I've been getting senior discounts without asking for a couple of years. It's illegal for them to ask for verification unless they card everyone ... age discrimination or somesuch.
What hurt, though was when I put the name "Fester Addams" on a grocery store club card application and no one questioned it. :-[
As far as getting older, I'm reminded of a quote by a 76 year old man I worked with when I was in my 20s. He was younger physically and mentally than some people half his age, and he once pointed out that we're all the same. We're all getting older, it's just that some people have had a head start down that road.
The company I'm working for is in the middle of a multimillion dollar expansion into new facilities. We should have been in the new building by now, but at this point it's 18 months behind schedule and they want me to stay on until it's finished and we're moved in. I'm not directly involved in the project, just taking up some of the slack in other areas. I really want to leave now and it would tauke a large bribe for me to stay beyond the end of this year. I've already worked an itinerary for things I want to do that takes up most of next year.
BTW, Tom - thanks for the nice photo but that must be someone else ... I don't own a tie. But I would have loved to meet Moe and Curly!
