Why do people get surprised if you're a certain age and...

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haven't done something by that point ?

I seem to think we are supposed to live in a world now where it shouldn't really matter how old someone has to be to do something or not do something. Examples of this include, in an old episode of the UK's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Chris Tarrant had a 27 year old student on as his first guest and responded ''You're 27 and you're still a student ?''. Another was when I overheard my nan talking to someone at a family gathering and was talking about a cousin of mine who was 35 at the time and said ''He's 35 now and he still isn't married.''