Is it fair when:

[gloriana]

Is it fair when, on the one and exact same day, you can:

1. get your first invitation from the AARP for membership; and
2. have your period start?

Surely one is a 'get out of jail' card for the other?

Comments

[the_emu]

Not fair, but it's not as confounding as the first way I read that, which was

get your invitation from the AARP for membership; and
have your first period start?

I was stuck figuring that out for a while.

8^-

[gloriana]

Do you know I sat there and redrafted that very small entry four times to not give that impression?

A fail, obviously.

[the_emu]

Word-swappage is a sign of advanced reading skills.

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[glasshouses]

That's because the AARP is now targeting 50 year olds. When it started you had to be 60 or 65, something like that.

Pretty soon kids will get an application with their college orientation material.

[gloriana]

Which is a good idea!! Fascinating thing in the Economist awhile ago about how if people put a photograph of themselves now into one of those programs that modify photos to show you what you'll look like as you get old, they then are more likely to put money into their pension, for instance. It's as if we can't imagine ourselves being old, and anything that can help us to do that means we start thinking more seriously about the future.

So really, the AARP should have classes in kindergartens :)

Husband was absolutely shocked when I said I might join, if only for the discounts. He said, "But then you'll have to show an AARP membership card! And people will know you're a member!!" That's what he gets for marrying an older woman, huh. And it's not like he tries to hide his streak of grey hair a mile wide.

I want to check their stated position on Obama's healthcare reforms before I join, though.

[hardboiledbaby]

LOL, not fair! Although premature menopause was no picnic, either :)

[gloriana]

Bleh, I don't envy you that! My body is still in denial about menopause, and as far as I'm concerned, we can continue in that light for a few more years :) It's going to go on forever when it finally starts, though: I think my mother had ten years of hot flushes before they finally went away.

[hardboiledbaby]

Hee, yep; no periods are great, but some of the other menopause-y things are less than pleasant. Your poor mom! My own hot flashes weren't unbearable, but I felt generally crappy all the time, probably because I'd gone cold-turkey on the estrogen (thanks to radiation treatments). I was on HRT treatment for a few years, and that helped.

[archaeologist_d]

Sounds like irony.

I got my AARP card when I was 50. Hey, gets me discounts. Plus I found that after 60 or 62, depending, I get discounts on trains, etc. Doesn't hurt to ask.