It started with a trip to the local supermarket.
After the young girl blipped my wine, cheese and crisps. She asked me if I had my pensioner discount card.
I politely asked her to repeat her question. It sometimes takes two or three attempts for me to translate Italian to English and even then I can make some fantastic mistakes and misunderstandings and confusion follow.
Do I have my pensioner discount card?
I quickly looked over my shoulder to see which old man she was talking to.
Never too old for flip flops
And then today I received this delightful E mail
Don’t need you for another 40+ years
I send them a very polite E mail.
Dear sir,
Thank you for your kind E mail, however the cost of my funeral will be the least of my worries when I die.
May I suggest you contact my wife, Mrs Sensible. She is the worrier in our family.
Kind regards
Pecora (feeling remarkably healthy) Nera
I wonder if they will reply.
On a happier note, at my birthday party last week, we had a barbecue, drank lots of wine, sang and generally had a good time.
Englishman in Italy 
Here’s to you at any age !
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I still feel young, in fact I am still young. I am not as old as my mum… yet
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Maybe you should suggest the young woman to give you this discount card, that you need her help to get it 😀
Then you might stretch the pension a little more.
I also start to receive those about the funeral and I couldn’t mind less. I’m not that old and right now, I don’t care.
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I am not quite ready to stand at the post office queue waiting for my pension. I am quite happy standing at the bar waiting for my glass of red wine 🍷
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I feel for you. I get a thrill out of being called “Mademoiselle” – at the old peep’s home when I go to visit my mother-in-law. I’m getting emails and facebook ads about over 55’s health insurance plans and urinary leaks, they haven’t tried the funeral plans yet and they will be needing one if they try.
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I was concerned when my facebook page started to suggest ads for trusses etc. I marked them all as offensive 😃
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I know how you feel. I’ve been getting that stuff for a few months now. I can’t figure out what triggered it.
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Me neither, I was astonished when the girl decided I looked like a pensioner.
It must have been after a hard day teaching several classes of munchkins
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