Spring Chicken

Today at work a junior high aged girl came in with her friend to buy candy.  Noticing a Twilight picture behind me, she asked for it.  When I said that I was taking it, she asked, "Oh… you have a daughter?"  I further explained that it was for a friend, but I had to laugh – I’m not so young anymore .  When I worked with young kids at YMCA or 24 Hr Fitness, they would sometimes call me old, because to a little kid I was.  For someone who is 13 years old, though, to assume that I had a daughter old enough to be her age… it was just very interesting.  Nothing wrong with it, of course, but we often forget how old we appear to those younger than us.  Even though I lost the beard and look my own age again, to a junior high girl I’m still old enough to have a teenage daughter.  Who’dda thunk?