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Age 73. This morning I phoned a local theatre box office to purchase a ticket. The lady said, "One senior?" I said, "How did you know I am a senior?" She said, "Oh, you just sounded like a senior".
I was stunned, but I recovered quickly and purchased my ticket for the live performance.
I really don't want to be an "old" person. This morning was the first time I've received objective confirmation from another disinterested party that I am an old person.
Perhaps I've been living in denial? My beard has been white for over a decade, but I remain clean-shaven so I can ignore that piece of evidence. I can still jog, although not for very long - maybe ten minutes before I have to slow to a brisk walk. Pathetic, but I guess I've been ignoring that piece of evidence too. I have no trouble driving at night, or in any circumstance of traffic conditions and/or unfamiliar surroundings. So I'm still O.K. in the driving department.
This really sucks big time. I'm still thinking it over. Perhaps I need to visit an ENT doc to see if anything fixable is wrong with my voice? Denial is a powerful force, and the effect is powerful when something irrefutable breaks forcefully through the denial.
I don't know, really, what I expect anyone to say in response to my post. Perhaps there will not be any responses, and that's O.K. Maybe I just needed to vent my grief. I am not the first person to simply vent. As far as I know, venting per se is not against the TOS.
Interesting. I am 73 also but have a young voice. Maybe part of that is because I stopped smoking about 40 years ago. But there are so many beautiful things to love in this world, I don't like the idea of getting older, my body breaking down (which it is) and then not listening to music. (When I'm dead.) That hurts me. HOWEVER, I have a hope from the Bible that one day I am going to live in health and happiness forever. So this stops me from going into a deep depression. I'm only slightly depressed I suppose when I hear beautiful music or even think about it, or think about the mistakes I've made especially if I have hurt other people.
I just heard Amazing Grace on youtube with bagpipes -- it is soooo beautiful, I encourage anyone to listen.
It may vary depending on location, but aside from the grocery store, I find that here a lot of those discounts do exist. They're not a lot, but they're there and are better than nothing if you're going to spend the money anyway. Sometimes I find you have to ask about it, they don't always advertise it, and sometimes by asking they offer it or do it as a special deal just for you. And if you use the AARP website etc. you can find travel deals and other bigger ticket stuff sometimes too.
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Originally Posted by in_newengland
Discounts? Where? You know what I wish for? Discounts on theater tickets. Discounts on nice restaurants.
Discounts in the grocery store. Discounts that I would actually use.
I'd love to see an upcoming production of White Christmas but tickets would be about $300 plus tax for the two of us. And this is not New York! It's the same reason I've never been able to see Phantom of the Opera.
Restaurants--once in Florida I went to a Denny's (they don't have them where I live) and got a nice senior breakfast. For a chain restaurant the breakfast was okay too. I'd love to go out to eat at Christmas but I could put that $200 toward an overseas trip--I wonder if there's a senior discount on airfare.
There is a senior discount in Kohl's on Wednesdays but it's not a store I like to shop in.
Wait! I did get a senior discount. It was on an Amtrak train that went up to Maine. But these so-called senior discounts and benefits are few and far between. I do agree that retirement does not equate to being old. Maybe the powers that be have figured out that we're not really old and that's why there really aren't all these senior discounts that we used to hear about?
You seem absolutely determined to be defensive about comments that are not condescending but factual observations. It's a fact that younger people are more likely to handle business online rather than calling on the phone.
I also am more likely to handle business online rather than calling on the phone. I already stated previously that the reason I called on the phone is that the information I wanted was not on their website.
I am considerably younger, but I had similar feelings as I have recently transitioned from "young" to "middle-aged". I had friends express similar sentiments. It's tough. Your body changes, your looks change, people start to view you differently (I'm no longer the young, cool, fresh person, but the middle-aged woman ). I imagine I will feel the same when I move into my 60s/70s. It can be really tough making these transitions. But be grateful you are still in relatively good health, sound mind, and able to still enjoy life. I work at nursing homes, and there are residents and patients there your age. They would LOVE to be able to do the things you are still able to do!
............................. But be grateful you are still in relatively good health, sound mind, and able to still enjoy life. I work at nursing homes, and there are residents and patients there your age. They would LOVE to be able to do the things you are still able to do!
I don't understand. You are saying that there are people aged 73 and less who are in nursing homes? How can that be? What medical conditions do they have that they would be in nursing homes?
(I am not talking about temporary stays such as recovery from surgery, from a hip replacement, or from a bad car accident and the like. I mean people in nursing homes who have little if any prospect of ever getting out and living normally on their own.)
I don't understand. You are saying that there are people aged 73 and less who are in nursing homes? How can that be? What medical conditions do they have that they would be in nursing homes?
(I am not talking about temporary stays such as recovery from surgery, from a hip replacement, or from a bad car accident and the like. I mean people in nursing homes who have little if any prospect of ever getting out and living normally on their own.)
Seriously?
Strokes, dementia, Huntington's, permanent brain damage, MS, there's a whole long list of conditions that could put you in a nursing home permanently even as a relatively young adult.
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I had friends express similar sentiments. It's tough. Your body changes, your looks change, people start to view you differently (I'm no longer the young, cool, fresh person, but the middle-aged woman 
). I imagine I will feel the same when I move into my 60s/70s. It can be really tough making these transitions. But be grateful you are still in relatively good health, sound mind, and able to still enjoy life. I work at nursing homes, and there are residents and patients there your age. They would LOVE to be able to do the things you are still able to do!
