Author Topic: Can a 43 year old woman pass for 24?  (Read 593 times)

Offline janan

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Re: Can a 43 year old woman pass for 24?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 08 March 21 10:13 GMT (UK) »
Could the registrar have written the digits the wrong way round, i.e. it should have been 42?



Well he did write the bride's and bridegroom's parents in the wrong boxes so anything is possible!

She may have said 24 just for appearances sake on the form rather than because she expected anyone to believe her.
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Re: Can a 43 year old woman pass for 24?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 08 March 21 14:17 GMT (UK) »
When I went out to celebrate my 32nd birthday, the bar tender didn't believe I was over 18 and refused to serve me because I didn't have any ID with me.  This caused such hilarity among my companions that the bar tender was shamed into giving me a drink.
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I took my new baby for a walk in the park, in his pram of course.
I was just twenty.
I stopped for a sit down and he started to cry so I lifted him out of the pram.
An elderly woman passing by told me off, girls in those days used to love taking
 neighbours’ babies for a walk, the posher the pram the better!
She assumed that was the case with me ,and said the baby’s mother would be trusting me not to take him out of the pram in case I dropped him.
Not being very assertive then I obeyed and put him back!
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