What do you drink when your AARP card arrives?

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Brad Widelock

Brad Widelock
As I quickly approach my 50th journey around the sun, an experience everyone should have at least once, it was with mixed feelings that I received my AARP card in the mail. On the one hand I am offended that I am being reminded of my advanced age. On the other, I can’t believe that I have another 10 -12 years of teaching middle school math before I can retire.

To console myself, I made a trip to storage and I brought home:

2004 Les Palliers Gigondas (KLWM)
2003 Domaine de La Charbonniere Cuvee Mourre de Perdrix (KLWM)
2004 Domaine Roger Perin Chateaunef du Pape (Charles Neal Selections)
2008 Calluna Vineyards CVC (Chalk Hill)
2002 Ridge Santa Cruz Mountains Home Ranch
2006 Weingutt Bernhard Ott Rosenberg Reserve Gruner Veltliner (Bill Mayer Selections)
2004 Stony Hill Semillon de Soleil
2001 Chateau Roumieu- Lacoste Sauternes (KLWM)
2001 Guido Porro Barolo (KLWM)

I haven’t tried most of these since I bought them. I hope to find them youthful and with many years of life left. I’d like to say the same for myself. Mortality is really on my mind, #$%& AARP card! Somewhere I have a 1963 Warre’s Port that I plan to drink some time soon.

Next up: What do you drink for your first colonoscopy?
 
Next up: What do you drink for your first colonoscopy?

well, for starters, not the 'go lightly'. oooffff.

total hovercraft.

that being said, there are no acceptable answers. . . .none.
 
originally posted by Brad Widelock:
...Next up: What do you drink for your first colonoscopy?
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En Montre Cul (KLWM), naturally.

For the AARP card milestone, stock some LDM wines, to show growing maturity and wisdom :)
 
I did not find any really good discounts as a member, and I have a problem with elements of their attitude, so I resigned from AARP. Maybe I'll give them another whirl when I'm more grown up.
 
Well, if we're being serious, I get the impression they are primarily a life-insurance sales organization. The AARP hotel discounts can be useful, if you travel much, and may balance out the flow of additional junk mail that passes through your hands as a member. The magazine, surprisingly, has enough useful tidbits and references to merit flipping through.
 
AARP is a terrible organization that lobbies to transfer wealth and resources from productive members of society to a previous generation that has already used whatever wealth they put into the system.
 
originally posted by VLM:
AARP is a terrible organization that lobbies to transfer wealth and resources from productive members of society to a previous generation that has already used whatever wealth they put into the system.
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Society has some responsibility for its elders. But not as much as AARP says it does.
 
And life insurance.

originally posted by VLM:
AARP is a terrible organization that lobbies to transfer wealth and resources from productive members of society to a previous generation that has already used whatever wealth they put into the system.
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As trolls go, you're very presentable.

I was just listening to an evolutionary biology lecture on life history, in which the speaker argued "After 46, life doesn't care if you're around."
 
originally posted by robert ames:
Next up: What do you drink for your first colonoscopy?
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here's my recommendation = make your own "jello" using packets of gelatin and welch's white grape juice. The flavors carry through very well and it's not nearly as sweet as packaged gelatin - and it's acceptable "food" for the fasting day.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
And life insurance.

originally posted by VLM:
AARP is a terrible organization that lobbies to transfer wealth and resources from productive members of society to a previous generation that has already used whatever wealth they put into the system.
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As trolls go, you're very presentable.

I was just listening to an evolutionary biology lecture on life history, in which the speaker argued "After 46, life doesn't care if you're around."
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Tell that to Michael Douglas.
 
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