No, not free chocolate. A leaflet (see left) and samples of a product specifically designed for women with a sensitive bladder.Is this the future? Will I be receiving catalogues for walk-in baths (how do they work?) and stair-lifts next? Incontinence pants and funeral plans? Beige elastic-waisted slacks and crimplene dresses in pastel shades?
Big sigh.
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Ermm!!!
I think I need to boycott Sainsburys!!!
Patent leather shoes, matching belt, tickets to Florida.
Slacks with hold-down straps that go under your feet...
Oh no! Time to worry when you get hearing aid catalogues. Think how I felt, when some young girl in Debenhams asked me if I wanted a free sample of some new moisturiser for women over 60 - I'm 42. I told her to mind her manners and get an eye test! Cheeky little &*%@~.
Ya gotta luv that wink!
Do you have ads on the telly for these products like we do? And for the *ahem* older gentlemen who still enjoy a little romp in the sack?
Actually it's just a typo. Inside it's about small Welsh vegetables, a guide to little leeks ;-)
What a let down when you were hoping for chocolate!
I can't comment on that sort of product but I'm already getting subscription offers for the Oldie. I suppoes it's prostate checks for me next....
I would, cherrypie, but they do sometimes send me chocolate!
mdm, shades, the possibilities are numerous.
Siani, oh, no! I bet she was a made-up-to-the-eyeballs little piece too.
Yes, leslie, it's the sort of wink that says, 'Don't you wish you were as young as me without these problems?'
WE have ads for pads with wings but not the gentelmen's products yet.
Someone had to say it, stu!
Indeed, nick. I had just got my mouth into shape for some chocolate too.
Jams, there's something waiting for all of us - or so the manufacturers would have us believe.
Don't feel badly. Here in America we get inundated with stuff from the AARP - American Association of Retired Persons, I think it stands for. It starts coming around age 50 whether you want it or not. Actually, it's a very good organization that fights for the rights of retired people...but at age 50 most of us are still at least 15 years from retirement. And at the rate prices and inflation are going in this country right now, I dunno if any of us will even be able to retire! The first time I got some AARP literature addressed to me, I was SO insulted, haha! I got a kick out of "siani's" comment...I've been offered the Senior Citizen discount SO many times since my hair went silver at 35! Young store clerks or restaurant workers especially have absolutely no eye or ability to gauge age in any way, shape, or form. If they want to know for certain a person's age, let them check our birthdate or something! Dear Hubby came up with a good solution...he said if they offer it and you don't yet qualify, they ought to give it to you anyway, just for the embarrassment or irritation they cause by asking in the first place. I think he's on to something there!
We already got some cemetery plot brochures in the mail after we turned 50...I empathize!
I'd be boycotting Sains too if I was over there! We don't do "getting old", Liz!
Funny in a bizarre sort of way.
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