You’re dating a six year old? :eek:
When I was in college the first time - I was about 19 - I hung out with the assistant dean. He once asked how old I thought he was. He looked rather old, but to be kind I said 30. He was 27. No doubt now he would have looked rather young to my much older eyes.
I’m with you, and will be 27 this year.
I’ve got the opposite situation - a couple of weeks ago, the store wouldn’t sell me canned air because I didn’t have ID. Apparently they card for it now. Who knew?:dubious: The cashier assured me that my youthful looks would be a blessing soon, but my keyboard had to stay groddy until I could prove that I left age 18 behind almost eight years ago.
Bad news: I’m 40, have acne, and the dermatologist says it’s “juvenile acne.” My mother says it’ll go away in my mid-50s, if her own “juvenile acne” is any indication. Saleswomen in perfume stores try to sell me mid-20s creams…
Obligatory link to howoldareyou.net
Fun site. Cheers me up immensely when I’m feeling like a big bag of dirt. 
But I still haven’t learned to count.:smack: I blame the time.
I’m not really sure what the difference between a 27 year old and a 30 year old looks like. It’s not like you have a late 20-something growth spurt or a light in your hand starts flashing or anything.
I usually get pegged for being anywhere from 26 to 31, depending on how I’m dressed or where I am. (Actual age 36). Mostly it’s because I have a full head of hair and I’m in reasonable shape.
We had a guy on my freshman hall who could have easily passed for 40s. And I’m talking like “my God you’ve aged horribly!” 40s. He was short, balding, a bit overweight and had a bad knee so he used to shuffle around like an old man.
You guys should be happy you are not Greg Oden, poor kid looked 50 when he was 18.
This is good to know.
Try not to get too angsty about it. A lot of people (me) are really bad at guessing ages.
I’m 28, and recently people have guessed I’m anywhere from 16 to 30. I think it just depends on how I’m dressed.
I would venture to guess that her boyfriend was born on February 29th. She said he doesn’t have a birthday this year. 
That’s pretty much how it works in my family. We typically don’t age much for about 15-20 years, then we age a lot in a few years, then it slows back down for another 20 years or so. When I was born, my dad looked about 25. He was 29. By the time I was 3, he looked to be pushing 40. He still looked about 40 when he was pushing 50. He’s 62, and has looked 60 for at least 10 years. I expect he’ll look about 60 till he’s 70 or so.
I am 26 and I keep getting asked if I have picked which college I am going to yet. It is always assumed that I am about 17 or 18. My boyfriend is the other way, as he lost his hair and what little he has left went silver, so despite the fact that he is 27 people assume he is at least 35, sometimes 40. If he hasn’t shaved his head in a while and I am wearing an old university t-shirt I’m sure it looks like I am hanging out with my dad to people who just see us around the city.
If it’s any consolation, I’m constantly being carded for alchohol and cigarettes, after having been legal for almost a decade. My (ten years older) boyfriend keeps telling me to enjoy it.
Nooooo!
You can’t pass for 30!
You were just talking to a stupid person. Poof! that thought away.
No one else has ever said it, don’t believe the first goofball that does say it.
You look good.
I once told a 14 year old I remember when the Beatles first came to America. Only time I have ever caused a person to literally fall off a chair.
She thought I was mid-30’s. I was early 50’s.
Definitely a stupid comment, but it’s only 3 years, that’s certainly within margin of error. They could have just meant you act more mature than a 27-year old.
I also think it’s funny that the person had to draw a distinction between looking 27 and 30. You should have said you were 27 and a quarter. I could see being surprised if you had said you were 18, but if I thought someone was 30 and they were 27, I would think that I had guessed accurately. Same if I had thought 24.
A friend of mine was taken for 30 last year. She was maybe 21 of 22, so she was a bit hurt. But he was the mailman and she lived alone in a house in a somewhat rural area; the circumstances were that she was housesitting for a family friend whose mother had entered a nursing home, but I’m sure the mailman just never expected to find a 21 year old living in her own 3-bedroom house in that area. Circumstances have a lot to do with it.
I used to complain about being carded, being asked what grade I was in, etc., until I gained some weight and suddenly bartenders give my card only a cursory glance. What the hell? Now I look… matronly!
I’ve always looked old, but my son who turns 30 in two months could easily pass for 18 or 19, most people are shocked when they find out his age. He had his Drivers license refused for beer last month as it “had” to be a fake.
My SO is 28 (next month anyway) and could pass for about 15. I think I’m holding up well at 33. Been told recently that I could pass for 25.
Look on the bright side OP, maybe you’ll look 30 forever.
You realize of course, that it was no “accident”. He was actually 768 years old, and has looked around 40 for 728 of those years.
Right now, he’s pumping gas just outside of Flagstaff NM.