| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/19/2009 2:40:37 PM | | Thanks all for the feedback...I feel better! I can't remember what set me off; I think it was the 45 & up forum. Well, today on AOL there was a pregnant woman featured and she is - guess what - 66 years young and due next month. I guess anything goes! Hope for the kid's sake she lives to be 100, because the child has no dad and probably won't have any siblings or cousins close in age - and grandparents? not likely. It will be a lonely planet. | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/19/2009 2:47:51 PM | AARP is now sending mailings to people age 40!!! I think the definition of senior citizen was 65 when Social Security was designed, because few people would live beyond 65 so the idea was that little money paid into the social security fund would be used. Now we have people living to be 90 years old. So I think they need to change senior citizen to be someone who is 80 years old.
Middle age starts at 55 these days. Look at how many women in their 40's are pregnant. No way can I see that as being middle age. Look at the old movies from the 1950's where men in their twenties look so old to some of us now. They look more like they were in the forties. Teachers at my age back in the 1950's wore clunky shoes, jersey dresses and when I look at photos they look more like they should have been in their late eighties.
~Beth~ | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/19/2009 3:10:10 PM | 
Sweety, do I look like a senior to you? I'll be 51 in a few months so I don't wanna hear it little missy!! I dive, bike, bungee jump and anything else I feel the he!! like doing. Did someone call you a senior are you just not willing to do what it takes to stay active in your late 40's? I drink tons of water, wear an SPF 45 on my skin daily and have my weight down to where I wear a size 3.
You're as old as you tell yourself you are and if you want to run with the young pups out there then you need to get with the program and turn that negative attitude around.
He!!, I'm in better shape now than most 20 year olds honey, but I have to work my a$$ off almost 24/7 to stay that way!
Wish I had a twinkie right about now, though. *sigh*
Sans | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/19/2009 3:24:12 PM |
I think it was the 45 & up forum.
LOL ~ I was afraid to post in here until the day I turned 45. I posted one post and felt like an adult. Then I noticed some 21 year old kid had posted below me. I felt so betrayed. Like this was a new clique for me here on POF and there were youngsters in here invading the territory.  Then I realized something ~ that 21 year old kid was thinking/acting and complaining much more than 90% of the posters here who are actually over 45. Poor kid, old before his time.
~OT~ Until this thread, I had not once thought of the word "senior" in regard to my own self. I did hear myself mentioning something about being 1/2 a century in five years the other day. That was odd. I don't think I'm ready to be called ma'am or senior-anything just yet.  | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/19/2009 3:37:39 PM | I've been laughing to myself the last ten years or so at what this society thinks makes someone a "senior." Hair color seemingly tops the list. My hair started turning silver when I was seventeen. I started getting literature from AARP when I was forty-nine or so. I wonder if they knew my hair was mostly silver?
Before I started coloring it, and I was about 50 or so, I was at Taco Bell. The clerk - who looked older than I - automatically gave me the senior citizen discount, based on my hair color. I told her I wasn't eligible quite yet. I wasn't mad, just bemused. She got totally flustered. So.....I move down to get my food. The young woman who was cleaning up (and had Down Syndrome) had heard the previous exchange. She apparently thought it necessary to comfort me, so she caroled, "Don't worry, ma'am. I think you look great for your age!" I about died laughing!
Keep them senior discounts a'comin'! | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/19/2009 3:57:10 PM | Hmmmm you know you're a senior when.....
always thought I should write a book something like that.
Remember when, you looked at the models in Cosmo and you were the same age, and now they look like babies? Remember when.... hmmmm I had another one to add and I forgot it already... maybe it'll come to me in a moment.
I can't believe I actually remembered! You know you're a senior when you open a topic in the Forums and it's a question posed by somebody in their teens or 20's and you don't even bother reading it and say to yourself... oy vey! | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/19/2009 7:18:17 PM | | If we get to be seniors at 45 does that mean we can skip menopause and midlife crises? I hope, I hope, I hope!!!!! | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/19/2009 10:26:27 PM | The DAY I turned 50, I started getting AARP shite and even some adverts from a cemetery wanting me to buy a plot!
Most places where I am, they don't even consider giving you a "senior discount" until you're 55. Cheapskates. LOL | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 8:36:43 AM | oh, well ... cheer up ... SOME places, you could be 110 and they wouldn't give you a senior discount ...
I was amazed recently when a young clerk at KFC gave me a senior soft drink without asking my age or anything ... she just leaned in and whispered, "here! I gave you the senior drink ... shhh!" omg ... does that mean she didn't think I deserved it? I TOTALLY DO!
it kinda annoys me, tho ... when those box children at the grocery store call me "Miss" ... I guess they're in a no win situation tho ... "yo! hey, you, lady!" doesn't seem appropriate either!  | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 10:57:41 AM |
even some adverts from a cemetery wanting me to buy a plot! OMG, that's too funny  | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 11:27:39 AM | | I have always thought a Senior type person is someone that has reached the age of retirement 60 something. However not long ago was at a McDonalds and the fella behind the counter offered me the Senior Discount for My Coffee. Hehe... Even said I was in my 40's yet he said well that's close enough for him. | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 12:59:06 PM | when I was younger ... 30 something ... or 40 something ... I thot that, at 63, I was going to be "senior" ... cuz I had a 63-year-old secretary who was still hot ... so I thot ... ok ... 63 doesn't look that bad!
ooops ...
re-evaluating, I think 63 is ACTUALLY more "middle aged" ... cuz I'm gonna live to be 120 at least ... so ... maybe after you hit 100 ... maybe THEN you're "senior aged" ...
yeah ... I can handle that ... 100 is senior ...
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 1:06:12 PM | Leona, seniors don't go through menopause. Seniors have been through menopause. It is called middle age.
Middle aged people of the world unite! I want discounts on hormone therapy and flashy sports cars for the middle-aged. Special rates on divorce!
The heck with the elderly what about those of us stuck in the middle, working and caring for aging parents and children that refuse to grow up.
Where's our lobby group? Where's Modern Middle Age Magazine? | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 1:11:21 PM |
Even said I was in my 40's yet he said well that's close enough for him.
ha ha, how old was he, 12?
ps - if my quote didn't post right, would someone PLEASE tell me how to do it? Maybe I AM a senior when it comes to technology! | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 1:47:08 PM | When I turned 55 my bank told me I could have a senior's discount I was thrilled. My dad who was around 81 at the time said "you must be a junior senior." I liked that. At 61 I have aches and pains in my knee much of the time. I still workout four times a week and ballroom dance regularlyas well as work four days a week. I could collect on my Canada pension plan but I am choosing to wait until I am 65 and collect CPP and OAP at the same time. I plan to work until I am 70. I love any senior's discount I can get. I do consider myself an old girl but I also have lots of life in me yet. I plan to live until I die no matter what label is placed on me. I have no problem with the label senior. | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 2:18:00 PM | | officially a senior at 62, I think. I am 58 and feel like a senior senior. Some places start giving senior discoumts at 55 or some at even 50. But I arbitrailly chose 62 because you can retire at that age | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 2:41:29 PM | I'm no senior.
I'm no cougar. Not looking for prey.
I refer to myself as a TWEENER. Between young and old. | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 3:42:35 PM | | I hate that term "cougar" why must we now be labeled just because we are not 20 something anymore? They are called kittens, we are cougars, or "old cougars" why cant we just be women? sexy, attractive ,smart , interesting women? | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 3:45:39 PM | | cougars are older women who go after younger men. Not a term for older women. | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 4:13:00 PM | I get my Modern Maturity Mag and my Vicky's Secret catalogue in the same mail delivery. I'm sometimes so confused. I wake up in the morning and relive every sports injury in my life. The minute the weather is below 50, every sprain, break, fall, and pull I've ever had reminds me I've lived a very active life. When I have to find my glasses to read the small print in the telephone book, I think about the time when I could read fine print by a flashlight. I no longer take a size 4 and no matter how much time I spend at the gym or how many plain salads I eat I'll never have that drop dead figure again.
I'm a senior citizen. I don't really mind it, but in some ways, I'm a little apprehensive. There was a time I jumped out of planes, was tossed in the air by a dancing partner, and thought nothing of zipping around on motorcycles as fast as I could. Now, I give some consideration to the fact that if I break something, I may not heal as quickly or at all. Some things take much longer to do, and some things, I can't do at all anymore. I find some of my reflexes are slower, and I'm not quite as willing to step up to the line and fight as many battles. I get a little maudlin around holidays for the "olden" days, and I'm not quite as tolerant about some things as I once was.
Then, I do my hair, put cosmetics on my face, and slip into a pair of high heels and pretty dress, and 'lo and behold, there I am. The same flirty, rambunctious, sometimes sexy gal I've always been. | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/20/2009 5:55:01 PM | I don't really see 45 as a pivotal age and I don't understand why you feel it is OP.
I can't even remember it.... it kind of all blended in with my being married and having a family life.... I just regarded myself as a mum and wife... not really of any age... just a being.
not complaining.... by the way... I liked it!
Senior is something to earn I think and I think I have now I don't mind it at all and I do feel it and use it I enjoy the discounts and the special concessions it brings. I like the anonymity's sometimes.... a blessing. But then as yet, I'm a YOUNG senior.... maybe I will change my mind later... but in the meantime... I'm loving it | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/21/2009 5:45:56 AM | | For me, 44-45 was a time of some major changes in my life, but not because I felt suddenly a senior. So I do remember that time, but not in respect to my age. | |
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| I am not a senior!
Posted: 5/22/2009 8:02:26 AM | I am 56. I guess I feel young because I don't feel different than I did in the past and I don't know how "old" feels. This week, I met a 30+ teaching peer at school whose eyes bugged out in disbelief when I told him that I am 56--but I take that whole "looking younger" bit with a grain of salt.
I seldom have aches and pains, and I curse often.
Why are you worrying about such things? Why not accept your age for what it is? And "what it is" is up to you to decide. It truly only matters what YOU think, doesn't it?
On the other hand, when I remember to ask, I get senior discounts in restaurants and stores.
If you truly felt young, you wouldn't be asking about this--you would just be living it. You are concerned about how others perceive you. | |
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