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Trickster Goddess says June 9, 2025 at 2:13 pm Well, I just turned 65 this year and I’m finding it fairly significant: discounts on a lot of things and some things for free that weren’t before.
seachange says June 10, 2025 at 5:38 am We have different friends I guess. Every whole decade gets noticed. Anything in between might get ignored by everybody, sometimes quite on purpose.
jenorafeuer says June 18, 2025 at 2:32 pm I’ve been trying to come up with amusing takes on this sort of thing. At 52, “I am now officially playing with a full deck!” (At 54, extended using “With jokers!”) At 57, “I am now Heinz years old.” At some point, your age becomes a declaration of “Haha! You haven’t got me yet, world!”
Well, I just turned 65 this year and I’m finding it fairly significant: discounts on a lot of things and some things for free that weren’t before.
We have different friends I guess. Every whole decade gets noticed. Anything in between might get ignored by everybody, sometimes quite on purpose.
I’ve been trying to come up with amusing takes on this sort of thing.
At 52, “I am now officially playing with a full deck!” (At 54, extended using “With jokers!”)
At 57, “I am now Heinz years old.”
At some point, your age becomes a declaration of “Haha! You haven’t got me yet, world!”