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Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2882
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 2:28 pm: | 
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I have received approximately five offers to join AARP in the past 6 months. they are all very well written, and obviously have my best interests at heart... IF I WERE OVER 50!!!
"Our records show that you haven't yet registered fo rthe benefits of AARP membership, even though you are fully eleigible."
It must be one of my alter egos, since I am 40. Not 50. 40. I ahve requested to be taken off their list. Yet they still send me stuff. I have mailed back the reply cards with a note explaining that when I am 50, I might consider joining. But for now, I want to enjoy the fact that I am too young to be a member.
AAARRGHHH!!!!
yes, I know in the scheme of things this is about as important as how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, but it's grating... |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 1565
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 2:32 pm: |
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Why don't you just say yes then enjoy the membership discount? |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1506
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 2:34 pm: |
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I remember getting an AARP membership proposal on or about my 35th birthday...I didn't take it as a good sign.
I've somehow made it on the list for mothers of young children (I have no children), as on a daily basis, I get mailings and coupons from Similac, Huggies, etc. I haven't tried to make it stop, I'm too lazy (good thing I'm not a mother, I'd never get away with that lazy behavior). |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13645
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 2:52 pm: |
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LilLB, you're 35?!
I'm with las. Reap the benefits! Just don't sign any fraud disclaimers.
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Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 623
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:02 pm: |
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Well see if I started getting those right now...I'd just claim that because they said I was fully eligible I thought the rules had changed or something. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 7241
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:13 pm: |
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Look at the bright side. I can't get rid of the offers to enlarge my penis. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1507
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:37 pm: |
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Tom - I passed that milestone a few years ago.
Are you saying I look younger?? Huh?? Maybe???  |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1508
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:38 pm: |
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greentree -  |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13652
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:39 pm: |
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LilLB, you're years older than 35?!
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las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 1570
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:41 pm: |
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Yes, LilLB he's saying you look younger!
You are gorgeous and look like you are 18.
Now just drop it, and let the rest of us exist in peaceful mediocrity.  |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1509
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:41 pm: |
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Yup....going on 37 in a few months.
So, I look younger, right??? right???
C'mon....throw me a bone. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1510
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:45 pm: |
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Las, I think I love you.
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SO Ref
Citizen
Username: So_refugee
Post Number: 1700
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:47 pm: |
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No more than 27... |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1511
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:50 pm: |
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SORef - now that las says I look 18, 27 seems so....well...old. But given my true age, I'll take it. Thanks!
Sorry Rastro, I'll stop hijacking your thread with my pathetic need for compliments today.... |
SO Ref
Citizen
Username: So_refugee
Post Number: 1701
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:58 pm: |
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27 is the perfect blend of youth and maturity... |
Suzanne Ng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 720
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 4:15 pm: |
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I can't get rid of the phone and mail offers for various services -- usually long distance phone cards/plans -- written in CHINESE . I'd call to get off their mailing list, but usually can't get an English speaking person on the phone! I guess with a Chinese last name, they assume that I actually *AM* Chinese. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1512
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 4:20 pm: |
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That's funny Suzanne.
I got something the other day that was trying to sell me a Greek newsletter and the outside of their envelope claimed that it was designed just for me, reflecting my Greek heritage. I'm nothing close to Greek - couldn't even mistake me for Greek by looks or name. I often wonder how I get on some of these lists. |
BLOWFLY
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1769
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 10:17 pm: |
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...as for AARP, you cannot win. No matter how old you are (or say your are) the mailings will keep on coming. Do not fight it. Throw them directly into the trash. Then, someday, when you get to be, I dunno, 45? 48? 50? 55? you'll start reading thru the stuff and THEN throwing it in the trash. But, by all means, do not let this happen:
I'm in Wonder Bagels on 1/9 in Jersey City recently and somehow I get into a conversation with a guy waiting in line with me for bagels about car insurance. So he says to me, "y'know the cheapest car insurance is AARP. I shopped around and they had by far the lowest rate, if you're a member."
So I goes home and I mentions it to da wife. She says yeah we need different car insurance so we joins up and after a few weeks waiting for cards and all, we call them and they say...
"we don't offer car insurance in New Jersey." |
Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 3757
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:23 am: |
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The way things are heading in this country, if AARP really wanted to live up to its name, they wouldn't start spamming prospective members until they were 70 years old...
-s.
BTW: I get regular membership invites from them as well. I write "DECEASED" on the envelopes and send 'em back, but with no effect... |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 3530
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:35 am: |
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Let's see, I still get offers addressed to "our single friend", which is leftover from the previous owner, who's 37-year-old son was living in the attic when we bought the house, EIGHT YEARS AGO!
Then there are all those offers I get IN SPANISH. Not that I actually even read or speak the language--it's merely an assumption that's made because my husband is spanish and, thus, I have a spanish last name. Of course I couldn't be any further from spanish if I tried. WASP through and through!
I really hate it when people make assumptions.....after all, you know what they say about making assumptions! |
Monster©
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 2800
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 1:10 pm: |
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I refuse to believe that LILB is over 35, I mean YOWZA!, I just don't believe it.... |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2793
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 1:35 pm: |
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When my graqndfather went into a nursing home in his 90's he had no medical records because he had never been to the doctor. They started treating him like he was senile, becasue they couldn't believe it. They asked "sir, do you have medical insurance?" he said no, I don't think so. They said "don't you have aarp?" (pronouncing it like a word). He said "well, I'm not playing one quite yet." |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1516
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 1:43 pm: |
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Monster -- As flattered as I am by all of this, I have to keep it real -- you all met me in a dark bar after the consumption of several alcoholic beverages. So, I'm guessing if y'all saw me in the sunlight on a sober day, you'd think differently.... |
Monster©
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 2802
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 1:55 pm: |
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riiiigggghhhht....
okaaaaaay....
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