When I was 62,
I ordered a pizza to go.
“Ready in fifteen minutes,” the teenaged server mumbled.

Returning to pay, I remembered I forgot
To request the reduced price for elders.

“Is it too late to ask for the senior discount?”

“I already gave it to you,” he said.

Miriam Stein is a social worker, writer, and the author of Make Your Voice Matter With Lawmakers: No Experience Necessary. See more at makeyourvoicematter.com.