So, I went to the butchers yesterday and bought pork steaks for last night and fillet steaks for tonight. Then I said, 'Not much this week, as we going away'. He said 'Where are you going?'. 'On a River Cruise in France'. 'Oh,' he said, 'you'll enjoy that. My Mum and Dad have been on a few and really enjoy them. They are quite good for older people aren't they?' 
Exit kitty - well and truly deflated.
Anyone know any good butchers? 
Some of you may have heard this one before, but for the benefit of newer grans, here I go again. I was in M&S trying to buy a dressing gown for DGS. There weren't any his size so I asked an assistant. She said that if I could get someone to look on the internet for me, I could order the dressing gown there. 
I told her that I'd been using the internet since before she was born - probably not much of an exaggeration.
Do you mean the Advantage Card, Lona, or is it a different one? 
. I've never been offered any sort of discount card from Superdrug - perhaps you have to ask for it? ('I am old and demand my discount' sort of thing...)
Sorry - not 'old age' but over 60!
My son's neighbour thought I was in my late 50s.
I'm in my late 60s all vanity I know but it kept me going for weeks.
Rose
annsixty
What made me laugh on our night out, however, was that Mr Sleazy commented on how good the band's young singer was, did we know who she was, so I said casually 'oh yes she's my DD as well!'
When I was with ex no.1, we were staying at a holiday cottage. A man, who had been chatting to my ex the day before, came to the door and asked to speak to my father!
Ex and I were in our early 40s!
When we were still going out in the evening it was always up to me to go to the bar to order food ,buy drinks etc as DH would have forgotten what we wanted by the time he got there and one time a very noisy ,slightly merry, group of well dressed men were monopolising the bar area. One of them got into some chat with me as I was ordering a bottle of wine and told me I reminded him of his Old Gran. His mother would have been bad enough but his GRAN.He was at least 55!! I tottered away feeling 100.
What really gets my goat, rosequartz is the immediate assumption that your DD was taking you out. It couldn't possibly be the other way round, could it? Not once we get to a certain age. Oh no, we're not capable of running our own lives now, are we? We rely totally on the kindness of our children to 'take us out, give us a bit of a break'. Poor old things, we'd just be looking at our four walls otherwise wouldn't we? Wishing someone would come along and brighten up our day. 
When I was out for the evening with DD a couple or so years ago an older chap started chatting to me when DD had gone to fetch us drinks. When DD came back he turned his attention to her (he was quite sleazy!) and said 'is this your Mum?' She said 'yes', he said 'that's nice of you to take your mum out, I take my old mum out for the evening sometimes, she's 83'.
I was about 65 he was 60 if he was a day!
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