How rude some people are! I have just been into Boots in Broomhill, and as I approached the door an oldish woman was coming out. The doors open inwards, so the person coming out has to pull the door open. Being the considerate person I am, I stretched out my arm against the door to hold it open for her smiling at her as I did. To my utter amazement, she had the audacity to say 'thats it let the old ones hold the door open while you young ones come waltzing in!' :huh: I couldn't believe it! I just snarled after her 'I was holding it for you!' and muttered 'silly cow' as I continued to enter the shop.
I could have just stood and watched her struggle with the door and now I wish I had - SILLY COW! :rant: :rant:

Probably the same old person that likes to stand up your **** when queing in a shop!! Why??????? they don't get served any quicker!!!:loopy:

I could have just stood and watched her struggle with the door and now I wish I had - SILLY COW! :rant: :rant:

Or you could have waited 'til she was half way in and out and slammed it in her face really hard ...Two handed !! :hihi: (No that's just wrong!!)

How rude some people are! I have just been into Boots in Broomhill, and as I approached the door an oldish woman was coming out. The doors open inwards, so the person coming out has to pull the door open. Being the considerate person I am, I stretched out my arm against the door to hold it open for her smiling at her as I did. To my utter amazement, she had the audacity to say 'thats it let the old ones hold the door open while you young ones come waltzing in!' :huh: I couldn't believe it! I just snarled after her 'I was holding it for you!' and muttered 'silly cow' as I continued to enter the shop.
I could have just stood and watched her struggle with the door and now I wish I had - SILLY COW! :rant: :rant:

Have a nice cup of tea and relax.

Have a nice cup of tea and relax.

I have :D

She has just wound me up as I am the sort of person who does still hold doors for people and I never just let a door swing in the face of someone following behind me, I always check to see if there is anyone behind me before letting a door go.

How rude some people are! I have just been into Boots in Broomhill, and as I approached the door an oldish woman was coming out. The doors open inwards, so the person coming out has to pull the door open. Being the considerate person I am, I stretched out my arm against the door to hold it open for her smiling at her as I did. To my utter amazement, she had the audacity to say 'thats it let the old ones hold the door open while you young ones come waltzing in!' :huh: I couldn't believe it! I just snarled after her 'I was holding it for you!' and muttered 'silly cow' as I continued to enter the shop.
I could have just stood and watched her struggle with the door and now I wish I had - SILLY COW! :rant: :rant:

Yes, there are some old bitter people.Doesnt matter how old you are you shouldnt be rude like this woman.

Probably the same old person that likes to stand up your **** when queing in a shop!! Why??????? they don't get served any quicker!!!:loopy:

Oh God - don't you just HATE that!!! And at bus-stops it's the same.

And they're totally oblivious to hints, stares, attempts to move away from them.... do old people really lose all sense of personal space, or are they just doing it to annoy? :suspect:

StarSparkle

I absolutely despise older people who expect us young 'uns to hold doors open for them, talk to them nicely, move out of the way, and then they run us over on their mobility scooters because they can't be bothered to move over the pathway 2 feet.

And have you noticed that on the bus, if you're a 'seat hogger' (which I admit I am, I go to many lengths to avoid having some smelly stranger hogging my air) they expect you to move, and then take an hour to move when its your stop. But when you get on the bus and they're hogging seats, they don't move for you!!!!! :rant: :rant: :rant:

They expect us to have mounds of respect for them but do they return the favour? Do they heck!

End Rant. :):hihi:

arghh old people stopped car to let someone cross at a crossing only to be beeped at .
turned round and this old blokes giving me the finger after words with the old git and resisting the urge to knock his teeth out on the grounds he was old (50s) and most of his teeth were already gone drove home somewhat annoyed.
then today stood behind old women in cheque out no big deal had time on my hands had put my stuff on convayer with a next customer behind it when this old woman (60s) decides to start pushing all my items together so she could get her shopping on neely crushing some items .
she soon stopped when i moved them back also decided to take my time packing and paying.
old git.

Probably the same old person that likes to stand up your **** when queing in a shop!! Why??????? they don't get served any quicker!!!:loopy:

I went to Chatsworth House last weekend and in the snack shop this old woman behind me was leaning - literally leaning against me! I kept moving and pushing backwards to make her get off. In the end I said "can you please move away from me you are leaning against me, invading my space and I have a rather smelly pump brewing"!!!

She moved then :hihi:

I know why do they have to barge into people? I don't understand that, they can see people surely but they make sure they have some sort of physical contact with you even if its their walking stick.

I went to Chatsworth House last weekend and in the snack shop this old woman behind me was leaning - literally leaning against me! I kept moving and pushing backwards to make her get off. In the end I said "can you please move away from me you are leaning against me, invading my space and I have a rather smelly pump brewing"!!!

She moved then :hihi:

PMSL!!!:) You should have let it just come out she may have learnt her lesson then!!!

PMSL!!!:) You should have let it just come out she may have learnt her lesson then!!!

Yep, let one rip and you will soon find you have all the personal space you need!

PMSL!!!:) You should have let it just come out she may have learnt her lesson then!!!

Normally I would but I didn't actually have one ready to let go!!!!

Yep, let one rip and you will soon find you have all the personal space you need!

you never need one when you need one to come out!!

(No that's just wrong!!)

Funny though:hihi::thumbsup:


do old people really lose all sense of personal space, or are they just doing it to annoy? :suspect:

Naaah.

They're just trying to keep warm:D

arghh old people stopped car to let someone cross at a crossing only to be beeped at .
turned round and this old blokes giving me the finger after words with the old git and resisting the urge to knock his teeth out on the grounds he was old (50s) and most of his teeth were already gone drove home somewhat annoyed.
then today stood behind old women in cheque out no big deal had time on my hands had put my stuff on convayer with a next customer behind it when this old woman (60s) decides to start pushing all my items together so she could get her shopping on neely crushing some items .
she soon stopped when i moved them back also decided to take my time packing and paying.
old git.

Aargh, young people. :rant: This young yob (20's) was rammed right next to me on the tram. He had some new fangled thing playing some tinny music really loud, and was oblivious to anyone else's comfort. The constant noise had obviously damaged whatever brain he'd possessed to start with. :gag: Then, when I was driving home, I pulled in to let a young driver (30's) in his homemade car pass, even though I actually had right of way. He didn't even acknowledge my good manners! :mad:

I've also noticed, none of the young can spell or use punctuation either, I don't know what this world's coming to! All this free education and they don't use it, blah blah blah........... :rant:

We can all generalise - old people are this, young people are that. I've found some people are pleasant, some have good manners - its not age related, its a mindset thing. The reason I believe some older people get hacked off (although they shouldn't be nasty) - they spent their youth showing respect for older people, and perhaps expected some of the same themselves? :huh:

Well done Anj1364 for being polite - just ignore the response next time - its what you do that counts.

Well done Anj1364 for being polite - just ignore the response next time - its what you do that counts.

I suppose the good thing about it is that she thought I was a 'young 'un' - I'm 42 :D

Well I'm 64 and I admit I have met some very rude older people and some very rude younger people... What I have started to do now and it seems to be working, if someone does anything like that to me I always say "sorry" with a big smile on my face, whether its me in the wrong (it can be sometimes:) ) or them....They either look at me as if I'm stupid or give me some satisfaction by saying sorry as well.
Well, if nothing else it gives me the last word most of the time:hihi:
When its holding the door open for them I look em straight in the eye and say in an "asking" tone, Alright??? as they pass me.:thumbsup:

Probably the same old person that likes to stand up your **** when queing in a shop!! Why??????? they don't get served any quicker!!!:loopy:

or they gently nudge you with their trolly/basket, I come very close to grannycide when they do that.

I don't think they're grumpy because they're old - I think they were probably grumpy when they were young as well. It's something that sticks for life. Some people are, some aren't. Don't let it put you off holding doors open though, there are far too few people these days with manners.

I was in there at about that time, at the dispensary counter, and was barged into by an old woman with a bunch of bags; muttering to herself.
Perhaps it was her?
She barged everyone in the queue as she passed & I suppose you were the 'icing on the cake' as she left.:)

Yeah, I've noticed the 'ooh, I'll stand about an inch away from the person in front of me' thing too. You move a bit forwards to get some space and they just move into the space. Why?! The trolley bumping thing I think is just poor eyesight, but there's no need to stand an inch away from me. Aside from anything else it bothers me because what if someone oblivious stepped back and sent 'em flying?

There's something worse though. People who want too much personal space. You know the kind. At the bus stop they won't stand any closer than 10 yards from the next person, if there's three people in the shelter then its considered 'full'. If you decide 'stuff it' and go and stand in the gap they've left they just tut at you. This is mainly young people who do this one.

Hang on. How English is this?! :hihi:

sounds like she needs a good pie-ing:hihi: ....

Oh God - don't you just HATE that!!! And at bus-stops it's the same.

And they're totally oblivious to hints, stares, attempts to move away from them.... do old people really lose all sense of personal space, or are they just doing it to annoy? :suspect:

StarSparkle
LOL The ones that keep banging their supermarket trolleys against your arse while your are waiting at the checkout are worst!!

How rude some people are! I have just been into Boots in Broomhill, and as I approached the door an oldish woman was coming out. The doors open inwards, so the person coming out has to pull the door open. Being the considerate person I am, I stretched out my arm against the door to hold it open for her smiling at her as I did. To my utter amazement, she had the audacity to say 'thats it let the old ones hold the door open while you young ones come waltzing in!' :huh: I couldn't believe it! I just snarled after her 'I was holding it for you!' and muttered 'silly cow' as I continued to enter the shop.
I could have just stood and watched her struggle with the door and now I wish I had - SILLY COW! :rant: :rant:
I work in an elderly persons home and i think what your saying is wrong!!!!!!!!
Naaaah, just kidding!!! :hihi:
I do work in a home, and some of the old biddies are rude, ignorant, and have the odd sly comment and name calling to one another when you walk past, ok they are old and have "been thru hard times" but do they have to be so ruuuuuuuude???:loopy:

Maybe you stepped 3 cm into the doorway and hence it looks like you're about to walk into the shop, than to hold the door for her. ;)

Actually, it's very hard to open a door that's inward going, unless you have very very long arms.

Yeah, I've noticed the 'ooh, I'll stand about an inch away from the person in front of me' thing too. You move a bit forwards to get some space and they just move into the space. Why?! The trolley bumping thing I think is just poor eyesight, but there's no need to stand an inch away from me. Aside from anything else it bothers me because what if someone oblivious stepped back and sent 'em flying?

Hang on. How English is this?! :hihi:

Quality rant everybody, quality rant. I'm so glad this is not just me. It doesn't matter how much you move forward either, they just follow you. A belch in the face does the trick or you could alternatively lean on them - they do NOT like this one, heh heh! :hihi:

I was at the check out at my supermarket doing the 'chip and pin' thing and there was an elderly gent stood about a foot behind me peering over my shoulder while I put in my number. When I asked him to move as he made me feel uncomfortable, he went off on a mini rant about young people respecting their elders!

If the roles were reversed and a younger person was staring over his shoulder do you think he would have been uncomfortable too??? Its the double standards that really annoy me!

What I like about this thread, young people ranting :hihi: is that old people were once young, and can still remember what it was like, young people haven't been old yet, so they haven't got a clue.

People always say, wait until you get to my age, and we laugh at them, but they're right.

There are nasty young people and nasty old people, but nasty young people are worse, after all what have they got to be nasty about, the world's at their feet, they've got it all ... :D

What I like about this thread, young people ranting :hihi: is that old people were once young, and can still remember what it was like, young people haven't been old yet, so they haven't got a clue.

People always say, wait until you get to my age, and we laugh at them, but they're right.

There are nasty young people and nasty old people, but nasty young people are worse, after all what have they got to be nasty about, the world's at their feet, they've got it all ... :D

yes, being left at nursery with strangers as your parents can't afford not to work and bring you up properly, then onto school with bullying and peer pressure, exams every five minutes, then more pressure- to go to uni, social pressure to look like a footballer or his wag, peer pressure to wear the right thing throughout, everyone assuming your up to no good cos youre a teenager and they all have asbos of course-look at the hood! then when thats all finished, the struggle to find a job with the qualifications that just got you 10k in debt to get, then forking out 5 times your salary for a shoebox of a house. yeh, its at their feet, its great being young.

its like jack dee said in one of his shows, old people are rude because they get away with it, when theyre old its not rudeness, its character!!!:D
and lets face it, all they have to moan about are their latest ailments and crappy pensions!

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh dear... !!
I'm not gonna join in. My mom taught me to respect the elderlies. :D

Can't get me bref!

Becca-lu and kezzza, lol but it's always been like that ... under pressure!!!

I'd swap places with you in a heartbeat ....

Oh dear... !!
I'm not gonna join in. My mom taught me to respect the elderlies. :DRespect is due where respect is given!!(or summat like that):D

Can't get me bref!

Becca-lu and kezzza, lol but it's always been like that ... under pressure!!!

I'd swap places with you in a heartbeat ....
Swap places with who?

i wouldn't like to be a teenager today, its not always been this way. There has always been pressure, but not so much or in so many areas. House prices are one example of how much harder it is to be young now. its never been a bed of roses.

Old people don't respect young people cos young people don't respect old people and vice versa the cycle continues. Old people are just more able to get away with rudeness as their age is an excuse. I worked in a supermarket whilst at college and i experienced much more rudeness from elderly people than from younger people.

Swap places with who?

Becca's :rant: and your endorsement of it ....I thought you must both be undergoing the pleasures of being young!! (just checked and Becca-Lu is anyway! You don't have any info to check :) )

I was going to offer to swap places with you .... I'd love to have it all again ... I'd even make the same mistakes if necessary :cool:

hi Ruby,
Wouldn't it be nice too start over again. feel again the sheer thrill of being young with the excitement of what delights tomorrowwould bring.
Do you think the young moaners of today will be the old grumps of tomorrow.?
hazel

what about when you get 4 of these old dears stood in the market they're in there everyday i'm sure they stand in a square with their tartan shopping trollies behind them but not stood up straight at a neat 55° angle (so take up more space) if you ask them to move they have a mini rant when my kids were in their prams i used to shout move it or lose it if a gentle excuse me hadnt worked

We were in York a few weeks ago,waiting in the queue and a old woman came waltzing to the front of a queue of about 6 people, my boyfriend said to her does she realise there is a queue? and she replied with...
'Yes I know, but I have a bus to catch!' FFS!!! :rant: how bloody cheeky!!!

I was waiting outside,if I'd have known I would have deliberatley have held her up somehow on her way out :P

hi Ruby, Wouldn't it be nice too start over again. Feel again the sheer thrill of being young with the excitement of what delights tomorrow would bring. Do you think the young moaners of today will be the old grumps of tomorrow? hazel

Definitely, they're certainly grumpy and moaners now anyway! And don't appear to find anything very thrilling about their lives. Youth is wasted on the young!

Actually what I'm finding even more amusing now is that several of the posters on here moaning about about "old biddies" (an ageist remark from a professional carer :o ) are almost, according to naughtyelf anyway, almost qualifying for old gitdom themselves :hihi:

The vision of what "old" means varies in ratio with the age of the beholder obviously.

yes, being left at nursery with strangers as your parents can't afford not to work and bring you up properly,
why does working and sending a child to nursery imply a poor upbringing? :huh: then onto school with bullying
at least its recognised as a problem these days, but there have always been bullies
and peer pressure, exams every five minutes, then more pressure- to go to uni, social pressure to look like a footballer or his wag, peer pressure to wear the right thing throughout, everyone assuming your up to no good cos youre a teenager and they all have asbos of course-look at the hood! then when thats all finished, the struggle to find a job with the qualifications that just got you 10k in debt to get, then forking out 5 times your salary for a shoebox of a house. yeh, its at their feet, its great being young.
Compare the above with - living through the General Strike (1930s), fighting in WWII (1939-45) (men), or doing a man's job whilst bringing up your kids singlehanded (women). Living in a back to back with one coal fire and a shared toilet or getting a council house (if you're very lucky) in the 1950s. Getting laid off, and having a snotty inspector from the Social looking round your house, and being given a pittance out of which you had to pay your own rent, and being made to take any job going or lose your dole. Having brains but not being able to stay at school after 14 cos your parents needed you to work - and that often meant down the pit, or in a factory. Any savings they had were wiped out in the inflation ridden 70s, and most of them only have/had basic state pensions, and claiming any other benefits smacked of charity so they often don't/didn't claim. And if any of the young girls (right up to the 1960s) had a baby before they were married - the shame and stigma they faced was appalling. Old people will have been through some or all of the above - and there's loads more. It might be worth remembering this instead of just lumping them together as old biddies or old gits.
Its like jack dee said in one of his shows, old people are rude because they get away with it, when theyre old its not rudeness, its character!!!:D I laughed, its a joke about a stereotype isn't it? and lets face it, all they have to moan about are their latest ailments and crappy pensions! Exactly!

I've said before, rudeness isn't age specific, neither is good behaviour and consideration for others. Anyway, I'm only 60 - not really old :thumbsup:

I was in a queue in Pollards coffee shop in town the other day. I got to the front of the queue and an old biddy who had just walked in rushed in front of me and other shoppers and thrusted her purchase in front of the assistant, her excuse being I only want this!! The assistant said "do you mind" I said "yes I do" the fact was I too only wanted one item, if she had have asked politely I may have allowed her to be served before me, to be honest I find a lot of old people rude and inconsiderate, I always open doors, carry bags on buses help across the road etc. but they are always the first to push past to he front of bus queues, the first to let a door close in your face and strangely they are always the first to moan about the youth of today!!

I know not all old people are like this, but the ones that are give the rest of them a bad name!!

Maybe you stepped 3 cm into the doorway and hence it looks like you're about to walk into the shop, than to hold the door for her. ;)

Actually, it's very hard to open a door that's inward going, unless you have very very long arms.

No, I didn't, and I know it's hard to open a door thats going inward (i've done it quite often) I was just trying to take the pressure off her having to pull so hard - just a gesture really - I just did it as it comes second nature to me. Anyhow, as I was only killing time before my appointment at the chiropractors for my back and the fact that I am still struggling with a broken hip I received last year (and I still went out of my way to help her) perhaps she should have been holding the door for me! :thumbsup:

Oh God - don't you just HATE that!!! And at bus-stops it's the same.

And they're totally oblivious to hints, stares, attempts to move away from them.... do old people really lose all sense of personal space, or are they just doing it to annoy? :suspect:

StarSparkle

Oh dont get me started on bus stops, You see the old people doddering down the street, looking like they can barely stand up.....but once that little mini bus arrives.... god can they half shift, barge past muttering bus pass in hand trolley in other.

They do it too be rude, managed to stop an old person outside who was running for his bus!!

No, I didn't, and I know it's hard to open a door thats going inward (i've done it quite often) I was just trying to take the pressure off her having to pull so hard - just a gesture really - I just did it as it comes second nature to me. Anyhow, as I was only killing time before my appointment at the chiropractors for my back and the fact that I am still struggling with a broken hip I received last year (and I still went out of my way to help her) perhaps she should have been holding the door for me! :thumbsup:
I'm sorry that I offended you, but I only intended the make light of the situation really. Obviously it didn't work.

I think no one can fault you on that inward doors are indeed hold to open for someone else especially your arms are not that long. You have to have really long arms, AND be able to stand aside to let the old lady come through. Judging by the typical standard of a door frame, it's not that possible !

I popped into Rovvrem this morning on my home from work & bought some stuff for tea & treat myself to a DVD.

By the time I'd got to the DVD shop my cash was gone so I paid on switch.

I was having a chat with the lad on the checkout cos my sig's on my switch cards almost faded to nothing. This isn't normally prob with chip n pin but they dint have a chip reader.

A N Y W A Y Unbeknown to me was a hirsuit elderly chap almost perched on my left soulder! :hihi: watching everything & taking it all in!

After I'd done he said - "has tha signed it rate? Tha dun't want to be gettin owt for nowt..."

I nearly levitated at the surprise as I didn't even know he was there :lol:

Silly bugger :rolleyes:

I'm sorry that I offended you, but I only intended the make light of the situation really. Obviously it didn't work.

I think no one can fault you on that inward doors are indeed hold to open for someone else especially your arms are not that long. You have to have really long arms, AND be able to stand aside to let the old lady come through. Judging by the typical standard of a door frame, it's not that possible !

I wasn't offended by what you said, I know what you mean about it being difficult to hold an inwardly opening door for someone. I was just trying to explain how I was stood. I was holding the door with the palm of my hand and leaning forward so that I wasn't staning in the way of her coming out. I suppose I wasn't helping her much but I do these things without thinking.

I have :D

She has just wound me up as I am the sort of person who does still hold doors for people and I never just let a door swing in the face of someone following behind me, I always check to see if there is anyone behind me before letting a door go.

i hate people that don't do this. as i usually have a pram with me its not easy to get through doors but i manage it, but then people walk through in front and purposly let the door swing back hard onto my daughter :rant:

Why when you are walking behind old people do they suddenly stop in front of you for no reason and you nearly fall over them?

The most annoying habit they have is standing in the middle of aisles in the supermarket blocking it totally with their trollies chatting. After having said excuse me 3 or 4 times and being ignored I will then move their trolly and get the dirtiest look off them you have ever seen!

old ppl are just bitter cause we can hold our dribble, not wet our selves in public and can tell a story with out saying back in the day .

There just angry that where young and there not.

On the subject of queue jumping a few weeks ago I joined a 15 plus line of folk waiting for their turn in a major Building Society/Bank in Rotherham when in came a large rotund man and his little boy completely ignored everyone else and went right to the head of the queue and not one person uttered a word.

On the subject of queue jumping a few weeks ago I joined a 15 plus line of folk waiting for their turn in a major Building Society/Bank in Rotherham when in came a large rotund man and his little boy completely ignored everyone else and went right to the head of the queue and not one person uttered a word.
Was it the Hellen Keller School bank outing?

On the subject of queue jumping a few weeks ago I joined a 15 plus line of folk waiting for their turn in a major Building Society/Bank in Rotherham when in came a large rotund man and his little boy completely ignored everyone else and went right to the head of the queue and not one person uttered a word.

He might have been German :suspect: It's a common joke here in Germany to laugh about us English and our queueing habits i.e. that we like to queue. I don't think they know the how to queue they just walk up in front of you as if you don't exist! :rant: It's a talent that they learn in adulthood, the kids are normally quite ok.

It's not that we like to queue it's just polite to let the person who was there first get served first.:rant:

On the subject of queue jumping a few weeks ago I joined a 15 plus line of folk waiting for their turn in a major Building Society/Bank in Rotherham when in came a large rotund man and his little boy completely ignored everyone else and went right to the head of the queue and not one person uttered a word.

Ah, but was he OLD? :huh: He must have been, can't have been young, its only old people who behave like this etc. :rant: On another thread someone described an old git as being in his 50s :hihi: That not old, when we were young, old was 153, and old people really had it hard then, all sharing one cardboard box int'work'ouse........... one bowl of gruel a week and no bingo. That wor really 'ard, old folks don't know they're born nowadays...........

This thread is superb - a whole bunch of moaners moaning about another bunch of moaners.:hihi:

Exactly Liberty. The moaners now will be the moaners of the future.
I have in the past heard a forummer complaining when old people shop at lunch time and are in the queue when he has to get back to work, just the same as the old person sayng I have to catch a bus but she is condemned and he is not. (probably because she pushed in! ) but I think the forummer would have done the same if he could as it's well known that old people have all that spare time to fill in.
hazel

I could be pilloried for this but.....As an oldie in birthdays if not in spirit I tend to agree with most of you.
They infuriate me a lot of the time especially when they pretend to be feeble and I've seen em out socially.
Just try to get to the bar before em.:hihi:

This thread is superb - a whole bunch of moaners moaning about another bunch of moaners.:hihi:

Oh yesss and when one bunch moves off the forum the other bunch will move up and moan about the newer bunch of moaners moaning about them....wonder how many forummers will be logged on at any one time then.
:hihi:

Well Hazel I am only nineteen.





Unfortunatley my bodie is seventy.
Like yours I think.

Why when you are walking behind old people do they suddenly stop in front of you for no reason and you nearly fall over them?


Old people often forget where they're going, or why they're going where they're going.

The sudden stop is caused by the realisation of one or the other of these situations :hihi:

Just noticed coming up on Sky3 in a few minutes a documentary on OAPs on ASBOs - next time you fall over some pensioners having a chat in the supermaket tell 'em you're writing to the council to complain about their anti-social behaviour ;)

Yes I am 70 but only the outside alters, in my mind I still feel the same, so birthdays don't make any difference.
I hope I still remain pollite, let people go first, and hold doors open especially for people with prams.
I have just come back from abroad and requested help on the long journey but the man in Singapore delegated to help, took the luggage of the young pretty girl who needed help because she did not know English not because she couldn't carry.
Now I'm moaning!!
hazel

When I was a geriatric nurse we took a coachload of old people out to Derbyshire in the Summer. They all had walking sticks and had great difficulty in walking.When we got to Bakewell, they all got off the coach,and disappeared like lightening in all different directions.We were in a right panic as we were responsible,but wed never seen them move so quickly.We eventually rounded them all up in the local pub,having a tipple,and decidedly worse for the booze.They all slept it off on the way back.!!:D

My 15 year old daughter was at the bus stop in town the other day behind a couple of oldies. When the bus was coming towards them they seemed to be squinting to see the number so she said 'its the 76, do you need this one?' to which one of them snapped 'we were here first!' My daughter was gobsmacked - she was only trying to help!

[QUOTE=Greybeard]Old people often forget where they're going, or why they're going where they're going.

The sudden stop is caused by the realisation of one or the other of these situations :hihi:


Thanks for enlightening me I thought there must be a good reason for this strange behaviour:thumbsup:

my mums neighbour lives on her own and she's prety old. When she has a hospital appointment she gets an ambulance to pick her up and when they come she hobbles up the path with her walkingstick and a nurse to help her (and it still takes about half hour to get to top of path!) then the same afternoon you see her running up for the bus! while she's on her way to town with a big shopping bag and no stick! they're crazy!!

my mums neighbour lives on her own and she's prety old. When she has a hospital appointment she gets an ambulance to pick her up and when they come she hobbles up the path with her walkingstick and a nurse to help her (and it still takes about half hour to get to top of path!) then the same afternoon you see her running up for the bus! while she's on her way to town with a big shopping bag and no stick! they're crazy!!


OMG that sounds soooo familiar! It's not the same person though as the one I know is male.

The most annoying habit they have is standing in the middle of aisles in the supermarket blocking it totally with their trollies chatting. After having said excuse me 3 or 4 times and being ignored I will then move their trolly and get the dirtiest look off them you have ever seen!

Nooo! It's not old people who are the worst for this, it's students! Beware in Ecclesall Rd Tesco as its like one big social club. You're just trying to get a loaf of bread and you can't get past all the ruddy Tamaras and Jamies flirting like pairs of cooing street pigeons in the aisles. If you dare say excuse me politely you'll just get a dirty look. You have to put up the strongest Sheffield accent you can and be sarcy about whether this is Tesco or Bar One. With F Words.

Now back to the topic, why do old folk always go and bag tables in cafes ahead of everyone who's waiting in the queue? I was waiting in line in a caff the other week and everyone (mostly people on their own so no chance of 'table bagging' for them) was buying their refreshments and then going to a table afterwards. Then it started raining and the pensioners began to pour in, sending hubby or wife directly to a free table. Just as we'd paid and got our goodies and coffee a woman came flying in like a heat seeking missile and sat down at the last free table, looking smug. There was no option for her but to give up the table when presented with the other option which was that we'd just perch our backsides on the table otherwise.

Nooo! It's not old people who are the worst for this, it's students! Beware in Ecclesall Rd Tesco as its like one big social club. You're just trying to get a loaf of bread and you can't get past all the ruddy Tamaras and Jamies flirting like pairs of cooing street pigeons in the aisles. If you dare say excuse me politely you'll just get a dirty look. You have to put up the strongest Sheffield accent you can and be sarcy about whether this is Tesco or Bar One. With F Words.


lol this is so true. I only graduated in July and I've already started on 'bloody students, gerroutamaway'...grumble grumble.

I once went to a jumble sale where a lot of art students were queing waiting to get old clothes to use for a fabric based art project. They were behaving very politely. When they opened the doors the old people barged past leaving a pile of students nursing bruises. So much for frail little old ladies. Have you seen them in the supermarket using shopping trolleys like battering rams?

If you don't die you will grow old.
when you are old will you remember how you felt now?

Or will you have lost a little of your sparkle, be a little unsteady on your feet, get tired more easily, be a little less agile; maybe even a litlle bit more crabby and quick to critizise. It could be that when you are old you feel closer to all the people you once knew who are dead, and you feel resigned and less cheerful so you try to upset others.

Who knows? You might turn out to be a wonderful oap.
You have it all to look forward to.

If you don't die you will grow old.
when you are old will you remember how you felt now?

Or will you have lost a little of your sparkle, be a little unsteady on your feet, get tired more easily, be a little less agile; maybe even a litlle bit more crabby and quick to critizise. It could be that when you are old you feel closer to all the people you once knew who are dead, and you feel resigned and less cheerful so you try to upset others.

Who knows? You might turn out to be a wonderful oap.
You have it all to look forward to.

Good points!

I can only hope that when/if I ever become a pensioner, I will behave like Diana from "Waiting for God". She's my OAP role model :thumbsup:

StarSparkle

You should start out dead and get it out of the way.

Then, you Wake up in an old biddy home feeling better every day.

You get kicked out for being too healthy;

Go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink alcohol, you party, you're generally promiscuous and you get ready for High School.

You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play,

you have no responsibilities,

you become a baby, and then . . . You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in
luxury, in spa-like conditions; central heating, room service on
tap,
larger quarters every day, and then, you finish off as an orgasm.

I rest my case.