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Related: About this forumYou know you're a Baby Boomer when
you tune into your favorite hard rock radio station and are greeted with advertisements about enrollment into Medicare.
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You know you're a Baby Boomer when (Original Post)
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2017
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,771 posts)1. Not to mention when half your junk mail
are from companies wanting to sell you hearing aids or cremation services.
Quemado
(1,262 posts)2. When retail stores, restaurants, movie theaters, etc. give you the senior discount
without you asking for it.
wnylib
(24,552 posts)3. When you see auras around objects and halos
around streetlights but your optometrist says, no, you are not a psychic seeing orbs or receiving a special calling from God. You just have cataracts and need surgery.
This is so true!
Sparkly
(24,352 posts)5. Assuming you were raised by parents of the Depression-era...
You feel guilty throwing away left-overs, letting tap water run (unless it 'does something' between faucet and where it lands), feel an urge to re-use things you know you won't re-use, compare the cost of menu items with what it would cost to make at home... Others?
Liberal4Lyfe
(22 posts)6. Very True!!!