There was an article in the Washington Post that I wanted to read, but instead of seeing the article I was asked to give them my personal information. Not a problem I thought, I’m more than willing to enter my vital statistics for demographic analysis.

I proceeded to enter the following information: Female from Rwanda born in 1504 with a zip code identical to the one they gave in the example. Evidenced by the error message, they didn’t like the fact that I was 498 years old so I decided to find out how old they would allow me to be. I began entering years, 1604, 1704, 1804, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1899 and finally they accepted 1900. It’s a pity that 102-year-olds get to read their article, but 103-year-olds aren’t good enough for them.