Age is no excuse for rudeness is it?

Rude young people often just become rude old people.

I wish I had a found for everytime an older person knocked me flying in a supermarket.

Goodness, Teetime, you sound like some sort of human skittle!
Where on earth do you shop?

This is a true representation of some of our local OAPs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygy7UDADXDg

If an individual is bad-tempered/rude/thoughtless/insensitive/self-centred, growing old will not make him or her a nicer/kinder, more courteous/more gracious/more likeable person. I have never accepted the idea that I should respect someone just because he or she has reached a certain age. Respect is something you earn in life; courtesy is something everyone is entitled to expect.

When I was younger and working in the city centre I was often astounded at how rude older people could be. I was bashed with shopping trolleys with no apology, elderly people would often go directly to the front of the bus queue, sometimes saying things like 'I'm 85' I used to say to my DH 'when they get their pension, do they get a passport to ignorance with it?' However now that I am a pensioner myself I find MOST older people to be lovely, reasonable folk

If you google "Don't mess with my granny" you will find some great videos.

This is one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPIYXpxjL1w

On Monday whist waiting for my bus back from the local shopping centre a car with a young mum & baby had to stop on the double yellow lines by the bus stop (not a bus lane) as baby was being sick in the car,the young mum got out and ran around to the rear door and started to clean the baby and cope with the sickness, a bus driver brought his bus to a stop directly behind her and began to press his horn to make her move away (she was not blocking him in) a older gentleman started to berate the young mum saying she was a danger to traffic and sided with the bus driver and tried to give me his opinions about thougtless people parking until he got short shrift from me as to how easy it was for a child to choke and that the driver could have easily reversed a short way to drive around this poor mum,I asked him how long he had worked as an unpaid traffic warden which went down very well I must say !! What an absolute horrible and uncaring person,I just hope that this man never needs assistance where a vechicle has to park on double yellow lines in order to help him.

was reading this thread on mumsnet and I think we should all bear in mind how unacceptable it is (*age is a protected characteristic* according to the equality act) to cite the age of a person as necessarily having any bearing on behaviour. there are old, middle aged and young rude people - it is the person not the age group that is at fault
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2246746-To-be-shocked-at-the-ageism-on-here-tonight?

Good for you Glamm for not going along with the intolerance of the self-appointed traffic warden!

I reacted the same way when a neighbour was complaining about the traffic chaos caused by the 'selfish' actions of a young man who was about to kill himself by jumping off a bridge!

Riverwalk how awful

I think rude people are rude people no matter what age. Recently on holiday I couldn't ignore a lad of about 14 positively demanding a smoothie from you young woman making fruit plates for us. I was embarrassed for my country so when he did the same the next day I suggested that a 'please' might be nice. That night we were sitting quite near him and he looked at me and was then very polite to the waiter. I saw him a few times after that and he was much nicer. Shame his parents apparently never suggested politeness matters.

We have quite a lot of older people living here and I have never in 5 years seen any of them be impolite and everyone seems to help the elderly and not get impatient with them. I do recognise that I live somewhere very special.

Ignorance is ignorance.

Age, gender, colour or faith doesn't make a happeth of difference.

It is not always ignorance, sometimes they know what they are doing and continue to do so.

soutra was is it about you that attracts these people?
Agree with others, it's not old people 'per se' but these people were always rude and have now grown old.

Some of them do play the AGE card !
Men seem to get more irascible, IMHO.

No we bloody well aren't, how dare you cast aspersions .
IMHO What a load of tosh.

Right back at you Pompa.

I was been told that women get more forgetful, men get more rude and irritable. Which is very useful as the women forget what rude old gits their OHs have become. My grandma told me that and she was ALWAYS right.

I found myself getting irritated in a queue at the Post Office where an even older woman was faffing around and holding things up, I suddenly remembered this thread and resisted the urge to mutter my opinions under my breath!

I like your grandma Jane!

More seriously, is it a symptom of diminishing mental faculties (pompa excepted) a reaction to feeling less visible or valued, and a sort of misguided assertiveness? Or could it be because the older generation were brought up to respect defer to their "elders and betters" that some people feel it's their "right"? We laugh at "Grumpy Old Men/Women" on TV but in reality they are often pitiful people.

Mrs.P wouldn't except me.

I was holding a place in a bank queue for MIL so she didn't have to stand. I was talking to someone else in this rather long wait. Suddenly I felt a thump on my side . MIL had decided I wasn't paying attention to her/or I was enjoying myself and poked at me with her walking stick. She's been dead a long time now but I still think it's one of the rudest things an old person could do.