{"id":12701,"date":"2013-03-04T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=12701"},"modified":"2013-02-25T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T01:04:00","slug":"helpless-female-gets-offered-senior-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/helpless-female-gets-offered-senior-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpless Female Gets Offered Senior Discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12930\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Young-Laura-with-baby-Ben.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12930\" title=\"Me in my early 20s with our second baby, just 3 months old\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Young-Laura-with-baby-Ben-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"Me in my early 20s with our second baby, just 3 months old\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Young-Laura-with-baby-Ben-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Young-Laura-with-baby-Ben-617x1024.jpg 617w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Young-Laura-with-baby-Ben.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me in my early 20s with our second baby, just 3 months old<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve always wondered a little about the stories<\/strong> of older folks getting &#8220;senile.&#8221; \u00a0 One of my theories is that younger people just don&#8217;t understand how hard it can be to keep track of which decade is current. \u00a0When one person doesn&#8217;t understand the source of another person&#8217;s confusion, it is often labeled.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are younger and confused, it is called stupidity by those with the advantage of more years of experience.<\/li>\n<li>If you are older and confused, you are called senile by those with the advantage of less to keep track of.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>But, since one person&#8217;s confusion is often another&#8217;s entertainment, I still go out in public<\/em> and end up with situations like I did at <a href=\"http:\/\/mydbsupply.com\/blog\/db-supply-senior-discount-day-creates-challenge-for-unsuspecting-cashier\/\" target=\"_blank\">D&amp;B Supply a couple weeks ago on Senior Discount Tuesday&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered a little about the stories of older folks getting &#8220;senile.&#8221; \u00a0 One of my theories is that younger people just don&#8217;t understand how hard it can be to keep track of which decade is current. \u00a0When one person doesn&#8217;t understand the source of another person&#8217;s confusion, it is often labeled. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,26],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}