games people play.

every so often i meet some joker who asks me to guess his age. its always "his age" because most women are usually trying to get everyone to forget how old they are, so they wouldnt suggest this game. usually when someone decides to pose this question i plead the fifth. after all, i dont want the next age guess to be mine. usually im a pretty good age guesser as well which irks the individual who has asked me to estimate his age. they usually think ill guess younger. guess again. and like i said, i dont really want to start guessing in the first place. why is it so important i know this particular guy's age? if he wants to tell me his age, why all the drama?
once when i was at someone's shabbos table an elderly gentleman started talking to me. i thought to myself "how nice this elderly man just wants to be friendly" not realizing that this "nice little old man" was really hitting on me. anyway, this senior asked me to guess his age and of course i refused. but he kept bugging me . finally i told him that he really didnt want me to guess his age. and then he insisted. well , finally i said that i thought he was seventy. well, as im sure you would guess he wanted me to guess again so i then guessed 69 and 72. this man looked older than my father!!! and wouldnt you know he tried to tell me he was really much younger than seventy, and that somehow he manages to date only women under 35. well just because he tells me hes younger than seventy doesnt mean he is. and the age he said he was , was way above my dating age range anyway. he was quite upset that i guessed such a high number, but i thought,what a fool? why ask a question you dont really want an honest answer to? i had told him that i didnt want to guess his age to begin with. it was irrelevant. furthermore, i think that one is probably better off lying and saying one is older because then people can tell you how young you look and how they would never guess your age!! because unless you truly look younger that your true age , everyone is going to know you are older anyway. or they are going to think you look really awful for the younger age you say you are.
actually, im all for avoidance. dont say your age at all. that way you arent lying. thats my preference. truthfully , if someone really likes you it wont matter how old you are. or at least they will like you for the age they think you are be it older or younger than you really are.
and you know what , for the seventy year old zaidehs there are always the anna nicole smith wannabes... although we all know what happened to her...poor soul.