Lol!  It's amazing how forward and presumptuous some people can be.  And it's not like they NEED to guess if you're your siblings' parent or if you are in college and whatnot.  Sometimes, small talk is just noise.   

Karoline, I sympathize *completely*! In my second year of college, I had different people ask me when I would graduate from high school and if I was a college alumna on the same day! Even now, people still assume I'm about three years younger than I am... I used to play up to whichever expectation people had, lol, but the bank people know me by now so I don't do that anymore. ;)

I sympathize as well. For as long as I can remember, I've apparently looked two to three years younger than my actual age. Sigh. But hey, that'll be great when we're forty.

No, Hana and I did not go dancing tonight. Did you? I'm going to have to miss the next two weeks as well (grr... there WAS no dancing last week, either), but Hana may be able to make both of them. I can't wait to go back... tonight we went ice skating with Kelly, Kimberly, Kyle, and people from Kelly's work.

Looking younger than your age IS nice when you're in your forties. Not that people mistake me for a college girl anymore. . .These days, I'm content simply to look my age and not older.

People have continually guessed me to be older, never younger; but I have an advantage coming into school a bit early. There are some freshman coming in this year who are still my age, as I have not yet turned 20. I confess it is a source of vanity for me as well--let me tell you, it was flattering when people asked if I was a senior my freshman year! Now they guess and are only a year ahead.

Somebody thought I was 23 last weekend... oy.

Heh heh. I feel your pain. :) I go to the public library nearby that is inside a public high school... I'm continually being mistaken for one of the students.

Indeed, Kaorline, the Riverside Chaucer! If you look carefully, you will also see a paperback edition peeking out from under my roommate's folders on the opposite side of the room floor. We're taking a class on him together. :)

Ha! I THOUGHT I recognized the book! I have many memories, and multiple papers, and a still-aching back from the Riverside Chaucer. <g>

The introductory chart on Middle English pronunciation is particularly helpful. I think it was my favorite part of the edition. It's a gorgeous book, certainly, but I have a dislike of books so big you can't read or carry them comfortably.

Are y'all reading Troilus and Criseyde, or just The Canterbury Tales?

On the subject of age: I don't mind being taken for younger than I am (although the question about driving rather wounded my pride)! Really, how are these poor people to have any idea? Nearly anyone between eighteen and twenty-eight is hard to place.

I was disconcerted because I've never, ever, ever before been taken for younger than I am. Fellow students have assumed, since my freshman year, that I was a senior (and it's hard to fool another student). A surprising number ask if I'm in the Campbell law school. My haircutter and random grocery store clerks have also asked if I was a law student. I've been taken for Kerr, Julia, or Jeanna's mother a dozen times. People rarely go out of their way to say I look too young for that.

Maybe it was the big gypsyish earrings . . . or the red sweater . . . or the boots . . . that made me look about ten years younger than usual. <g>

*grins and hugs dearest K* I can envision you in gypsy earrings, a red sweater, and boots, and let me tell you, you're a drop-dead beauty.