If Scott is a 'Senior Citizen' what does that make me?
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Comments (3)It would help a lot if you could post photos :-) One could offer all manner of plant suggestions, however a visual of the situation would narrow down the very wide range of possibilities as well as offer suggestions for placement. Certainly the hydrangea and roses could be a possibility, but their season of interest is rather limited. For the front yard and especially at the entry, a more uniformly year round look is desirable and that generally leads to more evergreen plants. But there are also many excellent evergreen (or year round interest plants) that will stay small/compact or within scale without excessive pruning. 'Senior citizen friendly' can be more loosely translated to 'low maintenance' and that is often a major landscaping criteria for many homeowners, regardless of age and ability :-) Including more specifics about where in zone 6 you are located is also helpful....See MoreSenior Citizen Status
Comments (10)I think calling one ma'am is the same as referring to a younger person as "kid". Just yesterday, I hung up on the salesman who referred to me as "young lady" on the phone. Don't assign your own personal pidgeon-holed adjective to me without my permission, that really irks me too. ASK...."would you like a senior citizen's discount?" That's a tough one, it's like saying to a non-pregnant woman, "when's the baby due?" But, really, what is a store attendant to do? Maybe put up a prominant sign put up, or a little counter sign, "Ask for your senior citizen discount", yeah, THAT'S the solution. There is discrimination EVERYWHERE, we all get our equal opportunity discrimination, in it's many varieties. Reminds me of yesterday's Paula Zahn show on race relations. An African-American man was asked in a restaurant to get a patron a glass of water and he got all upset. Heck, I was just recently asked by a rich looking person, when I was dressed down, to get them something in a store. I simply said "I don't work here", walked away and forgot about it (till now). The guy made a mistake, thinking I looked like the "type" to work there and it was a one time random thing. Given how no one really WANTS to age when you come down to it, and some people get really nuts about it, and some just annoyed, who wants to be reminded that they're aging via the kid at the counter? He should be retrained to shut up and put up a counter card. I'd send a note to the place. Rambling thoughts........See MoreAre any of you senior citizens on facebook
Comments (74)Facebook isn't just about "friending" people you know face-to-face. It's about networking with people who have the same interests you have. If it wasn't for Facebook, I wouldn't talk to my cousins, who ALL live in The Netherlands. None of us like letter writing. Their emails get lost in all the spam I get. I have a lot of co-workers on FB and we have silly conversations on FB that we can't have at work. We don't all work the same shifts, so it's nice to talk on FB when it's convenient for us. I have friends who live in the US. We are a group of women (I mentioned our private group here a few days ago), and a few of us have met face-to-face. We used to use YahooGroups, but Facebook is so much easier to use. I belong to several colouring groups, photography groups, Calgary groups, etc., to get information directly from others. I learn more through FB about my hobbies than I do through Google, although quite often when I ask a question, I'll get sent to google... lol Facebook is addictive. It's fun. It's my way to keep up with my family because we are all so busy with our families, jobs and life in general. Do I really care what someone ate for breakfast? Nope. And they're probably not interested in what I ate either. But we post pictures and sometimes someone will say, "hey! You have a recipe for that? It looks delicious!". There is so much more than posting the food you eat or how the weather is....See MoreSenior citizen discount
Comments (13)Yeah, Lindakathy's link sounds like it might be more realistic. But both say the Salvation Army's discount is "up to 50%." I'm there a lot, and never heard of anyone getting a senior discount. I'll bet when I ask, the employees will stare blankly at me. LOL I'll ask at Wendy's and Burger King, too. I'm not there often, but every little bit helps. I'll check out Big Lots, although I suspect it's not actually 30%. And of course I'll look for an excuse to stay at the Waldorf so I can get that $5,000 off the Presidential Suite. ;-) Thanks for bringing this to our attention!...See More
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I'm also OLDER than Scott.....I guess he'll be our caretaker. tee hee hee And then we have to include him in the will....ya know. wink ;0)
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