Rude awakening at the early buffet

[ERD50]

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Originally Posted by Teacher Terry So a restaurant should require financial records to see if you qualify for a 10% discount?

Hah! A business can do whatever they want (within the law). But you really don't see the oddity in assuming that age equates to needing a discount?

I could make parallels that would have people screaming that I'm a bad person. But it's OK to "pick on" old people.

But it was just a humorous sign, go with it.

-ERD50

[racy]

What’s really bad is when the young clerk looks at you and asks if you want the senior discount

[skipro33]

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Originally Posted by Mdlerth Nope. It's a World vs Mdlerth thing. Just as I approach being old enough to score the senior discount, they yank it away. Our national pastime isn't baseball, it's goalpost-moving. My whole life I've watched as no end of privileges and special considerations got ladled out to everybody except me. I've learned to expect it. Today they pull senior discounts; in a few more years they'll partition medicare. When I'm ready to engage SS they'll means test it out of my reach. But I'm not one to complain... sigh.

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The primary reason I am going for SS at 62 in 2018 is just because of this issue and what that sign is prophesying.

[Free To Canoe]

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Originally Posted by racy What’s really bad is when the young clerk looks at you and asks if you want the senior discount

What's worse is when they look at you and just give it to you without asking.

[Sunset]

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Originally Posted by Mdlerth Nope. It's a World vs Mdlerth thing. Just as I approach being old enough to score the senior discount, they yank it away. Our national pastime isn't baseball, it's goalpost-moving. My whole life I've watched as no end of privileges and special considerations got ladled out to everybody except me. I've learned to expect it. Today they pull senior discounts; in a few more years they'll partition medicare. When I'm ready to engage SS they'll means test it out of my reach. ....

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I paid full price when young and stupid, now as an old fool I want my discount... or I'll go to where it is....

Maybe restaurants know old folks have the TIME and KNOWLEDGE of how to cook, so offer a discount or I'll stay home and eat healthier.

[Running_Man]

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Originally Posted by ERD50 And some don't. That's the point - why base a discount on age rather than need? OK, for a private business it's really an attempt to drum up business (I wonder if it has been well tested?), so they can do whatever they want (hey - left-handed discount day!). But it bugs me when a government does it, I don't have a choice on paying taxes, I have a choice on whether I use a certain restaurant, etc. -ERD50

I thought just today you said you were going to deduct an expense you knew wasn't deductible but counted on the government to not come after you to collect it worth about $2,500 to you. Seems a double standard.....

[Gumby]

You get the senior discount because you're probably "living on a fixed income", unlike all those working joes who can simply go tell the boss "I want to go out to dinner more often, so you'll need to increase my paycheck."

[FUEGO]

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Originally Posted by Free To Canoe What's worse is when they look at you and just give it to you without asking.

I'm still getting carded when I try to buy wine. Barely sweet talked the lady into selling me a few bottles when DW didn't have her license with her and they thought I was buying alcohol for youngsters (or we have a ridiculously strict alcohol licensing board here??).

[ERD50]

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Originally Posted by Running_Man I thought just today you said you were going to deduct an expense you knew wasn't deductible but counted on the government to not come after you to collect it worth about $2,500 to you. Seems a double standard.....

I probably won't do it, but it's besides the point. Other than moving, I'm stuck with my taxing bodies. You do see the difference between that and my restaurant choices in the same area, don't you?

-ERD50

[Amethyst]

Just a dumb joke, based on the rather accurate assumption that the older you are, the earlier you want to eat supper.

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Originally Posted by Onward

[CoolRich59]

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Originally Posted by ERD50 Our imprisoned former Governor (Blago, I need to specify which one, as this is in Illinois)

Only State in the Union where the state penitentiary has a 'Governor's' wing.

[Amethyst]

I thought of that, too. It's OK to pick on old people because they won't fight back.

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Originally Posted by ERD50 I could make parallels that would have people screaming that I'm a bad person. But it's OK to "pick on" old people. But it was just a humorous sign, go with it. -ERD50

[meierlde]

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Originally Posted by FUEGO I'm still getting carded when I try to buy wine. Barely sweet talked the lady into selling me a few bottles when DW didn't have her license with her and they thought I was buying alcohol for youngsters (or we have a ridiculously strict alcohol licensing board here??).

When someone asks for ID when buying booze I tell the person thanks for the complement since I am 67.

[athena53]

I don't like asking for a senior discount. Financially, I don't need it. I have an AAA membership and most of the time can get the same deals.

[garyt]

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Originally Posted by ERD50 And some don't. That's the point - why base a discount on age rather than need? OK, for a private business it's really an attempt to drum up business (I wonder if it has been well tested?), so they can do whatever they want (hey - left-handed discount day!). But it bugs me when a government does it, I don't have a choice on paying taxes, I have a choice on whether I use a certain restaurant, etc. -ERD50

It's fair as we'll all get a chance for the senior discounts some day.Wouldn't bother me if they did away with it, though. I'm not old enough yet to get many.

[garyt]

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Originally Posted by racy What’s really bad is when the young clerk looks at you and asks if you want the senior discount

Especially if you're not old enough yet

[Chuckanut]

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Originally Posted by Teacher Terry So a restaurant should require financial records to see if you qualify for a 10% discount?

How about using zip-code? Like age, it's easy to verify using state issued ID's.

Chuck, you live it the FIRE'd zip code - no discount for you.

Joe you live on the wrong side of the tracks - 10% off for you, and a free 12 oz beer.

Problem solved.

Now, about those student discounts that go mainly to young people under 30....

[CaliforniaMan]

I guess it is a generational thing. Hey, if I hadn't spent so much money over all those years raising and educating those millennial kids, I wouldn't need the discount, I might even have had enough to own that damn restaurant!

[razztazz]

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Originally Posted by Mdlerth Nope. It's a World vs Mdlerth thing. Just as I approach being old enough to score the senior discount, they yank it away. Our national pastime isn't baseball, it's goalpost-moving. My whole life I've watched as no end of privileges and special considerations got ladled out to everybody except me. I've learned to expect it. Today they pull senior discounts; in a few more years they'll partition medicare. When I'm ready to engage SS they'll means test it out of my reach. But I'm not one to complain... sigh.

Man you got that right

Altho the senior discounts are for the benefit of the business not the senior, I have seen the same trend since I was 13

[MRG]

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Originally Posted by Amethyst Just a dumb joke, based on the rather accurate assumption that the older you are, the earlier you want to eat supper.

I've seen one of these, it was a joke. The whole place had tacky signs all over the place. Not all places have sr. discounts.

We have a place here, half the year they hand out loyalty cards, buy 10 entrees and the next is free. When tourists show up, no more loyalty. My loyalty went out the window with the card.