I guess it isn’t that inconceivable - I think the cut off is 50 and I’m 48. Still … I guess I’m looking my age and then some…
Maybe it’s like being carded. . .for being too young! 
Don’t feel bad. When I was 47, a clerk in a store cheerfully told me that on Wednesdays they gave a 20% discount! Moments later, I noticed a sign in the store advertising the 20% discount for shoppers 55 and OVER.
How old was the person who asked? Everybody over 35 looks like a senior citizen to a 20 year old…
She looked to me to be in her 60s - but I’m hesitant to guess.
when I was 35 (sigh…) I was at a fast food pizza restaurant waiting on my to-go order. Some kid comes from the kitchen to the front register and asks the person: " what’s old dude waiting on". I was ten feet away.
Like duude… you may be deaf from listening to your 5,000 watt car stereo but I’m not.:mad::mad::mad:
Not only do I now get regular requests to join AARP I got a mailer for one of those"I’ve fallen and I can’t get up" devices.
It only hurts for a little while. Then you get to liking the discounts.
Hey, when I’m asked if I’m old enough for the senior citizen’s discount I say sure. I figure if I look old enough for somebody to ask me, why not.
Aw those don’t mean anything. I’ve regularly been getting “old person” mail for years, and I’m only 25! AARP, motorized chairs, invites to dinners to discuss elderly issues (or something like that), cards trying to sell me funeral services and a few others, all with the implication that I’m elderly and these are things I should be concerned about. I’m not sure where these people got the idea that I’m my grandmother’s age, but it’s odd.
A couple of years back I asked for the senior discount at the movie theater. The teenager at the counter gave it to me. I guess they figure no one is lying about that one. (I’m not over 50 even now).
Well, there you go, then! She’s an old person, her eyesight is failing… 
An hour ago on the bus, I overheard a snippet of a conversation between two girls.
Girl One: …and he’s like, thirty.
Girl Two: ewwww.
Girl One: I know, he’s old, right?
Girl Two: And he’s not married?
I’m 31 and thought about getting offended, but then it just seemed too funny. They looked to be in their early 20s, so it won’t be too long before they’re 30 themselves - and realize that 30 isn’t actually all that old.
My mother says the true indignity starts when they don’t ask you if you want the AARRP discount, they just give it to you automatically!
Probably doesn’t make you feel better, but I was carded at a rock concert last night to buy beer. They probably card everyone dammit.
Maybe she was flirting since you were obviously a younger man. Checking the distance in ages and such.
At a yard sale last summer, I was looking at a girl’s bike for my daughter. The owner told me my granddaughter would love it.
Sometime in the last year Harris Teeter started giving 5% discounts to shoppers over 60 on Thursdays. Since I’m only 57 I figured I had a few more years before I needed to check into what I had to do to get it. (Kroger’s gives a discount to shoppers over 55 on Tuesdays, and I had to show proof of age at customer service, at which point my preferred shopper account was tagged to automatically give me the discount.) Then I noticed that occasionally (but not always) when I shopped on Thursdays my receipt showed that I was being given the discount. Nobody has ever asked me my age, however. I can only assume that some of the checkers assume from the gray in my beard that I must be an old fart.
I’m apparently a senior citizen at the thrift store and at Denney’s, they give me a senior discount automatically. Though I can’t imagine why as I don’t look a day over 39! Other places I’m too young to be a senior citizen, I’ll just have to wait until I age to get a discount. So I’m sort of in a no-man’s land.
My 50th isn’t until November, and I’ve already gotten 2 cards w/ solicitations in the mail.
Don’t rush me, man!