# I must be hotter than I thought! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280 "2007-04-01T07:48:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/1 "2007-04-01T07:48:09Z")
So I stopped by the grocery store after work tonight to pick up some Anbesol for this nasty toothache I’m suffering with. On my way back out to my car after making my purchase, I can hear footsteps behind me, and young female voice saying things like “Hello!” and “Hey!” I assumed she was on a cell phone. When I heard, “Um, excuse me …” I realized she was actually talking to me. So I turned around to look, and saw two very attractive young ladies, but alas, clearly teenagers. The girl who had spoken to get my attention said, “Um, how old are you?” “Forty!” I replied. “Oh. Never mind.” And away they went. Dayum! I guess I’ve still got it! I knew that I don’t look quite my age (and my baseball cap hides my bald spot), but I still didn’t think I had enough going for me in the hotness department to be approached by cute teenage girls. Booya! But then I realized: It’s midnight on a Saturday night. And what are teenagers looking for while loitering in grocery store parking lots at midnight on a Saturday? Sigh. I suppose they were intending to use their feminine wiles to persuade me to purchase some alcohol for them. They were probably deterred by my age, correctly guessing that at 40 I’m smart enough not to be sucked in (no pun intended) in that manner. That, or they feared that I might agree to make a purchase for them if they were willing to “make it worth my while” _wink wink nudge nudge_, and they weren’t keen on making it worth such an old guy’s while. Ah well, it’s a good thing that I’m too clever for that. Besides, I’m old and it was past my bedtime anyway. And I get cranky without enough sleep 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/2 "2007-04-01T08:02:12Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] But then I realized: It’s midnight on a Saturday night. And what are teenagers looking for while loitering in grocery store parking lots at midnight on a Saturday? [/QUOTE] Carrots 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/3 "2007-04-01T09:41:41Z")
They both wanted wild, insane, sex with you and would have fulfilled your wildest sexual fantasies…hang onto that thought…it’ll get you through the next forty years. (They wanted beer and realized you probably have kids their age and didn’t bother to ask.) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/4 "2007-04-01T11:30:02Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] They both wanted wild, insane, sex with you and would have fulfilled your wildest sexual fantasies…hang onto that thought…it’ll get you through the next forty years. [/QUOTE] or drive him insane. ---
**Author:** ![LucyInDisguise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucyindisguise/32/18064_2.png) [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/5 "2007-04-01T15:07:44Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] or drive him insane. [/QUOTE] Short trip, I hear … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/6 "2007-04-01T22:37:41Z")
Where is this market? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/7 "2007-04-01T22:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] … and would have fulfilled your wildest sexual fantasies…hang onto that thought…it’ll get you through the next forty years. [/QUOTE] Hmmm … I’m afraid that fantasy would begin and end with putting them both across my lap and paddling their behinds for trying to get me to buy them beer 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/8 "2007-04-01T22:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] Hmmm … I’m afraid that fantasy would begin and end with putting them both across my lap and paddling their behinds for trying to get me to buy them beer 😃 [/QUOTE] Dammit, that’s my fantasy! I’m a bad girl. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/9 "2007-04-01T23:08:33Z")
Wait until you hit your mid 40s. All I hear from young women at the grocery store now is “May I help you with your bags, sir?” ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/10 "2007-04-01T23:12:34Z")
[QUOTE=Cyn] Dammit, that’s my fantasy! I’m a bad girl. [/QUOTE] How _you_ doin’? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/11 "2007-04-01T23:38:16Z")
Go back in ten years, Phase, those two girls may have been fantasizing about a hot threesome with a fifty year old. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/12 "2007-04-01T23:40:40Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Go back in ten years, Phase, those two girls may have been fantasizing about a hot threesome with a fifty year old. [/QUOTE] I think I’ve seen that web site … ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/13 "2007-04-02T00:42:58Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] They both wanted wild, insane, sex with you and would have fulfilled your wildest sexual fantasies…hang onto that thought…it’ll get you through the next forty years. [/QUOTE] Yes, but sadly, 39 was their age limit… ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/14 "2007-04-02T00:43:16Z")
Hey, you’re only two people short of a threesome. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/15 "2007-04-02T15:03:55Z")
Actually, Phase, all the men who I know in real life who I find hot (and in some cases **smokin’ hot** ) are ALL over 40. So ya never know… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/16 "2007-04-02T15:50:39Z")
From reading these here boards, it seems like there are any number of young whippersnappers who think old folks in their forties are hot, but I can’t quite believe it in real life. When I see good-looking young teenage boys, as far as I’m concerned, I am the LAST person they will be looking at and thinking, “Wow, what a hottie!” Which is fine by me and my husband. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/17 "2007-04-02T16:34:21Z")
Perhaps the girls picked a random number from 30 to 45. (If only you had said 41…) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/18 "2007-04-02T16:44:04Z")
[QUOTE=Missy2U] Actually, Phase, all the men who I know in real life who I find hot (and in some cases **smokin’ hot** ) are ALL over 40. So ya never know… [/QUOTE] And where exactly is “Dist. 3, Rm. 142” again, dear? Shall I bring the wine? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/19 "2007-04-02T17:02:05Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] Hmmm … I’m afraid that fantasy would begin and end with putting them both across my lap and paddling their behinds for trying to get me to buy them beer 😃 [/QUOTE] Ummm…could you buy me some beer? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280/20 "2007-04-02T17:31:17Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Wait until you hit your mid 40s. All I hear from young women at the grocery store now is “May I help you with your bags, sir?” [/QUOTE] Naw. She’s with me, thanks. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-be-hotter-than-i-thought/398280.md?page=2)