Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Effing Bummer


Already despondent, feeling old and useless, ugly and tired, I did my best to make that special effort. I put on eye shadow, my silver earrings, and went to town with my daughters.
We had a lovely lunch, then I got my hair cut and was feeling just a tiny bit sassier.
Tiny bit.
Enough to go try a bit of Goodwill shopping.
And then, as we were leaving Goodwill, one of my children pointed out to me that they'd given me the senior discount.
Without even asking.
Thanks a fucking bunch, Goodwill!

I'm having a beer.

9 comments:

  1. You'll learn to love (and demand) the Senior discounts!

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  2. I would love to demand the senior discount, especially if it were not offered to me in the first place.

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  3. Goodwill gives senior discounts??? Wow! I didn't know that! (Was the clerk a young girl or a sr. herself? Only one or the other would recognize us as eligible. ;))

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  4. The clerk was a young child. Probably around eleven years old. That's what I'm thinking.

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  5. You do not look like a senior to me! There must have been some bad lighting. I bet a lot of old people shot there and are really bitching about demanding the discount, so they are in the habit of adding it in all the time.
    And a young child does not know the difference between 25 and 55. I swear you're totally hot!!!
    :)

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  6. shot=shop
    I'll never make it through a comment without at least one mistake!

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  7. Wha-what?? This isn't a Geriatric blog? I only came here because I thought this was the alternative to all those Mommy Blogs :) (love the 'do!)

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  8. Heh-heh, Robin. Yeah, it's a mommy blog if you consider that I've been a mommy for almost thirty-two years. So it's the Geriatric Mommy Blog. Maybe I should use that in my description of it.
    Quiet Girl- Of course _I_ don't think I look like a senior citizen, but of course I do. But thank you for trying to make me feel better.

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  9. Part of the problem is that they give the "senior discount" to such young people! I'm sorry, but the 50's are anything but senior!

    And you are gorgeous BTW!

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