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Old people - Just a quick rant....
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So there I am, riding my bike quite happily into town to pick up a book, when some old biddy grabs my arm and shouts:
"It's illegal to ride on the pavements you know!!! I could call the police, bloody young people, no consideration, useless!"
Oh yes madam? Well, I'm sorry but let go of my arm, wake up and introduce yourself to 2006, maybe then you'll stop walking on the BIKE PATH :mad:
And then, I travel a bit further to discover a car accident. A college friend is in one of the cars, crying her eyes out, and the woman in the other car is in a right dither. I secure my bike to the fence (still on the bike path here!) and jump over to help.... and about 20 minutes later the same old bat walks past, down the bike path...
"I THOUGHT I'D TOLD YOU! Someone could trip and hurt themselves on this, HAVE YOU NO CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS?!! Selfish and stupid the youth of today, you should think of others madam!"
Gah! Think of others?! I'm on the phone to some strangers insurance company trying to explain whats happened because she's in shock and I'm tyring to guide traffic on a main road roundabout around the accident so my friend's car, with her injured in it doesn't get hit and I'M SELFISH?!!! GAHHHHH! I normally have a lot of respect for old people, but GAHHHHHH!
Rant over.
"It's illegal to ride on the pavements you know!!! I could call the police, bloody young people, no consideration, useless!"
Oh yes madam? Well, I'm sorry but let go of my arm, wake up and introduce yourself to 2006, maybe then you'll stop walking on the BIKE PATH :mad:
And then, I travel a bit further to discover a car accident. A college friend is in one of the cars, crying her eyes out, and the woman in the other car is in a right dither. I secure my bike to the fence (still on the bike path here!) and jump over to help.... and about 20 minutes later the same old bat walks past, down the bike path...
"I THOUGHT I'D TOLD YOU! Someone could trip and hurt themselves on this, HAVE YOU NO CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS?!! Selfish and stupid the youth of today, you should think of others madam!"
Gah! Think of others?! I'm on the phone to some strangers insurance company trying to explain whats happened because she's in shock and I'm tyring to guide traffic on a main road roundabout around the accident so my friend's car, with her injured in it doesn't get hit and I'M SELFISH?!!! GAHHHHH! I normally have a lot of respect for old people, but GAHHHHHH!
Rant over.
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Sounds a much more eventful day than mine has been anyway.
And me. She seemed OK, but she'd smacked her head/neck pretty hard and couldn't stand or walk properly, so I forced her into an ambulance (with another friend, who luckily worked just down the road and came running up).
and they wonder why theres such a divide between cultures eh :rolleyes:
You might be like that one day !!
the majority of old people are ignorant and they think the youth are the problem.
also find a lot of old people racist and opinionated...
they think they've earned the right to be however they want, without respect for others.
fuck em.
Having said that it is of course terrible that your friend had an accident and stuff and that person was obviously very insensitive.
I'd have had a go back at her, told her where to shove her opinion.
Hope your friend's ok, Nicx. And I was wondering if you actually said all that to the woman rather than just think it.
In general I old people though.
valid points, nothing offensive about that.
My opinion of people is that there all ok... when there put in a home
i still stand by what i say.
they tend to think their views are still correct even tho most of them dont apply to society anymore.
im not gonna be two faced, my grandma "didnt like darkies" till the day she died. most of my older relatives and their friends think the same.
i also find they demand respect without giving any in return. i dont think thats any way to be.
there are a few level headed oldies out there.
I've realised how bad I sound saying "bloody old people" though, I would have reacted the same if the person giving me shit was any age, I think her being old and obviously being oblivious to bike paths (despite it being bright orange, and smaller than the grey pavement running next to it, so it didn't take up any of her walking room had she chose to walk in the right place), and blaming me for being young got to me though. I've accepted she was just a silly cow though, old or young.
As terrible as it is, that made me laugh uncontrollably, even though I know I shouldn't. It's been one of those weeks though I'll punish myself for laughing later.
Oh i do that. Bikes go on roads/bike paths people go on pavements, fucking simple.
Why ? Some of them are complete twats, and think they can get away with what the hell they like with just because they're old and couldn't get a banana in the war.
But others are just ace.
My grandmother and David's grandmother are the best old people in the world. When I am their age I would like to be like one of them.
It's just that whole generalisation thing that narks people off. It sucks.
Damn fucking right.
If I was in charge, old people should have to sit a competency test when they hit a certain age, and if the don't get the pass mark (99%) then they just get put in a home.
The ones who do pass should all be banned from town centres at the weekend and during lunchtime hours during the week. You could introduce a pensioners ASBO type thing, with electronic tagging etc.
Fed up of them in Tesco holding up the queue ("Och now let me see what I've got in my purse!" whilst emptying a shitload of coppers onto the conveyer belt) and I'm fed up of them getting in the way in the street.
You do get some nice ones (my Granny was fucking cool), but zero tolerance is the way ahead.
old people are terrible at driving aswell
however i clearly would've twatted the old lady in the op's story.