Old people and why they suck

[Channizard]

I hate old people. I hate their going 70 km/h in a 90 km zone. I hate their walking slowly and taking up the whole aisle space, making it unable for you to pass. I hate their old smell. I hate that they're the deaf ones, yet they shout at you because you can't hear them.

Working at McDonalds has just... made me despise old people. They lean way over the counter and waft their smell into you.. and shout into your face what they want... Half of the time they don't even know what they want because they don't know what's in it.

-nasally voice- Well what's in a fish filette? Because I don't want the sauce but if there's sauce... well.. what kind of sauce is it?

Yes, and I say filette because half the time, they mispronounce filet.

I hate the way they'll dump out their change purse, and take up to 5 minutes counting out what should be 4.75 and in the end, jerking me 34 cents because they're fucking cheapskates or don't know how to count.

Well, actually I had one woman take 12 minutes in the drive thru on New Years Day counting 10 dollars in quarters and was short a 1.50.. thus leading to more time wasting. It's these types of old people that waste even MORE of our time by doing this in what should be a speedy service area.

And then there's the gym. Fucking old people have no shame, and more power to them, but no one wants to see it. I walk into the ladies change room to see an old woman sitting with no bra or shirt on, on a bench, putting on her necklace, earrings, bracelets.. you know, EVERYTHING ELSE FIRST but a bra. No one wants to see your saggy titties.

And then coming back from the gym, changing in the handicapped stall, I get dirty looks from old people. One old woman actually said to me "that stall is for the elderly." of which I corrected her, "Actually, it's for the handicapped. I have a surgeried leg -shows knee scar- and have trouble balancing when changing. I don't know when handicapped meant being old, because frankly, you people are just slow and annoying... but perfectly capable." And then went about my business, gathering my things while she sputtered an "Well I never!" and went into the stall.

When DID being handicapped mean being old? They're all perfectly abled but just have to take advantage of things that are handed to others because they're old, and have been through things and oh no they have wrinkles and shit...

HUGE tl;dr rant.. old people should just... die at the age of 70.

 

[Big Casino]

The only thing that really annoys me is when your walking down the high street and theres a bunch of old woman all walking together with linked arms.
They take up the whole fucking pavement and you have to use evasive tactics just to get by Then after you run into another fucking row of them

 

[Channizard]

YES. A lot of people do that but mostly old people! All huddled together with their walkers and canes..

Or how about the ones on their motorized scooters who give you dirty looks for cutting in front of them or something?

 

[Exoskeleton]

Ahahaaaaaahahahahahaoahohooooooh! Wow I got such a good laugh out of this! You get an A++. Brilliant! xD

I hate their old moley faces telling me my acne looks bad when you really cant see it from a meter away/

I hate the way they ALWAYS HAVE TO BE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!

But then I think....One day I'll be old too. We all will be old. But I'll be one of those cool old people most likely who doesn't get in people's business...

 

[Laro]

You know, one day, you'll be in their position and most of society will hate you, so why not give them a break?

Personally, I have no problem with the elderly and treat them as I would want to be treated when I am at that stage, regardless. Elderly, just like babies, are annoying, hard to deal with, etc. etc. But they do have a good side as well. The elderly can provide very useful advice, because they've already seen this and that. Some, if they can remember, can endlessly brag on about how it used to be in the past. Even though what they say is repetitive, it can get get quite useful in the History subject at school.

In the end, if you just be nice to them, even smile, they don't seem to be so bad. They are always pushed around by "youngsters" and it's pretty rare for them to find someone who is actually willing to help and maybe chat. I know you said that it takes them ages to count money, well, you should help in anyway you can. That's what I would do.

 

[Channizard]

Thanks. I've been holding in this rant for a long time and needed to get it out.

Frankly I don't wanna be old. I'm offing myself at like.. 60 or 70. I don't wanna have a hunch back or be in diapers and be completely dependent on people who resent having to change my smelly old lady diapers.

Also, you've really had old people say your acne is bad? What the fuck is wrong with them? Apparently you lose manners as you grow old.

Edit: When I worked at McD's and would just shuffle the money towards me to count it myself but most often than not, this actually pissed them off even more thinking I was trying to steal from them or summat.

 

[Laro]

Apparently you lose manners as you grow old.

I agree and disagree. Personally, I get more polite as I get older, maybe even too much, but that's just me.

Some elders don't "lose" their manners, they just want you to just take in whatever they say, because for all of their lives they never got the chance to say "you stink". They want respect, because they are old and know much more than any of us, even though most of the time they appear to be forgetful and deaf. Therefore, they feel as if they have the right to say whatever they want, and I agree it isn't right.

EDIT: Maybe you were too harsh? Say things like "Would you like me to help?"

 

[CassinoChips]

Apparently you lose manners as you grow old.

Damn right. What the hell do I care about manners? I'm old. Nobody listens to me anyway. If/when I get above 70, I will lose all sense of shame. Total creeper. Because no one wants to call the police on grandpa.

 

[Channizard]

I agree and disagree. Personally, I get more polite as I get older, maybe even too much, but that's just me.

Some elders don't "lose" their manners, they just want you to just take in whatever they say, because for all of their lives they never got the chance to say "you stink". They want respect, because they are old and know much more than any of us, even though most of the time they appear to be forgetful and deaf. Therefore, they feel as if they have the right to say whatever they want, and I agree it isn't right.

EDIT: Maybe you were too harsh? Say things like "Would you like me to help?"

I'm not sure. =/

Okay maybe it's not so much manners people lose it's tact. I remember going to visit my own Grandma who would just say some of the rudest things, and then follow it with a guilt trip.

Also, I live with a substantially different old crowd than most. In this area there's old Russsian settlers called 'Doukhobours'... Russian Canadian lot who are cheeeeeap. I mean, think of some of the cheapest old people, and times that by 10. THEY'RE WORSE THAN JEWS.

Damn right. What the hell do I care about manners? I'm old. Nobody listens to me anyway. If/when I get above 70, I will lose all sense of shame. Total creeper. Because no one wants to call the police on grandpa.

Oh hello Herbert.

 

[ANGRYWOLF]

Really ?

You do realize someday you too will be one of those old folks you despise.

I try to be tolerant of people of all ages and races.

The blood is the same color....and you can't tell how old it is just by looking.

 

[CassinoChips]

Oh hello Herbert.

Minus the homosexual part, pretty much dead on.

I try to give older folks the benefit of the doubt and have a little patience with them. The one area where it does get to me is on the roads. It's aggravating. But even then I try not to make a huge deal of it. It's not like I'm in a huge rush to get anywhere myself.

 

[Exoskeleton]

I try to give older folks the benefit of the doubt and have a little patience with them.

I think we all kinda do this. But we all need a place to vent.

Sure I'm not disrespectful to old people at all, but they do annoy me to some extent. Now I'm not going to be rude to them in front of their face but I will admit that they can be kinda annoying at times no matter how much you have to deal with em. It's all about patience cause in the end it doesn't really matter. Nothing matters that much really

IT WAS WRITTEEEEEEEEN IN BLOOOOOOD! (sorry, listening to a song )

 

[Laro]

I used to be a total brat to elders when I was little, especially to my great-grandmother. Even so, she loved me dearly and never, ever shouted on me. In fact, she wanted me to spend time with her as much as possible. After she died, I was around seven, it hit me. I was so flooded with guilt, even though I knew I was just a child and I couldn't help it. Ever since then, I just can't seem to look at elders as an annoying bunch of people, even if they are. They don't have that much long to live so... Might as well give them something nice to remember, instead of the same old hate that we are faced with everyday.

 

[Channizard]

The one area where it does get to me is on the roads. It's aggravating.

YES At one point I was driving from one town, out into the valley and then to another town.. normally a 35 min drive... but this old woman (literelly maybe 80?) held up a line up of 8 cars before me, and in what should have been a 90km/h zone, we were going 70 at most, 65 on small hills.

What I don't understand is that when they see the line up is this big and people are obviously annoyed, why not pull over and let people pass? I'm nervous in the winter so when I see a line up of 3 behind me when I'm going slow, I pull over and let them pass. BUT NO OLD PEOPLE DON'T GIVE A DAMN

Also you other two, good on you for having the patience it's just.. I can't.. I don't anymore.. I feel horrible at times, but I just don't anymore.

 

[Kei]

Seems like you've a different kind of old people. Although, the old people here are generous, a few are kinda cheapskates, I'm a cheapskate myself, when I shouldn't be according to my parents.

Old people here shows you nothing but respect, of course they start talking about their past but I actually find it interesting and I sit down to listen to it, they are sometimes interrupted by a relative of theirs during their story telling, so they go around cussing them, I usually fall on floor laughing when that happens.

Still, I have to agree with you, I'm annoyed by their driving, I mean my grandpa made an accident because a grape fell from his hand while he's driving, he didn't want to leave it alone, Noo! He went under to look for it and forgot he was driving (Although, disregarding this stupid thing he did, his driving is good and he speeds up when it fits), other old people just drive at like 40km/h, of course the sound of horns is somewhat noisy. >_> xD

Seriously, I resepect them, they are so open-minded, they always give me advices and they are a good laugh.

(Sorry but I don't know the old people you guys have) xD

 

[Six]

I like older people. I tend to have alot of respect for them, even if they're just being a bitch. (Yes, some old people really can be).

I just can't help it though, it links me kinda back to personal reasons, and how I've seen friends mistreat older people when they needed help back when I was younger. I shouldn't say mistreat, but I mean, they could've offered two minutes of their time, that would've made the oldy's days much easier.

There's an old guy in his 70's I think, who still stops by my work to eat, I have his whole order memorized so by the time he gets to my cash register, it's just *tick tick tick* and I tell him he can go sit down, that I'll bring it to his table.

I just can't stand people sitting down in a tram or bus either, when there's an older person struggling to stand on their feet. Just get your lazy ass off the chair, geez. =/

I've told someone they were pretty ignorant as well when they were just sitting back listening to their music. >.> It just gets to me, and I think it's disrespectful.

 

[Shu]

I respect them in the fact that they have seen a lot of change very quickly in their life. If born prior the 40's then they have seen maybe the great depression/walking on the moon/generation after generation changes/A president who got a BJ and wasn't impeached/seen a black president be elected. 80's hair bands, and all the rest. I could go on and on.

They have wisdom, unless of course absolutely out of their mind senile. Now the only problem is they have no one to listen to them anymore.. so they get bitter, not just because of the physical ailments either. Just think of having your loved one for a long part of your life with you (which doesn't occur as much with the divorce rates)where they used cook you breakfasts usually, say good night at night, and experienced the majority of your life with you - die.

You tend to not care as much afterwards. You just hope for a smooth passing for yourself. It's sad that most of our older folks don't have anything to stimulate them at a certain age. If only we could take the knowledge that they had in their life, and insert it directly in our head so we could understand some of the old folks better, it would be easier.

Loss is a painful thing, as your friends start to slowly die out around you, and you can't cope, I would assume you would turn out to be a loony tune as well and not care as much =P.

Now I have met some older folks that are so bitter with all the changes recently, that they are such introverts. I don't disrepect them, but I can only cope with someone's stubborn will for so long. Patience with some older folks and me is a very fragile line. Especially when they are not willing to cope with change.

I do recommend that at the age of 70 they should have driving tests every year afterwards in order to be sure they are not too handicap to drive.

 

[GalaxyFlare]

Any one seen that Star Trek TNG episode where older people commit suicide when they turn 65......what do you reckon?

The population may not be sustainable at its current rate and this may indeed be a viable solutions. Not a very good one but a solution just the same

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

I hate old people. I hate their going 70 km/h in a 90 km zone. I hate their walking slowly and taking up the whole aisle space, making it unable for you to pass. I hate their old smell. I hate that they're the deaf ones, yet they shout at you because you can't hear them.

Ugh Steve and I were talking about this the other day.

I mean you get your real old sweethearts who just make you go 'Awe'. <3 And you hope that when you get to that age you'll be like that, because when you see what the majority of old people are like it's like 'RAGE!'

I can't stand it when they think it's okay to just push in front of you when you're in the line because, 'They're old and therefore should have everything handed to them because they're old.' <_<

I'm like, 'Excuse me I'm on my lunch break and have been waiting in line before you.'

They look at you like you're the rudest person in the world.

Most of them are at the shops at like 7:30am in the morning every day waiting for shops to open. It's like, 'How about you go home and sleep in a bit longer and come back when the shops are open in another hour. <_< Waiting outside the doors pressuring us to open them earlier never works and will never work so piss off and stop asking when we're opening, when we have the hours on the front doors and we've opened at the same time every day for the last 12 years. <_<.'

Steve actually said to one old guy the other day (who pushed in front of him) 'Excuse me I was in line.'

The old guy said, 'I don't care if you were in line, I'm here now.'

And everyone just stares. 0_0

Steve shouts back, 'Did you lose your manners when you got old did you?' and then walked up to the counter and explained that the old prick pushed in and so they served Steve first thankfully.

I don't care if they've 'Been through a lot.' That is no excuse to be rude and no excuse to do the sorts of things that you hear them accusing todays youth of.

I am most certainly not going to use that excuse when I get older. It just shows how old and fucking ridiculous you are. There is no excuses for being rude. <_<

And I think all licenses should be taken off people once they get to the stage that they just can't drive normally anymore. I wouldn't give an age because everyone is different and some more physically fit then others.

Old people smell is the worst though. I swear they all smell the same. It's just this old people smell that I can never get used to. Every day at work it's the same thing. v_v Rarely get young people in the pharmacy. =/

 

[Saints&Storms]

Those old people are my grandparents whom I love very much They don't act old though they are awesome, my grampa works for NASA, doesn't get more awesome I say.

Although where I live old people aren't accidentally annoying like you have explained, they are rude, racist and there's lots of them. They all hate cats, they are grumpy.

There is this dude next door to us he is very old, like 80-90 we call him Scrap (I don't know why though...), but he is so racist you wouldn't believe the things he says, he hates fat people and he insults them in the most disgusting way

Ugh!

I can understand why old people can be annoying