Ladies and their age

[FredPuli43]

"Never ask a lady her age" Do women nowadays claim a lower age than they have or has age become of less significance than it was and a less sensitive matter for the modern woman?

(My great aunt didn't merely knock a year or two off. When she married my great uncle, living far away from her family, she pretended to him that her sisters were, in fact, her own aunts, and constructed a whole family tree, whereby she must have been in her 20s on marriage rather than her 40s, for him. She maintained this deception to her death. You can imagine his bewilderment then, when he finally got to meet the family after the funeral and said to a sister"Ah,you must be the aunt she spoke of "! But that deception was long ago)

[tonyav]

LOL get ready for a kicking, Fred.

[Barmaid]

lol - my g grandmother knocked 20 years off her age when she married a chap 30 years her junior. She also omitted to mention that she was already thrice married (and not divorced).

Anyway back to the original question I am 21 and I don't care who knows it.

[marval]

I certainly don't lie about my age. I really am only 25 (cough cough). I don't know if other women do, I have never seen the point myself.

[lozzer50]

i couldnt careless who knows my age im 53! i think its quite sad when women pretend they are younger than they are.

[Georgiesmum]

I dont see the point of trying to hide my age. If people ask me, i tell them the truth, to me age is just a number.

[chaptazbru]

I'm 37 and proud !!!!!

[boxtops]

I tend not to 'fess up to how old I am - I look at lot younger, I work with younger people and I'm stil good at my job, I have a young outlook and a husband 14 years younger than me. People who need to know, know how old I am. (I'm starting to feel like my mother, "I'm 84 you know"!)

[magsmay]

Isn't it weird though -some woman (like my mother) spent her forties and fifties knocking a few years off her age - now she's forever telling people 'I'm 86 you know' LOL

[China Doll]

Not intentionally but I have spent several months of this year telling people I am 34, I'm actually 33. I also recall going out with a friend some years ago and someone asking our ages, she had a right laugh at me for saying I was 27 and told me to stop fibbing which really confused me and I ended up berrating her and asking what the problem was which only made her laugh more... turns out she was 27 and since she has always been two years younger than me, I was in fact 29.

[albaqwerty]

Where do you find 'ladies' in this day and age?

[FredPuli43]

alba, look , I only put 'lady' in quoting the old saying. I put 'women' after that. I had grave doubts about putting 'modern woman', which belongs in 1960s advertising, but thought "What the hell, you may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb" and risked the patronising tone of it.

Barmaid, yes, quite, you are 21 and "As you are counsel, I suppose I must accept it" as somebody once, diplomatically, said to me, in private life, when I uttered an explanation in embarrassment

[daffy654]

I am not offended by anyone asking me my age and I will always answer honestly. I'm 44 in case anyone is interested :)

[cupid04]

I know how old I am, it says it on my knickers!!

[Barmaid]

lol ;)

double it and you're there!

[Sparkles62]

I'm 50, doesn't bother me, but had two funny experiences this week. Firstly, I was asked for ID by some spotty little jobsworth when I bought a bottle of wine. Ridiculous, I've got white hair, walk with a stick, and I am certainly over 18, then I went swimming with my daughter and grandsons, as we bought our tickets the woman on the counter said to me, " you do realise that you can swim for free every morning with the over 60's pass" my daughter found that highly amusing!!!!!

[Barmaid]

I still think it matters to some - and not just women either. When I was on dating sites, it was obvious that some people told a few whoppers about their age (I only saw the men, but men friends told me that lots of women did it too).

[wolf63]

I will be 50 next year and have retired from work due to health reasons. Were it not for the reason that I never grew up in the first place I might actually feel old.

I do voluntary work with ladies who are in their 70s and 80s and they are fun to be around - everybody is different.

I like the sound of Barmaid's gran - did she have some husbands under the patio?