- What are we doing here today?
I'm about to transform into an 80 year old.
(upbeat music)
I recently turned 30 earlier this year.
Most people wouldn't assume that because of my
boyish good looks.
It's like a landmark birthday.
Obviously it gets me thinking about growing older.
I never want to grow up.
Peter Pan is my favorite story of all time,
so I am doing the exact thing that I've been running from
my entire life, at least physically today.
I think the maturity will come later in life.
(energetic music)
Oh god.
Holy shit.
Oh my god.
What the fuck.
Dude, I'm gonna like faint right now.
This is the fucking weirdest thing that I've ever done.
This is fucking crazy.
It's like when in your life do you get to see yourself
50 years in the future?
Oh.
Hello Benjamin.
I am your future.
I kinda look like Jon Voight.
I have this fear of other people seeing me like this.
Like I've been vulnerable before, but this is me
in the state that I fear the most.
And it's gonna be weird as hell if they look at me,
the people that I know really well,
and they don't even recognize me.
Hi.
- What?
- I've been lost.
- Oh I'm sorry, are you okay?
- [Other Woman] Who is it?
- Who is what?
(laughing)
- How do they do this?
Is that what our skin is gonna like, do?
- Yeah man. I can see yours is actually starting to do it.
Seeing my looks deteriorate and the wrinkles,
like this is what I'm gonna look like and it's startling.
- To be fair you're a very handsome old man.
- Your wrinkles mean wisdom.
- [Man] Well thank you.
Thank you ladies.
So I'm scared of how my girlfriend Annie
is gonna react to this.
She cares about looks too and I'm worried that
when she sees me she's gonna have a harder time visualizing
a life where she and I live to 80.
Which is a screwed up way of thinking,
and maybe she's not that superficial.
Hey baby, can we talk about the travel plan arrangement?
I'm gonna get my girlfriend Annie to go over to a location
where we're already set up with cameras.
She has no idea that I've been transformed into this
80 year old version of myself and I'm just gonna
approach her and see what happens.
Hopefully she does not slap me in the face.
Hello.
- Hi.
- How are you?
Miss?
How are you?
Hello.
You remind me of somebody that I know.
- I'm super freaked out right now.
- What's wrong?
Come here.
- No. This is so creepy!
- Come here!
Come play with me young lady!
- So this is what you're gonna look like when you're
- Well this is not necessarily what I'm gonna look like.
This is just like, kind of worst case scenario.
Do you want to touch my face?
- I already kind of did but, it's so weird.
Your lips are all cracked and old.
Your hands, they put spots on them.
- Say we're both still together at this age...
- Like if I looked like that too?
- Imagine you were this old too, would you be happy
walking around with this old man?
- Yeah. You're very cute.
- You sure?
- Yeah. Okay.
- Sit on my lap. Please.
- You can kiss my cheek.
All right guys I'm done.
- Annie's response was fine.
I don't know why I was overreacting when I initially
looked at myself but, let's have some more fun with this.
We're at McDonald's.
I'm gonna go try to see if I can get some
senior discounted coffee.
Here I go!
- [Cashier] Next guest in line.
- One senior coffee please.
- One senior coffee. Anything else sir?
- That's all.
- Your total is gonna be $1.09, go ahead and sign.
Here you go, sir.
- Thank you.
Yeah, baby!
I got that discount.
$1.09, I don't know what it is normally but,
he was like of course sir, here you go.
How many creams how many sugars?
My dad happens to be in town today also.
I texted my dad telling him I was in the lobby.
I got into position, I got into character.
We waited for like ten minutes for him
to come down the stairs.
When he finally did, as soon as he walked into the lobby,
he doesn't even look at me,
he doesn't even notice me at all.
He picks up his phone and takes a business call.
I just decided, all right stick it out,
kinda look off to the side and wait for him
to get off the phone and then I finally got impatient.
I wandered over to him in this slouched kind of way.
Hi.
And then again I was like, oh crap.
He has no idea that it's me.
I proceeded to sit down, right next to him,
thinking that he would eventually look up and see
that it's his son.
When he looked at me, he didn't look at me the way
a dad looks at his son.
The way my dad normally looks at me.
He looked at me like he wanted to kick my ass.
Someone I've known for 30 years and he didn't even
recognize me?
It was totally surreal.
Excuse me.
You like BuzzFeed?
- Yeah I'm on the phone right now.
- With who?
As I'm getting in his face, my phone started buzzing
in my pocket.
He's calling me while I'm facing him.
You calling someone?
Who?
- I'll tell you in one second.
- I pulled out my phone and I held up dad.
- That is so weird.
(laughing)
No, I can't at all.
Holy crap.
When you showed me the phone that said dad.
I'm like why did Ben give this old man, I was like
(gasp)
- Yes!
- Once I realized it was you, it scared me.
- And seeing you, I feel the emotional weight
it has on you.
Dude like this is hard.
- Oh god, it was hard!
And then when I realized it was you, you were sitting down,
I'm like, how old am I gonna be when you're that old?
Because I'm still gonna be here.
- Yeah you are.
- I feel that I just don't ever want to look at my
old son again, ever.
- I'm sorry.
- No you don't have to be sorry.
- Well I love you and thank you for going through this.
He really can't look at me right now.
- Oh my god.
- I experienced what it was like to be perceived
as a different person.
I said I've got a bit of Peter Pan syndrome.
Never want to grow up, and I'm still happy with my age now.
But I think when I'm actually 80,
I'm not even gonna care.
I think life is gonna be a lot more carefree,
and I'm looking forward to that part of aging.