<p>Guess how old I am…</p>
<p>That was random… Wondering about the ages of the parents here. A friend and I were talking about the music we used to listen to in high school and college and discovered that we listened to the same stuff even though she lived on a different continent at the time.</p>
<p>I’m 50. The other day, I was subtituting in a fifth/sixth grade classroom. And during their morning “meeting”, they end with a quickie little game like Telephone, etc. So, after a round of Telephone, and while waiting for the French teacher to arrive for French, I played, “Guess my age”, LOL. I must say, it was the highlight of my day as the guesses were all under 50!</p>
<p>lol. That’s great. I was at Shaw’s to buy a couple of bottles of wine and the woman asked for my ID. Made my day!</p>
<p>I love kicking butt against the kids who guess your age at places like Kennywood and Busch Gardens Williamsburg. They are not even in the ballpark, heh-heh.</p>
<p>I was traveling and had a layover in Chicago and got some dinner at a bar and ordered wine and the bartender carded me and I thanked him profusely.</p>
<p>A local kid, friend of D’s , spent time this summer in jail for selling to an undercover cop. After that, I have been carded twice this month for picking up H’s Coors Light. I love it. I don’t think I look remotely like I’m underage but it’s good for the kids who work in the grocery stores to just ask everyone. It beats getting busted.</p>
<p>Well I don’t get AARP carded. They just trust I’m an old dude.</p>
<p>My hair actually started going grey in my early twenties. By 25, I was salt & pepper. At 32, mostly salt with a few spots of color. By 35, I was silver.</p>
<p>My wife had the face of a teenager into her 40’s and was always mad when she got carded. She since has picked up a few greys.</p>
<p>We’re the same age.</p>
<p>We always got a couple of “What’s that old geezer doing with that young thing” stares when we checked into motels. :D</p>
<p>Saw a sign in the grocery store this week that said “anyone under 40 will be carded for alcohol purchase”.</p>
<p>Well that explains why they never ask me…lol.</p>
<p>Under 45 may get you carded in our part of the world. Worse yet, the checkers call for a supervisor to double-check the purchase… EVERYONE looks to see who’s buying what. Very small town…</p>
<p>Our local grocery chain requires carding of just about everyone - I make it a game for the (usually) high-school aged kid at the register by asking him or her to guess the year I was born in before I hand over my license…guesses have ranged from 1955 to 1969 (I was born in 1963). The 1955 guesser said he guessed that year since I looked as old as his mom and she was born in that year, so I cut him some slack…</p>