Whaddaya think about this?

[FairyChatMom]

Do kids who used fake IDs to buy beer grow up into adults who use fake IDs to get senior discounts??

Thought about this after I had to tell the stylist at Great Clips that I am, indeed, over 65...

[Zeener Diode]

I never had to resort to fake IDs, it was all about presenting confidence. That and being freakishly tall for my age.

[Sputnik]

Just a few more trips around the sun and we’ll all be there.

[What Exit?]

Originally Posted by FairyChatMom

Do kids who used fake IDs to buy beer grow up into adults who use fake IDs to get senior discounts??

Thought about this after I had to tell the stylist at Great Clips that I am, indeed, over 65...

Does using another guys ID count? I did that in the Navy, but I would never use a fake ID for a seniors discount.

[Jaglavak]

I wouldn't say so. They've had a long and productive life to learn better and understand why honesty is the best policy.

Haha, who am I kidding! Wanna see my fake blue zone parking tag?

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by FairyChatMom

I had to tell the stylist at Great Clips that I am, indeed, over 65...

congrats on needing to prove it.

[Flying Saucerian]

Did the math. I will be turning sixty-five just in time for that meteor comet thing to hit and kill us all.

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by What Exit?

Does using another guys ID count? I did that in the Navy, but I would never use a fake ID for a seniors discount.

In college, I was the supplier of 'the other guy's ID', because I had a friend who was close to legal, but not quite, and I was legal by 2 years (I didn't get enough money to pay for school for a few years, I started college at 23.), and he looked enough like me (except that I had a beard and he didn't) that he could pass himself as the picture of the guy on the DL as long as he explained that he'd shaved off the beard.

When he first asked to borrow my license, I told him 'Sure, you can use it, but if you get caught with it, you'll have to tell them that you filched it from my desk drawer, because blowing me in for willingly handing it to you will get me in more trouble than you are in, but it won't reduce your legal problems one whit.' I would have had to press charges for theft of my license for him to get into more trouble, and he knew he could trust me not to do that.

He agreed to that, and I knew I could trust him, because he was one of my fraternity pledge brothers, and we'd had to trust each other for far more than that while we were pledging. We had to trust each other not to drop us, trust each other to help us across a creek deep enough to drown us if we fell off the log we were using as a bridge, etc.

[FairyChatMom]

Originally Posted by What Exit?

but I would never use a fake ID for a seniors discount.

Yeah, that was kinda meant as a joke. Obviously it fell flat. I've never heard of anyone being carded for a geezer discount.

[running coach]

Originally Posted by FairyChatMom

Yeah, that was kinda meant as a joke. Obviously it fell flat. I've never heard of anyone being carded for a geezer discount.

I'm almost 65 and still get carded when buying beer.

Just California being stupid.

[picunurse]

Originally Posted by FairyChatMom

Yeah, that was kinda meant as a joke. Obviously it fell flat. I've never heard of anyone being carded for a geezer discount.

I actually was, at a movie theater. The 12 year old in the booth told me I couldn't be 65, because his grandmother had just turned 65 and she looked waay older than me. I pulled out my DL and he called his supervisor. I'm pretty sure he didn't work there long.

[Metal Years]

Why do old people get a discount? A lot of old people are hurting (and if Bitch-ass Donny gets his way more of them will be) but a lot of them are doing really well. How about this? The IRS could give you some kind of wallet-sized certificate that you could show to get a discount if your income falls below a certain level.
As for people getting carded, it's either a government or an employer making people do that. I was a bartender for decades and have other alcohol-selling jobs and I've had to card people with whom I'm personally acquainted that I know for a fact are as old as their 80's, because that's what the job requires. Hey, I just work there, I don't make the rules. In America, if you plan on getting alcohol, just be prepared to show ID, Ok?

A lot of younger people don't have a clue how to judge a person's age. I'm not yet a senior citizen but I've been known to request a senior discount, if one is offered, since I was in my early 30's. It's often worked.

[C2H5OH]

"Gimme the discount or I'll beat you with my cane! I only carry it to threaten people with it (despite the fact that I'm in my 30s). Gimme the discount, dammit!"

[FairyChatMom]

Originally Posted by Metal Years

A lot of younger people don't have a clue how to judge a person's age.

I'm 71 and I can't judge age to save my life. My granddaughter is almost 7 and she towers over her classmates, so I'd guess they were maybe 5. I know people can go gray quite young, so I can't use that as a gauge. My husband is younger than I am and he's been offered discounts since his beard started going white - before he was 60! I look at wrinkled, gray-haired people when I'm out and about and I think maybe they're older than I am, but it's not a sure thing. Heck, I look at photos of my grandmother when she was my age, and she looks lots older than I do.

Genetics, cosmetics, smoking or not, drinking or not - who knows any more?

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by FairyChatMom

Yeah, that was kinda meant as a joke. Obviously it fell flat. I've never heard of anyone being carded for a geezer discount.

I am trying to remember to call it a WISDOM discount. because we live in a sea of ageism, so why not fight back?

Originally Posted by Metal Years

Why do old people get a discount?

like I said, ageism is real so my answer to why:

respect

[FairyChatMom]

Originally Posted by Metal Years

Why do old people get a discount?

My guess about the various discounts (seniors, first responders, teachers, veterans) is that a store wants to encourage those folks to shop there and a small discount draws in a larger customer base.

Or not, but that's how I see it.

[Jaglavak]

In other words, is a socially acceptable way of allowing separate price point discovery for different populations. Which would normally get you keelhauled.

Old geezers have historically tended to be in a lower income bracket. And any expense you take off of them usually comes off the public dole and/or their kids. So its a popular notion with everyone.

[picunurse]

I had a friend who had albinism. Starting in his late 20s he would ask for senior discounts and more often than not get them.

[picunurse]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

In other words, is a socially acceptable way of allowing separate price point discovery for different populations. Which would normally get you keelhauled.

Old geezers have historically tended to be in a lower income bracket. And any expense you take off of them usually comes off the public dole and/or their kids. So its a popular notion with everyone.

Really? I pay my way. That no better than saying women are not as smart as men are. I think its called agism. Of course I'm old so...