This won't make much sense if you don't know what I look like.

[catsidhe]

I was installing a monitor for an honours student yesterday. He had long hair and a beard. He has obviously gone with the flow, because the note with which he claimed his little corner of the hons ghetto was still up, reading: “Jesus has claimed this computer”.

I commented in passing that once upon a time I had long hair to go with the beard I still wear, and once was bailed up by a complete stranger on the street, calling me Jesus.

“Yes,” he replies, “but that was fashionable then, in the ... sixties? seventies?”

!!!

Do I really look like I am in my mid-to-late fifties???

This evening I was relating this story to a workmate over drinks, and asked him how old I look. He guessed “29?”

Which is closer, at least.


But I'm still not shaving.

Comments

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Damn. A guy asked how old I thought he was recently (a tattooist temporarily intown (out of his town) building the local woolworths -- I briefly thought about hiring him to do a chainring on my calf), and I replied grungingly "29". 18. Damn, they shouldn't allow such younguns into the pub.

[ravenseer.livejournal.com]

Beth roars with laughter

Sorry hon..

:)

[lokicarbis.livejournal.com]

Wow. People still routinely guess that I'm in my mid-to-late twenties (especially if I've been drinking, for some reason).

[usuakari.livejournal.com]

Me too... although less with the drinking. I like to think it's our youthful outlook and demeanor. ;)

And Catsidhe, you're worrying about the guesses of random people in the street as to a)when it was fashionable to allegedly look like Jesus; and b)guessing that you might fit that demographic? Idiot. ;) No, you actually look reasonably young, under all the hair.

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

Hey, I had a haircut yesterday!

Still didn't shave, though.

[lokicarbis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just don't see it - I would swear blind that catsidhe looks younger than me, and always has...