Do I look that young?

[Der Cute]

Fie on you all!!!!

I'm 32 - and I was with a friend of mine in a store one day..she's 26. A nice 40-ish lady comes up to us and says to my friend, "Hello P! Nice to see you! Did you bring your grandmother with you to Wally?"

I was the only person standing next to P. I told the lady, Uh, I'm only 6 years older than her - sister age.....

Nice Lady turned beet red and tried to backpedal..but damage was done. TBH I don't think I look older than 36 AT THE WORST. Hell, people take me for 20ish due to my attitude and acne!

I was born the year the OSI was born.

Cutenoob

[XCashier]

I'm 32 - and I was with a friend of mine in a store one day..she's 26. A nice 40-ish lady comes up to us and says to my friend, "Hello P! Nice to see you! Did you bring your grandmother with you to Wally?"

I was the only person standing next to P.

Ouch! That's like the time I ordering dinner at the fast food place, and the employee asked if I wanted the senior discount! I was 38!

It also doesn't help that I keep getting mail from AARP...

[simplyanother]

Disclaimer: I really did not intend to be as verbose.

I'm one is also always mistaken for much younger than I am. My teenage co-workers don't realize that I'm not a peer, and my older co-workers didn't realize that I wasn't a REALLY young mother.

If it's night, customers guess my age at about 16, if it's day, they guess it at 18. I'm thinking it's because at night--they assume the high school kids can work, and during the day, I'd have to at least be out of school to work?

I can always tell when a customer thinks I'm a teenager--they get that tone of voice--not always condescending, not always rude--just "you're a child"--tone. I do set them straight. Nicely.

I'm really bad at guessing ages. It has to do with always looking significantly younger than I am. Most people do that backpeddling thing--"oh it's because you wear your hair/don't wear makeup/other random thing".-- It's not really that big of a deal.

I do remember, when I was about 22, waiting to get my hair cut...and the woman making chit chat with me...asked "so, is school out today?" (and it was obvious from her tone that she was NOT referring to college). I told her something like "hell if I know..."

When I brought my oldest son to school last year--for the first day of first grade--another mother stopped me and asked if he was my brother or my son.

When he was an infant, a cashier at walmart quizzed me about the very same thing, but that was because I was with my mother.

And when I was pregnant with him, I looked 16. Many many stares. One older woman came up and comforted me, and when I told her my age she said "oh, shoot! I thought you were a BABY!"

I don't get that as much anymore, when I have both boys with me. I guess I just exude that MOM look about me. Which I think is frazzled and unkempt. Or distracted.

My mother has said, more than once, that the women in my family look really really young, until one day...suddenly...we look..OLD. Fun fun.

[Primer]

Ouch! That's like the time I ordering dinner at the fast food place, and the employee asked if I wanted the senior discount! I was 38!

I went out to dinner once and noticed on the menu that they offered a senior discount at 40. Heck yes, I took it! But I wasn't carded! (I was only 41)

[Broomjockey]

I went out to dinner once and noticed on the menu that they offered a senior discount at 40.

Senior discount at FORTY?!? Yikes. That's...not right.

What I do find funny though is that seniors in Canada (or at least Alberta) is 65+, and we got Americans all the time who are used to 55+ish being the mark, and they'd buy seniors ticket at the ABO, and I'd have to send them back for adult tickets. Once I'd explained the difference, the reactions were fairly varied, but I don't remember anyone actually sucking over it. One lady did let out a little yelp, and say "I'm not THAT old!"

[blas]

My poor mother. The woman in this story has to be one of the stupidest people alive or in need of some serious coke bottle glasses, because my mother looks maybe 30something at her oldest.

She started a new job almost a month ago, and one of her coworkers asked her if she had any grandchildren yet. I think my mother wanted to cry.

Now, that's not too far fetched, considering prime childbearing years around here are 12-18, and there are some grandparents who aren't even 38 yet, but my poor mother.......

[MadMike]

I was in a bar two summers ago, when someone who thought he knew me started talking to me. He said he didn't know my name, but he was pretty sure we had gone to school together. I had grown up in that area, so it was possible, but I was drawing a blank.

When he told me what year he graduated, I told him we couldn't have possibly gone to school together, because I graduated quite a few years before he did. Then he asked me, "Well, how old are you? 27? 28?"

Since I was actually 37 at the time, I looked at him and said "Thank you!"

[Pagan]

Seriously, take it as a compliment!

I find it highly annoying, in all honesty. I'm 38 and it irks the hell out of me.

I do remember, when I was about 22, waiting to get my hair cut...and the woman making chit chat with me...asked "so, is school out today?" (and it was obvious from her tone that she was NOT referring to college). I told her something like "hell if I know..."

I had something like that happen to me back in college. I was about 23 at the time. I had to go over to my old high school to vote and had to walk through a couple of halls to get to the library where the machines were. Got stopped in the hall by a teacher who asked me what class I was supposed to be in. I decided to play with her and told her French. She asked, kind of nasty, if I knew where the room was. I told her Breland Hall, which is on the New Mexico St. campus. This was her face:

[blas]

Why would it annoy you? I mean, if people were insinuating you were still in high school or early college, I can see where you'd get offended because that is a little silly...

I only get offended when people think I am still in high school, or when they think my 17 (almost 18) year old brother is the oldest one. It never fails, whenever I meet friends of my parents, they always baby talk me and say "So what grade are you in, hunnnnnnnny?" What grade am I in? Errr...15?

[Custard Chick]

In 8th grade I was constantly being mistaken for 16-18 years old, I had a senior in high school flirt with me for a minute before I let him know I was barely 14.

Weird thing is, now that I'm nearly 23, I'm still being mistaken for 16-18. A new coworker of mine asked if I was in school still and I mentioned I just graduated from college, he gawked and was shocked that I was out of high school, he put my age about 17.

Guess it'll be a good thing when I'm in my 30's and getting carded at the bars!

[Pagan]

Why would it annoy you? I mean, if people were insinuating you were still in high school or early college, I can see where you'd get offended because that is a little silly...

That's exactly why. Since I've gone back to school, I've had a few people in classes assume that I'm just out of high school and try to tell me how college is going to be.

[Mr. Security]

Well I thought i'd tell the story of one guard who worked with me. One day my boss told me that we were getting a new female guard as a full time guard where I work. Well I was up in a walkway area where we patrol and I look down and I see this little boy who looked around 12 standing at our desk and it appeared he was wearing what looked like a security guard uniform. Well when I was relieved from my area I came down and this kid had gone somewhere else and I asked my supervisor. so who was that little boy you guys were talking to? my supervisor then looks at me and laughs and says SHE is our new guard and SHE is 24(a year older than me)

This girl was no taller than 5'0, weighed about 90lbs and had extremely short blond hair and seriously looked like she was 12 and a boy but as I said she was 24 and turns out she also had 2 kids It was funny having her around because we had female patrons and staff members coming to us saying some 12 year old boy just went into the women's bathroom and we would have to tell them that was our female guard. One staff member even came up to our supervisor and started berating him for dressing up his son in a security guard uniform and having him hang around the library everyday saying "Your job is to dangerous for your kid to be hanging around with you" My boss looked at the staff member blankly and said SHE is not my kid and SHE happens to be 24 with 2 kids of her own. The staff member then slinked away chuckling with embarrassment. The Women was only around for a few months. She was way to small for security anyhow and got fired by our sexiest Operation Managers who had just started a month prior. He fired her on a bullshit reason about her calling in sick. She filed a grevance but I don't think anything really came from it

[daleduke17]

I've never looked my age. Most people peg me as older due to how I act. I do have a few stories about age mistakes:

- Customer comes to my lane to purchase alcohol. I call the other cashier over to scan it. Customer looks at both of us and says "I came to your lane because I thought she was too young to scan it. How old are you?" I stated I was 18 (I was the only one asked). The other cashier stated she was 36.

- I was at one of the hospitals in Springfield visiting a cousin with my parents and someone asked how old I was. I stated I was 14. She swore I was over 18 since I was acting so mature and behaved.

- On my 21st birthday a couple friends and I went to one of the local gas stations to buy some booze. I wasn't carded, they were. They were 22 and 23. :-p

[thegiraffe]

I'm 22, but look like a high schooler.

That may come in handy OR be my worst enemy next school year when I hope to be teaching....you guessed it...high school.

I'll just have to come dressed to the nines every day and not take any crap (which I don't already).

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I don't look my age, either. We have had several people in my family who seemed to be extremely slow agers. At 44, I'm discovering I'm lucky enough to be one of them. Which I guess makes sense, because my dad is one of them, too. Nobody can guess my age. If I'm tired or not wearing makeup, I'm more likely to get carded (I don't get carded because they think I'm a kid, but I do get carded because some people think I look under 35, and that's their gauge for deciding who to card. And then a double take is done. )

It's really funny when I get flirted at by very young men. They know they are flirting with an "older women" but if they had any idea just how true that is, they'd probably run screaming.