There is misguessing someone's age, and then there are the bounds of reason

[lorimt]

So, I made it home, got to my house about 12 hours after I left Mudd. Flights were fine, all went well. Except one rather odd incident at security. The following exchange did, in fact take place.

Security guy: "We're checking shoes today, miss."
me: "OK" ::starts taking off shoes::
Security guy: "How old are you?"
me: "19, 20, something like that." (definitely not sleep-depped, no siree)
Security guy: "Well, we're checking the shoes of everyone over twelve today."
me: ::blinks in astonishment, hands over shoes:: "All right then."

This all occuring just after I rode to the airport with Jeff talking about how glad I was my stuffed bear fit in my luggage, so I'd not be treated like a small child. Good grief. 12.

Comments

[meep.livejournal.com]

When I was 15, I was mistaken as the mother of my 12=yr & 10-yr-old sisters.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

At some point in the middle of college, my mom walked me to the check-in counter at the end of (I think winter) break and the person behind the counter looked at the one ticket and started giving the children under twelve travelling alone spiel.

[isomorphisms.livejournal.com]

Once, my father was on business in the closest city to mine that had an airport, and we suddenly had to fly back to my hometown for a funeral. My father and I share a surname, and the person at the counter addressed as as "Mr. and Mrs." THAT was creepy.

[zixi.livejournal.com]

huh. I think if you were dressed right, acting right, and told me you were 12, I'd believe you. But you don't generally exude "I'm 12"
Especially when you're sleep depped. Sleep dep makes people look older.
It's weird that he told you to take them off and then asked....dunno.

Wow, that was entirely a useless comment, wasn't it?

[willworker.livejournal.com]

Him asking how old you were doesn't necessarily mean he thought you under 12...

Although I'll admit, that a first impression of Lori, carrying her stuffed bear, might give an impression of 12. :)

Steve

P.S.-- Get online sometime so I can talk to you! I'll be horribly without-Lori in a few days when you run off to MathCamp-- I want to overcharge on Lori before you go to help me through. :)

[isomorphisms.livejournal.com]

But were you mistaken for a twelve-year-old boy? ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

whoa, that guard beat my record...some tourist thought me in gr. 8 a few months ago. (and i'm sure you -look- older than me) -tracy