Damned if I know! My canvassing partner today thought I was maybe 25, and I thought she was maybe 45.

Not so much! She has a son almost my age. Wow.

Direct quote: "if you want your wife to last, don't question how much she spends on expensive creams." Well okay then.

Tags: age, culture

What does a 37 year old woman look like?

Damned if I know.

What does a 37 year old man look like? Well, like me, I guess. But I've surprised quite a few people with that information. Without ever meaning to. (*)

And the Internets are no help. Well... at least the portion of the Internets in which people don't wear pants. Dirrrty pictures of the laydeez are always of younger women, unless they are expressly aimed at "mature" or "MILF" fetishists, in which case they tend to be in their mid-forties or older.

All this makes things tricky for those of us who happen to be single, in our thirties and freakishly willing to date our age peers. Hey, I kinda enjoy the company of someone who understands some of the same cultural references.

And yes, I have the good fortune to know a lot of remarkable folks younger than myself. But we all know those younger people are going to become more interesting as they get older...right? Right. Besides, they almost always harbor ambitions I've already accomplished, and you can't grow up twice.

But as I said, it's really very difficult to tell how old anybody is anymore. So I have a new plan, one that takes advantage of the aforementioned cultural references.

When I meet an attractive woman of indeterminate age, I'll just drop a random reference to Happy Days or the A-Team or, better yet, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. The kids aren't exactly chomping at the bit to watch that one on DVD (although, surprisingly, it is available). It was a show of its time... we all watched it, but man oh day did it suck.

Edit: apparently Those Darn Kids were watching the A-Team too, at age nine; it was high school fare for us. I need more obscure stuff!

[Whistles "Learnin' the Facts Of Life"]

(*) Though I must admit it would be a lot more obvious if I stopped shaving my head! But my skull was always meant for it— I wish I'd tried it much earlier.

Tags: age, culture, dating, tv