A consolation prize

 Super Seniors Day —

 As a rule there is not much super about being a senior, aside from the old age pension and seniors discounts at a variety of merchants. Today is a super senior day at the drug store – yay!  I only had to give up youth and vigor to qualify to participate, but there you go, a perk for loosing your perk.  I’m making a list and poised to collect the maximum points for the minimum bucks.

It’s also the last Thursday of the month which means it is seniors day at the pet food store as well. If you can time the kibble consumption to correlate with discount day, and actually remember that the last Thursday of the month is seniors day, then you and the dogs can get ten percent off your purchase. But my memory seems to have gone the way of youth and vigor and often times I miss the discount day by a day or two.  The teenagers who man the cash register at the pet food store don’t give a kibble that you only missed seniors day by hours – you’re on the hook for the regular price.

I’ve been getting into movies for the seniors price without asking for it for a few years – I’m not sure that’s anything to crow about as I only officially became a senior in July. But I was I.D.-ed at the ferry terminal last week – a first in decades – and was truly flattered when the woman in the kiosk questioned my honesty. Us seniors have to collect compliments wherever we find them. 

It has been said that aging isn’t for sissies and I can attest to that, but it’s also been said that it beats hell out of the alternative and I can attest to that as well. I’m off with my I.D. to save a buck or two and collect some serious bonus points. Then I’m taking my points to the associated supermarket and cashing them in for wine. Yup, free wine – a small consolation prize for fading youth.