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Topic: What makes a Senior Citizen?
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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-17-2000 04:57 PM
You can join the AARP at age 55. My mother is a member even though she is still a hot babe, or at least her much younger boyfriend thinks so.We say a senoir is age 55 and over. If you want to call yourself a senior at 55 even though you just made partner at the law firm and are pulling down 200K a year and just bought a new BMW 7 series, go for it. It will impress the hell out of your 20 something, blond trophy wife. The US govenment now thinks that they don't need to pay Social Security until you reach the age of 70. That sounds like a senior to me. At 55, I still plan on making young girls nervous. At 70, I might just go chasing a few 55 year olds, for sport. My grandmother refused to admit that she was a senoir and always paied full price for the bus in NYC. She got away with it untill she hit 75, then the bus drivers just said senoir when she got on. She thought it was rude to ask for a discount while she was wearing her fifty year old, hand me down, mink coat. As for children, if they look pre-pubesent, I give them the child's rate. I always thought 12 was a strange cut off for the childrens rate. Your a child until you can drive the family to the theatre and pay for them all on your credit card. Of course by the time I was 13, I was 6' tall and had a voice like Barry White.
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Ian Price
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From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-17-2000 05:35 PM
In Colorado, when you hit 70 years old, you can ski for free. I guess that the ski areas figure that it is a good return on investment. They have had your lift ticket money for 50 or 60 years and you still go to buy lunch.Speaking of lunch, have you noticed that seniors not only ask for a discount, but they buy very little concessions? I'd let them in for free if they would just pony up to the concession stand. Not only do they dilute your box office revenue and your concession percap, but they insist on your opening early because they don't like to drive at night. Then half of them complain that the sound is too loud while the other half say they cant hear, could you turn it up louder. God protect me from becoming just like them. I can feel it coming on. Shut up out there, your making too damn much noise!
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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene
Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 03-18-2000 01:28 PM
We actually have just one admittance price... hold on to your hats people... 50 cents.... yet we still get yelled at by parents when we wont let thier youngins in for free or give em a discount... or give the geezers a discount... I MEAN COME ON... its 50 cents... change from the couch.... SOmeone asked me how we do it.. i said its easy... I just program the register and BAM... its 50 cents.... that and we ask that you support us at the snack bar... he balked and said.. well i dont buy theater concessions.. their too expensive.... i just buy it somewhere else and bring it in... then i followed with... and i qoute "well we cant control the flow of super cheap ass rat bastards like yourself, but we still need you to support us, so if you want to be like that you can just leave us a 5 dollar tip"... so he did... ------------------
"If it's not worth doing, I have allready been there and done it"
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Colin Wiseley
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 123
From: Blacksburg, VA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 03-18-2000 08:09 PM
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Originally posted by Brad Miller:
Technically Erika is absolutely correct. However, I don't know anyone who would actually want to attempt to enforce that in today's politically correct world.
That's what I was afraid of. I'll just tell the GM and let him worry about it.  ------------------
Colin Wiseley
Lyric Theatre
Blacksburg, VA
www.thelyric.com
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