To think that some elderly folk are actually quite rude?!

[M0naLisa]

Today I was out was long home from a friends, I slowed down towards the end of the street because an elderly lady on a mobility scooter was crossing the top of the street, so as not to push in front slowing her down or to both end up at path at same time. About 7 terrace house down she stops in the middle of the path outside the local Londis then starts reversing.

I stop to let her 'park' up outside the shop, she got off the scooter and went in the shop, seeing I was behind her, she didn't open keep open the door for me, even though I had 11 mth old DS3 with me in the pushchair. No bother though, it's an easy door so I didn't have to struggle.

In the shop I went straight to the counter as was buying cigs, lady walks towards the back of the shop shouting at owner if he had any xxxx. Owner walks out from behind counter and goes to get xxxx.

Owner walks back towards the counter and lady starts following, she gets near the counter and says oh I also need yyyy and goes to get some. Owner returns to the till to serve me.

Whilst serving me she says 'oh she may go first if she's in a hurry'

So I just said 'yes I am'
I wasn't I just wasn't going to stand back and say 'oh go on you go first'

Would any one else have found that rude?

First part should say
I was out today on the way home from a friends house

Should say the door situation didn't bother me at all. I don't expect people to have to hold doors open.

Yes but it'd be rude whatever her age .

Why does it surprise you that someone was rude?

People are rude all the time. All sorts of people. Even those who are normally very polite can be rude. Why is this surprising?

The rudest customer I have is a bloke in his seventies. Never heard anything like it! Apparently I am "unfeminine and unladylike." I said I'd show him "ladylike" in a minute. He's nice as pie if I'm rude back, I think he doesn't expect it. Took me a while to build up the courage as you just don't expect it from someone of that age.

The shop owner was also rude - what age were they to make this un-comment-worthy?

Oh fgs! The ageism on MN is ridiculous.

He wasn't. He started walking out if the counter as I was walking in. Lady started shouting what she wanted as soon as the door was open. So he was going to serve a customer who walked in first. Not wait for me.

Some old people being rude?

Why does this surprise you?

You know, seeing as though some kids, teenagers, adults of any age are also often rude?

Do you think as soon as they get their bus passes they suddenly change their personalities?

I have to say and should have said in OP. She smiled when she stopped reversing her scooter and said 'sorry didn't see you there' so she was an ok lady but just not in the shop.

Yep, it's just people that can be rude though. No exceptions for age/sex/gender/race/profession etc. etc. A rude elderly lady was probably a rude middle aged lady and a rude young lady. Just as a rude young lady now will most likely continue through life like that.

I probably would have said "well, no rush, but seeing as how I was here first" followed by a face.

If I get to eighty I'm going with the policy I will say and do whatever I bloody well like. Sod everyone else! My grandmother had this policy and I lived her feistiness. Although was a bit pissed if when she told me I had fat arms!

X-posts with Worra there.

People are rude. People.

Well some of them.

It's irrelevant of age. Older people don't have to be nice anymore than a teenager or middle aged person.

Well maybe shes not a rude elderly lady- maybe shes just a rude 'when in shops' lady. Maybe on the street she is sweetness personified. I have an 8 year old who can be rude when he's hungry but the perfect angel with a full belly. He isnt always rude- i dont think anyone is always just rude. Different people are ruse at various times that have got zippo to do with their age.

I love rude old people!

I used to look after an old lady who drank like a fish, swore like a trooper and called a spade a fucking spade! She was marvellous!

She constantly asked me if I was pregnant, "are you carrying" she used to say I was initially a little offended, but ended up saying "no, I'm just fat"!

Loved her I did, but she died at the grand old age of 93

If anyone has a cantankerous old person that I can adopt, please let me know!

Some people are rude. Age has nothing to do with it.

If anyone has a cantankerous old person that I can adopt, please let me know!

You could have my dad, but I fear you would grow weary of his rudeness. Although he's always been like that, nothing to do with his age.

I think thats quite patronising- that 'adopt an old cantankerous person' comment. Cantankerous is just another word for nasty or an arsehole. If that was someone your age you would be taking offence and not finding it cute at all. Weird how people do that with other people because their hair is grey. She's still a person! Not a puppy that nips!

I didn't mean it like that at all. I would actually love to have an elderly person that I could spend time with - I lost my gran this time last year and miss her terribly, I have no other grandparents.

I'm not being patronising at all by using the word cantankerous. To me, when I hear that word it means feisty, but I'll have to go an look up the definition of the word now, and see if there's a better one I could have chosen.

No the patronising bit was expressing a desire to 'adopt' someone because they were elderly and un

I work in NHS (mainly but not exclusively older patients)

Some are eye wateringly rude.
Some I think "If you spoke to me like this outside and I wasn't in my white coat I'd rip you a new one"
But I have to keep quiet. And proffessional. And seethe.

Pleasant.

Thats patronising. Elderly people arent puppies. They are people and some of them are arseholes. that some people think their age makes that trait excusable is patronising.

Sorry my post split in two by accident. I meant unpleasant.

Some people of all ages are quite rude. Some aren't.