"Seniors only" shopping hours, is it fair?

At 65 I don't think I'm classed as old enough to take advantage of the 'senior hours'.
I understand to be classed as elderly here in England you have to be 70 plus.. ... The times of senior hours vary depending on which supermarket chain..some as early as 7am..some as late as 9am till 10...

I don't ever go that early to the shops.. but if I was still working I'd be mad that I couldn't use the supermarket at 7am as I used to before getting to work..
We don't have any shortages of food or good here now..


However I do think it's a good idea to allow the elderly and vulnerable to get a chance to use the supermarkets when they're relatively empty
 

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I don't feel it's true that seniors can go shopping anytime of the day they have appointments to get to and other things that they have to do that require their attention and are not and are not just lollygagging around all day. Also, a majority of senior citizens now have jobs they go to well into their 70s and 80s!!
 
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Ruthanne said:
I don't feel it's true that seniors can go shopping anytime of the day they have appointments to get to and other things that they have to do that require their attention and are not and are not just lollygagging around all day. Also, a majority of senior citizens now have jobs they go to well into their 70s and 80s!!
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I do a fair amount of lollygagging around; I'm getting very good at it.
 
I think it's selfish to complain about this. Many older people are in wheelchairs. It's difficult enough trying to manoeuvre round a store without putting up with other people's kids. It's usually just an hour once a week, surely that isn't too much to ask?
 
Butterfly said:
I do a fair amount of lollygagging around; I'm getting very good at it.
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I googled lollygagging and here's what I found. Also some marvelous other byways such as balderdash and poppycock. So many great words and expressions have been lost to our language.


The racy past of "lollygag"
By Rebecca Kruth & Anne Curzan • Jul 29, 2018

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Lollygagging, screwing around, goofing off – whatever you call it, we can all agree there a lot of ways to talk about wasting time in English.

Kalen, who previously asked us about "druthers," says "I tell my kids all the time to not lollygag, doodle or dilly dally. They are fun words, to be sure, but where do they come from?"

They are most definitely fun words. But watch out for "lollygag." It seems innocent at first, but then things get kind of racy.

"Lollygag," also known historically as "lallygag," comes into English in the mid-19th century meaning to dawdle. However, at that time, "lollygag" also meant to fool around.

Yes, that kind of fooling around.

Check out this awesome line that appeared in an Iowa newspaper in 1868: “The lascivious lollygagging lumps of licentiousness who disgrace the common decencies of life by their love-sick fawnings at our public dances."

Another great line from 1949 appears in the Oxford English Dictionary: "Lollygagging was grandmother's word for love-making." Today "lollygag" means to idle or dawdle, though we're guessing that some of you may now be having second thoughts about using it.

That's OK, we've got other words for wasting time. For example, the verb "doodle" can mean to draw or scribble but in an aimless, time-wasting manner. When you think about it that way, it makes sense that "doodle" can also mean to dawdle.

We've also got "dilly-dally." The base word "dally" came in from Old French hundreds of years ago and meant to chat idly. Over time "dally" picked up other meanings such as to toy with things or spend time idly.
 
Ruthanne said:
I don't feel it's true that seniors can go shopping anytime of the day they have appointments to get to and other things that they have to do that require their attention and are not and are not just lollygagging around all day. Also, a majority of senior citizens now have jobs they go to well into their 70s and 80s!!
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Ruthanne and, I said that in jest. Maybe you didn't notice my laughing emoticon?
 
RadishRose said:
Wasn't Dilly Dally a puppet on Howdy Doody?
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Dilly-dally can also be used to describe wasting time or being indecisive. Dilly-dally is quite old fashioned British English slang but is still used today. This expression is perhaps most commonly associated with a classic music hall song from 1919. My Old Man (Said Follow the Van) was a popular UK hit for Marie Lloyd Marie Lloyd Matilda Alice Victoria Wood, professionally known as Marie Lloyd; was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress. She was best known for her performances of songs such as "The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery", "My Old Man" and "Oh Mr Porter What Shall I Do". She received ... en.wikipedia.org .
 
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