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@Lone Palm: I know it sounds crazy but I am trying to come up with things to make me look older. Glasses, no glasses, bangs, no bangs. It really sucks. I want to look my age!
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Wow, it's times like those that I wish I was quick witted, I always think of the best come backs afterwards. In the heat of the moment expletives fly from my mouth and leave feeling worse!
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omg girl!!!! that is completely insane... I wish I was quick witted too - that deserves some amazing comeback. I wish I could say I would have said something, but I would have been so stunned.
FWIW you do NOT look 16... young, yes, MAYBE 21, but so not 16!
I'm so sorry :(:(
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: I would probably be upset and I would want to say something, but I'm non-confrontational so I probably wouldn't have. Also, I would be secretly thrilled that I look young enough to be mistaken for a teenager!
Sorry you had that experience!
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: wtf!!!!!!
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what crazy old bitches! Sorry they were such assholes
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Wow, kudos for not confronting them. I would have given them a piece of my mind. I hope it didnt ruin your day!
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Seriously who says that type of thing??? Sorry type had to experience it!
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Oh my, I would have given them the evil eye stare down. I'm not good with come backs but I am good with the evil eye.
People are really rude. I lived in a college town when LO was born and when the kids came back to school their parents gave me horrible looks, I could literally see them pointing and whispering, probably saying don't you get knocked up like that slutty slut slut slut. I would smile and wave and they wouldn't wave back, just give a weird look then look away. I feel really bad for young mothers (I'm not young but at a distance I must have looked it to them).
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Wow. Just wow.
Don't let it bother you! Take it as a compliment (and know that they're probably jealous that the fountain of youth has long dried up for them!) and don't try to change your appearance. I probably would have laughed a bit, looked at them, and said "Thanks, I haven't been mistaken for being a teenager in years! Thanks for making my day!" As for critiquing your parenting skills - it seems the older generation is always underestimating the age of babies based on their size - it's as though they've forgotten what a 6 month old baby looks like! So the doddery old ladies probably thought she was a newborn, but still doesn't give them any right to make comments like that!
Ugh, some people though, I tell you.... just plain rude.
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Wow. What miserable old ladies!! I'm sorry you had to put up with that.
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So not cool! I'm sorry that these women were obviously ignorant and judgmental!
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So rude! That happened to my mom once when I was a kid, too. She always looked very young for her age, and an older woman saw her with myself and my siblings and made a rude comment along the lines of "These mothers! They just get younger and younger every year!" My mom just calmly stopped and said how old she was (in her 30's, something like "Actually, I'm X years old"), and the woman became totally flustered and then made some sheepish comment about how good my mom looked for her age.
I have to say, though, I really like Adira's method.
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: I get that all the time, too, and I'm older than you.
It means you're too "pretty" to be a mom I think. You have to spin it into a compliment. They are old enough to be hateful and that is just sad. I hope I end up a nice old lady.
In the end if you are young looking nothing you can do short of going white haired will make you look older except actually getting older. So don't change your beautiful self.
And keep on thinking of those esprit de l'escaliers---someone will be rude again and then you can use your comeback!
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WOW! I give you a ton of credit for not saying anything back. I would have ripped them a new one.
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Ugh! Old ladies can be so mean! Me and Sawyer had a confrontation with an old lady at WalMart a few weeks ago. I totally went all passive aggressive and stared telling Sawyer "Not to listen to that nasty old baby hating hag" loud enough that she was sure to hear me.
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wow, clearly they didn't have motherly figures in their lives teaching them not to judge others or gossip!
what in the ? some old people are so obnoxious. being old does not give you a free pass to be a total douche. (neither does being young, for that matter). I'm a total spitfire and cannot STAND when people are rude so I would have said something. I probably wouldn't have said the nicest thing, though, being in the heat of the moment.
Once I was at Target sitting in the car checking my phone and a man threw a shopping cart across the grass barrier thing because it was near his brandy new truck. His 6? year old son looked mortified. I got out, 9 months pregnant and stood the cart up and waved to him. He then yelled a string of swear words out the window. My husband wanted to die. LOL.
@Ree723: haha that's a good comeback!
Sorry you had that experience!
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