wasn't it like yesterday i was surprised to be called "ma'am"?

[fox]

A true conversation that happened today:

me:  [pulling FedEx label from electric typewriter and handing it to boss man]  I don't think I've used a typewriter since I was filling out my college applications.
boss:  That recently?  I thought you were going to tell me you'd never used one.  That's what my daughter would have said.
me:  I think I'm a little older than your daughter.
boss:  [in a tone that says oh, i doubt it]  Well, she's twenty-four.
me:  Yeah.  I'm twenty-nine.
boss:  [boggles]
me:  That's a big five years, in technology.  Couldn't apply online, when I was in high school.
boss:  [still boggling]  You look like you're about nineteen years old.

And, okay, I've mentioned before how maybe the way I dress (relaxed) and the way I wear my hair (long and unstyled) read younger than I am.  But, dude, we were talking six days ago about how I just came back from grad school.  (And I knew I was older than the daughter because she was a finalist for the Rhodes, which, a, good for her, and b, is a scholarship I was too old to be considered for.)

Heh.

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[servalan.livejournal.com]

Foot in the grave, darthfox, foot in the grave.

Also, this is why I chopped my hair. No one took me seriously.