When is the Equinox?

[moggssue]

I'm with Jennie!!

I just stick with trying to look clean and tidy mostly, and to not embarass OH's teenage (but going on 30) daughter, which is usually pretty impossible, and can be good fun when it fails! I dont know that I ever tried to look older, just better

[SarzWix]

The way that marketing of these 'beauty aids' works, you're never too young to start thinking about getting old... I think that as soon as you hit 18 you're being encouraged to worry about wrinkles etc. I hate it all, desperately trying to make people feel insecure, just to make them buy that junk! And don't get me started on the so-called 'fashion dolls', dressed in tarty clothes and pushed at 6,7,8 year olds... My daughter is 7, and already wanting to wear make-up and short skirts to the school disco... Gah!

[OverWyreGrower]

I've never looked my age

People either thought I was several years younger than I was, when I was under 20, so I had to carry ID permanently, and I spent time trying to look older....

I'm not even 30 yet, and the other day someone asked me whether I'd had my 30th party the same year as my mum's 55th birthday (which would make me about 34 now). I wasn't best pleased, as you might imagine, as I didn't think I looked 34!!

I dress pretty conservatively/boringly for work, and spend most of my time at home stomping around in wellies and semi-waterproof pants covered in dog hair or soil..... gosh, not very glam at all!

Haven't worn any make up for about 5 years, can't be bothered with it....

[rustylady]

Nice one Peter. When you buy alcohol in our supermarket the till girl has to press a button because the till beeps for her to challenge the buyer. "Go on, make my day" I say, "Ask me if I'm old enough!" They never do. Flum yeilds dramatic sigh!

I know the girls in our local shop quite well Flummery, and if I look as if I've had a bad day they ask me if I'm old enough to buy wine - bless them.

[rustylady]

By the way, this asking for ID is getting a bit silly. I know the assistants have to ask if they're unsure (as did I when I worked in a pub), but my 27 year old daughter (with 3 children in tow) has been asked for ID when trying to buy a bottle of wine.

[bubblewrap]

Me I'm 59 in February I don't think I look it.
Still got my own hair(see avatar) but not my own teeth(too many sweeties)
I have not been asked for proof of age since I was 18.
Still prefer jeans & t-shirt & never wear a tie unless I have to.
I also still enjoy the music of my youth(Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath etc)
Grow old disgracefully!

[Nicos]

OK ..my thoughts for what it's worth ( FWIW)

Why care about your/my age ???
If you are within 10 moron/polite years...ID is needed.....for most of us it's just an intro for ID cards in GB ...we should just get used to it ( not that I agree )

Un-easy is an understatement for me.....although I can understand in the petty few extreme circumstances....

I am 'of a certain age' which the French politely describe as middle aged.....

I don't need to be younger....I am confused by the changes my body presents me with...although I am bemused by them.....
I would prefer to look different- some changes are in my hands, but most are not ( esp the lottie figernails/hands!!!!)
I think I am quite a nice person and thoughtful towards others...why would I want to be younger?????

[bubblewrap]

Orson Welles did a song(?) "I know what it's like to be young but you don't know what it's like to be old!"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=koGnZg2kzxY

[cyanara]

Age is a state of mind!!!

Depending on the state of my mind i'm either 5 or 50!

[Snadger]

As the old chap up the road told me when he was approaching 90 years old :-

" Getting old aint so bad, it's when you realise you're getting into bed with a Granny that you begin to think"

[piskieinboots]

Me I'm 59 in February I don't think I look it.
Still got my own hair(see avatar) but not my own teeth(too many sweeties)
I have not been asked for proof of age since I was 18.
Still prefer jeans & t-shirt & never wear a tie unless I have to.
I also still enjoy the music of my youth(Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath etc)
Grow old disgracefully!

oh so wonderful

at 51 and 3/4 the music is the same for me - with a darn good splattering of Led Zep and Eric

Funny thing is, when I was going to clubs (they were discos then - eeww) at age 14, 15, 16 (what can I say, I started young!) I was always taken for old enough to get in - but throughout my adult life thus far I pass for a fair piece for - erm, what was it again - oh yes, 51 and 3/4 - most I meet think me a fair bit younger.

Maybe it's attitude, cos I never did find the growing up manual

[Winged one]

I am over 30 now, and with toddler in tow, but during the recent election campaign here, a canvasser came to the door and asked me were my mum and dad at home!! I told them that they probably were, but I wasn't going to ring Cork to find out for them. Then they had the cheek to ask for my vote!!!

[HeyWayne]

By the way, this asking for ID is getting a bit silly. I know the assistants have to ask if they're unsure (as did I when I worked in a pub), but my 27 year old daughter (with 3 children in tow) has been asked for ID when trying to buy a bottle of wine.

There are parts of the country where having three kids in tow doesn't mean you're over 18...

[zebedee]

Me I'm 59 in February I don't think I look it.
Still got my own hair(see avatar) but not my own teeth(too many sweeties)
I have not been asked for proof of age since I was 18.
Still prefer jeans & t-shirt & never wear a tie unless I have to.
I also still enjoy the music of my youth(Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath etc)
Grow old disgracefully!

Right on, Bro, I am so with you there!!!

[bubblewrap]

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas