Comments on: Living La Vida Oldie (Part I)

By: Noha

Noha — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:53:36 +0000

Zellers is seriously underrated. I discovered this when trying to set up our apartment after the wedding and looking at all the more “posh” stores for certain household stuff, and then finally finding something we both liked (shock!), that looked nice (shock!), at a reasonable price (shock!) at Zellers. Seriously, I haven’t bought clothes there since forever, but their kitchen/dining things? Awesome!

By: Urban Panther

Urban Panther — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:27:23 +0000

The Urbane Lion and I were walking through a mall food court the other day at 7:30 a.m. (I had to get donuts for a meeting) and it was filled with old people. I made him promise that we would never hang out in the food court when we got old. He said there will be no food courts on our retirement boat. Whew!

By: XUP

XUP — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:50:01 +0000

Bandobras – Thanks for reinforcing that and rest assured, I never underestimate grey power.

Ellie – Canadian seniors couldn’t be bribed to a shop for anything less than 10%. You don’t want to be anywhere near the drug store on seniors’ day.

DP – I can’t say I’m a particular fan of old people any more than I’m a fan of middle-aged people or kids — I like some, I love some and some are just jerks. And I wonder if that’s true about old people and restaurants? I understand we lose most of our sense of taste as we age (except sweet — that sticks around for a long, long time). Also, most of them have to be careful about anything with too much spice (i.e.: flavour) AND they grew up in a time of good, old plain cooking (i.e.: none of that peculiar “ethnic” stuff) Sooooo….. I wonder…..

By: dailypiglet

dailypiglet — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:18:41 +0000

i’ve always been a fan of the old people. they have so much life experience to share and wisdom that only comes with more years on the planet.

i’ve noticed that if the elders are eating somewhere in big numbers, it usually means it’s a good eats for not a lot of money.

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Exit 78 » Shout Out for August comments…, and then some! — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:35:32 +0000

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By: Ellie

Ellie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:17:03 +0000

Wednesday is Senior Day at the grocery stores here in Connecticut. Rain-bonnet-clad seniors get something paltry like 5% off, but they are there in droves. So you may want to show up, notebook in hand, for a huge sampling.

By: Bandobras.

Bandobras. — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:51:11 +0000

I tried to warn you about the power of the Panthers. What do you think happens to all those hockey dads and soccer moms when the kids have grown and left home. They have to live vicariously through someone and if you’re nearby you’ll do just fine. We are always watching what with never sleeping through the night and all. Be afraid be very afraid. We have nothing to do except observe you young- uns.

By: XUP

XUP — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:39:15 +0000

Bob- Well, the first step is admitting you’ve eaten there.

Violetsky – It’s funny how we think of older people as some sort of alien species – they’re just us a few years from now!! Remember when we were teenagers and scoffed at “suits” and all those pathetic corporate shills? Well, hello, most of us now are the suits and pathetic corporate shills. A few more years and we’ll be those funny seniors we’ve been poking gentle fun at. Odd, eh?

Nat – If you don’t ever pay with a credit or debit card the change piles up amazingly quickly I find. I think seniors are the only ones using real money these days. My question is how they carry all that change around. My purse gets mighty heavy once there are a few loonies, toonies and quarters in there.

Geewits — Pig-pickings??? Dare I ask? I’m imagining all sorts of possiblities here.

Deb – We have an apartment complex in our neighbourhood that’s mainly populated by seniors. Unless the weather is really bad there is always a whole flock of them sitting in the little square between buildings. They know absolutely everyone within a 10 mile radius and absolutely everything that goes on. Everything. They know stuff about me that I can’t for the life of me figure out how they know unless they have me under 24-hour surveillance. The like to toss out the occasional remark as I pass by to let me know that they know stuff. It’s all very friendly and everything, but also kind of freaks me out. Moral of the story – never underestimate the oldies.

By: deb on the rocks

deb on the rocks — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:08:30 +0000

Florida is Old People Special mecca. I think the whole senility thing happens because they use up their last bits of memory trying to remember while day is Senior Day at all the stores and restaurants. How stressful!

By: geewits

geewits — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:17:49 +0000

I knew about some of this. My parents have retired to a camping place where “the regulars” have their fancy big campers permanently parked and the “weekenders” come in during the summer. They have golf carts to tool around in and regular potlucks and pig-pickings. I’m going to visit for Thanksgiving and when I asked Mom if my arrival time would be bad because of rush hour she said, ” ‘Geewits’ we’re retired. We have all the time in the world.”