August 14, 2004

One question I DON'T have difficulty answering

How old are you?


I had two conversations involving this at cricket yesterday. One guy was introducing me to another. The new guy asked me how old I was, and I told him 37 soon to be 38. Both their jaws dropped. The first guy said he had told the new guy that I was about 22 or 23!

Then the first guy started to ask me why I am not having children, getting married etc (we had had a conversation about this earlier this year). Then he says that I need to pass on my I-don't-look-my-age-genes to somebody. Later for him.

Anyway, the second guy was a Jamaica Defence Force officer. He was asking me muchas questiones. Inevitably, it came around to "how old are you?". This time I said "guess". He said 29. Nearly 10 years difference.

I got that when I was teaching college students in Nottingham UK last year. They thought I was 25. Jaws dropped too.

I asked the first two gentlemen that I hope it is not that I act like 22 or 23 why they thought I was that age. They said no. Do you think they are being kind? Sometimes I feel like about 18.

Posted by yamfoot at August 14, 2004 08:55 PM
Comments

So whe di pictcha dem whe you promise mi? :)

Posted by: Mad Bull at August 14, 2004 09:15 PM

That is because you know that you will be comfortable with the answers to that question; and the converse also follows.

Posted by: gwyneth at August 14, 2004 09:40 PM

I have been told I look much younger than my age as well...(40). Course the mutant greys that are now rapidly mltiplying may eventually change that.

Remember when travelling from London to Miami once (Virgin Atlantic I think it was), I was sitting next to a sweet English lady and we got into chat. She was a member of the UK Police Force. Eventually, she had asked me my age as she was curious as to how I could have been a doctor at such a young age. I said, I'm actually 34 going 35. She looks at me...."My word...I wouldn't put you a day over 23!" Naturally, she made my day. :-)

Posted by: Dr. D. at August 14, 2004 10:52 PM

I never get around to that question, not that it matters any how, I'll already have an answer in my head tough it maybe wrong that's what I'll tell my mother. I usually go without saving so that I look older and more like a bum, people tend to leave me alone, my external appearance matters little - luckly I'm not in customer service.

Posted by: owen at August 15, 2004 07:33 PM

and lucky I'm not your boss!!!!

Posted by: Michelle at August 16, 2004 10:16 PM