How do you get on with old people?

I think I get on OK with oldies, and most old dears are especially nice to me. Sometimes old guys can be a bit crabby, but if you remain respectful they usually chill. I find old people love talking about their lives, and when they were young, and you learn some very interesting stuff. How about everyone here - how do you get on?

 

Thank you. It is nice to see someone with good manners in this day and age.

 

They are bossy, but normally are really nice as long as you respect the fact that they ARE IN CHARGE!

I agree about the stories and such. Many interesting things. And I don't mind helping them.

There was this old lady trying to get some trash down the stairs to take to the dumpster.

She had to kick it down. I picked up two bags and she said oh nonononononnonono. I said um, YES! I'm walking right past the dumpster anyway with my dog here.

I would have gone up and gotten all of it if I had thought she would let me.

But she seemed to feel terrible that I even took what I did, so I let it go. In retrospect, I should have gone back for the rest.

 

Define "old".

 

Baby Boomers and the Greatest de-Generation are responsible for alot of the liberalism and civil rights that are destroying White Western Civilization right now so I hate them.

 

Your grandparents' age, or older.

 

My grandparents are all dead.

If alive, they'd be over 100 years old.

 

Well OK then, anyone over 50?

 

I'm close to 50!!!

50 isn't old LOL

 

Well, what about 60? My Grandad is 60, and he is definitely old - grey hair, going bald - the lot!

 

I think, 72.

Anything over 72 is old.

60 isn't old.

 

With any luck you won't achieve it from personal experience.

 

I was bald at 20 and don't feel old at 71.

I may no longer be able to run but age is in the mind and I can still achieve most of the things I did 20 years ago, when I was 51, the age you have designated as old (until you reach it and will wonder what all the fuss was about.)

 

One of my neighbours is 86. She bakes the best bread in the world, and keeps me supplied with tasty handmade pasta.

I love her!

 

I know a lovely old bloke that I was just talking to on a Political Forum site somewhere on the Tennisnet .
Yes . We were chatting about something most interesting .
Or was that me ?

 

So why not ask her to teach you how she does itz??

 

They are VERY good for that sort of thing and you don't realise how good until you don't have them to ask. All of the older people in my family are gone. The expertise that went with them beggars belief. There is just nobody to ask whose judgement you can trust and who cares what happens to you. It's not that you can't manage without them to consult, but it is a lot harder than having them there to rely on for that depth of experience and knowledge (and cunning strategy). It's really time we found a better way than aging and dying and losing all that knowledge (or is it?).

Hey Leo, that buffoon David Cameron has officially decreed you're not an old person in UK until you reach 68. On those grounds, he is justifying holding back peoples pensions, so....

To answer your OP, I get on very well with the older people and like them with the exception of those twisted types, but those exist in all age brackets and you have to make allowance for the health issues older people can be living with.

 

Good morning OT!

Fair question, I'll give you an honest answer...

I would never ask, not because she wouldn't tell me, rather, it might make her feel less appreciated. And I won't do that. You see, Italian Grandmothers pride themselves with giving (and cooking), this is her way of showing me friendship. Plus it makes her feel needed... which she is.

As for my kitchen skills, I'm fairly good myself, thanks to my wonderful Father... who was just straight up, a dam* good cook!

 

When I moved into my neighborhood 5 yrs ago, I met a neighbor who I tho't was such a sweetie named Lucy, pretty snow white hair, uses a walker - she's around 85 now.......

The summer I moved in, I was invited to join some of the neighbor gals who'd get together outside to visit. Lucy was always there and I got to know her.... she is one of the most vicious, back-stabbing females I've ever met. When I first meet people, I don't say to much - just watch and listen - and it never failed, whenever one of the gals left after Lucy was sugary-sweet to her, she'd have a mouthful of crap to say about the one who left......

One time 2 of the neighbors had some conflict going, which happens. I was visiting w/Lucy alone, she brought up the conflict, then turned to me and said "If I were "Sally" I'd hire someone to hurt "Joan".....OMG! When I heard her say that, a chill ran down my spine .... talk about a mafia mentality! I said something about they'll iron it out and left.....

But I've met many in their very senior yrs whom I really enjoyed. Had one, Dorothy, who was a real firecracker - cooked, baked, sewed, ran around in her garden, barefooted - just enjoyed her life. She passed away on 7/4th, but said she wasn't going to die until she had her 94th b'day, which she did...

 

Well said. I truly understand.

 

Some old people are nice, but sadly, the ones I have encounted are grumpy, with no respect for anyone else, and who think the world revolves around them.

I don't get along well with old people. I'm not interested in their stories, either. I just find them boring and dull. Oh well, that's just me, I guess!

 

It depends on the 'old person'.

 

try to get on or money out of them usually, the key is that they must be patronized.

it works

 

Are you saying you take advantage of vulnerable old people?

 

The banks are doing it all the time! Sometimes they're caught.

"... In what the UK Financial Services Authority described as “particularly serious” and “systemic” violations, HSBC’s subsidiary NHFA advised nearly 2,500 customers to put £285m in investment bonds between 2005 and 2010 to fund long-term care.
A subsequent review found that 87 per cent of the sales were unsuitable, the FSA said. Many of the customers – average age 83 – were too old and ill to benefit from the products, which are typically recommended for people with a five-year investment horizon... "


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