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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can I lie about my age and still use my Senior Railcard?

Plus: How to deal with drunken texting and low beams

28 February 2015

9:00 AM

28 February 2015

9:00 AM

Q. I was not brought up in England and don’t appear in Who’s Who. This means that there is no printed record of my date of birth. I’m not vain, but have good reason to believe the work I do would dry up if my age became known. (I look about 50.)

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