Excuse me, I look *how* old?!
So I found out today why the McDonald's in WalMart charges me 93 cents for a small cup of coffee, whereas the downtown McDonald's I sometimes stop in before work charges me $1.25 for the same.
They're giving me the senior's discount.
Seriously.
This morning...
Me, to the clerk behind the counter: "How come I pay only $0.93 here and I pay $1.25 downtown?"
The young girl replies that she doesn't want to say, because she doesn't want to insult me. Then she tells me anyway, that she's giving me the senior's discount. She says I look like I'm in my 40s, and trails off....
I admit to her that I'm in my late 40s. "What age qualifies for a senior's discount?" I ask, stunned that I qualify (sort of) for a senior's discount of any kind. Just how old do I look, anyway?!
"Fifty," she says.
Well, that means I must look like I'm in my fifties then, if she's giving me the freaking discount.
By the way, this is the third time in recent weeks that I've ordered a cup of coffee from the WalMart McDonald's and been charged only $0.93 Actually, last week I had a small coffee and a fairly decent muffin for $1.46. ("Is that all?" I remember asking. I thought it was a special. No, no, it's just the senior's discount!)
OMG, I need Botox or collagen injections!!!
And I'm only slightly mollified by the fact that the staff at the downtown location apparently don't think I'm in my dotage quite yet.
Geez...!
They're giving me the senior's discount.
Seriously.
This morning...
Me, to the clerk behind the counter: "How come I pay only $0.93 here and I pay $1.25 downtown?"
The young girl replies that she doesn't want to say, because she doesn't want to insult me. Then she tells me anyway, that she's giving me the senior's discount. She says I look like I'm in my 40s, and trails off....
I admit to her that I'm in my late 40s. "What age qualifies for a senior's discount?" I ask, stunned that I qualify (sort of) for a senior's discount of any kind. Just how old do I look, anyway?!
"Fifty," she says.
Well, that means I must look like I'm in my fifties then, if she's giving me the freaking discount.
By the way, this is the third time in recent weeks that I've ordered a cup of coffee from the WalMart McDonald's and been charged only $0.93 Actually, last week I had a small coffee and a fairly decent muffin for $1.46. ("Is that all?" I remember asking. I thought it was a special. No, no, it's just the senior's discount!)
OMG, I need Botox or collagen injections!!!
And I'm only slightly mollified by the fact that the staff at the downtown location apparently don't think I'm in my dotage quite yet.
Geez...!
Comments
I'd just look at it as a nice, little, undeserved perk (little pun there) and take the discount!
Ahem.
Actually you get a free bus pass when you reach 50 here! LOL!
:-)
Take care
x
SWEET!
But...I have never been offered the Senior Discount :)
Anyway, I think most places here give senior discounts at 60 or 65, to be given one at 48.5 was *not* expected!
xoxoxo
I told a patient the other day that it must have been a tough year for him, getting sick and turning 40. He told me that I had a few years to enjoy before I got there being 27 or so (I'm 44 this week). I did almost tell him he should get his eyes checked as well.
Have a good week.
Julie Q