Dreaded question from a stranger (amusing - for the rest of you.

I stopped in a local grocery store today and here is how the conversation unfolded at the checkout counter.

Cashier: "How old are you?"

Captain (smiling): "I'm 92 years old."

Cashier (laughing): "No you're not - how old are you?"

Captain: "Why so curious?"

Cashier: "Oh, today we have a 10% discount for senior citizens."

Captain (knees buckling, wind knocked out of him, holding onto the counter for support): "How old do you need to be?"

Cashier: "Over the age of 62."

Captain (wincing, hands on knees): "Just charge me full price."

I had a barber offer to trim my eyebrows the other day. That hurt, as I had just been stressing about the ratio of grey to dark hairs that had just been cut, and fallen onto the cape.

Legion said:

I had a barber offer to trim my eyebrows the other day. That hurt, as I had just been stressing about the ratio of grey to dark hairs that had just been cut, and fallen onto the cape.

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My eyebrows, if left to their own devices, would make Andy Rooney look like he plucked his.

None of us are getting any younger!

Legion said:

I had a barber offer to trim my eyebrows the other day. That hurt, as I had just been stressing about the ratio of grey to dark hairs that had just been cut, and fallen onto the cape.

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My eyebrows look like two caterpillars locked in battle.

Ollie4ISU said:

My eyebrows, if left to their own devices, would make Andy Rooney look like he plucked his.

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I know what you mean. Here's me before the last trim

I had a rude awakening when I checked what the median age is in Canada, because it confirmed that I am definitely over the hill. Hadn't quite realized until then.

So where's my discount?

Never understood the concept of discounts for those "on a fixed income". What is an unfixed income?

August West said:

Never understood the concept of discounts for those "on a fixed income". What is an unfixed income?

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My income could use some fixing.

Captain - I know what you mean though. It's getting harder and harder to pretend I don't know I'm getting to be a geezer.

The other day, my wife told me my aftershave made me smell like an old man. I didn't have the heart to tell her I wasn't wearing aftershave.

Needing to occasionally trim nose hairs never bothered me, but when I noticed I needed to trim ear hairs... I knew I was getting old.

And every time I cut my hair, I give my eyebrows a clipper cut down to 1/4". Keeps them from growing wild.

TheVez2 said:

Needing to occasionally trim nose hairs never bothered me, but when I noticed I needed to trim ear hairs... I knew I was getting old.

And every time I cut my hair, I give my eyebrows a clipper cut down to 1/4". Keeps them from growing wild.

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At least there is still hair to trim.

I took my 11 year old (the middle child) out for breakfast a few Saturdays ago...



She did not even ask, just gave me the discount.

Once I stopped getting carded for beer and cigarettes it all went downhill.

oc_in_fw said:

Once I stopped getting carded for beer and cigarettes it all went downhill.

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That would be 16 for me.

August West said:

That would be 16 for me.

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must have been great to be friends with you back then.

MrLara said:

must have been great to be friends with you back then.

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Had a car and a full time job too. And as my Grandfather used to say, "A lot of rotten good time Charlie buddies."

I didn't get a car until i was a junior, but once you're the guy with the car. Everyone wants a lift, until you ask for gas money. Except the ladies, they always rode for free.

MrLara said:

I didn't get a car until i was a junior, but once you're the guy with the car. Everyone wants a lift, until you ask for gas money. Except the ladies, they always rode for free.

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Yes Sir!