Not looking your age?

[adderseal]

I asked how old she thought I was. She responded with the straightest face 'turning sixteen.' I was so pissed. I showed her my ID and said to suck on that and told her she just lost her tip for that night.

If you act like an immature 16-year old it's no wonder you get mistaken for one.

 

[Sigel]

30 but get mistaken for 21/22 all the time. I love it. Best moment was when I was out with my younger sister(25) and I was carded. She wasn't. XD She was so mad!!

 

[Socius]

am 17, but my goate makes me look a few years older

 

[Fredrik Engberg]

ITT: People who need to grow a beard

 

[darkonnis]

I always have looked older than i am, probably always will. What i don't understand is people like the OP getting pissed off because they get I.D'd they're doing their job. If they served alchol to an underage group then they'd get fined or she'd get sacked. Is giving you the benefit of the doubt worth her job? Will you pay her bills if she gets sacked? If you have a baby face, dont get upset at others about it, just take your I.D. More to the point if you gave any of the bar staff abuse for asking you your age where i work you wouldn't get served, pointblank, no discussion, and would probably be told to get your things and get out.

 

[Aunel]

A little while back, I was out at a pub with my friends to celebrate my birthday (I turned twenty one.) When the waitress asked us what we wanted to drink. I asked for a Keiths and she said that someone that is my age should not be ordering beer. I asked how old she thought I was. She responded with the straightest face ?turning sixteen". I was so pissed. I showed her my ID and said to suck on that and told her she just lost her tip for that night.

I did not let this bother me, but just today when I was walking my dog at about eleven in the morning. A woman had come up to me asking about my dog and then asked why I was not in school. I told her that I was finished school and I was in college. She had apologized and said that I looked seventeen.

I know this should not bother me but it does because I am in my early twenties and people who look at me think I am still in secondary school.
So my question is
Have you ever been mistaken for being older or younger and does it bother you?

later in you're life you'll be glad people mistake you for 5 years younger

OT: I get estimated at 17-18 (I just turned 16)
maybe it's the gnarly hands from playing bass too much...

 

[Umwerfer]

Apparently I appear to be nearing 20, and I have done so for the last 4 years. Probably because I talk like an old man xD

 

[razer17]

A little while back, I was out at a pub with my friends to celebrate my birthday (I turned twenty one.) When the waitress asked us what we wanted to drink. I asked for a Keiths and she said that someone that is my age should not be ordering beer. I asked how old she thought I was. She responded with the straightest face ?turning sixteen". I was so pissed. I showed her my ID and said to suck on that and told her she just lost her tip for that night.

So you decided to be a douche to this waitress for doing her job, and thinking you were younger than you are? Yes, totally not a dick move on her part. Seriosuly though, being a dick to someone for mistaking your age isn't very mature is it? All you had to do was show your ID and then get the beer you wanted. I bet she spat in your food.

OT: I look around my age, 18, sometimes I get ID'ed for alcohol and sometimes I don't.

 

[Klepa]

I never get asked papers anywhere anymore. I'm 22, all my mates get asked for papers when we go to pubs, but the doormen always give me a "get over yourself" look, and let me in. When I turned 18, I bought hard liquor from liquor stores, and only like a year later someone managed to tell me that you actually have to be 20 to do that.

I think people pretty much think I'm ten years older than I actually am. A guy at a pub thought I was 35, and my mate was 25, while I was 21 and he was 22.

And yeah, it's all because of the beard.

 

[laggyteabag]

My dad looks about 45, when he's 43 but when he went into a shop to buy some super glue to fix something the man at the counter asked for some ID...

 

[Mr.Monkey]

I had a goatee beard when I was 13-14, so I obviously looked a lot older.
I'm 29 now but I look young for my age compared to other people (Bar a few grey hairs in my stubble). People assume I'm in my early or mid twenties.

 

[CK76]

I am 25 and could easily pass for a high schooler (16-18) in physical appearance. I've had people inspect my ID like criminal investigators they struggle to believe my age.

Last year on a trip to Europe I was actually asked if I was old enough (15!) to be in the exit row.

 

[HardkorSB]

Isn't it good that you look younger than you are?
You're 21 now and you're complaining but when you'll be 50 and someone will say that you look 30, you'll be happy.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

It depends...how old do I look? My avatar pic is a few months old.

Well, I recall you saying that you were in the service.. so older than 18...

I'm gonna say... 23 years old?

OT: I'm 16 going on 17, and I'd say I pretty much look the age.

26 years old ^_^

...wait, do I look 23?

From your picture, yes.

You mean from that 75x75?

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

You should never tell a waitress to "suck it". They're human beings for a start, their bosses make sure they know there are consequences for selling booze to people not old enough(fines/lay off). If decency doesn't do it for you, just think about what they can do to anything you order.

OT: I'm 23 but most people guess about 17, it doesn't bother me at all.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

A woman who tried to hit on me several times because she thought I was 31 ( I don't even look that old ), the days passed and we ended up having a discussion about our age, the horror painted on her face when she heard I was actually 20.

[INB4 Tekka the stud]

I am now turning 22, and believe that I look 22.

 

[Paksenarrion]

It depends...how old do I look? My avatar pic is a few months old.

Wait isn't this a rhetorical question; i.e. don't answer it cos if you answer it incorrectly you get punched in the face ;-)

Other examples are "Does this make me look fat?" and "Do you know why I'm angry at you?"

Nah, when I ask a question, I expect an answer. When I ask a rhetorical question, they're more like rhetorical statements (ie, "I'm fat."), in which case, people would just stare at me coldly because that statement is only looking for attention. My rhetorical statements are more along the lines of "There is no God" or "Humanity can suck itself, because we're all a bunch of dicks". That sort of thing.

 

[dex-dex]

A little while back, I was out at a pub with my friends to celebrate my birthday (I turned twenty one.) When the waitress asked us what we wanted to drink. I asked for a Keiths and she said that someone that is my age should not be ordering beer. I asked how old she thought I was. She responded with the straightest face ?turning sixteen". I was so pissed. I showed her my ID and said to suck on that and told her she just lost her tip for that night.

I did not let this bother me, but just today when I was walking my dog at about eleven in the morning. A woman had come up to me asking about my dog and then asked why I was not in school. I told her that I was finished school and I was in college. She had apologized and said that I looked seventeen.

I know this should not bother me but it does because I am in my early twenties and people who look at me think I am still in secondary school.
So my question is
Have you ever been mistaken for being older or younger and does it bother you?

Self contradictions galore.

On topic though, people think I am older than I am. When I was twenty, I was sometimes pegged as 25 or there-about. I aged a lot between 17 and 20. When I was 17, I looked like I was 14. It also helped a lot when I shaved off my curly hair and grew a beard.

I had meant that at the moment at the pub I did not let it bother me.
but later in time it now does.
sorry about the wording.