In the last month we have had numerous workers in our home to replace the dishwasher, stove, and microwave, as well as to do some minor plumbing as we had one toilet replaced and a hot water shut off valve replaced under the kitchen sink. We also had new smoke detectors installed and a new electrical outlet installed for the new stove. The old outlet was a 110, and the new stove required a 220.
We have been very happy with all the workers who have come to the house. I was most delighted, though, with the plumber. He was a fully credentialed professional plumber, but he looked as though he was 16 years old.
I asked him if people often remarked that he looked too young to be a plumber. This was evidently a touchy subject with him since he told me that he is always told this, and it was really annoying. “People tell me I look like I am 18. I am 21 years old!” I suggested that it might help if he grew a beard. He said that he had inherited his father’s inability to grow much facial hair, so that wasn’t a solution.
People assumed that I was older than I was when I was a child and teen because I was tall for my age. I didn’t mind, but it meant that people often expected more from me than I was capable of. Now I just hope I look younger than I am.
Do you look your age? Do you act your age? Had any home repairs lately?
Trail Baboon 
Your plumber’s annoyance with people talking about his age has made me realize that I should probably stop talking about my two orthopedic doctors (for my knees) as “the 12-year-olds”. I certainly have never said that to them and I do respect their expertise, but I am at that age now where the up-and-coming professionals just seem so so young to me.
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I look like my dad and like him, I appear younger than my age. When I was growing up, I would’ve preferred to look like my mom but now I’m at a place where it’s OK with me if I look younger than my age.
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I have no idea whether I look younger than my age. That’s for other people to judge. I don’t even look the same in photos as I do in the mirror. I know that that’s partly because I’m backward in the mirror and apparently not symmetrical. (I read somewhere that Asians tend to be more symmetrical than Caucasians.)
I’m also not very good at judging other people’s ages.
And what, at my age, am I supposed to act like?
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Livin’ the Trail today as the contractors come for the first stop for the bathroom.
I don’t want to “change ” it so much as “renew” it.
I suspect this will be trickier than I expect. Stay tuned.
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