0n (07 Jun 06) Shawn Highfield wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 SH> Hello Cindy.

 SH> 07 Jun 06 15:25, you wrote to all:

 CH> I'm peeved when some young upstart offers a senior citazen discount to
 CH> someone not even a senior yet... This crap is all AARP's fault!

 SH>  My father went grey at an early age, when he was about 55 people
 SH> started offering him Senior discounts, he decided instead of fighting
 SH> it he went with it.

 SH>  "If they want to give me a discount I'll take it!"


 Yeah, that's how my hubby and his dad and three brothers look at it.
I suppose some of just don't like the fact that no sooner do we get
used to the blow of turning fifty we get another blow right after that
of being seniors already too? That's kinda much.

I don't consider myself senior at all. ... :)

 SH>  Of course we must remember with a name like Highfield, he is scotish!
 SH> ;)


 There's a new peeve going around. There's middle aged (this group is
being lumped into the next one)- and seniors who are not at all so
pleased with being addressed by younger people as 'young man ' or
'young lady' (at stores by clerks). We all know the young folk only
mean to be nice. It's a version of that wincesome thread bare worn out
 'have a nice day'....  But it is rather annoying.

One ""senior"" lady is said to have quipped when addressed as
 'young lady' by a young male clerk: "Thank you, little man"... heh.


Why not just dispense with the  phoney baloney greetings? Thank you
and your welcome with a SMILE ought to do quite well enough to satisfy
common courtesy?

Cindy

... Ever since I gave up hope, I feel much better.

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