Do you like being called a "senior" or senior citizen? (80+, years)

[reneeh63]

Originally Posted by CArizona

Do you mind being called a "senior" or senior citizen?...I have never liked these terms. How do you feel about it? Thanks...

It's one thing to BE a senior (by the current definition at least) it's another thing to be CALLED a senior and to be defined ONLY by age.

It's like calling someone a Jew...that is not ALL that they are - they are Jew-ISH. You may be older but you're not just a senior citizen. I may be stuck hearing "ma'am" for the rest of my life but I'm not gonna settle for senior citizen until I'm a heckuva lot closer to 75.

[Serious Conversation]

The term "seasoned citizen" implies experience - not an old person.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Serious Conversation

The term "seasoned citizen" implies experience - not an old person.

Perhaps for the latter you'd prefer "well done!" I still like geezer, codger and old fart. But then, at 70 I can be considered all of those.

At 30ish you could be considered and called a fledging, junior, squirt, shaver, urchin, snot-nosed kid or wiper-snapper. Take your pick.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Serious Conversation

The term "seasoned citizen" implies experience - not an old person.

Sounds kind of cannibalistic to me.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Perhaps for the latter you'd prefer "well done!" I still like geezer, codger and old fart. But then, at 70 I can be considered all of those.

At 30ish you could be considered and called a fledging, junior, squirt, shaver, urchin, snot-nosed kid or wiper-snapper. Take your pick.

Dang! That's wipper-snapper

[Serious Conversation]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Perhaps for the latter you'd prefer "well done!" I still like geezer, codger and old fart. But then, at 70 I can be considered all of those.

At 30ish you could be considered and called a fledging, junior, squirt, shaver, urchin, snot-nosed kid or wiper-snapper. Take your pick.

A thirty year old is far from those pejoratives. Technically I'm Middle aged and barely got up the steps better at chimney rock NC than the 74 year old stranger I walked with! Culturally I probably have more in common with today's seniors, or even people of the George Wallace era, than I do with most of my peers.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Serious Conversation

A thirty year old is far from those pejoratives. Technically I'm Middle aged and barely got up the steps better at chimney rock NC than the 74 year old stranger I walked with! Culturally I probably have more in common with today's seniors, or even people of the George Wallace era, than I do with most of my peers.

If 30 is middle-aged then I should have assumed room temperature a decade ago.

[davebarnes]

I prefer "old fart".

[NewbieHere]

I make sure I mention senior citizen when I go out for a discount. My husband always gets it.

[HappyDogToday]

What does it mean! LOL I don't think of myself as ''old'', ''senior'', whatever at 61. I don't like labels and stereotypes.

When I am 90 maybe, if I live that long.

It never even occurs to me to ask for a ''senior'' discount on anything.