oaps

[flip_flop]

If OAPs are as impoverished as we are led to believe, and that in a few short months they'll be popping off whilst huddled over a one bar fire in their big furry zip up the middle single boot, how come everytime I go to the M&S Food Hall the place is fit to bursting with them?

[Sachs]

flip, they're the ones who were lucky & have money already!
The ones that will suffer are the rest that just got by when employed.

[heathfield]

They demonstrate the wisdom of making provision for an additional private pension, and not just relying on a state pension

[Sachs]

Not everyone has had the benefit of a middle class upbringing with good financial knowledge/ backing from parents.

[Quizmonster]

Click here for a set of answers to an almost identical question posted here about six months ago.

[happy_face]

and why do they have to go shopping in my lunchtime or on a weekend when they have all other friggin times to go shopping.

[theonlyone]

You will get old ..and think back ..
There is a lot to be learnt from
the older generation ...a wealth of
knowledge ...enjoy your life ....

[keyplus90]

For long time I believed that OAPs was a hair style. Because the barber I used to go to had a price list something like this;


Dry Cut 5.50
Wash cut and blow dry 10.50
Cut wash and gel 14.00
African cut 9.00
Facial Massage 15.00
OAPs 4.00

We work on first come first basis,
All prices correct at the time of print

[jno]

it is, keyplus

[B00]

You look rather fetching in that piccy jno- have you ironed out some wrinkles in order to have it taken? And you said you weren't vain!

[Ethel]

Some OAPs work - I carried on working well past my state pension age, and still work now, albeit from home.

Just as not all 40 years old are driving round in soft top Mercedes, jetting off to the Caribbean several times a year, and lunching at The Vine, not all pensioners are paupers.

Some are, but not the ones who buy their food in M&S.

[kitiekebab]

flip_flop yours must be the only m&s that has this problem.
i hope you can survive and manage on the pittance that the oap's get.
not everyone has savings to fall back on and when the cold weather comes old people feel it more .please remember years ago when people had babies they had to work to feed the extra mouths, no big hand outs from the government in those days

[keyplus90]

Thanks - jno - that thing ..........................Any way I may look like that but I still have about 40 years to get to that point. Good one, lol

[Unsureme]

How can you call yourself "Happy-Face" with an attitude like that,

[saxy_jag]

I've heard about oldsters in M&S before. It's quite a common occurrence, apparently. I wouldn't give M&S the time of day, so I'm just going on reports here.

Kitiekebab, I shall almost certainly manage on the 'pittance' that most of them get - because it's be more than I get now, and I'll get rent allowance, free prescriptions and free bus travel too.

And when I'm old, I'll shop in the early morning when it's quieter (Why shop at lunchtime, when it's busy and noisy and everyone moans at you? Why?), I'll say please and thank you to teenagers (because, you know, if you do, they often reciprocate), and I won't expect the world to revolve around me just because I've worked for a living all my adult life.

[theonlyone]

Saxy ..don't dismiss all the older generation ..
and Kebabag is a sad person ...how is her
daughter Matilda ..living in Blackpool ..

[puddicat]

In days gone by, people had jobs for life, sadly that doesnt happen now, so that meant that pensioners of today could put some into a private pension, i am really going to struggle when i reach the retirement age, i will have to work on!!!!!

[saxy_jag]

theonlyone, when you can show me a pensioner that doesn't moan or expect the world to owe them a living, I'll believe you. Sadly, all the ones I've met have conformed to stereotype.

[gelda]

Not me!

[terambulan]

Some have savings (limits pension income) and income receiving assets and don't rely on pensions for their full income. Which are taxed!

But the younguns can't wait to inherit these fore-thought assets before they're spent by their OAPs.

n.b. Prepare for your OAP days now!

[happy_face]

unsureme - you quite sure about your statement? You sure you don't want to change? Since your username is unsureme!!
It's only a username, not neccessarily a reflection of personality.

I'm sure Flip_Flop doesn't look like a flip flop (well I hope not :-)