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I am not one and how dare you offer me the menu for the toothless old and young! "No", I'll say next time, "I am in better shape than you and let's put up the fists", and if they're chicken to fight the likes of me, I'll race the bastard and win.
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Lyda*Rose
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Wow. I rejoiced mightily when they started offering me senior discounts in my fifties on food and movie tickets. It has been one advantage of not coloring my gray hair.
I'm not always into senior menus but they usually come printed within the general menu so I can choose.
This is definitely a "First World problem".
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NP - have you checked the front of your hat?
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Firenze
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I don't think I've ever been offered a different menu on the basis of my age - if it's the same dishes, but cheaper, that's OK. Free travel/ reserved seating/ discounted tickets/ reduced entrance fees - I'm all over it.
You're only old once - make the most of it.
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You guys are as bad as the peanut gallery I was eating with. All I get since Friday is the rub-in.
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I believe the senior citizen discounts are not offered because you're thought frail - but because you are thought more likely to be retired, and therefore on a fixed income and strapped for cash.
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You're sure it's not because you were sitting down to dinner at 4:30?
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Ariel
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So what is on the menu - lots of well-mashed veg, meat cooked to disintegration and things you don't have to chew?
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Firenze
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No, it'll be Real Food such as we grew up on: 30-minute cabbage, floury soup, luncheon meat and beetroot, boiled parsnips, Bisto gravy. None of this nonsense like salad* on the same plate as hot food.
*= lettuce, tomato and hard-boiled egg with salad cream.
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Baptist Trainfan
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With Tizer or Dandelion & Burdock to drink ... definitely none of this foreign wine nonsense!
The salad you describe ... I remember it well. It was always served at Sunday tea-time in the Scottish Bible College I attended in 1975-6.
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Sioni Sais
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If old means Dandelion & Burdock then that's fine by me!
I'm 57 and not by any means the youngest looking 57 y.o., but I've not been offered a senior's anything yet, and many of these deals start at age 60. Looks like I'll have to ask for these.
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
This is definitely a "First World problem".
Yeah, like my 30 year old friends who complain about getting carded for buying booze: you really gonna bitch because you still look young?
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Thanks for all the hellpful comments and not volunteering to cut up my meat! And no, I don't wear adult diapers.
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Uncle Pete
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What's wrong with adult diapers? I wear them all the time in travel status. Most useful.
As for being a senior citizen, I enjoy the fact that my bus pass has dropped to $40.75 from somewhere in the mid hundreds, the bank has given me a pass from all those nit-picky little charges that made life so interesting for my bank account when I was working.
And when I was having my t-shirt (I'm a senior. Do you do discounts?) custom made*, the shop gave me an automatic discount.
Prescription drugs (at least those listed, some are not) are now nearly free. My monthly drug bills have plummeted.
I reserve the right to be insanely jealous over the public transit costs for seniors in Scotland.
*The mass-produced shirts were incredibly rude. I wouldn't be caught dead wearing one.
What's not to like about being old? Other than the reduced appetite that comes with it and make sense of food discounts?
And why is this thread in Hell? The OPer needs to pull up his big boy panties (the non-adult diaper ones) and get on with life.
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
And why is this thread in Hell?
Presumably so someone can suggest the quietus to all the old folk currently piling up in hospital, hogging all the houses and the capital, and generally ignoring the suffering young.
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
What's wrong with adult diapers? I wear them all the time in travel status. Most useful.
So do I. Very handy. You don't have to schlep dirty panties home with you in your luggage -- and there's room for the things you bought while away.
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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
And why is this thread in Hell?
Presumably so someone can suggest the quietus to all the old folk currently piling up in hospital, hogging all the houses and the capital, and generally ignoring the suffering young.
They certainly clog up the buses round here. In Wales over-60s get free bus travel and thousands of people get up early, do the day's shopping then ride the buses all bloody day!
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Originally posted by Ariel:
So what is on the menu - lots of well-mashed veg, meat cooked to disintegration and things you don't have to chew?
I don't think I have ever seen a seniors menu anywhere. Are portions smaller, food old fashioned, food boring, just cheaper or what is your problem? Seems to me that you have taken personal offence just because you are not a senior.
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Fish. Fish improves the memory.
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I don't think I have ever seen a seniors menu anywhere.
The one I'm most familiar with is Denny's (click Menu, scroll down to 55+). The portions are smaller and less expensive than the regular menu items and tend to come with fewer extras.
Many fast food restaurants, including Taco Bell, Subway, Jack in the Box, and Einstein Bagels, to name a few, offer a 10% senior discount on their standard menu items (not all branches do, though).
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Lothlorien
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I am in Australia. The closest thing I can think of is the $10 lunch at the RSL club. That however is open to anyone to buy.
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I don't wear panties. Rather, low rise, bikini, mesh front, manly gotchies with the pee flap. Fire engine red. When I am really a senior I will them on the outside of my clothes.
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Are you sure that this denial isn't your own denial that you are ageing?
It is most reminiscent of my father's determined refusal to let me near his sailing club with my baby daughter. I realised one reason* why when I bumped into a friend from the club shopping, who had no idea I had a child. After greeting me and daughter warmly, a thoughtful expression crossed her face, "Oooh, I can call your dad 'grandad'." She waltzed off with a broad grin on her face.
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I got offered a senior's menu (smaller portions) in my early 40s. The waitress had overheard me telling my friends I didn't want a large main course, because I wanted to leave plenty room for pudding.
Yes, my friends (particularly the ones older than me) thought it was funny. And no, when they retold the story, they didn't include the "wanting to leave room for pudding" bit.
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Just eat the pudding first, NEQ! Then you don't have to worry about leaving room for it
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I don't think I have ever seen a seniors menu anywhere.
The one I'm most familiar with is Denny's (click Menu, scroll down to 55+). The portions are smaller and less expensive than the regular menu items and tend to come with fewer extras.
Sounds like a good idea. There's starting to be a bit of a move here towards menus "for lighter appetites", which would suit me fine if that caught on. Usually, though, there's just the children's menu and restaurants don't always let adults order from that - assuming there's anything you'd want on it. There are times when a restaurant-size adult portion can be too much to finish.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Are you sure that this denial isn't your own denial that you are ageing?
Of course it is! Shit on my balding head. Second thought I admit nothing.
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
What's not to like about being old? Other than the reduced appetite that comes with it ...
Really? I bet A Certain Shipmate Who Lives In India would have something to say about that ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
There used to be a restaurant in St. John's that regularly offered D. the Senior Citizen's discount before he was 50 (he's 59 now). He didn't mind at all - $5 is $5 after all. His hair's been grey for over 20 years, so I suppose they could be forgiven for thinking he's older than his years.
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In contrast, I was mistaken for my 13 year old's big sister on Friday.
Neener neener.
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Lyda*Rose
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Yeah, yeah, we all know you're a hottie. Tell us something we don't know.
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Originally posted by comet:
In contrast, I was mistaken for my 13 year old's big sister on Friday.
Neener neener.
53-year old big sister?
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About ten years ago (I was in my early 50s) I went to lunch with a friend after church on Sunday and ordered a beer. The waiter (who was very young and had only worked there a few days) carded me. The following Wednesday I had a birthday. On Friday I went to a movie and the ticket person, without asking or saying anything, automatically handed me a senior ticket. Wow! What a difference one birthday made! I went from looking under 21 to over 65 within five days.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I went from looking under 21 to over 65 within five days.
Living in Mormon Central will do that to you.
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Lothlorien
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Many years ago, my sister and I caught bus from station to holiday beach house. I was in uni, third year and my sister is six years younger than I am.
She was horrified when we compared tickets. I had been given a child ticket and charged for that. Hers was full fare.
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I went from looking under 21 to over 65 within five days.
Living in Mormon Central will do that to you.
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There is a certain age when adults are carded and take pleasure in the mistake. The next age is the one where carding causes the feeling of "don't be silly".
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Yeah, yeah, we all know you're a hottie. Tell us something we don't know.
I take my smug when I can get it. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Makes up for the rest of the time when my son says things like, "Mama! I found this old picture of you! You used to be pretty!"
Little asshole didn't need to sound quite so shocked.
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I went from looking under 21 to over 65 within five days.
Living in Mormon Central will do that to you.
Have they taken over Hogwart's?? (Pigwidgeon's location.)
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I went from looking under 21 to over 65 within five days.
Living in Mormon Central will do that to you.
Have they taken over Hogwart's?? (Pigwidgeon's location.)
My dear friend Miss Amanda knows that when I'm not delivering mail to Hogwart's I live very near the heart of Mormonism (aka Mesa) here in Arizona.
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Originally posted by comet:
Makes up for the rest of the time when my son says things like, "Mama! I found this old picture of you! You used to be pretty!"
I heard the story;
"Mummy, why are you putting cream on your face?"
"To make me nice and beautiful sweetie".
Pause for further observation.
"I don't think it's working mummy"
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Nearly 30 years ago I was visiting my sister in Toronto before she and her family relocated to the wilds of British Columbia. On a whim, we decided to go to the Canadian National Exhibition which we had both visited in our childhood, but never together. We stopped at the Guess your age stand, which promised to guess our ages within 2 years. I went first and he was spot on. She went next and was out by 5 years older. As I bent over laughing and managing to gasp "Well, you've always said you were my older sister", she protested to the guesser "But he's my TWIN!!!"
Ah, revenge.
PS: We're still talking to each other.
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One of the joys of being a God-fearing person is a certain aura of youth and general well being. One of the many pluses.
Of course I am too holy to make any comment about the worry frowns, wrinkles and general demeanour of those who do not know Jesus as their Lord and saviour. I do however keep little bottles of regenerative face cream in my pocket to drop onto the bags and oxygen tank carriers of the un-regenerate.
Hope it helps.
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Originally posted by Pyx_e:
One of the joys of being a God-fearing person is a certain aura of youth and general well being. One of the many pluses.
Of course I am too holy to make any comment about the worry frowns, wrinkles and general demeanour of those who do not know Jesus as their Lord and saviour. I do however keep little bottles of regenerative face cream in my pocket to drop onto the bags and oxygen tank carriers of the un-regenerate.
An amusing tip. If you can get the little bottles into the oxygen masks, they don't half go off with a bang when senior citizen lights up.
Always good for a mid-morning chortle.
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My beauty treatment consists of thanking God daily for my rosy English complexion.
Even with the receding hairline people underestimate my age. No baseball cap required.
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You do look really young. I was afraid they were gonna kick us out of the Thirsty Bear.
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I was on the train to San Francisco to meet my family for lunch. I had just turned 50. On a fairly full train, a young thing (bless her!) immediately hopped up to give me her seat.
I accepted, of course.
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Golden Key
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Pyx_e--
I trust you have instructive Scripture verses printed on the bottles?
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Originally posted by basso:
I was on the train to San Francisco to meet my family for lunch. I had just turned 50. On a fairly full train, a young thing (bless her!) immediately hopped up to give me her seat.
I accepted, of course.
Whereas the Mistress of Tact here, on being given a seat on the bus several years ago, reacted with "I don't look that old do I?" ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
The very polite young man assured me that he was offering the seat purely on the basis of my gender not my age and, my brain having kicked in, I thanked him profusely and sat down.
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Originally posted by comet:
... I was mistaken for my 13 year old's big sister on Friday ...
When I went with my niece to collect a Chinese take-away from their regular place, the bloke behind the counter looked at me and said, "you must be her mum's sister". I admitted that I was, and he said, "you're the older sister?"
Because I'm a very nice piglet, I managed to tell him that she's 6½ years older than me without punching him ...
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