased to matter to me, because at my age, one year is much like the next.

I have little memory of my childhood birthdays, partly because they tended to be pretty low-key affairs. If memory serves, the only year I got a proper party (i.e. one attended by people outside my immediate family) was my 8th.

As for driving, the legal age varies by State, as somebody surmised. In Colorado (when I was young, at least; I don't know what the law is now) you could get a driver's license at 16, and a learner's permit at 15 and 9 months.