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I'm regularly mistaken for someone in their late teens and that's not usually a good thing. But the local pool has raised prices from $1 to $3.50 for anyone over 17, and I intend to visit a lot this summer, so I figure I'll just go in and say I didn't bring my ID with me to the pool (because why would I, I'd have to check it and that's a good way to get your identity stolen). I'm not very worried about my looks giving me away, but what if a real teenager strikes up a conversation? (Real Teenagers being regularly employed there.) I was born in the frikkin' eighties! The late end, but still.

Do I feign not knowing life without computers and cell phones? Pretend I don't remember September 11th? What shows did they watch as kids? I know it's not Doug, Rugrats or Cardcaptors. What movies made the everlasting impression on them the way Hocus Pocus and Angels in the Outfield did on me? (I have a friend who's two years younger and apparently Holes was an enormous thing for people born that year. I was just a teeny bit too old to have gotten into it.)

Give me the FBI psychological profile of a girl born in 1998, F!S. I need to research before the heat gets any worse!

Is the Criminal Minds team going to be there? If not, just tell them you are 17. I can guarantee most of the other teen employees are not going give a shit.

Harry Potter and Avatar the last Airbender. Also you are overthinking this it's a lot more likely that you will be discovered because you run into someone you know then your lack of pop culture knowledge.

it's a lot more likely that you will be discovered because you run into someone you know

That's what I was thinking, yea. Doubt OP is going to get into a conversation with a teen that will make the teen suspect their age, and even if the teen did they probably wouldn't care enough to bring it up.

I'm kind of cracking up at this whole thread and want to try something similar. (Just to see if it would work. I'm curious. I won't, but I want to.)

Edited 2015-07-18 23:17 (UTC)

I doubt even that matters. Once you pay for your ticket, I doubt they will continuously ask you what your age is OR remember what you paid.

Maybe they would remember what OP paid, but I doubt they would ask OP for an ID after they had paid. No matter what.

Do I feign not knowing life without computers and cell phones?

Maybe not cell phones, but computers were definitely around, by the late '80s. I still remember the 1984 Apple Superbowl commercial.

Computers were around, but most people didn't have a family PC. That's more of a mid-nineties phenomenon.

I had a computer at home starting in 1983 or so. A commodore 64. Not that it was amazing or anything, obviously, but I did have it. And we were a lower middle class/rural household. So I think it was at least reasonably widespread in the 80s?

I remember getting one around '87-'88.

Our household went through a few computers between 85 - 89. We were the first ones on the street that had an IBM PC with a 512K hard drive!! *blink*

OP

We got our first family PC (for word processing) in 1997, the internet three years later, and I don't exactly remember when, but after a few years we went to DSL.

That part that really gets me is that each of these had to be weedles with great care and research out of my parents, and lo and behold now neither of them can live without the net.

But anyway, I had almost a decade of life without much exposure to computers.

you don't need to know much about computers/cellphones, as long as you know what vines and instagram are

seriously don't sweat it, teenagers will probably ignore you if you're even a little bit different

Just save your money and skip the pool. Everyone pisses in it anyway.

I hope this doesn't make me an asshole but...just pay the fair price.

Though I have to say that's quite a price jump. I could see $1 to $2 but more than triple? damn.

so much this

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