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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 8, 2013 - 01:19pm PT
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w00t w00t! Senior Citizen 4 Lyfe!!11!11
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Don't forget to get a side of Metamucil.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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If you expect to live longer and in good health, Denny's wouldn't be the best place you could go.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Ever seen what Fred Beckey eats?
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jus' a baby.
Happy Birthday....after the initial "shock" of being eligible for the 55 and older discounts you get resentful of the places that don't start their discounts until older than 55 .
Especially hotel room discounts...nice! Less dirtbagging!
Susan
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Happy B-Day!
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Wait till you see what 65 holds in store for you.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Do they still have The Hobbit breakfast specials?
Hellz YEAH!
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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I don't think the Wendy's between Torrey and CRNP gives a geezer coffee deal. You might have to stay in SoCal, strictly for the proximity to McD's.
I could probably drag a sheep carcass into Section 6, or even up to Woodson road, if that would make it feel more like WayneCo.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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I think you can even get in the movies for cheap!
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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MOONS OVER MY HAMMY!!!
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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"McDonald's has the best coffee. If you put enough sugar and cream in it, it doesn't make you gag." -bvb, discussing the gourmet coffee options in Delta, UT.
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Happy Birthday, and thanks for joining the 55+ crowd
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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62 today. guess i should surf on over to the social security site with a calculator before the axe falls
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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There are senior discounts and there are senior discounts.
A downsized meal for a downsized price is no great deal.
The real senior discounts are the ones that just lop off a percentage on standard transactions.
(after a while you'll learn this stuff)
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Happy birthday all you old geezers!!!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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A new menu to order from....every age has its compensations. Just think, only 10 years to Medicare!!!
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Don't forget - Tuesday is senior day at Fred Meyer - 10% off. Wait - is it Wednesday? I am having a senior moment.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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About a year and a half ago I had a birthday, the magnitude of which prompted some reflections on aging. As aging seems to be a common interest in the Taco, I’ll inflict those thoughts on you. You’re welcome.
Aug. 4, 2011: reflections
I woke up this morning in a remarkably good humor, considering that as
of today I am eighty.
According to the Bible, however, man's lifespan is threescore and ten.
And the Bible is the infallible and immutable word of God.
Ergo, I have been dead for ten years. That explains a lot of things.
I had been wondering about the increasing pungency of the ambient air. I had thought that perhaps it was just time to change out of my winter long johns.
And it was a relief to Cindy to discover I was dead too. She thought I had been giving her the silent treatment for ten years.
What I thought was global warming was likely just the heat of decomposition. And here I was worrying about the future.
And the glassy thousand-yard stare commented on by my friends seems now
to have been perfectly normal, given the circumstances.
I am quite surprised to have achieved this vintage. I initially refused to believe it, but it has been confirmed by carbon dating.
Back when I was a kid I thought life ended at sixty. Now that I am eighty, I think I was on to something.
Eighty is quite a significant number, and I am proud to share it with statistics like the number of metres a Humvee will travel on a litre of gasoline,the IQ of the average Birther, the percentage of the world's wealth that goes directly to big oil companies, and the average waist size, in inches, of much of the deep south.
Considering that I have been deceased for ten years, last year's passport photo looks remarkably good. I'm a little alarmed, however, that British Columbia renewed my driver's license without question. It makes one wonder what is behind the wheel of oncoming cars.
I noticed that they pointedly did not ask me to sign an organ donor card
this time, which may mean something. So I asked if I could sign up as an
organ recipient at a senior's discount rate, but they claimed to have no
such program. This is clearly age discrimination.
Speaking of senior's discounts, I have so far lost my dignity as to ask
for them at every opportunity, such as when paying library fines or
parking tickets and when buying newspapers and bubble gum.
I note that there are at least two attitudes about seniors, which are
reflected, respectively, in the phrases "respected elder" and "there's
no fool like an old fool". Having some insight I privately hold with the
latter while giving enthusiastic lip service to the former.
I also note with glee that a senior can say outrageous and insulting
things and get away with it without being subject to physical violence -
a luxury of age because they rarely hit old folks in Canada. Except in cities.
Seriously, though, despite God's statute of limitations I appear to be
at least partially alive and even minimally sentient, for the moment.
I do find, however, that there is a significant amount of senile entropy showing up, manifested most clearly by the decreasing number of functional joints. I feel powerfully empathetic toward the Tin Woodsman, pre-lube. The replacement of four of these restored me, after an interminable period of recuperation and physical therapy (by a series of delightful, nubile therapists), to a marginally functional state, capable of enjoying both sloth and lethargy. However, these corporeal metals make airport security personnel nervous, and I am deeply concerned about being tasered and whisked away to some black site, especially when entering the US.
Well, we'll see what shakes out. In the meantime, I'll hike less and stroll more, trying to ignore the crunching sounds from the prostheses.
And I’ll spend a lot of time on eBay checking out bargains on both hiking sticks and wheelchairs, so I'll be ready either way.
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Just order the Grand Slam. It's free on your birthday.
Order from the senior menu tomorrow.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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And...........They will be opening a Denny's in Oakhurst in May!!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Fossil Climber, that's funny :DD
Happy B-day Guys! Numbers are overrated. We may not be able to jump up and down or leap across as well And we may have some wrinkles and spots and sometimes a little less hair BUT hopefully we have wisdom to see the easier path which requires less leaping and jumping and have developed so much karma that our beauty comes from within.
What am I thinking? 30, 40, even 50, looks pretty dang good from my chronometer.....but we are what we are today, so we better darn well enjoy that cheap, horrible coffee! Cheers, lynnie
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Wayne, that is one of the funniest and creative things I have read on ST.
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Ropeboy
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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So a guy walks into a McDonalds. He orders the same breakfast he always does. He notices the bill is too low and tells the young lady at the register she did not bill him enough. "No sir, that's an egg Mcmuffin and a senior coffee." There is a vacant pause....."senior coffee" echoes in my mind..... That's the day I started to feel I must be a senior.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Don't break yer hip gramps.
http://sd.chargers.com/5k/results.html
Richard Buckrop, 2nd place, 5:05 mile pace, 60 years old.
Age is really just a number.... I couldn't touch that when I was training HARD 6 days a week and a teenager.
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MisterE
Social climber
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You shouldn't be eating that crap food on your birthday, Bob.
It's all grease and shitty carbs.
Now a good 20-year scotch and a steak...
Happy Birthday.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Fossil Climber, eloquently put for the undead! I'm also pleased to know that my due diligence in honing sloth and lethargy will eventually pay off.
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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The local Salvation Army Thrift gives 20 pct off on thursdays. Scores abound...Happy Birthday!(s)
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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haven't been to Denny's since the one in Poughkeepsie wouldn't serve us "hippy climbers" ice cream on a relatively warm day after going to the 'Gunks, that was 1977 or so...
but I'm not holding that against you on this celebratory day marking yet another year in the reign of "A True American Legend, bitches..."
best to you BVB
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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I stayed at the Vagabond, next to Denny's, in Bishop last September. I asked the receptionist how much for a room. She told me. I smiled nicely and asked her for senior rates. She smiled back and said 'Those ARE senior rates, sir'. Bitter sweet, you see...
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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hmmm, no updates on the Denny's front. I wonder if the old man is still dealing with the aftermath... Denny's can get pretty ugly overnight.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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American Legends never get old--they just get more legendary!!!!1111
Delta, Utah...last bastion of civilization before heading to Ibex:-)
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Plus you now can get a senior discount at the movie theaters!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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bvb,
Happy Birthday, sir.
To date I figure I have saved several hundreds of bucks at Denny's in mid-town Sonora by not going in there. Or at least I have deprived Denny's of my patronage, even here in Merced, as a matter of principle. Enjoy the discount, however, because as a senior you have it coming, not that we earn these discounts, they are just part of aging.
BTW, Wayne, you nailed it with that monologue!
I used to go in there, to Denny's, long ago. Who hasn't sat at the Denny's on the north side of the Grapevine waiting for snow to be cleared?
In Sonora, Lenna, my sis, was an under-paid, under-appreciated minion working for a slimeball franchiser who didn't even pay into the State's unemployment fund, so that when she finally was forced to leave the job because the prick kept cutting everyone's hours (due to his mismanagement this place went under shortly after) she wasn't able to collect her UI until she had established a valid claim, for which she produced her last several pay stubs (the checks had all come back on her as NSF and when they did she was forced to pay the bank each time--I tellya!) which showed he had taken out money which hadn't been paid in.
She hadn't been there very long, either, only eight goddamned years!
So Funn Denky's!!
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