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• Have you ever lied about your age? by Chavster on 01 Oct, 2011 09:56
• Some people feel totally ok with the ageing process (in some countries its ageing, in others its aging...), whereas some people absolutely cant admit their real age. Some guys who look 70 pretend they're 50, whereas others are happy to be a good looking 70, and they dont care who knows it?
  
  So have you ever lied about your age? Maybe there was a job you wanted and you were a little too young or old for it, or maybe you feel uncomfortable with getting older, or maybe you just wanted to get your library card punched
  
  Spill the beans
• #1 by Laser Man on 01 Oct, 2011 09:59
• I assume we can exclude times in college when we lied about our age to get into bars?
• #2 by Razor X on 01 Oct, 2011 10:01
• I always answer truthfully when someone asks me directly how old I am, but if they mistakenly assume on their own that I'm a few years younger than I really am, I don't bother to correct them.
• #3 by Chavster on 01 Oct, 2011 10:03
• Yeah, the getting-into-bars thing doesnt count. I'm talking about lying during adulthood
• #4 by Laser Man on 01 Oct, 2011 10:09
• Okay - I don't lie about my age!
• #5 by Chavster on 01 Oct, 2011 10:16
• I never felt the need, not even to get into bars. I never had any trouble doing that anyway, because we can get into bars here when we're 16 but I dont understand why anyone would lie about their age purely for aesthetic reasons, even women.
• #6 by Laser Man on 01 Oct, 2011 10:21
• I've never understood it either.  At any given age, people's appearances vary greatly, so I'm not sure what lying actually accomplishes. 
• #7 by buddha on 01 Oct, 2011 10:23
• Nope, never did.
• #8 by D.A.L.U.I. on 01 Oct, 2011 10:39
• Well I had a fake ID before I came to Louisiana because California had 21 drinking rules.  When I arrived it was nominally 18 in Louisiana, but in practice if you could get your money on the bar, they gave you a drink.  Then they went nuts and mandated 21 by federal action.  Now we have underage drinking problems and drinking problems all around--my belief is that before drinking pretty much always was related to food, now it's not the drink, it's the drunk that's the goal. 
  
  I've never lied about my age.  And, in my thirties we had an older friend, she was in her forties.  She developed lung cancer because of her smoking and it was discovered during the Carnival season.  She was dead in a year, sadly on Christmas Day.  She'd set the table for Christmas dinner, and was in bed when the final bell tolled.  Since that time I've been convinced that it's not how many birthdays you've had that's the problem.  The problem is running out of birthdays. 
• #9 by TheSlyBear on 01 Oct, 2011 11:29
• Nope. I lived every one of those years -- I'm not going to deny them.
• #10 by Chavster on 01 Oct, 2011 11:40
• Good philosophy
• #11 by mangosink12572 on 01 Oct, 2011 12:07
• Andy
  
  You know that I don't care  - - -I am going  to be 70
• #12 by tomgallagher on 01 Oct, 2011 13:03
• No, I really don't care.
• #13 by Mikekoz13 on 01 Oct, 2011 14:08
• Never..... when you lie, you compromise your own integrity. In our home we live by this simple motto:
  
  "Dignity, Integrity, Respect"
  
  
  In recent years we have adopted this as our Family creed. My Dad instilled these traits into us and I have put these three words together so we all have a simple reminder about what is important in life. Live these three words and Life will become much easier.
  
  As an aside.... rarely does anyone that I meet think I'm 51 years old. Even people I've known for several years are shocked to find out I'm in my 50's.
• #14 by Mike on 02 Oct, 2011 22:58
• I have to admit I have lied about age but it was just for fun. I have some friends that are older than I am on the calender but they act younger than I am so I call them kids. When I drink I get a Russian accent (no clue where it comes from) and one night at the bar it all came out when a lady asked me where I was from since I had an accent. I told her I was 37 from Russia and that my buddy John was my oldest son who just turned 21, she said I looked young so I said that the village I was from we dont age like Americans and John ages more like his mother. Now as a joke when some people ask me how old I am I tell them 37 just to see the reaction in the first couple seconds then I tell them Im really only 22 and explain the whole joke