Hats off to Birthdays!

The following reading was my devotion for this morning.
You may or you may not want to read it.


But it reminded me of my last Birthday. Apparently I made a mistake on a comment on my own blog. I mentioned that I would be 70 soon, me being a drama queen wanted to over state my age, actually I turned 68 on January 31st. So since I have straighten that out, this is what I really want to talk about. being a retired person who gets discounts all over the place. Yes life is really grant when you are a senior citizen.

I so remember Ted becoming a "senior" and us heading into the discount age. At that time we went for a trip by car to North Carolina where our son Paul had moved to. He had fallen in love with Jennifer, his future wife.
As we were calculating how much it would cost us, I kept on reminding Ted about his "senior discounts". He was definitely not impressed with me bringing that up every chance I had.

Well. being an accountant it did not take me long to figure out that we could save at least $200.00 on the whole trip. But, I let it rest......... for a while!!!

Yvonne, who was about 16 at the time, came with us. At one time we were ordering our food at a McDonald somewhere in Virginia. With Yvonne staring at the menu to decide what she wanted to have, I said to her LOUD and clear: "Tell your GRANDPA what you want!" Well, the look on Ted's face was simply priceless, hmmmmm, we got a ten percent discount.

But after a while Ted really got the hang of it and began to ask for the "Senior" menu in restaurants where we usually got the,"You cannot qualify for that" look. But needless to say we have become past that and nobody will argue with us anymore.