Have you ever wanted to clock someone for ma’amming you? It’s when the person is age 16-24 that it really drives home the fact that I am not 16-24 (physically). Mentally, I am about 22 and assume everyone else thinks I am 22, too. (So, it’s really just ludicrous for someone in college to call me ma’am, right?)
I have been taking a photography class at the University of Tennessee. One of the perks that comes with that is the ability to buy things like software with a student discount. I went to the UT bookstore yesterday to pick up something I ordered. The jerk polite young man at the counter asked me if I was with a department. Um, ‘scuse me? Basically, what he meant was you must be a teacher, because you are old too old to be a student. No, really, I’m a student. I’m just like you, really!
That was the sweet version. The not so sweet version is me mentally grabbing him by the side of the neck and dragging his head down sideways onto the counter as I shout at him in my Damien voice: Listen, Bitch. I’m YOUNG! Say it BITCH! YOUNG!
You know, I guess the problem here is that I have allowed myself to believe that my outsides match my insides. And this guy’s innocent question drove that home the fact that that is not the case.
I’m pretty sure everyone has a mental age as well as a physical age. Perhaps this is why men have those stereotypical mid-life crises around 40. They get their version of ma’ammed and then instead of facing the fact that they have aged, they try to prove their youth.
Hmmm. So maybe I just need to face it. I don’t really have a problem with being 35. That’s not even old –unless you are 22. Okay, so I have a mortgage and some stretch marks, does that make me a ma’am? Yeah. I guess it does.
Okay, I’m not really sure this rant is worth any more of my energy. Clearly, I need to just zip it and be thankful to be 35 and healthy and happy (stretch marks and all).
Yes Ma’am indeed.
Ha ha ha!
Too funny…and I agree, I’m shocked when other people think I’m older than I think I am. I’m far too young to have a 6yr old, right…
So yes Ma’am, we can be old outside and young inside together!
Hope to see you soon… maybe splash pad one afternoon this week!
Jen
Ha ha ha!
Too funny…and I agree, I’m shocked when other people think I’m older than I think I am. I’m far too young to have a 6yr old, right…
So yes Ma’am, we can be old outside and young inside together!
Hope to see you soon… maybe splash pad one afternoon this week!
Jen
Listen up lady, some of us here in the south say ma’am to everyone. It’s a southern thing, not an age thing. You’re gorgeous,and look way younger than you are. Love you, hottie.
Listen up lady, some of us here in the south say ma’am to everyone. It’s a southern thing, not an age thing. You’re gorgeous,and look way younger than you are. Love you, hottie.
Too funny! I got “madamed” at dinner the other night, and I kept thinking “I’m not old enough to be referred to as “Madame,” am I”??? Talk about feeling old!!!
Too funny! I got “madamed” at dinner the other night, and I kept thinking “I’m not old enough to be referred to as “Madame,” am I”??? Talk about feeling old!!!