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Short Tale: #1 when you have that “baby” face


No, I am not talking about people looking younger than their age; but people who actually look 6-7 years younger than their age. And now I know that is the case with me. I have like encountered more than 50 cases of now where the world reminds me I don’t actually look a grown up girl sorry rather an “adult”. Whenever I go to stationery shop the shopkeeper always asks me that whether I am in 10th and giving my boards? This means I look 8 years younger. And then again I need to explain him that no I just love shopping this stuff. I have never been taken seriously in shops and malls as they think I am school going kid.


I am in my last year of CA internship; in my workplace also all of the seniors exclaim I would look the youngest CA soon. So last week we had a trip to Hyderabad for some audit related work. We were returning to Ahmedabad in flight and the only seats which were available were those near the emergency exits. We adjusted ourselves there. The air-hostesses came to do all the formalities and check on the seat-belts and stuff. Amongst the two of them, one of the attendants was continuously staring at me and smiling; I felt she wanted to ask or tell me something. She then whispered something to the other attendant. I ensured that I had seat-belt on, for that wasn’t reason for her to stare. Suddenly in a confused tone she asked me “Excuse me, what is your age?” I told casually, “I am 22”; and they both laughed. I couldn’t understand what was going on. And then when they could believe that I was 22, she clarified that it’s because below 18 aren’t allowed to sit near emergency exit. I didn’t know what to react and everyone sitting in that row laughed. I was dumbfounded. I felt little embarrassed. Obviously it’s good to look young. But it comes with passing through such incidents in your life, where you never feel like laughing and you are in confusion whether you should be glad about it. 


And someone has truly said, “Looks don’t tell the truth”.

Comments

  1. Pooja Karadgi15 July 2016 at 07:37

    The kid sitting beside me in the flight had once asked me ,'Acha toh aap school mai nahi padhte ho?'.When I was soon going to wear '1 year industry experienced' badge!
    I actually like it.Gives me reasons enough to postpone 'shaadi ke talks!'

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