You Look Old To Me | DearDiary.Net

The other day when I went to the thrift store, I forgot to mention something that happened. Well, I purposely left it out actually. But now am feeling blogger's remorse for lack of full disclosure. (Not to be confused with the full monty.)

I politely waited my turn in the checkout line behind a lady who was thrilled to have found a sturdy wooden captain's chair for her back porch. At 2.50, I would think so. She was dragging it along the linoleum floor and a rather grating way, but it was just too heavy for her to carry. We commented on it's purchase worthiness for quite some time, as the person ahead of us had a large pile of stuff being checked out.

When it was finally my turn, I placed my wooden tea tray and ceramic creamer on the counter. One dollar and 25 cents respectively.

He rang up the amounts and said.... "That will be $1.13." I said, "Oh no, this was a dollar and this is a quarter." He said, "I am giving you the Senior discount."

I blinked at him.

"But I'm only 53."

"That's okay, I'm giving it to you anyway." he said smiling, like he was doing me a favor reminding me, that to him at least, I look like I'm 55.

So after figuring in sales tax and subtracting from what I WOULD have paid, were I considered a regular citizen, not a senior citizen, I saved 20 cents.

"20 cents worth of depression please."

This is not what came into this store to buy.

But that's what I came out with.

This is why I have always hated math.

I knew the first time I heard it, that the phrase "Lowest common denominator" was not a good thing to use up 4 sheets of foolscap and half an eraser to find out.

I think I am going to dye my hair again. What's so great about going "natural" anyway?

(Hey 20 cents, is 20 cents...add it up.)

I don't want to talk about it. Especially with you.

(How about a quarter?)

You know, I heard from a reliable source that parenthesis are going out of style. . . grammatically speaking.

Comments (12)

Dustbunny3 (Legacy)

AH-SO Now what goes around comes around again and again.
Think back when you wanted to look older and couldn' wait to get a drivers Lic. I think it has been said Never look a gift horse in the eye or mouth.
Now the funny part about old is I work side by side with labors I have hired and they flip out when they find out how old my body is .
Hair is a another matter with the Male / first a little grey and then White which then drops out to Bald.
So take the money and be happy as the wheel is turning and not a damn thing you can do about it.

enchantedbutterfly (Legacy)

Slap the child and tell him to shut up! Being told your old is the same as being told your fat. You just dont do that! Some people have no tact. yesh!

Well I hope your day improves, and thanks for clarifying the difference between full disclosure and full monty! LOL

Hugs,

Butterfly

allimom (Legacy)

I went back to coloring my hair on a regular basis after an incident that happened when Franisbueno and I went to get our nails done. She is 10 years younger than I am, and the people there thought it was "so neat that a mother and daughter are getting their nails done together!". Oh yea, coloring started again that night.
Alli

Pragmatist (Legacy)

You saved 20 cents and you're complaining? Oh. It just occurred to me you can't even buy and ice cream cone for 20 cents anymore. Tch.

Put it in the pushke.

Shalom

ichandra (Legacy)

mon amie the world is only trying to help now i was brought up in strict catholic surroundings and i was taught to judge the intention over the action

InStitches (Legacy)

Its not as bad as getting an invitation to join AARP the six months before you turn 50 and by the way just who decided 55 was a senior? yeesh!

ichandra (Legacy)

hey i finally saw the tea cup it is beautiful mon amie it makes me think of a line of verse that i wrote once but it is the scent of lilacs in the wind that stirs a sleeping spirit
speaking of scents i will have to choose just the right scented candle to match my mood for shabat since i bought such an array of them
shabat shalom you have posted on friday so i think this is the right time to say this

bookworm (Legacy)

Oh no, you have my full sympathy. What a terrible discount that was. ;-)

toverfee (Legacy)

I don't know what it is about getting older than scares us. I'm only 19 and whenever I'm called "that lady" by some ignorant little brat, I shudder. I think it's because people associate old with boring. It's just not true.

I've never understood why older women want to hide their grey hairs under hairdye. I think grey hair is beautiful.

Lilith (Legacy)

I haven't been offered a senor discount, yet.
After reading your entry I suddenly feel very good about that.
~56 and going on~

allimom (Legacy)

It was a plant for me too, I was thinking about a rose vine with a blue bird perched on it or a butterfly, bumble bee or hummingbird hovering over it.
Either that or a tat of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. I think my Hubby may have issues with that though!
Alli

fairywishes (Legacy)

I think it's quite hysterical that he thought he was doing you a favour! ROFLOL! ;-)

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