How old are you?

Meimei developed a knack of asking everyone around her how old they are. It was harmless initially, but when it gets too overboard, it began to irks them and me.

My mom was around for the last few days, and whilst in the car, she asked her how old she is (for the uncountable times we know of). So both of us just ignored her and pretended we didn't hear her. She then started to answer her question herself with another question, like "51?"

Wanting to just quickly shut her up and changed the subject, I replied "yeah, you are right!".

She then pondered for awhile and said "Can't be!". I asked why? She said "You are coming to 40 already mah.. how can y-poh be 51? It's too close!"

I was taken aback and humored that she has that notion. And I wondered if she knew why she can't be 51 if I'm turning 40. I tried to probe her further but she can't give me the answer.

Very much a logic person she is. But of course, she couldn't yet tell that y-poh would have been 11 when she gave birth to me. The boys wouldn't have had the same conversation at that age. They would just probably accept it, and as history shown, they weren't quite interested in this topic anyway.