What A Card!
What A Card!
By Madeleine Begun Kane
I haven’t been carded in years,
But the last time it brought me to tears.
I was laughing, I mean:
To be seen as a teen
By a fellow whose folks were my peers.
Tags: Age Requirement, Aging Humor & Verse, Aging Limerick, Appearance Humor, Bars, Carding, Drinking Limerick, Law Humor, Liquor Humor
The Carnival of Satire (#59)…
Welcome to the Carnival of Satire at The Skwib, where we are equal opportunity offenders. This week’s edition includes robots, orcs, hobos and it will all go down better if you have diminished expectations. To start, we are going to break the firs…
I guess this is the timeline of maturity:
stage one: pray you won’t be carded
stage two : disappointed you still appear young enough to get carded
stage three: flattered that you are carded
stage four: disbelief that you are carded
stage five: laugh at being carded
I LOVE your limericks. They’re always witty and wonderful. Please don’t EVER stop doing them.
Thanks Bob! And Nelumbo, that sounds just about right.
LOL! Many years ago my wife and I built a place on the California coast. I had just turned 55. We had some things to drop off at the dump, and I saw that on turning 55, I was entitled to a half price senior discount.
We pulled up to the dump and I mentioned to the lady that I was entitled to the senior discount. She replied, “You’re kidding”. I had to show her my driver’s license. I got carded at the Mendocino dump!
Fun story! Thanks for sharing it.