I read it that way too at first!! But I think they meant that those are two possible conversations and telling the truth is more fun than lying.
I don’t talk about my age at work because I have someone older than me reporting to me and that would be weird. She referred to someone else as “our age” and I secretly thought “you’re over 40, don’t lump me in with you!!” 
FTR, 36, 300, 45,000 
Creaky–Thanks for telling me what you do to stay so young.
I don’t think that would work too well for me, though. It would make a lot of the things that I really love in life either impossible or much more difficult to enjoy at all. But I suppose I could at least cut back on my sun exposure and wear more sunscreen than I do. And I hadn’t even thought of vitamin supplements.
Good lord, no. I’m 37 and I’ve worked very hard to be 37. And you can ask me anything and I’ll tell you. If you ask me my weight, I truly don’t know, so I’ll ask you for a scale.
For those of you who’d like to hold onto your looks as long as possible, the best advice I can give you is stay out of the sun. If you must be in the sun, use enough sunscreen to avoid tanning. The notion of a “healthy tan” is widespread, and many young women bake themselves to a golden brown, only to learn years later that the price of that “healthy tan” is gouged out of their hide in the form of premature wrinkles.
If you like the look of tanned skin, use cosmetic bronzers or other forms of imitation tanning. The real thing sets you up for a faceful of furrows.
Not many liars in this thread. I’ll fess up; I lie about my age often at work. Too many people think I am too young, or look to young, to be in my position. I tell them what they want to hear. Next week, grey hair dye.
i’ll be 26 in one week. i skipped 1st grade and have always been at least a year younger than most of my friends so i’ve sort of always wanted to be older. i had my son at 19 and that was yet another instance of wishing i was older so people would lay off of the “you were toooo young!” comments.
really though, i’m looking forward to 30. don’t ask why, but i can’t wait.
Yeah, it is, I guess, but I’m used to it by now. I used to model (garden-variety runway and car shows, some print) and make TV commercials and industrial videos (and still do occasionally), and I became accustomed to obssessing about my looks long ago.
Lying about your age, in that business, is just what you do. Nobody wants anybody over 25 for the juicy “young girl/college student” roles that that get you really good exposure and pay well. Regarding modeling, God forbid you should end up in the “Mature” category. Much snazzier and much more positive exposure (not to mention more “cool”) to be a “standard” 5’8" or over, size 2 (both of which I am) kind of model.
The “work” I constantly do on myself became a necessity, and let’s face it, I like the results. I’ve never made a judgement about how “right” it is or was to do this, but however other folks may feel, negatively or positively, is of course cool. I’ve experienced a variety of responses to my extreme narcissim, vanity, self-discipline, call it what you will. I guess I just do what I’m used to.
Scribble… glad to be of help. As I explained above, I really do work at this, and not everybody may want to be so focused on their looks. Unfortunately, I do give up a lot of things that other people do and take for granted, but that’s my trade-off, and I recognize that. I guess I’m kind of extreme. Heh. I never realized how extreme this all sounded until I wrote it down and read it…!
Why would anyone want to look 20 years younger than their age? I mean **Creaky’s ** got it, so she (I’m presuming here) can flaunt it, but the rest of us - really, where’s the crime in looking your age? We have all the wrong concepts in this society, every age is a good age to be, or should be.
Not if you’re female, heterosexual, and single, it’s not.
I *am * all those things, and I think it is.
Let me clarify a little what I said in my last post, before someone gets really upset.
I didn’t mean that it’s not good, in some general or moral sense, to be older than 30 and single if you’re a woman. I just meant that, if you don’t look young, it’s a lot harder to date.
Scribble, people in your life seem to be selling you a bill of goods, and you seem to be buying it. I don’t mean that as a criticism of you, but you might consider not listening to the crap people around you are telling you.
Your personality has a lot more bearing on your dating than your looks or age. I didn’t meet my husband until I was 33, and I was and am about 40 pounds overweight when we met. I have never dated much. You meet who you’re supposed to meet when you’re supposed to meet them, whether it’s at 25 or 75. Look at it from the other perspective - as someone over 30, you’re not looking for an 18 year old, are you? The guys worth meeting aren’t, either.
I love when I try to verify women’s identities over the phone by DOB, and they just give me day and month.
That’s great that you reject honesty, but I’d never sleep with anyone born within three decades of your DOB. Is that why you hide it? It’s rude to ask?
You’re DOB is right here in front of me, I’m just asking you to say it, so that I know it’s probably you on the phone.
I fully understand why women don’t make their age public knowledge, but why insist on lying (this does not apply to all women)?
Guys aren’t especially happy about aging either. Coy and reluctant is fine, lies are not.
One time I was on a date with this guy at his cottage, and about partway through I mentioned that I was 21 (which I was at the time). He flipped and accused me of lying about my age, because I had, he claimed, previously said I was 25.
I calmly informed him that was bullshit, because I have never lied about my age under any circumstances. There’s no reason for me to do so. (For his part, he had lied about the fact he was 30… :rolleyes: ) Anyway, that was the end of the date, but I still had to wait a fair amount of time for him to take me home. Oh, and his relatives were insane. Some Labour Day that was… :rolleyes: