Comments on: I Have a Crush on a Teenager

By: shoutz

shoutz — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:28:29 +0000

I’m so late to this party it makes me sad, since I love Kenny Loggins, I love good humor, I love witty writing (hence my presence here), and – even more – I love younger men!

Kate, I say if this young man will take you up on it… go, go, go!! LOL Your friends will think you’re marvelous for snagging the younger guy, and his friends will think he’s marvelous for attracting an older woman. How do I know? I met a man of 22 when I was 38. I married him two years later. We just had our second anniversary. Life is grand… and you know what? No one really thinks a blasted thing of it! (And if they did, we’d just mock them later… something like you and this young guy would, methinks.)

By: kateharding

kateharding — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:12:41 +0000

So…where is the proof that this person is actually a kid of 18?

I’m good with the word of a person who knows him personally. And since I’m pretty sure his driver’s license doesn’t say “Kenny Blogginz,” I don’t know what other “proof” one could really produce.

By: spacedcowgirl

spacedcowgirl — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:48:57 +0000

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/02/teenz-korner-young-publicans.html

Sorry, I guess it was about young Republicans more generally, but the description of the church group struck me as so funny that that’s what stuck in my mind. (I am currently attending a career seminar at a sort-of megachurch and the painfully self-aware “badass” youth group room decor is only too evocative of the post.)

Also sorry to only see the request eons later after everyone has moved on. :)

Regarding whether he is a real person or 18, I certainly have no idea, but Kate did say that she just missed hanging out with his mom and she was purportedly awesome? So there is some supporting evidence? Right, guys? (It would really make my day if KB is actually this smart and hilarious at 18, despairing of the younger generation as I frequently do in my role of Curmudgeon Who Wonders What the World Is Coming To, so tell me I’m right! Please?) :)

By: S

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:22:30 +0000

So…where is the proof that this person is actually a kid of 18? Or a real person?

By: Phledge

Phledge — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:43:55 +0000

Yeah, I just celebrated my 34th, and I had classmates absolutely insist that I could be no older than 24. Likewise, when I was 17 I was frequently mistaken for, huh, 24. My dad had the same problem when he was young. So hopefully I’ll be perpetually 24. Maybe it’s my fat that makes me look so young?

Oh, and high five to Daniel Radcliffe lust. There was a still that came out before Order of the Phoenix from the dementor scene to which I kept returning, with my sister on the phone telling her ‘this is wrong wrong wrong.’

By: Lu

Lu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:48:27 +0000

I just have to tell my favorite “young for my age” story, since, even though I think I look my age now, even a few years ago that was not the case at all. On my 40th birthday, I was at the grocery store with a beloved friend who decided to tease me by telling the cashier it was my birthday. But when the cashier asked which birthday it was, my friend said, “Her 30th.” The woman was flabbergasted–apparently she thought I was younger than that. That was one of my favorite “presents” that day. I don’t know why looking younger is such a great thing, but to me it is–maybe because of that “half plus seven” rule we were talking about yestiddy. I don’t want to look so much the obvious “cougar,” I guess. ;-)

By: llamas

llamas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:29:28 +0000

Time-Machine, Gemma, that’s so funny…the same thing happened/happens to me! From 14 to 17, everyone thought I was at least 18, but then I turned 18 and immediately looked 12, apparently. I’m now 27 and get guessed at anywhere from 17 to 22, usually. And it makes me feel really old that I’m finally old enough to appreciate it!

By: Gemma

Gemma — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:42:45 +0000

Time-Machine, people used to think I was about 21 when I was 15. Then I actually became 21, and now everyone thinks I’m 17! WOE.

Actually, it ends up being a good thing. I’ve started to think, “Hey, if I look this young now at 22, maybe the trend will continue? Maybe I’ll be the youngest looking 30 year old ever!”

And that makes me happy. ;)

By: anniemcphee

anniemcphee — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:19:37 +0000

missa, once you find that cartoon you can’t stop clicking until you’ve read every single one. At least I couldn’t. Enjoy. You’ll be sorry enough once you’ve read them all and have to wait an entire day for the next one lol.

By: missa

missa — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:17:50 +0000

xkcd on the standard creepiness rule….

http://xkcd.com/314/

So pretty much I haven’t stopped clicking through that comic since it was linked here yesterday. I need help…