Yeah, I've noticed some places have just started doing this recently, too. The software that runs a lot of newer cash registers wants a date to approve the sale, and I noticed when I was working at the store, that sometimes it's just easier to have the customer give you their ID to get their birthday from than it is to try and remember a date that makes the cut.

Plus, being a grocery store, there was a company policy to be friendly and accommodating to regulars, so the tattoo'd 73-year-old woman who bought three bottles of red wine every week with her groceries (as a quick example of a real customer), wouldn't have to get out her wallet every time. Actually, the first time I ever rang her up, I ID'd her cos she *looked* like she fell within my personal range of "under seventy", especially so when she was talking about how her daughter just got her her latest tattoo for her birthday and that she picked my lane cos I "looked like [I'd] appreciate that". I seem to remember she was also wearing a Clash t-shirt under an open red men's shirt and a pair of blue-jeans she'd been oil-painting with. Clearly one of my favourite regulars.

Figure I'll update this thread with my most recent picture as well:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5347/6929 ... 6c9c_b.jpg

First was 2 years ago, the link above is today.

I will be 30 year after next, and at least once or twice a year I am asked which high school I attend. Even my fellow students in my graduate program think that I am younger than it would likely be possible for a graduate student to be...unless one managed to obtain a bachelor's degree before the age of 20.

Frustrating.

Don't worry about looking too young...when I am out with my dad and my younger sisters I get generally adressed as my dad's wife. At my sister's kindergarden I was asked whether I was picking up my daughter by some kid's mother.
Yet I get asked for my Identity Card when I want to work at a festival, cos they think I'm too young. I understand the second one, as they have to do it out of policy reasons.

Personally I do think I look my age, which isn't anything even CLOSE to my mum's. I'm only 3 and 6 years older than my sisters. So I'd have had my sisters when I was 3 and 6, why do people think I'm their mum?! I don't look that old....I think

That's happened to me in the last couple years. It was puzzling, too, since I have visible tattoos that, if you have a brain in your head, clearly look older than "some-one's friend bought a tattoo gun on eBay". To be fair, I'm not the most mature person at times, and I knew a guy in high school who (honest to the Gods) was twenty-one and still a senior (why they didn't just expel him, I don't know), but I don't think I look that young.

No, I look older when my age. I am twenty next and before I was 18 and underage I could buy alcohol without identity check because they didn't care and though I was older. I never took advantage of this and never purchase that often, when I did it was because my alcoholic father wanted me to and I rather choose what beverage when let him. You can't help them when they drink and it would be no better to let him drive drunk. I earned his trust and worked hard to influence him to be more mature and take responsibility, unfortunately this didn't help since he let a bitch move in with him and because of that I was close to kill my father in rage *sigh* childhood memories.

I think I look my age in the face, but at first glance I probably look a lot younger because I am well below the average height for my age and gender.

Well, many people have screwed up memories due to alcoholism. Some people at my work had alcoholic dads, my 3 friends all had alcoholic dads and my dad is still an alcoholic, in fact, he just went back to drinking a few months ago. Yeah, my brother had to drive him around quite a bit.

But yeah, as far as my age goes, I so get carded everytime I go to buy alcohol. Sometimes I wonder if there was some kind of time change that caused time to pass up without me.

I am often mistaken for about a decade younger than I am. I am old enough I'd rather not say how much that is.

I'm 14, but I look like I'm 10 or 11, because I'm short and kind of flat. When I go to resteraunts, the waiters still ask me if I want the kiddie meal. I'm a freshman in high school, and people (usually seniors) will tell me "This is the high school. 7th graders go to the middle school." Its's actually pretty funny because I dress much older than 14 year olds usually do: heels, long black skirts and dresses, etc. And I act like I'm much older, I act older than my 18 year old sister. It's funny because I'll get some weird looks, but it is kind of annoying when people tell me that I'm too young to be wearing heels.

Thats actually a bit of how it is for me. I look much older than my age, but I act older than my 18 year old sister so often I am mistaken as the older one. So truely I don't look my age in the least bit. Good for you to be able to wear heels, I can't master that feat I tend to fall over and hurt myself.

I am 35 but have always avoided the sun and taken good care of my health and skin. No one can believe how old I am when I tell them. They say I look like I'm in my mid-twenties. I 'feel' old though, lol wish I felt in my mid twenties..

I`m 27 years old and get told I look like I`m anywhere between 19 and 22. Looking younger will definitely come in handy later in life!

I look like a high school freshman(being short and petite definitely doesn't help). Can't go practically anywhere without having to show my I.D.

Here's a surprise then.... I don't look or feel my age either. Aquaintances and friends I meet usually say to me I don't look my age, which says to me I must be in pretty good shape then. I put it all down to eating properly and making sure I get enough exercise every evening. Oh and I musn't forget one other thing, I make sure I have my quality time every day, it's important to have some time to yourself, work time is just that work time only, after that it's my time!

Perhaps I will put a pic on Flicker sometime, so you can all admire my good looks, before I get too old.