# Why do some people look so weirdly older/younger?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 5, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-look-so-weirdly-older-younger/851133 "2020-04-05T15:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-look-so-weirdly-older-younger/851133/41 "2020-04-12T21:56:02Z")

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Back when my grandaughter was small, she was buying something in a store with her own money and I was standing fairly close by. The cashier (probably 19 or 20ish) briefly looks in my direction and says to my grandaughter “did you ask you dad if that was ok”? I said to the young lady “that’s grandfather actually” She said “I’m sorry” to which I advised her “that is a mistake you NEVER have to apologize for”. She had kind of a stunned look on her face as I don’t think she understood she had given me an accidental compliment.

Like getting carded when you ask for the senior’s discount.

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-people-look-so-weirdly-older-younger/851133/42 "2020-04-13T15:39:46Z")

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I think it’s mostly the picture itself; if you google “Mark and Steve Waugh”, you get a bunch of photos of them, and in most they look pretty much the same age- in particular, the one on the left in the OP’s photo doesn’t look quite so young in most of them.

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