Pickup Lines

When I was teenager, maybe 16 or 17, a woman at work was fishing for compliments (which I didn't see) by asking people to guess her age. The older workers recognized the game & responded accordingly.

I honestly responded 35.

She was 33 (taking her word for it).



Ever feel the need to get away?

 

When I was a wee medical student I was seeing patient in the ER having an asthma attack.
He was a fair skinned freckled ginger who looked to be in his late teens or early 20's.
At one point I addressed a question to his mother, the older woman who was sitting next to his bed.
Who of course was his wife, not his mother.
Whoops!
There isn't enough crow that you can eat to make amends when that happens.

 

My Sis2 went prematurely gray decades ago, while her second husband has almost no gray & a full head of hair. And she gets seriously angry when she's mistaken for his mother. I see the incidents as honest & understandable mistakes.

Conversely great care must be taken when old guys are with much younger women.