AIBU to think that some older women put on a bit of an 'old dear' act which is really a cover for selfishness?

[BoffinMum]

I was in the supermarket the other day, struggling a bit, it has to be said, as I have a pregnancy complication that has affected my mobility and causes me a lot of pain. I was forced to stand in the queue at the till while an apparently able bodied woman, probably in her early 70s, made a big fuss about getting her bags packed and her shopping lifted into the trolley, even though I had just seen her by the recycling hoiking great amounts of stuff out of her car boot perfectly happily, like any other normal person.

By the time I got to pay I had been forced to wait 20 minutes in the queue along with everyone else, while she frankly made a huge fuss over a relatively small amount of shopping, with two supermarket employees pandering to her every whim at our expense.

My uncharitable muttering along the lines of "Don't mind me, I'll just stand here and give birth quietly while you finish fussing" was (unsurprisingly) ignored. But I started to feel very irritated by the sheer number of people in this age bracket that do things like fling car doors open to hit me as I walk down the pavement, insist on VIP treatment in supermarkets at the expense of everyone else, and generally try to cash in on their age when they're perfectly fit and healthy really. I've got plenty of older relatives who would not dream of carrying on like this, and I am wondering whether we should all be putting up with it or not.

there are a lot of older people who seem to think that by virtue of their age they are entitled to disregard normal social conventions such as queing in shops (and then look aghast if you dare to call them up on it,especially when i was a teenager) or just good manners.
they are however a minority and i have a sneaking suspicion that they have been pricks all their lives and now see their age as just another excuse to act as such to others.
throughout their lives they probably used other characteristics to justify having no manners as you see everyday in non-elderly people. i.e. people who view their important job as an excuse for rudeness. i mean i've seen some people think that the rules don't apply to them for a myriad of reasons. most recently in tesco a pregnant woman and a woman with two kids who both thought such miracles meant that they didn't have to wait in line, and that they could bring a full trolley through the 10 items or less check out and were horrified that anyone else in the shop would question this right. byut it doesn't mean i think that the majority of pregnant women play up their pregnancy for special treatment, or that people with children are ignorant.just that some people are always going to find an excuse to justify their rude behaviour