To find it odd that she felt the need to correct me

[Holidaypending]

I was asked how old I was at work so I said 25 as I’m 25 in. July. Work fired then say oh you actually 24 not 25. I don’t see what difference it makes as I’m very nearly 25 so simple rounded up.

You're getting this all wrong. You're supposed to subtract a year or two, not add them.

@OnceIWasAnApe

What?! Why did you lie about your age?!

Calm down.

But you are 24!

You are very odd and definitely pretty much 24 and a half.

Nearly 3/4s

Is your name Adriana Mole?

@SeasonFinale

A PP has hit the nail on the head.

If you are on minimum wage then the rate is higher for a 25 year old than someone between 21-24.

Thus if they have been paying you as a 25 year old your false statement was fraudulent.

Even if you are on a higher rate than NMW if there is any element of insurance they need to pay in respect of you to carry out your job your false statement may have led to them unknowingly committing fraud

It wasn't though.

I assume OP gave her date of birth on her original paperwork.

She just rounds up in conversation which is perfectly normal.

So let's not make her out to be fraudulent.

So I used to do this too! I have an august birthday and from may onwards I’d say I was the next age up. I was always so so so eager to be a year older - I HATED late teens/early 20’s, had no confidence and really admired older women who seemed to have their shit together. So I’d start rounding up as soon as I passed the half way Mark in the year 🙈

Then I hit 30 and have stopped that now haha.

Also helps that I’m settled, secure in myself etc etc. I’d never want to go back and repeat my 20’s 🤢

Your friend is not unreasonable to correct you, but you’re not the first to do it and won’t be the last.

Weird thing to do IMO. Like another poster I frequently ask people their ages, or more often their children's, and I get so many saying 'nearly',
it winds me up. Had a lady the other day saying 'coming up to 3, almost 5 and nearly 11', right I said, so you mean 2, 4 and 10?! Why not just say their actual ages?!

There was a thread like this a few months ago by a poster who always gave the age of her children as the age they would be on their next birthday. The whole thread was crazy.

When her child had just gone from 3 to 4 on their birthday, she would tell people the child was 5, or something like that. Most people on the thread were asking why.

You're 24, why on earth would you say 25?
I was born in the last week of the calendar year and get annoyed with people rounding up my age when I have to get through the whole year to get there! Did you just go well I was born in 1996 and it's 2021 so I must be 25? That's what I get from others all year.

@ RootyT00t Sorry - I read her original post as "work fired" meaning she had been been fired for the false statement.

@CoastAlong

There was a thread like this a few months ago by a poster who always gave the age of her children as the age they would be on their next birthday. The whole thread was crazy.

When her child had just gone from 3 to 4 on their birthday, she would tell people the child was 5, or something like that. Most people on the thread were asking why.

See the problem I would have with that is that I would most definitely get very confused , forget what year they actually were , and end up accidentally stealing a year from my DC. There would definitely be issues on their 18th birthday when we discovered they were 35.

Too risky.

This is so ridiculous that I think the OP is having us on, no normal person does this

Maybe this is an old-fashioned reverse thread? I haven't seen one in a while. How nostalgic!

You're not 25 though

My mum always rounds up, some people do.

July is nearly half a year away.

Are you a horse?!

When I was a kid, my friend with an August birthday would always say she was "rising 11" or whatever for the first half of the year before she turned 11 as she hated being the youngest! All racehorses are given the same birthday (1jan) in the year, so you say "rising" before the age until they have actually had their real birthday. Non-racehorses it's 1st April and Southern hemisphere racehorses is 1st August. Useless fact for the day!

Have you considered changing your username to "birthdaypending"?

Even if your birthday was next week the normal thing to reply would be “I’m 24, 25 next week!”

My birthday is tomorrow and I am still saying I'm x years old, not x+1 because that is a fact. That's what birthdays are, the year your age changes (unless of course the OP is a racehorse, they all get a year older on the 1st of January).

@SeasonFinale

A PP has hit the nail on the head.

If you are on minimum wage then the rate is higher for a 25 year old than someone between 21-24.

Thus if they have been paying you as a 25 year old your false statement was fraudulent.

Even if you are on a higher rate than NMW if there is any element of insurance they need to pay in respect of you to carry out your job your false statement may have led to them unknowingly committing fraud

Oh I love how carried away people get 9n MN 🤣

You could say you're 25 in July, but saying you're 25 already is a little bizarre! Why would/did you round up?

Yeah, it's strange to round up your age, especially when you're months away your birthday. Also strange for her to correct you, but maybe she was startled into blurting out the truth, since it's so unusual for an adult to "round up" their age.

Maybe start saying your age in months.

MN hates birthdays anyway, so you wouldn't be allowed to say when you change age.