You know you are getting old when:

[ChiTownScion]

If it was up to me, we'd do away with that discount. It's more trouble than its worth. But if we tried to, the tantrum that would result would be heard from here to Polynesia.

Since you're managing a not- for- profit, is the discount minimal?

 

[Trenchfriend]

It seems, that I have to pay more attention, what I'm eating together, the older I get. A wrong mix can cause the runs seemingly more than ten years ago.
It seems, that for example honey is not more that that friendly to my body. At least in combination.

 

[tonyb]

When you're a kid, you are at all times acutely aware of your age, because it defines what you are or are not allowed to do. When you grow up to young adulthood, age loses much of its meaning, and for long stretches of this time of your life, you often forget how old you actually are. Does it even matter? And then when you pass the threshold of middle age, you often forget how old you actually are, not because age is irrelevant, but because you literally can't remember. And finally, you reach the point, from late middle-age onward, where you are at all times acutely aware of your age, because it defines what you are or are not capable of doing.

If you’re over 25 and under 65, most people won’t cut you much slack on account of age. You’re old enough to know better and not yet so old that you forgot how to be.

 

[tonyb]

If it was up to me, we'd do away with that discount. It's more trouble than its worth. But if we tried to, the tantrum that would result would be heard from here to Polynesia.

I’ll take the discount because, well, why wouldn’t I?

But why should I pay less than that younger person over there with less scratch than I have? Just on account of having lived longer? Or is the thinking that I’ve toiled for lo those many years and for that reason I deserve it? Or is it that the odds are against my living much longer so I ought to get the reward while I’m still here to receive it?

 

[GHT]

That's a good point, just because I have dodged the Grim Reaper for three score years and ten, why should that entitle me to discounts and freebies. From the perspective of the UK, it comes about because of the miserly state pension. Being as poor as church mouse makes any discount worth having. Politicians get in on the act too, free bus passes when you reach whatever age they deem worthy, is a vote winner. But all things being equal, you do have a very valid point.

 

[Zombie_61]

I don't care why they're giving it to me or what they call it. A discount is a discount is a discount.

 

[Trenchfriend]

A discount is a discount is a discount.

German national anthem.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Around here, it galls when the demand for the discount emanates from someone wearing a coat that cost more than you earn in a month.

 

[GHT]

Thumbing through your newspaper, you see an advert for Scholl footwear and think: "They look comfortable!"

 

[ChrisB]

German national anthem.

Discount Über Alles?

 

[belfastboy]

I don't care why they're giving it to me or what they call it. A discount is a discount is a discount.

Yes, I figure it is not my place to discern their pricing strategy.....I pay what ever is the listed fare. If it includes a discount for whatever reason who am I to question it?

 

[tonyb]

... you learn that a guy you’ve known since your teen years is quite a ways down the Alzheimer’s road. And the news saddens but doesn’t really surprise you.

 

[GHT]

... you learn that a guy you’ve known since your teen years is quite a ways down the Alzheimer’s road. And the news saddens but doesn’t really surprise you.

We didn't have a name for it years ago, but I saw my Grandfather slowly lose the plot in his final years of life. It is sad, especially when you remember all the fun times together.

 

[tonyb]

“The older I get, the better I was.”

— Van Dyke Parks

 

[ChiTownScion]

We celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary this evening. Since neither my wife nor I are of the "Work Young, Marry Young, Die Young" persuasion, I'll let you sort it out.

Old? Yeah.

 

[Zombie_61]

We celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary this evening. Since neither my wife no I are of the "Work Young, Marry Young, Die Young" persuasion, I'll let you sort it out.

Old? Yeah.

Congratulations! My wife and I are only a little ahead of you and your bride as we'll be celebrating our 39th wedding anniversary later this month.

 

[GHT]

We celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary this evening. Since neither my wife no I are of the "Work Young, Marry Young, Die Young" persuasion, I'll let you sort it out.

Old? Yeah.

My girlfriend and I were amateur ballroom dancers. Amateur we might have been but we were very enthusiastic about it. It's an expensive hobby if you take it really seriously. Dance outfits and special shoes of course, tuition, private classes, the list is endless. We loved to compete and would go to various ballrooms away from London. To help reduce costs I asked her father for permission to share a hotel room. Oh dear, that raised the hackles: "If you want to sleep with my daughter, you'll marry her." he said, rather huffily. And to his, and everyone else's surprise, I did. She was 18 and I was 22. Here we are, still enjoying the occasional dance, fifty-two years later.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you're going fast downstairs and your "boobs" bob uncomfortable.

 

[Turnip]

The more ingredients of a mixed salad need to be served separately at a party the older you get.

 

[Turnip]

...you think what you could additionally accomplish at the occasion once being down lacing your shoes.