I am 34 and still get regularly carded. Must be the plaid miniskirt, knee high boots and multi colour pigtails. I actually got kicked out of a liquor store with my friend because we didn't have our ID on us and my husband had to buy our drinks after we left. After you turn 30 that is a high compliment

OMG. NO. xD People keep mistaking me as an 18 year old girl, when I'm like, 15 and 8 months! I got mistaken as a MOM once! ;//A//; And that, makes me sad, and die a little bit inside. But, words mean nothing to me, so I'm trying to remain content about my looks. XD

I look at least a decade younger.

I did it again. My coworkers were asking about my tattoos and I told them about my world travels that explain the majority of them and they all contested my claims as false because there was no way I could have done all of that in my lifetime.

Then I told them how old I am and their jaws literally hit the floor. Every one of them thought I was in my mid twenties.

Felt goooooooooooooooooooood.

~spidey

Oh yeah. Ride that train until you fall off.

There's a woman that works at my local Dunkin' Donuts that was in my high school class. She looks like an old woman. I don't know what happened in her life, but it must not have been good.

I think a lot of what keeps you young-looking is your attitude and interest in life. I refuse to even grow up, much less grow old. I hope I'm still having a blast at age 90+.

There was a woman that used to come to one of the grocery stores I used to cashier at, I was nineteen, and she was only a few years older. She went to the tanning salon in the same plaza, and her face looked like old leather.

...then there's whatever got Christina Ricci looking like a praying mantis --probably her yo-yoing weight. She's only a few months older than me, and there is no *way* she looks young enough for her role on Pan Am --the pilot even made it clear that stewardesses were to be no older than 32, and with her face all corners and bone like it is now, she looks like she's pushing forty.

38 here and counting... But people always put a lower number on me. Passing for a 30 year old guy is still possible. Haven't changed a bit since then. Well, I grew myself a silly goatie. One that probably makes me look younger
I've always be too skinny (if I'd eat a bit more healthy I'd lose weight just like that) but it finally pays off: no beer belly... ever.
Oh, and my girlfriend calls me her toyboy. She's 42.

Same here, 37 and likely pass as 30.
Friend of mine was getting killed with work here in steel town. Was doing heavy tow and his face looked like old shoe leather. He's unemployed now, broke, and much happier less stressed. He actually lost a lot of the rawhide on the face, the man is getting younger by Hecate.

I'm 21 but stopped aging around 14-15. I expect to be carded until I'm 50, my bf always gets carded too and he's 35 >.< Call us lucky if you like! I'm just tired of being asked what high school I go to.

Suppose the up-side of looking younger than you are is that you get unintentionally complimented all the time ;D though it would be cool if I actually got to go to a bar and not be immediately asked for ID as if I was a school kid trying to buy alcohol for the first time in my life.

To be fair, a lot of places have a policy to card every-one who looks "under forty", and this is usually posted so that people have no excuse not to have their ID ready. Granted, this is usually at the discretion of the employees, who may or may not have a well-rounded enough experience to gauge a person's age by appearance with any degree of accuracy.

For a while, I was working as a cashier at a grocery store that sold beer and wine, and I just carded everybody with the exception of the clearly elderly. My mother and a woman at my step-mother's Quaker Meeting House started going grey at 15-16-ish, and Doris, the Quaker woman, said her hair was well salt-and-peppered by the age of twenty. I also have two other (male) friends who started balding in their teens, and the one I went to high-school with had the George Copstanza horseshoe by the age of nineteen --I was also nineteen at the time I worked at the store.

One time, somebody who was apparently forty-two/forty-three (forget which) didn't have his ID and got offended that I wouldn't sell him beer. He then immediately sent his wife through my lane, and she had just turned twenty-one that week, and I told them, it's store policy not to sell to her, either, cos they're in the same party. They came back later with his ID and just paid for it at the service counter, cos he really wanted the manager to write me up, but since the policy was clear that it was at the cashier's discretion, she clearly couldn't, but I got a massive talking-to about who supposedly looks "over forty" --you know, as if I couldn't possibly know.

The following week, I had my high-school friend, yep, the bald one, go through the lane directly in front of mine, to see if the other cashier would sell him beer without checking ID. When she didn't check ID and rang him up anyway, I paged the manager and told her: that gentleman was a friend of mine, he was in my graduating class at the high school and only three months older than me. He was just sold beer illegally because "cashier discretion" was clearly insufficient.

Cashier: "What you talking about? He ain't your age!"
Me: "Ben, show them your ID."
Manager: "Oh, my god; B-----, you sold been to some-one just out of high school."
C: "He ain't just outta high school!"
Ben: "I do have a photocopy of my diploma in my back pocket, just in case you want confirmation on that."
Me: [laughs] "Ben, you didn't!"
B: "Hey, I was a Boy Scout until I was twelve. I figured this argument might happen, and I came prepared."
C: "How can you be bald just outta high school?"
B: "I got started in my sophomore year, that's how."
Manager: "Alright, B-----, void this now before I count it as an illegal sale, and you better be more diligent about checking ID in the future."

Suffice to say, I never got a talking-to about my "overzealous" policy on ID again, and even though she didn't get written up, that cashier took it way too personally --in her mind, clearly this had nothing at all to do with my not-a-write-up from the week before (that everybody knew about), and was just some personal attack on her for no reason whatsoever-- and the other cashiers got a hard lesson in how to accurately eyeball whether or not a person might be old enough to buy alcohol or cigarettes legally.

I am 26 but people who don't know my age think I'm between 15 - 20.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I don't wear any make up; I'm not sure.

I'm 24 but I look like an older teen.

Well, see for yourself. I'm 21, yahoo answers says I look 16:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60108153@N05/6293637573/

The liquor store I worked at got busted for selling to a minor while I worked there so the owner told us we had to card EVERYONE...even the elderly and that if they didn't have an id on them we couldn't sell to them. Needless to say, we pissed off a lot of old people.

~spidey