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    Another milestone in life

    I was in a shop today and the man behind the counter refered to me as "young man". For the first time ever I was secretly pleased and flattered, rather than feeling patronised.

    Anyone else remember moments like this?

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    Re: Another milestone in life

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo
    I was in a shop today and the man behind the counter refered to me as "young man". For the first time ever I was secretly pleased and flattered, rather than feeling patronised.

    Anyone else remember moments like this?
    Everytime I get called 'Sir'. Mind you I remember some shopkeepers would call me 'Master' when I was a child but both titles are pretty unheard of now

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    Re: Another milestone in life

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo
    I was in a shop today and the man behind the counter refered to me as "young man".
    My friend used to get this all the time in shops. Strangely she didn't really like it.

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    I remember when I was about 19, I was walking home, and there was, Lucy, a girl I used to babysit for a few years earlier playing in the street with her friend, her friend said "Mind out of the way of the lady", I was really flattered, I'd finally made it to being a 'lady' instead of a 'girl', then Lucy pipes up "That's not a lady, that's Amanda!"

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    Re: Another milestone in life

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn
    My friend used to get this all the time in shops. Strangely she didn't really like it.
    Me too!

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    Re: Another milestone in life

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo
    Anyone else remember moments like this?
    Strangely, I now take delight when bouncers outside pubs ask me for ID . It is strange, as when I was too young to enter the pub, they would never ask me.

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    When I was 18, a little kid asked me something for permission to do something (play outside? Summat like that). Drunk with power, I magnanimously said "Yes", and when the little tyke got in trouble, he said "But that man said I could!".

    I was happy about being called a man (no-one ever made that mistake again, of course).

    Quote Originally Posted by Dizzy
    Strangely, I now take delight when bouncers outside pubs ask me for ID .
    Wait until you start feeling grateful when builders whistle at you - I understand that's the next step...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dizzy
    Strangely, I now take delight when bouncers outside pubs ask me for ID . It is strange, as when I was too young to enter the pub, they would never ask me.
    Me too! I never got asked for ID, no matter that I started going to pubs & clubs when I was 16, I'd been drinking in bars for 10 years before someone finally asked me for ID! I remember my reaction was that I was so glad to have been asked, just so happy that at 26 somebody thought I looked under 18, that he just said "Oh no, its OK, anybody who's that happy at being asked for ID MUST be over 18!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by TiggsTours
    Me too! I never got asked for ID, no matter that I started going to pubs & clubs when I was 16, I'd been drinking in bars for 10 years before someone finally asked me for ID! I remember my reaction was that I was so glad to have been asked, just so happy that at 26 somebody thought I looked under 18, that he just said "Oh no, its OK, anybody who's that happy at being asked for ID MUST be over 18!"
    Dammit. I still get asked at 25- and get looks of surprise and disbelief from people when they hear how old I am (they always seem to think I'm 19). Oh well, guess it'll be good when I'm older....

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    Re: Another milestone in life

    Quote Originally Posted by TiggsTours
    Me too! I never got asked for ID, no matter that I started going to pubs & clubs when I was 16.
    Ah yes, I remember at the ripe old age of 19, my first refusal getting served in a pub, no asking for ID, just an impolite refusal, the group of people I was with thought it was so funny, but we left that pub, never to return again.

    I still frequently get the "young man" thing. I'm still struggling to work that out.

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    Think yourselves lucky - there was a guy in the news once who was 17 and had just bought a new car. Trouble was he was baby faced and looked a mere 13/14 - he had others drivers cutting him up, stopping him and running to remove him from the car and he got stopped by the police several times a week Bet he got asked for ID in bars too

    I've got a friend whos 29 now and is very petite, she was off work one day a few years ago and answered the door early morning in her pyjamas. The canvasser at the door asked "is your Mummy in?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sheepman
    I still frequently get the "young man" thing. I'm still struggling to work that out.
    I still get that too - mainly from Dee and Miss D (said in a Dick Emery sort of way - sorry but only those of you OLD enough will know who he was)

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    Earlier this week I was interviewing a patient who said to me "I bet you're one of those old hippy-types aren't you? I bet when you were young you did loads of cannabis". I'm 29!!!!!

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    Re: Another milestone in life

    Quote Originally Posted by Asif
    I still get that too - mainly from Dee and Miss D (said in a Dick Emery sort of way - sorry but only those of you OLD enough will know who he was)
    Young man! We got that saying from Harry Enfield! along with Nir you ole git!
    Dick who?

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    Re: Another milestone in life

    Quote Originally Posted by Missy D
    Young man! We got that saying from Harry Enfield! along with Nir you ole git!
    Dick who?
    Asif you may be a young man, but you are awful !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    Think yourselves lucky - there was a guy in the news once who was 17 and had just bought a new car. Trouble was he was baby faced and looked a mere 13/14 - he had others drivers cutting him up, stopping him and running to remove him from the car and he got stopped by the police several times a week Bet he got asked for ID in bars too

    I've got a friend whos 29 now and is very petite, she was off work one day a few years ago and answered the door early morning in her pyjamas. The canvasser at the door asked "is your Mummy in?"
    I got the same thing myself.
    Not long after I'd got married and bought a house, someone knocked at the door and when I answered it the man asked "Are your parents in?" I was 22!:

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    Re: Another milestone in life

    I have a petite Japanese friend who’s 29. She is young looking even for a Japanese woman, which means that to European eyes she looks something in the vicinity of 14. Understandably she get’s asked for ID on a regular basis.

    Last night I got a text message telling me that she had just been ID’d at the supermarket where she was buying liquor. About an hour later I got another text message complaining that she couldn’t open the bottle. She was being serious, but I couldn’t stop laughing…..

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    It caused huge amusement in the office when, about 10 years ago, a customer identified me over the phone by describing me as 'the portly gentleman'.

    I came close to homicide that day...

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    when someone gives up their seat on the train for me

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    About 3 weeks ago in NZ I got IDd when buying a bottle of wine in a supermarket. Given my age I naturally assumed this must be standard practice out there - I've not been asked for ID in over 10 years, and even then I was well over 18. Apparently it's not standard practice. Still, the wee lass on the till didn't look old enough to be serving it either!

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