#36: Act Your Age
Here’s one that I bet we all would have been bamboozled by when we were young. When you’re young, you have no concept of how old people are past the age of about 18, right? I know that when I was 12, you could have shown me a 40-year-old, and I would have had no idea if they were 25 or 60.
So if a teacher claimed to be 40 in order to make the class take her more seriously, I don’t think I would have questioned it for a second. To be fair, though, I’m still absolutely terrible at guessing how old people are, and I just sort them into bins of “children,” “my age,” and “retired.” So maybe I’m the wrong person to comment on this.