Back when I was instructing;

When asked what I did for a living,
"I work at the airport"
"Doing what?"
"I'm a flight instructor, I teach people how to fly"
"Oooh, wow, so wait, do you have your license or whatever yet?"

Uhhh, nope, they let me teach people how to fly but why would they dream of giving me a pilot's license!

Or,
“You're the co-pilot? How long until they let you fly it/have you ever flown the airplane before?”

No, I've never flown it before, but I did touch the pedals once and that was pretty neat.

“You are too young to fly passengers!”

"How long have you been a pilot?"

Uhh, counting today that makes 3 weeks!