about what my mum said to her friend

[mamamibbo]

my boys are 11 and 2 my girls are 3 and 1

her friend asked her how old i was because she thought (correctly) that i have a big birthday coming up, my mum said no and knocked 3 years off my age, telling her friend i was younger than her (friends) son, not older (i am my mums oldest btw)

her friend then asked her how old her grandson was and she said 2, friend said she thought he was older, mum said no, my grandson is 2...

friend then said she thought she had an older grandchild,mum said yes a 3 year old grandaughter...

apparently its funny because she wasnt lying about her grandson being 2

its not funny to lie about my age and 'forget' she has an older grandson because it shows her age is it?

Personally i think I look at the funny side of it rather than be offended. I highly doubt your dm intended any malice and especially doubt that she 'forgot' about her eldest grandson. I mean are you honestly gonna let yourself get annoyed with your dm because she told a childish lie to appear younger to one of her friends? Really?

Yes it is funny, because her friend will think "Cor, she looks old for her age then".... Rather than think her young....

just think 'mum, you're a nutter' and move on.

My dad (on fb I think) was a year out when he was telling someone the year I was born. I laughed at him not remembering the exact year of his PSBs birth as it was a fair while ago

My friend believed her DS (who was having a laugh apparently) when he told her he was going to be 12 on his next birthday. She said it to me when we were texting and I questioned it because there was something significant in the news around the time he was born and I knew he was gong to be 13.

But she wouldn't have it, and I didn't feel comfortable arguing with a mum about when her baby was born

She sussed him in the end.

But mistaking a year is completely different to knocking years off to make you look younger (is she really doing that do you think? Very odd if she is). What would happen on your birthday? Just ignore it being a significant one?

My nanna used to always "hide" her age, and make a fuss about not letting anyone know how old she was. She even used to say "and when I die, don't be putting my age in the paper"
Then she turned 80 and got the vicar to announce it from the pulpit in a packed church, and then when she turned 90 she had a HUGE party, in a pub, and quaffed and caroused with 150 people and did the classic "I'm 90 you know" every chance she got. She lived to be 94 in the end and never let anyone forget it bless her

Oops, posted too soon - Nanna's sister was 10 years older than her, and a gypsy once told her fortune and told her she'd "live to be 90" so she was convinced she would die when she was 90.
She would often say this, and whoever was there would say "but yo're 93 Freda" and she would say "no I'm not, I'd be dead" (she lived to 96! and denied the extra for every day of the 6 years)

When my dbro turned 30 she used to tell people, I have a dd who's 21 and a ds too. When I hit 30 she'd only mention the gc's gas

Ages!

Although their gas could be a real conversation starter

Your nanna was ace PomBear

And at HDs DCs gas.

She was Agent - she had a packed social life and we almost had to make an appointment to see her
Her mother was brilliant too, she ran away and joined the Tiller Girls when she was young, and danced at the Moulin Rouge. I think it was only WWII that stopped nanna from following her footsteps, and she joined the "concert parties" and entertained the troops so to speak, nothing untoward as far a any of us know!

My gran was v coy about her age. Even when she turned 100 she wasn't whoop-di-woo about it, she didn't want anyone to know. I suppose if you've lied about your age for most of your adult life, it would be weird to suddenly admit it.

I'm perfectly happy for everyone to know my age as long as they are guaranteed to say I don't look it

Hehe Annie, do you say it like 'I'm only blah '?

No, I just say it. With a smile. They don't know where to look I'm probably supposed to say "21 again, ha ha ha".

54 later this month, since you ask. I certainly won't want the pension providers knocking a few years off my age when the time comes.

50's the new 30 annie I've just made up so they say

I'm 41 and a bloke I used to see is 50 this year he's one of those total wankers who still looks the same as the day I met him when he was in his late 20's not aged a day.