That Time I Got Mistaken For a 14-Year-Old
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That Time I Got Mistaken For a 14-Year-Old

For those who have a "younger looking" face, you'll understand.

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That Time I Got Mistaken For a 14-Year-Old

Once, around 3 year ago, I was out at Buffalo Wild Wings with my now ex boyfriend. Lets call him fishface. Any who so fishface here looked around 25-30 years old with his facial hair and gut. We were sitting at a booth were the waitress approached looking his direction, and with only a quick glance my way turned back to him and offered him the long list of alcoholic beverages. Bud this and Ying that... and as she was finishing her long list she turned to me and said "and of coarse we also have soft drinks, teas."

Ouch, but you can shake this off. I was 17, surely I didn't look above 20 and this was alcohol we were talking about.

How about that time I was 19-years-old and heading to an R-rated movie with a few friends. I don't remember the movie, but what I do remember is the crabby woman at the counter who only asked me for my ID. Unfortunately for me, I had conveniently left said ID in the car and let me just tell you that parking lot went on for miles.

What's worse is, that wasn't the first time I'd be carded for the movies. (I've been carded at a minimum of four times.) But that was just the first time I had to exercise to prove my age.

Okay it's just a movie right?

What about that time (last year: age 19) I literally got mistaken for a 14-year-old by my moms friend who said "you're such a sweet girl, I'd love for you to meet my daughter. She's around your age, I think you'd get along great!" After walking away my mother informed me that her daughter is indeed 14-years-old.

Hmmm...

So, now I'm 20 and being out of school a few weeks earlier than my siblings has its perks, such as yard sale-ing! So Friday morning roles around and we head off early to drop the kids off. Afterwards we spent the whole day racing back and forth across town looking for the best sales. I don't even remember eating lunch that day. But of course the day flies by, so with us heading back to the school to get the critters, we notice a sign for a yard sale at the neighborhood next to the school, with a half hour left we head there. The lady hosting this sale was a mom of another girl in my sister's class. So anyway, I, being a major book lover, went straight to the books and found five I wanted. So I walked over to this woman and handed her the money and we got talking because she started to explain that her eldest daughter is a huge book lover and even once went to a library sale and came back with over 100 books. So I was telling her about how I do the same thing every year during a local schools annual book sale fundraiser. She explained that her daughter then used to volunteer at said event and that I should "absolutely volunteer because I remember my daughter volunteered during high school and you need either volunteer hours for your senior year and also it'll go towards your conformation. So at max, she thought I was 16. I guess that's an improvement?

Lets not even mention the amount of times I've gone to a college party and they ask me if I'm still in high school... I swear I am in college, just fill my cup, please. I don't want to pull out my student ID.

So when I say "that time I got mistaken for a 14-year-old" I mean all the time. I literally get mistaken for a kid. I've had many instances, a few I've shared here and a bunch I haven't mentioned.

And everyone keeps telling me that it will be great when I'm older because I'll still look young! Where is this evidence? Where is the data? I need some proof before I get excited, and if this is true then I was some considerable differences!

This is for all those out there who still get mistaken as 14-year-old when they're in college.

I feel you and there are others like you out here!

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