Sunday 19 July 2020

I now qualify for age discounts

I very recently got older. Actually everyday you get older. I got officially older by another year a few days ago when I hit the double nickel. Or you could say I am now fifty-five. I swear I do no look a day over fifty-four.

I celebrate this birthday like I like to celebrate all my birthdays, spending it by myself. I am not anti-social or unsocial, I just like to spend the day doing something I want to do.

I took a road trip to very rural Saskatchewan doing the usual things that provide material for this blog. Like most things in 2020 there were issues. The day before leaving I got an oil change on my truck by an oil change place on my way to work. I discovered a puddle of oil under the truck in the parking lot at my office a few hours later. A local shop that I deal with fixed their stupidity and topped up the oil. I should have gone to them in the first place but I thought they were not open because the the owner/operator had recently got out of the hospital.

The first day on my trip went well. Beautiful weather and I crossed a few places off my list. The next day it rained. Multiple times during the day it rained. I had checked the forecast several times before I took this trip, it was supposed to be warm and sunny. I got fed up and cut my trip short and drove home.

The highlight of the trip was meeting up with a friend of mine for dinner. Enough things worked out to make it worthwhile.  

7 comments:

  1. I've long thought that a persons birthday was their day! For many years I used vacation time to take my birthday off.
    Enjoy the discounts!

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  2. Happy Birthday! Get yourself one of those t-shirts that say: "I'm 55+. Gimme my damn discount!"

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  3. Happy birthday! I'm a little over 2 years behind you.

    That's the way to spend a birthday - doing what YOU want to do.

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  4. Enjoy it young man, I turn 74 in three weeks.

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  5. Happy belated birthday. I can relate to how you like to celebrate, or not. We tried a short road trip yesterday and were also rained out.

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  6. Happy (albeit now belated) birth day wishes. We share the same birth month but I've been officially recognized by CPP and OAS for a year now. Kinda nice to get paid to be old by the government!

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  7. Meeting up for supper was a good time...the wine, steaks and company were second to none. Cheers!

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