>Not really. That was more of a joking thing, "Bah, I'm getting old,
>all I want to do tonight is sit around and not do anything." With
>Utena, there's the much more direct elderly feeling one gets when
>pretty girls call one "mister". :)
>
>(That happened to me at a shopping mall a few months ago. I was going
>in the side entrance, and a raver chick said, with all apparent
>sincerity, "I love your shoes, Mister." Strange feeling. Now add a
>few hundred years of life experience, don't increase the chemical
>maturity level, and try again. It's a curiously conflicted state of
>mind, and largely new to Our Hero. He's going to have to get used to
>it. :)

I have that kind of effect on people. I'm not entirely comfortable dealing with people in social situations, so I tend to revert to extreme formality... such as calling 16 year old kids working in the movie theater "Sir" or "Ma'am".

Of course, it could also just be because I'm horrible with names and faces. :)

Eric J. Heckathorn
ericjh@stargate.net