To think that in a busy supermarket on a Friday night...

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

...you don't let your 6 year old be in charge of steering the buggy containing your 18 month old?

Both parents were there, neither had a trolley. The whole family were wandering around - why didn't one person go in to the get couple of items and everyone else stay outside/in the car?
They were getting in everyone's way, ramming into trolleys and old people. Bloody ridiculous.

Rant over

yabu

If they want to do it they can.

Of course they can. It doesn't mean they should.

Old people should not be in supermarkets when it's busy, anyway.

They have the whole day to buy cat food, FGS.

Kran, we most certainly do not have all day to buy cat food!

We have to spend a lot of time having gossipy conversations about young people these days, how it wasn't like that when we were growing up - then we have to infuriate folk when we get to the checkout and realise we're 50p short, we have to drive everywhere really slowly etc etc etc - you have no idea!

And if you don't drive remember you have to get on a bus at exactly the same time as every other poor sod is blearily trying to get to school or work.

And then have a good moan about the fact that no one wants to give you a seat.

Well, exactly! You underestimate the sheer fucking hard work that goes into being an elderly shopper.

swipes Kran about the shins with walking stick

I should 'fess up to a bit of old-person haranguing recently. And I probably shouldn't have done it, as I'm not so young myself...but..

Last week I was standing on a bus at school home time. There were a couple of tiny and obviously new year 7 children nearly asleep on their seats and a gaggle of bingo'd up pensioners got on. They (the oldies) started making loud remarks about how the young 'uns should offer them their seats and I had to step in and point out that the children were tired after a long day at school and needed them.

It didn't go down well....

Year 7? Isn't that, um, quite elderly for a child, really?

(In my day, P7 children were aged 11/12, I realise it's different now, what with Reception classes before Y1, and children starting so much younger anyway...)

How old are Y7 children?

11/12 is elderly in the fluffy world of primary school, yes. But after a day that may have started very early to get to a scary and new secondary school, it's young.

Besides, Bingo is voluntary, innit?

And the group of pensioners I saw were sucking down B&H and generally 'carrying on' at the bus stop in a way that didn't suggest their poor old limbs needed that much of a rest.

lol. Those b and h prevent the blood supply reaching the feet, which consequently need the weight taken off them.

There's nothing so scary as a smoking old person imo.

lights up fag

(for our American cousins, this does not involve tar, feathers, or homosexuals)

um...think it does involve tar. Unless it's a funny kind of fag...

Valid point.