the nurse called me Nanna!

[GlynistheMenace]

had to take miniMenace to the 24/7 medical service today

we've had cause to visit quite a lot through various needs recently, including herself having blood tests.

She was little reluctant to have the nurse check her over today, so the nurse said to her

"maybe sit on Nanna's knee for it"

WTF

I'm 43 you know never thought I'd really be seen as an old gimmer

I do remember working as a vets receptionist and saying to a young man, you can go through with your wife if you want - he said, thats my mum - she was thrilled!!!

I have mistaken wives for mothers in clinic - it's mortifying!

Yup. I have been mistaken for my child's grandmother the same day as being mistaken for a young undergraduate.

You gotta laff.

A hospital Dr once asked if DH was my son.

When I said no, my fiancé, he said, oh, sorry, it's just he looks like he is in his late teens ..he was 22 and I was 28 (although I was sick).

But when I had DD at 34 my mum and I kept meeting older women who said they knew people who had just had children at far too old an age, such as 33!

We also have two patients at work, he is 32 and she is 62 and they look alike...but are partners..many of my colleagues have referred to her as his mother by mistake

DH and I once ran into an old friend of his who he had lost touch with about a decade earlier.

The friend cheerfully greeted me by DH's ex wife's name as he'd not realised they were divorced and just assumed it was the same wife as last time! Well I suppose first wife and I are much the same type physically so I can kind of understand the error... except DH's first wife was already 50 at the time, and I wasn't even 30 yet!

Do I really look 20 years older than I am?

People just don't think before they engage their mouths.

A few ten years ago I bumped into an aquaintance. In conversation I told her it was my birthday.
Her: How old are you?
Me: 30
Her: (laughing) yes, I said that for a few years too!
Me: (whimpering) no I really am 30 today

Grrrrr!

No, you are not being unreasonable! How rude!

As a teacher, I'm very, very careful about this sort of thing and always err on the side of caution and compliments if I have to use a label.
Much better to say 'Your mummy is here' to some infant and be told they are a grandmother or an aunt.

I once mistook a wife for a daughter . I learnt that day never to assume a person's relationship to a patient ever again. I was mortified.

If its any consolation I mistaken for my SIL's mum last week. She is 28 and I am only 33. DD must have aged me a lot because when I was in hospital having her 5 years ago the midwife asked why I hadn't bothered to finish school before having her

I know a grandma at 35, so yes there are grandmas in their 40's, they are not all 60 somethings.

Is this the right thread to brag mention that the security guard at the shop my son works at thought for years that I was his sister and that the woman we often speak to in the shop (a neighbour 5 years younger than me) was our mother? :o

It does work the other way round sometimes. DS1 and his fiancee asked both prospective grannies to come to her 12 week scan. Neither were thrilled when the nurse came through to ask which of us were having the scan although it made our day!!

When I was rushed into hospital when ph with Ds 8 years ago dh was mistaken for my father - poor sod was only 36

Equally though my mum and dad took me to the supermarket once when Ds was about 5 and whilst I legged it to get something for my mum and they were told what a delightful son they had and how much he looked like them. They beamed all the way home

oh god, I've had things like this - too many times to mention. I don't dye my hair and am now almost completely white. people are plain blind I've found. i'm afraid I am not remotely polite when it happens and think people are dumb and don't recognise a stunner when they see one. (though I don't want to go on that prog where the public are asked to guess the age of some woman who looks haggard.) the last time it happened I was in a shop with my friend who is about 40, loudly encouraging her to buy some shoes. the shop asst said "come on, buy them, mother always knows best". to which I (idiotically) spluttered "how old do you think I am??!!" to which she said "ooh about 60 odd" (ten years off mark). she (shop asst) didn't have a front tooth, so she can talk. my friend, who had recently taken up with a toyboy (and was, indeed, glowing) couldn't hide her smirk. we haven't seen eachother since.

When I was 23 I was with my cousins who were 8 and 6 at a theme park and the attendant said "Aren't you two being good for your mum"

My cousins were delighted. I was mortified- wouldn't have minded so much but I was still getting regularly ID'd for booze then so I was a young looking 23.

My mums a grandmother at 40 (well now 41)

but clearly presuming like that is UR as clearly it is not old

I'm late 20's and look very young. Waiting for the bit when that becomes an advantage.

GlynistheMenace at least you weren't called "sir". :o

In china people don't change their name when getting married. Every time we go through passport control I'm asked if I'm dh's daughter.