For the record I was born in 1973. That makes me 34 years old. And it's true I was having a bad bad hair day, but I was still a little shocked when the eight-year old said, "Mum, you look pretty old. You've got a lot of wrinkles."
"Do you think I look older than Sarah?" I asked her.
"About the same," she said.
"What about Glenys or Belinda?" I asked.
"Oh, they're a lot younger than you," she said.
Uh, uh. The whole lot of them are more than three years older than me - one up to five years older.
The next day, just to rub salt in the wound, my daughter said in deep thought and consideration, "Mum, I think you look about 46 years old."
Man, I gotta get my hair done.
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Similar thing happened to my not-quite 30 year old brother-in-law - an infants teacher. The kids in his class thought he was 80!
Cecily - no! You look great!!
Kids sometimes don't have a firm grasp on numbers. I wrote a 'profile' about my family when i was in Kindy or Yr 1 and I wrote 'I'm not sure how old my Dad is but I'm pretty sure he's 14'.....ahemmmmmm!!
BTW...I can't tell those other three in order of their ages compared to you!
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