'He sent me to the office for detention': Father gets mistaken for high school student, is written up for infraction

I think I've always looked exactly the age that I am. It's kind of a superpower. When I was 12, I looked 12. When I was 20, I looked 20. Once in a blue moon, someone will think I'm younger than I am, but not often. But guessing someone's age is all about context. When I meet a new person who runs in my circles, I automatically assume that they're my age. Sometimes I'm proven wrong, but I can usually slot people into a certain age group based on the way I meet them. If we're at a concert of the artist we like, or a bar in my neighborhood that I frequent, odds are we have something in common.

But context doesn't always give everything away. Sometimes, when we assume, we make complete fools of ourselves. Like in this recent story from Reddit that feels ripped straight out of a sitcom. Read on and chuckle.

Posted by JR Atkinson

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$I get to the office and hand the slip of paper to the office employee that I checked in with initially and she looks incredibly confused, and then starts laughing. He gave me an infraction! For being tardy and out of class! Apparently he sent me to the office for detention for the rest of the period.$

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$When I told the teachers why I was a running a little behind on the meeting they thought it was hilarious. They even called down to the staff member who had written me the infraction to jokingly tell him he can't send parents to detention or else they'll never get their parent meetings done on time.$

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