so your children are roughly the same age as me and lots of others here...
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Don't remind her!so your children are roughly the same age as me and lots of others here...
Yes, I keep forgetting that being senior starts at fifty and that not everyone is as old as I! I won't get too many responses to this discussion, that's for sure! So, you youngsters, just forget about the subject!so your children are roughly the same age as me and lots of others here...
I've said before that it's like two generations here and there are big differences between them.Yes, I keep forgetting that being senior starts at fifty and that not everyone is as old as I! I won't get too many responses to this discussion, that's for sure! So, you youngsters, just forget about the subject!
but
When I mention fifty, that's when one of our grocery chains, and some fast food joints would start giving us seniors' discounts. I took full advantage of it even though I certainly didn't feel like a senior! But from then on, senior starts at fifty, got stuck in my brain.I've said before that it's like two generations here and there are big differences between them.
I say this next thing as a generalization. Retirement age used to be 65 and early retirement was 62 or maybe 60. I'm not sure where 50 is the retirement age now. Maybe it's just a discount.
Good heavens, I am surrounded by youngsters!My daughter has quite a way to go before she's a senior
when that happens, I'm sure it will feel all kinds of strange, yes. She
was born in '84.
Seriously, the only place I've seen calling a 50 year old a senior is right here at the forum. A senior citizen is 65 technically whether or not someone retires early. It's always been like that... and it's when Medicare eligibility begins.Yes, I keep forgetting that being senior starts at fifty and that not everyone is as old as I! I won't get too many responses to this discussion, that's for sure! So, you youngsters, just forget about the subject!
See my # 11 Kate!
No, I think about this because my children are in their forties now. Well, the youngest is almost there.Yes, I keep forgetting that being senior starts at fifty and that not everyone is as old as I! I won't get too many responses to this discussion, that's for sure! So, you youngsters, just forget about the subject!
Well then I'd boycott the durn place for trying to call me a senior citizen at age 50! Just kidding... kind of. There was a place I was buying a ticket in Florida a number of years ago... and the whippersnapper behind the cash register asked if I wanted a senior discount ticket instead of regular adult. I was like 51 at the time and I turned it down and fumed silently for the rest of the day. Senior citizen... bah!
That happened to my Dad when I turned sixty, he was eighty-eight, talk about freaked out. Years later, Dad by now had passed away, we attended the funeral of family member. At that funeral was our four-year-old bridesmaid, she turns sixty next birthday. Not having children, having grown retired adult children is not something I would expect to experience. My little four-year-old bridesmaid absolutely freaked me out. (Did I just hear my Dad chuckle?)
My wife and I didn't mind. It was TEN percent off!
Wendy's Burgers tasted even better with the discount!
My daughter was born in '83, This Sept she will turn 40. i think her feelings will hurt if her brothers don't tease her (because that's a 'love language' for them) about being 'over the hill'.My daughter has quite a way to go before she's a senior
when that happens, I'm sure it will feel all kinds of strange, yes. She
was born in '84.
I know what you mean, feywon, my grandson was 6'5" when he was fifteen. He towered (and still does) over the rest of us making me feel absolutely short!
One my sisters (about 6 yrs older than i am) was the one bothered by my getting grey streaks and was constantly trying to get me to dye it. Why? Because she'd been dying hers for years and everyone we mutually knew (friends, professors when i went to college in my late 40s that she'd had a decade before) knew i was younger. She didn't want them figuring out she dyed hers. i told her to tell them that since we only shared Dad's DNA not both parents that i probably got the genes to do with hair from my Mom.
