Do these things bug you?

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I do the time thing too. If it's 10:58 I will say it's 11. But if it's five to 11 I will say it's five to 11. I used to have difficulty telling the time so I used to always round it off to the nearest ten.

I'm 24 and I tell people I'm in my mid twenties which is year off. It took me about 3 months to realise I wasn't 23 anymore.
But it really doesn't bother me. People don't have to be precise all the time.

Yes these things bug me a lot. Especially the time related one, my mother is a master of time warp, she will often say it's 5 when it's 4:30.
She would often come to my room at night on a weekend and say it's almost 3 and when i looked at the time it was 2:24.
This made me want to open up a whole can of logical whoop-ass, I did the first times but i learned my lesson in arguing with a person who already made up his/her mind.

YES! They doo

I also HATE when I ask how old someones kid is and they say "20 months old," IF you child is over 1years old the say "he is one," or He is one and 8 months old!

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there is a hell for NTs such as that pizza lady who threw out perfectly good food while zillions of other folks are starving - in this hell, she will be ravenously hungry but find only cardboard boxes to eat, and they all will have sharp metal staples on them. she will ask how long am i to suffer here, and the attending demon [while he is noisily munching on a nice juicy pizza slice] will say, "oh, i dunno, maybe eight."

You must be a youngster. For those of us in our - ahem - 40's, until we are 50, we may admit to others that we are in our mid-forties. Which, technically, 48 is.

Also, you may want to take a look at how long he's been a member. I've been a member for over 4 years, and I have no idea what is on my original profile. He may have been a member for a while and not updated it. But still, the above point is more important, I think.

That being said, I have asked my students to pull out a cell phone to check a time to the minute, rather than rely on watches or even classroom clocks. But timeliness is one of my obsessions, for myself as well as my students.

He joined this place less than a year ago and we go to the same other forum together. Also the ages in our profiles here get updated on their own due to our birth dates but he has no age listed here, only over there. I'm nosy so I look at profiles.

48 is late forties. Mid forties is 45.

People over 30 tend to lie about their age because they want to be younger or something.
My mum always said she was 21 when she was in her 30's.