Oh, I just had to laugh when I read the news this morning…
A man aged 69 is obviously finding it difficult to attract a younger partner. He has decided that it would benefit him if he changed his age to 49 instead. He argues that transgender people change their name legally and their sex, and so consequently there should be no problem about him legally altering his age. He’s started to make enquiries about doing this.
I presume he’s tried (or trying) Internet dating without success, and wants to change his age on the application forms. I can see trouble brewing here though when he has to submit a photo. Does he send one from when he was 49, or a current one? Okay you can alter your age on paper, but your body doesn’t magically turn back twenty years. No, his face will stay at age 69.
Let’s imagine an unfortunate female gets in touch and wants to meet him. No amount of moisturising cream is going to turn his face back to how it was twenty years before. What is the lady going to think when he turns up on her doorstep? She’ll instantly know he was lying through his false teeth about his age, and therefore would distrust him from the start.
He might be more successful if he advertises for somebody his own age instead, but hey, he’s had to live through his ex-wife’s menopause. She’s invisible now, but as far as he’s concerned, a younger version of her will keep him young-at-heart and virile…
But does the average thirty something want to meet a lying 69 year old? He’s on a sticky wicket here!
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Stevie Turner said:
Thanks for all the links, Esme.
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Celebrating Seniors said:
Heard this news story and immediately moved on to other things. Life is so full of good things, why focus on things like this. (But I agree with your take completely.)
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ellenbest24 said:
How you made me howl. I popped across from the link up at Esme Salon.
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Stevie Turner said:
There ain’t no holding back the years…
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ellenbest24 said:
Or we would look better for a start🤣😂😃
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Stevie Turner said:
What’s awful is that ‘trout pout’ you see on celebrities who have had Botox fillers. Ugh!
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ellenbest24 said:
And sisters and everyday folk who believe they look better. 🤐😞
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Phil Huston said:
And for some reason I’m hearing Steely Dan in the background…
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Stevie Turner said:
I’m hearing Simply Red!
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Phil Huston said:
A single friend of mine in his mid 60s with more info from the internet “dating” world said hookers were even posting age limits, no one under this and over that, and more than a few of them were lying about their ages as well to make sure they were still attracting customers. We are what we are. As a man, not as as old as the guy above, my question is why on God’s earth would he want to repeat any of adult yesterday? Kids and menopause? Once is enough. If he’s lonely he should get a dog and on those special occasions he could consider renting and meeting the female of himself at the door.
I did automatically get the Senior Discount at Rosa’s picking up grandkid dinner the other night. The (very) young girl behind the register said “I gave you the senior discount. Hope you don’t mind.” Who does he think he’s going to fool?
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Stevie Turner said:
Ha ha, Sam’s brother-in-law, then aged 65, was offered a ‘pensioner’s haircut’ at his barber’s. He declined, saying he’d rather pay for the ordinary one! Yes, our faces give the game away…
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Phil Huston said:
That’s why I stay shaggy. No, no bald spot and little ponytail, the thing that makes us ALL look bad, but the last few times I got, asking for something else, a 30 something almost fade on the sides! Eeeek! I’m from the hair down the middle of my back generation!
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Stevie Turner said:
Not a Francis Rossi then? My son had the hair down his back thing when he played guitar in bands, but when he had kids they kept pulling it and he shaved it all off.
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Molly Stevens - Shallow Reflections said:
He may have to back up his altered age with some surgical alterations to pull this off. Haha!
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jwebster2 said:
I thought it was funny, but do rather agree with Clive
On the other hand, given the fashion for demanding people accept us as how we self identify, where is the boundary to be drawn.
After all, I self identify as a great writer 😉
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Stevie Turner said:
And I accept you as such, Jim, but don’t push the boundaries and tell me you’re nineteen!
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MicheleMariePoetry said:
Maybe he’ll meet some lovely lady who says she’s 49 too, but looks more likely like she’s 79, wonder if they’ll click, having so much in common!
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Stevie Turner said:
How funny, let’s hope so!
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Clive said:
I saw that story too. My reaction: what a total twat!
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Stevie Turner said:
Isn’t he just!
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tidalscribe said:
My friend was the baby of the family, her brother ten years older than her, but when she went to see him with his new wife in a new town, it turned out he had taken ten year off his age and had reinvented family history.
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Stevie Turner said:
Did she let on the truth to the new wife?
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Darlene said:
I recall a real estate agent in Vancouver who had her picture in the newspaper ads and on business cards. When I called her and she showed up in person, she didn’t look anything like her picture. The photo must have been 20 years old!! I thought that was very funny.
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Stevie Turner said:
There’s no point in trying to lie about how old we are. The face gives it away!
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tidalscribe said:
That happens at the theatre and concerts. You look at the programme ( and only genuine young performers seem to have any refence to age ) and then a totally different person walks on stage.The young glamourous soprano actually looks like the woman on the till at Tesco!
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Stevie Turner said:
Lol!
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