But not in a cool, I am going to be famous kind of way . . .
Some of you may remember that I have been working hard at convincing my neighbors that I am older, in order to appear less lame when they invite me to do things. Well this weekend . . . my cover was blown.
Friday night, my friend Molly and I were getting ready for an evening on the town, when I heard a ruckus on my back porch. Upon peeking my head out, I discovered my neighbors were having a small get together. They invited me over, and instead of respectfully declining in favor of watching a movie, I decided to accept. Ok, honestly, Molly gave me the "meet new people and stop talking about The Avengers and maybe you won't be so lame," speech. Ok, Molly is much nicer than that, but those were the implied undertones.
So we went over to play a few . . . party games, and once we got the ball rolling, the conversation I had been dreading came up. They asked Molly when she graduated college. Being the well trained and good friend that she was, she evaded the question. Then the tables turned on me, and one of my neighbor's friends asked how old I was. . .
"27!" Answered my neighbor, God bless him. My plan had worked! I seemed mature and over the "going out" stage that I never actually entered. I was a GENIUS. I could do anything in that moment, it was like I had a super power.
I said, "Yes, 27 sounds close enough."
"You look 19," said his friend. Nonsense, what did he know!
"How old are you really?" They enquired.
Here is the thing. I have never point blank lied to this wonderful couple, I simply said things like, "Oh . . .I'm so old . . ." which, you know, in my defense, I am. . . compared to babies or a 12 year old. It's all about perspective.
So I told them my real age, which they didn't believe. Because here is the kicker - they are actually OLDER than me. It was a shock to us ALL! OK, not to me, I had expected this. They were surprised, flabbergasted even, and now, distrusting of my motives. Thus I had to tell them my whole "brilliant" plan, to which they answered, "This is ridiculous, you are coming out with us all the time now."
Which to be honest, is probably a good thing. So now my soul is cleansed of my deceit, and I have new friends (we were friends before but now we are better friends . . . and I am not saying all these nice things because we are now Facebook friends, and they can essentially see all the things I have blogged about our interactions over the last couple of months . . .awk. ward.)
