Age Restrictions

 As a youngster I can remember not being able to do many things as there was an age restrictions, such as fireworks minimal age 13 (I may be wrong), A rated films 16, X rated films 18, smoking 16, drinking 18, voting 21, part time work/ paper round 13/14, motor bike/moped licence 16, car licence 17, many of the restrictions have changed over the years, a few have gone down but many have had the age increased, recently my wife's medication was changed the new medication gave a list of possible side effects, she developed this amongst other side effects so I ventured to the local Chemist's and asked of a tube of cream to treat the side effect, I was asked 'How old the person was who wants this cream' when I said over 60 I was refused the medication, I was told that the problem in older people was usually a sign of an underlying health problem, the medication says on the packaging 'not for use by people over 55', my wife ended up at the Doctors ang got a free prescription for the cream.