Would you be offended if someone asked you whether you were over 60’s?

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I’d really love to hear people’s opinions on this!

If you went to the cinema to purchase a ticket to watch a film and the sales assistant said, ‘Is that 1 Adult ticket or 1 Over 60’s ticket?’ would you be offended by that? Bearing in mind you’re not actually over 60’s but 53.

For context, an Adult ticket costs £13.70 and an Over 60’s ticket costs £10.70. How would you feel about that line of questioning?

YABU - that’s a really offensive question and shouldn’t be asked.

YANBU - there’s nothing wrong with the question as the staff member needs to charge the correct price

Carer’s price? Not suggesting your dad needs one, just that they might have assumed.

I'm pretty miffed that I've never in my life been asked for ID when buying booze - being asked if I wanted a seniors discount would just about finish off my poor fragile ego!

I couldn’t get too upset about it tbh, a lot of people struggle to tell what age others are although I can understand you are a bit miffed. Where I live in Australia over 60s working less than 20 hours a week are entitled to a Seniors Card which gives big discounts, including all day travel in a huge area for $2.50 and cheap tickets to movies/theatre/exhibitions so it would be unusual for a customer not to ask for a cheap ticket if they are entitled to it.

I'm curious. If there is supposedly nothing offensive about someone inferring you are 7-plus years older than you are, in another age bracket, and - being over 60 - an actual Boomer - then why is almost every S&B thread on "ageing" full of women in their 40s looking for that holy grail product that will make them look younger? Nobody wants to be told they look older than they are.

Wouldn't bother me at all as many people are actually very bad at judging age with any degree of accuracy.

I am 50 and have to admit I would be gutted if I was asked this. I feel no way near 60 yet.

They asked the question. You're not 21 so hardly anything to be offended about. Oh to see ourselves as others see us!

I was slightly offended when a HCP asked if I was pregnant and then giggled and said "Obviously not". Physically it was possible thank you.

I think if you're about 50 you don't want to be asked if you're 60. But if you're 70 you'd be flattered. MIL would have been delighted, but she's mid 70s. At 40 it would just be an odd question.

DH and I are now 60 (me for a month) and DH is 62. We've taken great 'joy' in getting a 'senior discount' for a few years now. We have sort of turned it in to a bit of a challenge. It has saved us a pretty penny. My earliest 'win' was a chap at a steam train who asked us 'is that two seniors?' over 10 years ago - I was 49 then.

It’s just the revers of ‘Challenge 25’. We have that because it’s so hard to judge age accurately. Someone thinking it’s not impossible you are over 60 is not the same as saying you look years older than you are.

Right. I'm sure you just adore it when people think you're in your seventies.

Thats not what I said. I said it wasn’t personal, that it didn’t mean you looked it. It’s not somebody saying you look like an age, just that you are within the range where it’s hard to be sure. Age, and other people’s perception of it, isn’t really that big a deal to me though.

I’d be offended but then I am 23.