the geezer club

[hunter63]

If you are a Senior
you will understand this one.
If you deal with Seniors,
this should help you understand them
a little better,
And if you are not a Senior yet........
God willing, someday you will be.

The$2.99 Special

We went to breakfast at a restaurant
where the 'Seniors Special' was
two eggs, bacon, hash browns
and toast for $2.99.
'Sounds good,' my wife said,
'But I don't want the eggs.'



'Then, I'll have to charge you $3.49
because you're ordering a la carte,'
the waitress warned her.



'You mean I'd have to pay for
not taking the eggs?'
my wife asked incredulously.



'Yes!' stated the waitress.
'I'll take the special then,' my wife said.



'How do you want your eggs?'
the waitress asked.



'Raw and in the shell,' my wife replied.



She took the two eggs home
and baked a cake.

DON'T MESS WITH SENIORS!!!
We've been around
the block more than once!

Send this to the Seniors in your life.
I'm sure they'll appreciate it!

Even Non-Seniors will appreciate it!

Stolt from a E-mail I got today.....

[Rick]

Now that right there is funny...and just about true.

[hunter63]

MM used to go to the "All you can eat buffet" with zip locks....on Sundays...Didn't say "All you can eat Today"
Kind like grocery shopping for the week....

Was embarrassing....Like ...."Ma, I'll take you shopping, just stop it...."

[Rick]

I've posted this before but my wife's aunt saved ice cubes. USED ice cubes. She would rinse them off and toss them in the freezer. Those old folks raised during the depression and rationing of WWII saved everything. Mom always served two choices with every meal. Take it or leave it. God forbid if you didn't eat everything on your plate. Today I cringe when I see kids tossing half or even full meals in the trash.

[crashdive123]

That is pretty funny, and yes...............true.

[madmax]

I can't match wits with the geezers here. But when I went to the dentist for a chipped tooth and they came back with an estimate for 8 grand. I sorta felt part of the tribe. I didn't know my teeth were so rotten. Sheesh!

[Rick]

I would have taken the 8 grand and kept the chipped tooth. But that's just me. My dentist has never offered me anything.

[madmax]

I already spent my allowance on a few bang bangs. I have to go to "cosmetic" on the teeth... sigh... ask Crash. he's seen my bad cap...

[WalkingTree]

I've posted this before but my wife's aunt saved ice cubes. USED ice cubes. She would rinse them off and toss them in the freezer. Those old folks raised during the depression and rationing of WWII saved everything. Mom always served two choices with every meal. Take it or leave it. God forbid if you didn't eat everything on your plate. Today I cringe when I see kids tossing half or even full meals in the trash.

Advancement is great...but we sure are spoiled today. Lots of waste. No resourcefulness. No improvisation. No responsibility. It's almost even looked down upon.

[Mischief]

Getting up in the morning is as good as it can be, the rest of the day is just waiting to see if it will happen again tomorrow.

[hunter63]

It seems that our state...Wisconsin.....Does have a geezer specialist at the DOJ.

Got my CC carry permit renewal in the mail.....Easy Peasy..

Go to the web site..... Thus and such and enter in your information....OK
Then enter in your ID number and permit number....OK
Prove you are a human...funny little type in strange letters and numbers....OK
Press enter....Goes back to start.?????...WTH???

Start over...twice more....same thing......WTH?????

Call the number.....
Lady answers....explain my problem.....
She looks up my information....I had done stuff correctly .....
Then she says...."What browser are you using?
I say "What?"
She says, "Hold for a second...."
Second lady come on the line....(Geezer customer service)
She as me again what browser am I using.....
I say "What?"

She says, "Did you try Chrome?....it work better with Chrome"
I say, "No, I didn't even paint it"

Now I ask her "Why I have to change my machine to their way of doing stuff, because the "STATE" web site is messed up?"

Then she says, " Go to page so and so....and "Print the page", fill it out and send it in with a check......

I tell her my printer ink gets dried out, because I don't print that much anymore anyway....and I don't feel like spending $60 bucks for a new ink cartridge....to print the stupid page.....only to have it dry out again?

She says, "Well I could send you out the renewal form....you can fill that out and send it back with your check?"

So I said, "Yeah sounds good....Why in the heck didn't you just look up my age...You have all my information...figure out I'm a Geezer...and save us both a lot of time and money for stamps?.... As you sent me the letter anyway,.... telling me to use your website that doesn't work.........Maybe that it would have been smarter to START with that?

She says, "No Ship...I'll get that right out."

Sheesh...Geezer doesn't mean stupid.....

[Desert Rat!]

I've posted this before but my wife's aunt saved ice cubes. USED ice cubes. She would rinse them off and toss them in the freezer. Those old folks raised during the depression and rationing of WWII saved everything. Mom always served two choices with every meal. Take it or leave it. God forbid if you didn't eat everything on your plate. Today I cringe when I see kids tossing half or even full meals in the trash.

I can remember my grandmother scraping the butter that was stuck to the paper wrapper off, you get about a teaspoon doing that she would also turn the milk bottles on end and let them drain for a few minutes, she didn't wast a thing.

[WolfVanZandt]

Hey, I still turn bottles over, but then, there are twenty-somethings in our House that noticed me doing it and exclaimed that they do the same thing.

My mother used to rinse out jars and freeze them into Popsicles. That worked okay for somethings like jellies and jams, but not so much for peanut butter and mayonnaise.

I get the idea that there's been a social drift from "My family isn't going to want for anything like my parents did," to "I'm not going to want for anything, period."

[Rick]

Now wait a minute. Turning bottles over the get the last little bit is just...well...just common sense. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

[hunter63]

Y'all have never seen me "Squeeze" an empty Crown Royal bottle...to get the last fume have you.....

[crashdive123]

Well yeah. Anything less would be alcohol abuse.

[Seniorman]

That first joke brings back memories of this scene in Five Easy Pieces, staring Jack Nicholson.



S.M.

[Desert Rat!]

That first joke brings back memories of this scene in Five Easy Pieces, staring Jack Nicholson.



S.M.

gotta love Jack.

[hunter63]

Wise counsel......


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[Williepete]

Now wait a minute. Turning bottles over the get the last little bit is just...well...just common sense. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

When I worked in a service station back during high school, mid fifties, after putting a quart of oil in a customers car, we would put it upside down in a funnel to drain into a can.

Bill