to have lost my rag with a meddling pensioner?

[wrinklytum]

OK,I guess her age was irrelevant really.I was waiting for the lifts in our local hospital to go and see dp,he is quite a few floors up,and I have ds with me and dd in her stroller (she cannot walk,as has SN).

Anyhow we were waiting patiently and two elderly women pushed in front of me and were muttering very loudly about "all these damaned buggies,thats why we have to wait for the lifts,I don't know why they don't walk up the stairs with the kids".At this point the red mist came down,I tapped the woman smartly on the shoulder and said in my calmest but most deadly voice."Actually,I would love it if my daughter COULD walk up the stairs,but seeing as she has special needs she can't,and by the way,I have been waiting a lot longer than you have".At which point the lift arrived and she scuttled in looking suitably chastened.

So was I?I do not usually berate elderly ladies,honest

Well done. Put the old bitch in her place.

YANBU

at all! Opinionated people have to learn that others have the right to say something to them when they air their views.

Well done for doing it in a calm way

That's dreadful! Did you all manage to get in the lift? Well done for being so calm and for saying what you did. You could always have beaten them with their own walking sticks, that is, if they had sticks.

well, everyone here knows most old people irritate the living fuck out of me.

for reasons like this.

I've never had an altercation with a pensioner. THey have always been very pleasant, talking to ds's.
Why do you hate old people expat?

oh wt don't blame you

fair play too you people can be so horrible and she definatly neede putting in her place

Quite right too.

What a cheek. Even if your DD did not have SN, did she expect a mum with 2 children to carry a buggy up the stairs??

And what gives them priority boarding anyway?

You didn't really lose your rag though, you responded in kind to her loud rude remark. YANBU.

YANBU. A lot of cantankerous pensioners think it's their God-given right to be rude and queue jump. I think the latter is because they are so close to popping their clogs that they feel they haven't got time to wait their turn

To stop someone jumping the queue, I've blocked their path into the lift with our big buggy before. That didn't go down well

Well done you, I'd say!

YANBU, and I don't think you lost your temper or were rude.

And she still scuttled into the lift ahead of you

Sounds like you were very reasonable in your response. Some people talk loudly expecting the person they are talking about to just take it and not answer back so you have probably stopped her doing this to someone else now! Good on you.

The other day I parked outside a house near the school to go the Christmas Fair at 6pm. I was nowhere near the drive as I wouldn't dream of parking over someone's drive access.

Man pulls up, at speed, right up to my front bumper - headlights on full beam. Parks across his drive.

We get out. He's muttering "Would you bloody believe it, you go out for five minutes and someone parks outside your bloody house".

I said "I'm sorry, is there a problem?" He said "bloody people parking outside my house all the time".

I said, "I have car tax, I am parked legally, I am no where near your drive and I think you are being cantankerous for no apparent reason. You don't own the road".

He said "ok you can park there".

Er? I know!

Some people just like being grumpy.

We all skipped off happily to the Christmas Fair and left Ebenezer to it.

I love being reasonable when people are being unreasonable - they hate it and they feel like crap. GOOD

lol @ "I think the latter is because they are so close to popping their clogs that they feel they haven't got time to wait their turn"

Good for you. No doubt you would have felt worse had you not said anything . Congrats!

Good on ya wt...

YANBU
ha ha ha!

some people are just horrid. the years go by, and they become elderly, and still horrid. Don't feel guilty!

Why is their age relevant? They were nasty rude people.

Nasty rude people are nasty rude people whether they are 19 or 90.

Can't bear stereotyping, frankly.

well done and yanbu I wish I could have said something to an elderly woman who used to live in my house befor me, I was on the bus going to work and she and a friend where sitting just in frount of me the jist of what she was saying is that a large family had moved into her old house and that we where either saints who fostered or dole bludger with our own kids. I was furious both my self and my husband work and covered our own child care by doing opposite shifts. why do they think that they can make judgements with out knowing the facts

Good for you, hope you gave the horrible woman something to think about.

Don't agree with ageism though, plenty of nasty people in all generations.