hummingwolf | What's my age again?

My skin's been simply desiccated the last couple of days (probably used the wrong soap once), making visible a veritable web of wrinkles on my now-venerable-looking face. The wreaths encircling my eyes today both fascinate and disturb me. I do hope this condition is temporary, since I now officially look much older than I believe I should. The fact that nearly everyone over age 30 looks much older than they believe they should is rather beside the point, don't you think?

At the public library, they told me that my library card is a children's card. Since I'm only thirty-four-and-a-half, I'm not allowed to check out some stuff without Daddy's permission. But it's okay! The nice man at the check-out desk could tell I'm mature enough to handle the 'sponsiblity of a grown-up card, so he put some stuff in the computer and told me I can now check out whatever I want without having to ask my parents. (Hiring a medium to contact the dead just so I could borrow a movie always did seem excessive.) The nice man also told me I can now sit at the big kids' table at Thanksgiving, but my brothers might disagree with that.

Then on the way home, a redneck in a pickup truck tried to pick me up. Actually, he (a perfect stranger, mind you) only offered to drive me to the grocery store, so I'm not at all sure what image I was projecting there.

There's a new episode of Angel on tonight! Hmmm... the TV listings say that the episode is rated TV14. I think I'm old enough to watch that by myself now.

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Sorry the Kalahari has parked itself on your face.

Have you been in the neighborhood so long that you still have a kid kard, or was there simply a screw up with your ID? If it was a screw up was it a recent one, or had every librarian missed the fact that you have silver hair and are 5'5?

G'wan and watch Angel, it will be one of your last chances.

I haven't lived in this neighborhood for that long, but I have been checking books out of the county's library system for about two decades. Been using the same card all that time, though the library's computer has known for a long time that I'm no longer at the same address with the same phone number. Apparently every librarian before yesterday simply missed that it was registered as a children's card, or maybe after a while they just figured I was Mom checking books out for the kid.

Did you see Angel last night, or are you still not watching? I watched. I liked.

Ah.

I tape Angel. I'll watch it this weekend.

Glad you liked it.

Thank you for reminding me about Angel -- I forgot, we are down to our last few episodes. :-(

Yeah, soon no more Angel.

Here's hoping they still keep showing it in reruns every weekend.

it's hilarious that they've only just now noticed you had a children's card. did it have the hole punched in the corner like ted's? nice that you can take out bodice-rippers or whatever. ;)

The card's more than two decades old--if it looks anything like Ted's, I'll be surprised! I got it a little later than most kids, probably when I was in middle school. I'd been relying on school libraries & my parents' huge book collection before then. Anyway, my parents agreed when I first got it that I should be able to check out any books I wanted, so bodice-rippers were never a problem. ;-) It seems that I never should have been able to check out audiovisual materials, though. It's odd, since I know I have borrowed both CDs & movies on this card without incident.

I wonder what my family will say when I tell them that the nice man at the library says I can eat at the big kids' table now?

What's my age again?

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