Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Age and facial hair

I've been a little late on posting anything recently because of traveling, but I'm here and ready to blog.

One thing that always gets me is that people always think I look older with facial, I've heard anywhere from a couple years older up to 10 years older. The great part about this is that many of these people don't even know how old I am in the first place, so I take great joy in asking them how old I look with my facial hair and then without. I've gotten responses that I they think I am a little more than 10 years older than I actually am with my facial hair.

Also, on the rare occasion that I order an adult beverage in a restaurant, I've yet to be carded while sporting my beard. (Except for that one time I was at the restaurant with my less than 21 year old brother who also looks like he could be less than 21, and they carded us both). I enjoy not being carded, because it is kind of a hassle to take out my wallet, and then remove my driver's license, and then give it to them to be inspected, and then reverse the entire process. I am, of course, not condoning underage drinking and trying to cheat the system by using facial hair, but I am saying it may be possible.