tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post197551102173714961..comments2023-10-20T09:27:13.001-07:00Comments on To My Parents, Ayn Rand, and God: Cards welcomeIsabel Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338591033415985750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-8417187627413242392011-12-25T23:39:39.631-08:002011-12-25T23:39:39.631-08:00Its like you read my mind! You appear to know so m...Its like you read my mind! You appear to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is great blog. A great read. I will certainly be back.tiffany jewelleryhttp://www.tiffanysaleukco.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-75769908741264304802011-12-19T15:59:13.400-08:002011-12-19T15:59:13.400-08:00"there are the places that don't routinel..."there are the places that don't routinely card that nonetheless ask me to fork over ID."<br /><br />In these situations, I never know what's going on. I mean, to a point, being small and (a wild guess here that this might apply to you as well) not someone who spent one's youth tanning can make 24, say, look borderline. But not too many do at 27-plus. Is it part of the card-anyone-who-looks-under-40 policy that was, I believe, the rule in NY if not beyond? Where it's not precisely that 28 looks 20, more that 28 looks <i>young</i>, and you never know. Or does the person doing the carding expect near-30 women to be so delighted with being thought young as to give a big tip, or become repeat customers? Sort of like when, at the local coffee place, I come in looking especially haggard and ancient, and the wedding rings really do make a statement of age in a college town where the undergrads are incredibly unlikely to be married (and the postdocs only slightly more so)... and I'm called "miss." And it's like, sure, why not? But I'm maybe a decade older than the person ringing me up, and I don't think that's lost on the hipster in question. So in these cases, my guess is, it's either that 25-35 looks more like 18 than it does like 60, so an assessment is made, or that 25-35 looks 23-37, but women in this range are thought to be endlessly delighted by being thought 20. And I feel like maybe I would have been flattered by this at 22 or 23, when it was conceivable I'd have passed for 20, but now it's too preposterous for me to think it's a sincere assessment of my perceived age.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.com