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Hey guys, I have to do a speech about a topic for one of my homeschool co-op classes (Its a bunch of 6-12th grade homeschool kids learning stuff together and making new friends) and I need to make mine sixty seconds long. I can do it for 55 or less. Its on age mistakes. I need one more short one to finish it up. Can any of you guys tell me one that's pretty funny, yet a bit short? Like a kid thought yopu were 22 when your thirteen? My second mistake's that, but that type of funny.

Oh, no cuss words such as fu** or a**, that sort :p
Thanks gain!
Republic of Wolfrest

eh...well, this is pretty funny

on a school trip somewhere that involved a flight and the x-ray bag scanners, there was a bag from a person in the group that needed searched. it belonged to one of the leaders, but the security staff thought he was a pupil, and asked one of the other teachers if they could search his bag

that was hilarious

Hey guys, I have to do a speech about a topic for one of my homeschool co-op classes (Its a bunch of 6-12th grade homeschool kids learning stuff together and making new friends) and I need to make mine sixty seconds long. I can do it for 55 or less. Its on age mistakes. I need one more short one to finish it up. Can any of you guys tell me one that's pretty funny, yet a bit short? Like a kid thought yopu were 22 when your thirteen? My second mistake's that, but that type of funny.

Oh, no cuss words such as fu** or a**, that sort :p
Thanks gain!
Republic of Wolfrest


we were in the multiplex in nottingham and we manged to get my freinds brother in for 15 when he was 10.it was difficult and the guard..dude..man said that he wanted to see some I.D in a way that he had seen to many movies. but eventually we got him in...the film however was pretty crap

Um..in a hairdressers in China they thought I was 21...I think I was 15...then when I was 17 I got a 14yr old's bus ticket although I wasn't in school uniform. Go figure. :rolleyes: I got 'are you 18?' the day before yesterday at the cinema...yet when I go out, especially if I'm wearing my big black coat I don't get ided at all.

Well, most people seem to think on the internet that I'm in my twenties, which is quite funny to me:p

Age mistakes?

At the end.. You tell them that your actually 30 and your married with 3 kids and not to judge a book by it's cover.

Well, most people seem to think on the internet that I'm in my twenties, which is quite funny to me:p

How old are you then? I'm 16 this October.

One trashy guy thought I was twenty something when I was thirteen :p Boy was he blushing when he found out!

I used to get into the movies at the 12 yr old rate up until I was about 17. Not funny or anything, but when your young and petite you can pass for much younger and get great discounts. Not fun when you go to a restaurant and they ask if you want a kiddy menu. I'm now 33 and I think I look much more my age now.

Age mistakes?

At the end.. You tell them that your actually 30 and your married with 3 kids and not to judge a book by it's cover.
Thats a good one!

I used to get into the movies at the 12 yr old rate up until I was about 17. Not funny or anything, but when your young and petite you can pass for much younger and get great discounts. Not fun when you go to a restaurant and they ask if you want a kiddy menu. I'm now 33 and I think I look much more my age now.

Think I'll use that! I'll just say a lady I know told me she could get into movies at a discount till she was sevnenteen, unless you guys manage easier to say.

At the end of it... you top it off with something that has no relevance whatsoever to the topic you just talked about. Something odd and strange.

Like "The best part about mistaking ages of people is I like round banana's". To catch them totally off guard.

I used to do that alot during practice for debates in school.

At the end of it... you top it off with something that has no relevance whatsoever to the topic you just talked about. Something odd and strange.

Like "The best part about mistaking ages of people is I like round banana's". To catch them totally off guard.

I used to do that alot during practice for debates in school.

Well, people mistaked her age for a long time. I think its pretty cool. Liked your joke too BTW G. Pig. I laugh too easily though. Laughed with my toung in my boyfriend's mouth once, course, burped during the same makeout :rolleyes: He was cool with it and it didn't ruin the movie since we both ate the same lunch :D MMMM.. Pizza.

Think I'll use that! I'll just say a lady I know told me she could get into movies at a discount till she was sevnenteen, unless you guys manage easier to say.

IMO, use personal experiences are best. Or highly exxagerated unlikely experiences.

My Grandpa used to get into the movies at discount prices. I guess he looks like a 12 year old. Acts like one too.

(Leaves pause)

Then I realised is that he was considered as an elderly citizen and could get in for cheaper anyway.

i'm 23, but when i go to bars ppl think i'm 21, prolly because i don't go to bars very often.
and when people first meet me they think 17 or 18. and they don't believe me when i tell them i'm 23, so i have show them my liscene.

The best one of all time I think was just after I turned 29, I was outside a club and I got carded. When I showed the man my ID, he stared at it for a few seconds and said, "you do NOT look your age." I asked him how old he thought I was and he said, "I thought you were pushing 20."

How about this one: Within a matter of hours of each other, one person guessed I was 30 and another guessed I was 20 when I was 24.

I'm assuming you mean all in person interactions. There are some major surprises here on NS if you look hard enough. I've had people guess I was 17 or 18 (and I'm turning 32 in July). And I've seen people who write and act like they're a LOT older than their real ages. I've also seen other people act a lot younger than their real ages...

Well, people mistaked her age for a long time. I think its pretty cool. Liked your joke too BTW G. Pig. I laugh too easily though. Laughed with my toung in my boyfriend's mouth once, course, burped during the same makeout :rolleyes: He was cool with it and it didn't ruin the movie since we both ate the same lunch :D MMMM.. Pizza.

Well.. keep the nonsensical statement short and sweet. Really short if possible. 3-5 words. Something that would make them think for a while asking themselves "Did she said what I thought she said?"

I started buying booze from shops at the age of thirteen with a fake Id. One time I was buying loads of kiddy booze like Alcopops and cheap cider. This was during a city-wide crack down on under-age drinking and people buying for under-agers. Anyway I told the guy what I wanted and he politely said that since I was ordering so much he serve me after he'd served the two customers behind me - me being polite agreed to this. I was then I noticed that he had pressed a button on the side of the counter - the 'call the police' button, which for some reason they had installed in plain site (d'oh). Anyway he eventually got round to serving me and I paid and left with three carrier bags full of booze. I walked down the street and up a side alley where my friends were waiting with rucksacks to carry the booze. No sooner than I had I turned into the side street , two police cars and police van came fleeing round the corner and up to the shop. The officers had a chat with the owner and we promptly dissapeared. Came so close to being caught :D
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Some friends and I went out to a bar we've been to often. The legal age here is 19. I had forgotten my ID, but I didn't think it mattered because 1) I don't drink and 2) I'm 26 (soon to be 27). A bouncer came up to our table and asked me *specifically* for identification. Like I said, I didn't have it, so he kicked me out. At least it was flattering. :cool:

Oh one more..........I guess I don't look my age yet........at 33 I still get carded for cigerettes. Forgot that one.

When I was younger, I was unique in school for being the only guy who had a full mustache and beard. I'd grown it in a couple of weeks for a musical, and never shaved it off. Seniors starting figuring I was one of them. I wandered in and out of bars, bought Dad his Cigars while out, no one paid me a second glance. That was sixteen.
Ten years later, I'm beginning to turn bald and gray at the edges, and the age estimates shoot upwards. Not fun. Now, I'm ten years beyond that, and, well, no one gets it right yet. :)

I was at a party with my stepfathers unit and some drunk guy comes up to my mother and me, looks at me and asks my mother if i was her mother. I still dont get it how someone can be so damn drunk and still move. My mother was 26 years my senior and i am a guy with a goatee. :rolleyes:

In November, this guy at work kept asking me if I was registered to vote and I kept telling him I was underage. Finally he says, "you know you only have to be 18 to vote!" I was surprised, and said "Well, ask me again in three years. I'm 15." he didn't quite believe me until the coworker beside me stopped laughing long enough to confirm that I was indeeed only 15. :rolleyes: (I'm 16 now if anyone is curious :D )

Talk about that stupid Channel 4 program, Ten Years Younger.

Look here. (http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/L/lust4life/look_young/10yy2.html)

i was mistaken for a 15 year old when i was 12. by some teqacher at my school.

Hey guys, I have to do a speech about a topic for one of my homeschool co-op classes (Its a bunch of 6-12th grade homeschool kids learning stuff together and making new friends) and I need to make mine sixty seconds long. I can do it for 55 or less. Its on age mistakes. I need one more short one to finish it up. Can any of you guys tell me one that's pretty funny, yet a bit short? Like a kid thought you were 22 when your thirteen? My second mistake's that, but that type of funny.

Oh, no cuss words such as fu** or a**, that sort :p
Thanks gain!
Republic of Wolfrest

Once I went to the store with my Mom, I was holding liquor for her... the salesclerk kept trying to get my attention and saying, "Ma'am, she's my last customer" (pointing at my mom.) I was zoning out, looking at the candy and stuff, cuz I didn't think my attention would be required at a checkout counter. Eventually my mom figured out the problem and explained to the check out lady that I was her kid. I was 13 at the time, which means she thought I looked 21 or over! :eek:

Oh yea another tale:
I was leaving assembly last month in my 'Senior' blazer. One girl saw me and said she'd thought I was a Sophamore. (5th form um..Grade 10, as opposed to UVIth/12 to Brits) Yea...I'm only just repeating my last year.

When I and my buddy were 21, he was buying cigarettes and got carded (legal age was 16 in that state). He showed his ID and the guy still wouldn't sell the cigarettes and tried to keep my buddy's "fake" ID. We finally got it back when I showed my ID but we never got the cigarettes.

I used to get into the movies at the 12 yr old rate up until I was about 17. Not funny or anything, but when your young and petite you can pass for much younger and get great discounts. Not fun when you go to a restaurant and they ask if you want a kiddy menu. I'm now 33 and I think I look much more my age now.

I know what you mean... I'm 13 (and under 5ft) so at restaurants they still give me the 10 and under menu. Kind of annoying.

Everybody here seemmed to be under the impression that I was eighteen or twenty. I wish.
My brother was at a carnival where they try to guess your age and they guessed him as seventeen. He was thirty-two. Later that year when he joined the army his instructor thought he was one of the "kids."

Well...got two good stories:

1) I was at work, and had recently started working there. There was another employee, a really hot looking chick. Naturally, I talked with her, I guess I was showing a bit more interest in her than she liked. She looked straight at me and said, "I've got two kids. They're five and six years old."

I lost my voice at that. She looked younger that me!

At least we're just good friends now. She still teases me about that though...

2) I was at a carnival with my mom not too long ago in eastern Long Island, New York. My mom saw one of those guys that would give you a prize if he didn't guess your age correctly, so she gave it a shot. The guy guessed her to be ten years older than she really was (she's in her low 40s, I'm 22)... I thought she was going to kill the guy lol.

The funniest part: The guy looked at her and said, "You're not with that old guy over there are you?" (indicating my stepdad) She looked over at her husband and shook her head no, saying "No, I'm with him." (pointing to me.)

Was one of the funniest moments of our vacation...

EDIT: My stepdad isn't that much older than her either...

I went into Burger King one morning for breakfast and ordered a sandwich. The sweet young thing at the counter handed me two bags.

"I only ordered a breakfast sandwich, Miss. I didn't order coffee," says I.

"Oh, we always give free coffee to Seniors over 60," she replies.

I was 39. Dammit.

lol I actually worked at a fast food restaurant and was always afraid to ask people if they wanted a discount... in case they weren't the right age yet. =p

I was on a plane to Tennessee to visit my dad, and I ended up in a conversation with the woman next to me about my marching band trip to London this winter. She asked what year I was.

"Freshman," I reply.

"Oh really? What college do you go to?"

"....I'm a freshman in High School."

I was on a plane to Tennessee to visit my dad, and I ended up in a conversation with the woman next to me about my marching band trip to London this winter. She asked what year I was.

"Freshman," I reply.

"Oh really? What college do you go to?"

"....I'm a freshman in High School."

lol I went to Washington D.C. and stayed at a motel and I ordered a pizza one night and went down to the lobby to wait for it... it came and this guy who worked there started flirting with me. He told me he was 25 right... and so he continues to hit on me. Anyways after like five minutes of talking to him, he asks me for my age and says "you gotta be what 19 20?" I told him "no I'm actually going to turn 16 in 4 months" then I winked and walked away. Felt really good though =p

Ever since I was 13 I've been asked (usually while shopping in a hippie neighborhood) to join Greenpeace, register to vote, buy clean energy, etc. "I would, but..."

I don't remember if I was still 13 or if I'd turned 14 by then, but I also remember a waiter at a wedding dinner asking if I wanted wine.

I'm almost 15 now. I swear the women in my family gravitate toward that "ideal" age because my sister (4 1/2) and I always get mistaken for older, and my mom and grandma look younger. In fact my mom and I, at 19 years apart, are often thought be sisters.

This is still going on, sort of? I didn't need the speech anyway! I miss heard and didn't need any speech at all, we just debated :p