Outrageous Old Ladies

[DarkHourPrince]

This lady just really blew me out of the water with her horrendous cacophony of bullshit and served as a wonderful joke for a regular and I for months afterward.

I used to wotk at the local Goodwill as a cashier and here in Ohio we have something called the "Golden Buckeye Card" for senior citizens. Apparentlyt he Department of Agiing is supposed to send these things to people when they turn.. I think it's 65. This happened to me last autumn, I was only 16 at the time.

Me: *rings lady up" That'll be *total here* (not there's a huge line forming behind this woman by now, because some people don't sort out their damn shopping carts unilt they get up to me which was the biggest pain in the ass)

Hag:: *has been rather irritating up to thise point but pays me and starts off on her way*

Next lady up, a regular:: I have my Golden Buckeye Card, so I get the 10% off

Me: Alright *starts ringing her up*

Hag:: Wait a minute!

Me: *looks at her* yes?

Hag: I have a Golden Buckeye Card too and you never gave me a discount

(Note: My grandmother is 65 and she NEVER got a card, My policy was that if yo u didn't show it to me, you didn't get the discount. i'm not about to ask every lady I see if they have a GB card because, well, that's awkward to ask women something like that. So I assumed she was like my grandmother and didn't get one)

Me:: Well, I'm sorry ma'am but you never mentioned it and once I ring you up I can't give it to you

Hag:: Well I want my 10%! You should ahve given it to me!

Me: I'm sorry miss, but I can't

Hag:: *goes on an irate rant about how she didn't get her 10% discount and how the service was lousy and all this crap*

Regular:: *looks absolutely astoudned at this woman by this point*

Hag:: I want to speak with your manager!

Me: *goes and gets her, continues with job while this Hag CONTINUES bitching*

Hag: *finally leaves, can be heard bitching all the way down the sidewalk*


So that was one of the most "wtf" moments I'd gotten working there. If you DON"T tell me you have a discount, then how the hell am I supposed to know? I'm not a mind reader.

This hag became a joke for the Regular who would come up and go "And don't forget to give me my 10% off!" and other quips like that

Such a shame the managers weren't as easily to make fun of T_T I really hated that job.

[Aethian]

At our local GoodWill's there are signs on the register, "If you don't tell us about your age discounts before we start ringing you up....you don't get them."

[LillFilly]

All that over a discount!? I guess because the prices at goodwill and thrift stores are sooo outragous, she wouldn't be able to afford her purple hair dye and bingo cards otherwise.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

All that over a discount!? I guess because the prices at goodwill and thrift stores are sooo outragous, she wouldn't be able to afford her purple hair dye and bingo cards otherwise.

Don't forget the fire engine red or neon orange lipstick.

[blas]

And razors to shave off their eyebrows and bright blue eyebrow pencils to pencil them in

[Becks]

And girdles.

Never forget the girdles.

[tinamarble88]

Yeah I hate when seniors do it at my job too. They tell me after about their senior discount and this old guy is a regular and he told me after I rang him up "Did you give me my senior discount?" and I said, "You didn't tell me." At least I memorized a small coffee price after the discount and gave him his change.

[dalesys]

And girdles.

Never forget the girdles.

I thought those were blimp sausage skins!

[Peppergirl]

But yet if you'd see she were old and ASK her if they have that Golden Buckeye Card (god, how I hated that thing), you'd be an asshole for assuming she was old.

Definitely a no-win.

Hag.

[auntiem]

There is no delicate way to ask if a client is eligible for a senior discount. The best I've managed is an "any chance you are a senior?". Since some discounts start at 55 it isn't too bad, and the ladies that were in their 80s were flattered.

[Chattyaholic]

I usually try to stick up for old people because, well...I'm almost there myself.

But I agree with you, if she didn't tell you about her discount card it was her own fault and not yours.

And if you ask someone who looks like they would be old enough, they might not actually be that old and can get real upset just because you asked them so it's a no-win situation for you.

I waited tables for 12 years, and 55 was the age for our "senior discount" on the buffet. I got yelled at a couple of times for asking someone if they qualified for the discount, one person even withheld my tip simply because I asked if she qualified (I heard her tell the people she was eating with that she wasn't going to tip me because of it) so I got a little more creative in my asking, or sometimes I just wouldn't even ask, if they looked to be on the borderline age. I figured if they wanted the discount they could ask me for it.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I got yelled at a couple of times for asking someone if they qualified for the discount, one person even withheld my tip simply because I asked if she qualified (I heard her tell the people she was eating with that she wasn't going to tip me because of it) so I got a little more creative in my asking, or sometimes I just wouldn't even ask, if they looked to be on the borderline age. I figured if they wanted the discount they could ask me for it.

I guess these people would rather pay more for their meals, than admit that growing older happens.

There was a For Better or For Worse cartoon a while back that had Elly and a friend checking out. The clerk asked them if they qualified for a senior discount. The friend got upset and chewed out the clerk for assuming she was older. As they were walking away, the friend is telling Elly that they have to watch out for such persumptions. Elly's reply was that she saved $5.00.

Personally, I refuse to turn down a discount.

[Retail Associate]

There is no delicate way to ask if a client is eligible for a senior discount.

Ain't that the truth!

When I was 47 a young cashier asked me if I had the senior citizen discount card his store offered. I'm not easily offended but that one hurt!

[Bandit]

Ain't that the truth!

When I was 47 a young cashier asked me if I had the senior citizen discount card his store offered. I'm not easily offended but that one hurt!

Two weeks ago, I got a senior's rate on a car wash without anyone asking. I didn't even realize it until I was in line and looked at the ticket.

While my hair and beard are getting pretty grey, I'm only 41.

B

[Calie]

Two weeks ago, I got a senior's rate on a car wash without anyone asking. I didn't even realize it until I was in line and looked at the ticket.

While my hair and beard are getting pretty grey, I'm only 41.

B

It took my dad a month or more to realize that fast food places were giving him senior discounts...in a predominantly Asian area, a 50ish white guy I guess is hard to tell. And this was a couple years ago when his hair/beard were still mostly brown&red. He just laughed it off, though he felt some guilt at taking a discount he didn't technically earn.