ME: A 12 yo Navy brat living in Italy, on vacation at a Palermo resort.
The waiter (addressing a table of 10-13 yo kids): I can take your order while drinks are self serve; soft drinks are over there, wine and whisky to the left of that.
ME: Wine it is then.
I don't know what the legal drinking age was at the time (mid-2000s), but if it was above 13 it certainly wasn't really enforced.
I don't know if Italy has a drinking age. The culture around wine just doesn't make it a taboo. Kids drink watered down wine like it's juice for dinner.
I have literally been thinking and telling others that I was 43 this year until I just had to enroll in my own healthcare and found out in the application process that I am actually 44.
I did something similar (but in a nicer way for me). The entire age of 35 I thought I was 36, and I found out on my 36th birthday that I was gonna be 36 for a second year in a row.
I decided to start counting backwards last year, forgot, and thought i was 44 instead of 45 all year :( I also lost the ability to do basic arithmetic when someone pointed out my real age.
Me, clearly no longer in my 20s, approaching the point where 30something is becoming less and less plausible: "Age, my young friend, is but a social construct. I feel 25. Now kindly let me purchase the alcohol, that I'm going to use to forget the discrepancy between how I feel and what my drivers license says, and the mistakes I've made in the years since society agreed with me about my age."
Pimply faced clerk, with squeaky voice, staring at me confused and a little bit afraid that the deranged person might be dangerous: "please, I just need your age sir"
Wife: "oh FFS! He's XX, honey you're muttering again, the nice clerk is getting scared"
Ha! Took me a moment to remember that Americans can serve a full contract with the military before legally ordering beer. It's so backward that one can have massive life-lone PTSD and no legal alcoholism. Is that a plan?
Nice to know I'm not the only one never remembering how old I am... And I'm only in my 20's. Before I hit 18 I always knew exactly. After 18 it just doesn't matter anymore.
Yea is my birthday today apparently, I only found out coz my old buddy called me up at midnight and was like happy birthday !!
And I'm like it's my birthday!?