I think I was 40 when I was offered my first senior discount, which must have said something about the kind of night I had the day before I stopped in Mickey D’s for some coffee. I was, like, dude, I’m only, like, barely over 30. But this column raises an interesting point — will all of us baby boomers sink the senior discount?Are there just to dang many of us for businesses to offer us a little reduction in the price? What! No more 35-cent cups of Joe? No more 10-percent off Tuesdays? Forget the Social Security crisis. I’m behind the candidate who solves the “boomers-want-the-senior-discount-even-though-we-won’t-say-we’re seniors” problem.
No discounts for you!
October 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: Baby Boomers · Scary Things about turning 50 · turning 50
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1 april // Oct 26, 2007 at 5:21 am
You’ll never know woe, though, John, the way a woman does the first time she is called Ma’am instead of Miss.
My first came at the ripe old age of 22. It still stings.
2 John Cutter // Oct 26, 2007 at 5:56 am
Interesting because the male version — Sir — wouldn’t bother me, but I’ve heard that about ma’am.
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