You know you are old when...

My wife and I celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary on Monday. (I mentioned this at a fire station the other day and they retorted, "Most of us in this room are not that old!") We must be getting old because most often for anniversaries we have treated ourselves to a night or two away in a motel with a spa. This time it never seemed to be mentioned so never happened. Perhaps that in itself is a sign of old age? We had a good day at home anyway. In the evening we went out for dinner and then went to the movies. ("Blind Side" - I LOVE anything with Sandra Bullock in it!)

Our daughter had given Jean a gift card with $37 on it, the price of two tickets to the movies and two ice-creams. At the counter we ordered two tickets and two ice-creams and handed over the card. To our surprise the woman behind the counter handed it back saying that we still had $20 on it? My wife asked her, "Are you sure that's right? You did get two tickets didn't you?" The woman assured us it was, so we accepted the card and went our way. It was then that we realised that Monday was a special for seniors. In NZ that is considered over 65's. This girl, bless her, had looked at us and assumed we were an over 65 year old couple going to the movies on a Monday night because it is cheap then! How dare she see me as over 65!

Well there has to be some perks for looking old. We didn't go back and set the record straight and offer to pay the full price. We had questioned it already and the movie was about to start. Anyway $37 is way too much to charge for two people to go to a movie!

But I had to admit, even though I still feel like I should be forty something, I must look old! Life passes so quickly! If you are young remember that.