I process passports everyday and we check out that kind of information. She would have to lie a lot more to get away with it.

Grow up instead!

Tell her to say Hi to Martha for me :)

I have printed this entire thread and I'm going to give it to her. The whole age thing started two years ago on a trip to Scotland. We were at a pub with some slightly younger people than us and one of the girls had a few too many and asked her how old she was. She lied by 10 years and got away with it. Nobody challanged her to prove it because she rehearsed being asked about her age and how to react. Now she wants to be able to produce the fake birth date on her passport just in case.

I am six years younger than her and she thinks she feels self concious with younger people. Back in the 80's she accually changed her birth date by one year directly On her passport to get a student air fare out of Cairo. I don't think that passports back then had the plastic coating over the information and were easy to alter. She is an artist. She flew into Paris with it, traveled all over and back into the US and nobody caught it.

I think your comments will change her mind.
thanks.

She's an artist, all right. A con artist. Are you planning to get married, ever? To her?

Well I've been against this girl from the start. But if you really do show this to her and she sticks with you after discussing her this way on a public forum, then she gets my vote after all. Most girls would dump you in a hearbeat for airing the "dirty laundry" in public.

One poster above made the most convincing argument against this (well besides jail time)...

if she lies about her age subtracting 10 years... especially as time goes on she will look awful old and not very good for her claimed age (not the other way around)!

My god what is going on here.

Common sense obviously does not happen to be a part of wemr's brain, so he has come to the good old fodorites to seek answers to his amazingly pathetic question.

A passport is a LEGAL document which proves who you are. It also proves that you are a citizen of the country in question, and allows you to enter and leave the country without requiring a visa. Providing false information is a criminal offence and your girlfriend probably will be charged.

If she attempts to change it herself, not only will she look like a class clown at the airport but she will also probably be detained under the Terrorist Act and the Immigration Act - since she has broken laws under both acts.

So unless she wants to go to jail, I wouldn't recommend doing it at all.

Oh please.This is a TROLL.

Pat, I printed the thread before I posted the details, and removed all the screen names, thread title, and web info on a word processing program before the final print. She really needs to read these comments.

Suze is right. Wouldn't most people rather look 40 and have people find out they're really 50 instead of looking 50 and then people find out they're only 40?
My partner's mother was always very vain about her age and kept it secret. She died at 93 with soft blonde hair -- never allowed herself to show a gray hair. Everyone always thought she was much, much younger than she was. When she turned 90 and she was at a party at her condo someone asked why the orchid corsage and she let it slip out that she was 90. She was immediately surrounded by people who couldn't get over it, mostly saying she didn't look a day over 60 or maybe 65 (she really didn't!). From that day on she started introducing herself as "Hi, my name is Mibs and I'm 90". She loved the results she got.

I still can't believe this isn't a joke. If not, the joke's on you for staying with this airhead.

Eewwwwe... what started out funny has turned a bit dark. So? She's already been a fraud...niiiiiiiiiiiice.

Wemr, last time you told the story, it was you who changed your passport on your passport to get student rates.

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...wemr&fid=2

Did you get the idea from your girlfriend or vice-versa? Or did you both get the idea from your wife, whom you mentioned in a post last year?

Amazing what you can learn about somebody's sense of "humor" by spending five minutes looking at their old posts.

wemr, let me get this right, you have an insecure older girlfriend with a history of lying and forgery? that doesn't bother you even a little bit?

Oh KT, or should I say Sherlock?! Good sleuthing!

wemr, we're all waiting for you to clear up the confusion.

Thank you KT for investigating this, dare I say, ridiculous post. I am afraid this fellow may fit into the category of poster that Shrink, OO and I were chatting about in another thread...

Troll or no troll, it's been already 25 hours of enterntainment! ;)