disrespect

Something horrible happened to me the other day. I walked into Taco Bell, ordered, got my order, paid, sat down, glanced at my receipt, and noticed that I had been given a ten per cent discount.

I was elated. Then I thought, "but why"?   So I asked. The very young lady behind the counter matter of factly replied "senior discount".

I danged near went ballistic. Senior discount? What? Me? Me, a merely lad of fifty six, and not looking a day over thirty five, I mean, how in the hell could she even tell that I was/am a "senior"? Aren't seniors supposed to be sixty five?

So I calmed down and decided to ask her. Her reply was predictably evasive, something like "its company policy, sir."  OK...sure...

I'm just guessing that nearly everyone either already has or at some future time shall experience something like this, and it was really no harm, and it benefitted me...but still...

Early in life we are offended because we are young, because of the wqy we are treated because we are young. Later in life we experience the same thing, in reverse. Like they say, nobody ever gets out of this alive..