littlehud

Oh SD. Sorry about that.

Janstar

That's too funny and I know how you felt! Happens to me all the time with my white head of hair that Iv'e had since I was in my 30s.

Barb M

Shadow, hubby and i have a favourite Chinese buffet that we go to sometimes. For some reason, when we get our bill, they seem to always give us a seniors discount, but, but but but, this is the funny part, they only give one of us seniors discount LOL So hubby and i always laugh and wonder which one of us they think is senior! LOL

Tippy

That's OK.. you should see them swallow and gasp and backpedal when the roomie and I go out to eat and someone will say something about it being nice to see a mother and son out..... and he says "she's not my mom, she's my roommate".....

Lisanne

Figure if you can't see what's in front of you, she probably has even worse vision. She probably figured if you were in that doctor's office, you were around her age.

By the way, I don't see any gray hair in front, and I'd guess you're in your thirties from your picture.

RedGarnet222

I would have been stunned too, shadow. But, many of the new places have younger people living there too. Health issues, you know. I KNOW she wasn't menaning you were old looking. Right?

Shadow Dancer

Thank you Lisanne! I have had a grey streak that is most of the front of my hair my whole life, I used to color my hair to cover it. The picture in my avatar is 3 years old and I was 47 at the time it was taken! :) When I hit 50, I stopped coloring my hair! lol

k3n

Oh SD, ouchy but funny!

I was in the queue for the ladies room a while back and when a cubicle came free, the one the two young girls in front of me drew her friend to one side and said 'let the lady go first'. Did they think I looked so old I might be incontinent?! :shock: :lol:

Shemjo

Ouch!

Sandy1951

Wow, it's unusual for young girls to be so polite. Maybe they were just hoping you'd hurry and get out of there so they could talk or something.

Shadow,

I've had that happen to me, too. I am getting older now (fifty-eight), but after my hair grew back after chemo when I was 36, it had a LOT of silver and gray it it. Thankfully it eventually grew out to my regular color, but then when I was in my late 40's, I guess, I started to get more gray, especially in the front. I colored the gray, but then I had more chemo again at age 52, more hair loss, and more gray when it grew back. At that point I stopped coloring it. My hair was just too fragile and I've never gone back to it.

I used to work for a church camp and conference center. Let's see, this would have been about 14 years ago, so I would have been about 44. I was doing registration for a senior's retreat and at least three people asked me if I was a participant. :cry: So I know how you feel. Hmmm...maybe I already had some silver and gray in the front of my hair. Or maybe I just looked old. Sigh...

You know, it could be worse. A couple of years ago I was sitting on a bench at our street fair watching my GDR's riding a ride. A rather odd little old lady was sitting next to me and after a few minutes, she turned to me and said, "Do you mind if I ask you how much you weigh?" I wish I'd had the nerve to say "Yes, I do" and get up and walk away. But alas, she really was old, and very odd, so I just told her. She said, "Have you ever thought about losing weight?" Gosh, no, it never occurred to me, jeez! I did finally get up and walk away.

I'd like to think I'll never turn into one of those old ladies, but I fear I will.

Sandy