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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 05:31 PM
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"I'm 77 yrs. old and I work as a waitress.and without
Osteo Bi-Flex, I couldn't make it."

1 2 3 4 5 6...Lord, give me patience. Tell me what is wrong with this picture. ...7 8 9 10..
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Flying Dream Blues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 05:42 PM
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1. I met a lady working the register at Steinmart who is 75. nt
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Truthiness Inspector Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 05:43 PM
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2. Maybe she enjoys it?
She might enjoy the company of her coworkers and customers, and maybe she likes her job. I'm guessing you are talking about a commercial?

There are many places I know of and/or go where the waitresses have been there "forever," before I was even born. The restaurants are like home.

If she HAS to be there, then I agree that is sad, but is there more information?
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 05:48 PM
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5. My grandma
waitressed until she was 72. She was very upset when she had to finally quit. She loved waitressing.



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brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 06:21 PM
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7. I'm 73
Edited on Fri Sep-29-06 06:23 PM by brook
and I can assure you that my food service work brings me no joy. I don't take it out on the clients. One makes the best of what they must. If it were not necessary to bring that pittance in every month, I might enjoy more time in my garden, doing volunteer work, being with my children in the finite time left.


edited to add: No intelligent person dies wishing they had spent more time at the office.

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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 05:44 PM
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3. There's Republican Social Security for ya, right there. nt
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classof56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 05:46 PM
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4. Keep counting...there's probably no number high enough.
As a Social Security recipient who's had to go back to work because of *'s policies, I now believe, barring a lottery win or of course death, I will be working until 77...80 and beyond. How this 77-year-old woman can be a waitress is beyond me--even with Osteo Bi-Flex. Words just fail me to express what's wrong with this and millions of other pictures nowadays. Maybe it's just as well, since if words didn't fail me, those I could articulate might just put me among the "disappeared ones."

Lord help us all!

Tired Old Cynic
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-29-06 05:54 PM
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6. In a few decades, retirement age for SS will 75 or higher.
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