Yesterday I got spoken too like absolute dirt

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And I really can’t shake it off.

I’m in the service industry but from time to
time I help a friend with her rental flat. An elderly couple arrived last night. It’s a small place so I took them up to the flat. They dumped their bags on me so I carried them in, Put them down and I basically got shouted at for 5 minutes. The room wasn’t what they expected, no lift, there was no food provided in the flat. No PC (what??!) Every time I tried to explain or show them how to use something I got talked over, they accused me of misrepresentation but when I’ve checked everything is as described. It’s not even my place I was just helping out! In the end the woman looked me up and down and said ‘just leave’.

I’m a 40 year old mother of 3 and I just wanted to cry. I’m no stranger to criticism or afraid of it. But I was absolutely taken back. Today I’m still really upset. To be fair some of it might be PMT.

Why are people so fucking rude!

I’m sorry I really fail to see how I’m being ageist? I didn’t say two old bastards turned up and started having a go at me.

They were disgustingly behaved. And you know what they were probably old enough to know that you don’t speak to another human being like that. And yesterday when they were phoning me when I was in church for Remembrance Sunday and I said I couldn’t speak, they were certainly old enough to understand that that is hugely disrespectful. If nothing else because they would have seen the aftermath of the second world war first hand!

No, I don't see how the OP has been ageist in any way. She's mentioned the age of the couple because it's totally relevant to the situation she was in.

If they'd been 2 women, and she'd mentioned that, would she be classed as misogynistic?

I just can't wait to see someone try to expunge all the mentions of kids' ages from the Parenting section because it's ageist and must be irrelevant.