Stop calling me hon!
I am not that young! I keep getting the ladies at work calling me hon! Or dear! And asking if I still live at home! OMG! Yah, welcome to my life now. I work with all grownups. The only ones that look young, because they are young, are the technical people. Which is me and someone else! The rest of the office are middle aged or almost retirement age ladies. Some even got grand kids! I still need someone to take care of me. You think I do my own laundry?
Good thing I realized from the beginning that I cannot converse with them. I don’t even converse much with anyone because I am so busy all day long to do that. Anyways, I am single. I don’t wear the wedding ring that symbolizes the eternal attachment to some lunatic guy who will accept such a crazy girl like me. And worse, I look like a 20 or 21 year old! 
Bohoo! I want to grow up! I know I will not get wrinkles till I am 50 like my mom, unlike such fair skinned people who get wrinkles when they are 30. Jeez! Also, I will not start using the phrase, “25 years ago I graduated from University” till much later in life, but dammit!!!! I am 28, almost 29 years old! I know I cannot engage in a conversation about a husband, kids, mortgage, house expenses, but I can talk about … hmm … I can talk about … hmm.. ok I give up. To be normal I got to get married ASAP. Where can I find such a loser Arab guy who will accept me working 8.5 hours a day, and getting home dead tired to do anything else? Who wants to do the chores!!
Ahh.. I feel like I am soon going to have to grow up to fit in into this grownup society. Maybe I will think about this blog post again when I am 30. Let me enjoy the rest of my 20′s for now! 
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I understand your pain…enjoy your life as it is in the moment.
@alicia
Hehehehe… it is utterly painful!
I’ll marry you under one condition:
- If you know how to cook and take care of wining and dining me.
But then again, we are both expat arabs and we’re probably too much alike.
We’ll fight and make up then fight and make up again…etc.
Naaaaaah! too much drama for me! Not a good idea.
Hm, i dont know how you will take this, I might think of it as a bright side sort of thing. Well since you now have a job and everything, maybe you might find that mr.perfect.
@Yazz Yazzo
Some day! 
Maybe!!
@Mystery
Hmm.. your not my style. You cook! Why should the girl always be the cook?
You worry a lot, you keep this up and you will get your wrinkles much earlier. Anyway these almost ready for retirement ladies will retire someday and you will be the old lady at the office, so enjoy and have fun.
haha, I used to have the opposite problem. For some reason a lot of people used to call me “ma’am” but after I bitched about how much younger I was than them, they eventually stopped.
Also, you’re young. Please don’t get married. I look up to you and that would just ruin it.
(kidding…sort of)
Me cook?! I never did… but since you are a smart girl, I’ll cook once in a week but you do the dishes. Fair enough?
hah….dishes and cooking….i take out the trash too. :0
@Mona
You scare me!
@Shay
You mean people offered you to do your dishes??
C’mon Mona. They called you using a term of endearment, not something pejorative. Wait until they finally realize that an Arab girl in her late twenties has the mindset (and level-headedness) of a 56-year-old.
Only then will they change their tune.
take it easy hon
Looking young is much better than looking old. When I got my first job at 21, people thought I was 29~30. Hon is definitely better than oldy
Some wrong hon?
Girl! I know how you feel, I’m also 28 and look 20. It’s always good for a laugh (for other people) when I get carded buying a drink. People tell me to relax and enjoy it, and give the same kind of “Better young than old!” advice but it’s very hard to be taken seriously when you look almost 10 years younger than you are!!! Plus talking about my bf and our hobbies instead of hubby and babies makes people think I’m young, too. I like my good skin and not being a mom, so it’s good except when I meet new people professionally and I have to prove I’m not the intern!
@Adam
I have the mindset of a 56 year old? Where did you get that crappy false idea from?
@Meyrick Kirby
I know.. so so so so so hard!
@Meg
I don’t have a boyfriend. I have been single for like hmm…. 3 years.. almost 4.. I am leading the good life of no commitments and no guy telling me that I never listen!
@Mona
In general, Mona. Not you.
Plus, I was referring to level-headedness, not senility.
Perhaps you should try getting a girlfriend
@Meyrick Kirby
Ahh no.. and ur not funny.
It’s as a feared, you have no sense of humour.
@Meyrick Kirby
I do have a sense of humour. I just didn’t find what you said funny.
I did
Insh’Allah you’ll soon get married to the ibn el halal and he wont be a loser and/or a lunatic.
@mohamed
Well definitely I don’t want him to be a loser. Lunatic I can work with!
whats wrong with lesbians.
@Mais
Now this is going to be a never ending argument. I say let’s end it here, and say nothing is wrong with anything as long as it doesn’t effect us. In my case, I like my men!
@Mona
u should be happy that they think u look 20 gezz lots of women would kill 4 that
n HON take care lol
fair enough, I wont insist on starting a debate. Someone else probably will though!
Be happy you look youthful and not mistaken for a leathery nasty person. (Mashallah) Enjoy youre twenties.
PS Our mamas dont get wrinkles early because they dont have a bad lifestyle.. .. Even though in some cases extreme nagging and close mindedness could be considered a (very) unhealthy lifestyle, =D
Oh wow, to be 28 again. wait, would I really want to do it over? only if I could keep the 40 something wisdom…lol Hell, why not stay single, avoid the aggravation and just have every one jealous that you are single and fabulous
@Charlie Hayse
I am happy.. but I still want to look a little bit older.. to fit in!
@Mais
Majority of Arab women don’t get wrinkles early because they have darker more thicker skin. I think the thicker, the more prone to wrinkles at an earlier age.
@ann
Single and fabulous! LOVE IT!
You want a lunatic for a husband
Exactly what do you mean by lunatic? Keeping a dead cat in the fridge? Wearing a pith helmet, leather trousers, and carrying a riding crop? Thinking he’s St Jerome?
Hon, love and sweetie are more regional terms. Here in the South “hon” and “sweetie” are used a lot. I even find myself calling some of my patient’s who are at least 100 hon and sweetie. Just habit, I guess.
@Mona
well i guess yr goin have 2 wait a few more years n maybe then they will be retired n they will have 20 year olds there n u will be the old 1
@Meyrick Kirby
Yah.. why not!! Let him be crazy and different. I don’t want just “any” guy.
@Roschelle
I lived in the South when I was young, and they do use those terms a lot. Hmm.. but I live now way up here in Canada! God!!! It is cold here!
@Charlie Hayse
That would be the day!!
arabs are prettier when they are older.
)
Mona, hearing your indifference to relationships is refreshing and makes me feel happy to be free. I’ve been free for about 6 years and it was getting old after awhile but your disposition gives me hope. fi amal katheer al-ajmal
I know what you mean, it´s really frustrating. I have the cute chubby cheeks and good skin, try that and be taken seriously, it´s hard also because as a women you´re more supposed to look your age come across your age talking.. people get irritated or anxious if your to smart, intellectual or know to much, I too get bored only talking about kids and interiour design al the time.. it´s not easy showing your true age.. I try dress it, you know a serious watch on the wrist, and also wearing make up to look older.
It seems of the comments that there are more women who understand the problem, maybe it´s more a gender issue..
@hudaman
I agree
@Brian
I am giving you hope? Yah! I give lots of people hope of reasons being single is a-ok!