In some cities, there is a mandatory law that requires senior citizens to be given special priveleges. When one reaches the age of 60 years old, a state resident qualifies and can apply for a senior citizen card. This is nothing more but a courtesy card that gives buying discounts on food, medicines, services and unlimited free movie passes to the senior citizen cardholder.

My senior citizen friend is 67 years old and he told me about this very funny incident, which still makes me laugh every time I would tell it to other friends. At his age, you’d probably think that he isn’t so sexually active anymore. On the contrary, he keeps a regular weekly schedule of sexercises to ensure he doesn’t go impotent.

Part of this weekly routine is to get an overall massage from pretty young masseurs at this very trendy massage parlor. A miser he is, since he always has this habit of getting full value for his money. So armed with his (SCID) Senior Citizen ID, he would demand to be given hefty discounts as much as 30% off for payment of goods and services on most establishments.

In his first visit to the parlor, right after choosing his pretty 20 year old masseur from the viewing area, he went to the cashier’s counter to prepay first as required by house rules, before the key to his massage room is obtained. The lady cashier was visibly irked when he flashed his senior citizen ID as he demanded to get 30% off from the published rates.

After a few minutes of heated discussion, the cashier went inside the office to refer the discount matter with the parlor manager. After a while, the manager with a 50 year old lady came out with his SCID and said, “OK, we will honor your SCID privelege and give your 30% discount as required by city laws, however, at this special rate, this substitute 50 year old lady will be your special masseur.

When he saw how the old lady look like, he just grabbed his SCID card from the hand of the manager and said, “Never mind, I’m not taking my discount anymore, I’m paying full rate for my 20 year old pretty masseur.” And the manager said, “Good decision sir, since our senior citizens get senior service.”

Every time, he tells this joke to others, his listeners would almost fall out of their chairs laughing for about three minutes