To feel insulted by this assumption...

[Tarabelle]

Being lighthearted here... but yesterday, I was at the optician and had been talking to someone about my glasses for a while...
Then I wanted to make an appointment for my daughter and she asked her birth year. I casually said ‘7’ (you know 2007...). I admit this wasn’t crystal clear but then discover she’s put 1970 in her system! Hello!! I’m in my forties and hadn’t been born myself in 1970!
I’m laughing - but I like to think I pretty much look my age... Perhaps I’m severely deluded?!
So, just wondering what unintentional (or maybe slightly intentional) insults you’ve picked up from ‘well-meaning’ folk over the years?

I'm sorry but I'm fully laughing that you just said 7

My guess is she put that date in to annoy you cause you annoyed her with your answer!

You just said '7'? That's really weird, why not give her full date of birth .

Haha she was probably really confused when you just said 7. I would have been! I wouldn't put much more thought into it honestly

Surely everyone says '07' at the very least. Weird.

I wonder if she typed the 7 and it autofilled it to 70 perhaps.

I'd consider it payback for just saying "7". Really couldn't bring yourself to at least say 07 OP? I have never ever heard of anyone just saying "7" to reference a year... Could be worse, she could have put in 7 AD.

Maybe she meant to type 07 and entered the digits the wrong way around. That typo thing.

your OP is ridiculous on so many levels

Lol!

Just here to agree with how weird it was to just say ‘seven’. So so so weird.

No... because she admitted 1970 and then laughed and said she hadn’t really been thinking when I pointed out that made me 80 or so!
7AD! That’s got me laughing...
Fully admit 7 was a bit weird. This is all lighthearted... and I’m not TOO insulted. Well just a tiny bit.

yep I strongly suspect it was deliberate working to rule. Because you were so vague she was making a point ...I genuinely am being lighthearted because I quite like this sort of malicious compliance. . To be fair to her ot worked didn't it .

How random and strange of you!

Yeah that doesn't make you anywhere near 80.

I think you need to brush up on your numbers!

Being born in 1970 makes you 50/51, not 80. 🙄

When were you born? Is there a typo here somewhere or am I missing something?

Yes but it was her DDs age they were asking for. If you had a kid in 1970, you’d be somewhere between 70 and 90

This is weird, even if you were born in 1970 you could easily have a child born in 2007? Is that what you're insulted by?

Just saying '7' is totally bizarre though, you've only got yourself to blame for the confusion!

If you said 7 to me I would have been thinking age and put 2014

@AmazingGrapes

Yes but it was her DDs age they were asking for. If you had a kid in 1970, you’d be somewhere between 70 and 90

Ah I see!

Still weird though.

Oh sorry my bad!

You were asked for her birth year and you said 7? 🤣

This one is on you OP I'm afraid!

I meant 07... it came out as 7. And before I knew it, she’d tapped in 1970.
If I knew this post was going to turn into a maths challenge, I’d have thought twice.

Hahaha brilliant! Sorry Op but you deserved that one.

Yeah it's not really an insult