# I'm not going to let old people get away with their horse shit anymore. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904 "2013-01-31T11:27:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/41 "2013-01-31T14:26:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > not so many of them get old, they are kinda thoughtful that way. HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!i!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/42 "2013-01-31T14:32:40Z")
I was in line the other day at a convienence store and the 3 people in front of me were all buying lottery tickets. Some of which were fairly complicated. I would have been annoyed except I was also buying lottery tickets (don’t judge me: I only buy them when I know I will be in a place with nothing to do for an extended period of time.) ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/43 "2013-01-31T14:37:56Z")
Old people just don’t give a fuck any more. What are you going to do, kill them and cut their lives short? Whatever. Seriously, alot of old people have TAKEN alot of shit, so they don’t care any more about giving it. And they probably don’t take it any more either. Not an excuse, just an observation. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/44 "2013-01-31T14:41:22Z")
Not so bad getting old, keeping the alternative in mind. Still meet plenty of hot young women, just now they call me “Sir”. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/45 "2013-01-31T14:46:44Z")
“What you need to understand is that because I am 22 years older than you, it means I have seven billion times more wisdom, experience, smarts than you!” Sometimes, with age comes wisdom. Sometimes, with age comes only age. I’m middle aged, and I take an escalator when I don’t feel like walking up or down stairs. A torn achilles tendon and two knee scopes does that to a person. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/46 "2013-01-31T14:48:31Z")
I’m gonna hafta call bullshit on the OP, sorry. If you were any kind of actual Meanoldlady, you would have freaking moved when elderly creep sat down beside you to continue the creepathon he started at the bus stop. You talk all tough but come down to it you’re all soft and mushy inside like everyone else who ever loved their Gran. But you didn’t move, did you? No, you just sat there taking it. What? You didn’t want to hurt his feelings? Or not want to make a scene? Yeah, right. And the old woman? You could have done just what the cashier did, and just stood there gaping as she ranted about being a dollar short. Or you could have opened you pie hole and said, “I’m sorry, but I have no time, am in a terrible hurry!” But you didn’t, did you? No, in both cases you just took it all in, the creeping, the delay listening to the old lady’s gratitude, and behaved in a most unmean fashion. You’re not really mad at old people, you’re mad because they have power over big old softy that you clearly really are! I’m starting to think you are just a big old fraud. Watch yourself or you’ll have to forfeit that user name, you big softy! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/47 "2013-01-31T15:05:18Z")
**MeanOldLady** , I mean this in a very nice way. You really need more fiber in your diet. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/48 "2013-01-31T15:11:26Z")
Screw fiber, eat bacon. Sure, fiber makes you healthy, but bacon makes you smile. And BBQ. Yeah. “If you can’t make seventy by a comfortable road, don’t go.” - Mark Twain (attrib.) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/49 "2013-01-31T15:19:58Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > Why’d you have to mention that she’s black? The only old black person I know of is Morgan Freeman, and he’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/50 "2013-01-31T15:21:34Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > **MeanOldLady** , I mean this in a very nice way. You really need more fiber in your diet. Yeah yeah, and your dick is made of oat bran. Jeez, get some new material, guys. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/51 "2013-01-31T15:24:35Z")
Almost every day I have an opportunity to feel, in a strong and certain way, that everyone who chooses to drive a Buick should have their licenses revoked. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/52 "2013-01-31T15:29:15Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I’m serious about this. Pretty much every single old person in the world gets a free pass on all kinds of _incredible bullshit_ that I’d never put up with from someone my age. Or under the age of 65 for that matter. They drive slow, they don’t walk up escalators, they don’t get how The Google works. Whatever. Honestly, I don’t even get annoyed when the person is a senior citizen. I don’t know if it’s because both of my parents are old enough to be my grandparents, or because I’ve been programmed to feel compassion for people whose age doesn’t allow them to move as quickly as I do, but old people have been working this “Oh, but I’m old so whatever I do is okay” card a little too hard lately, and it’s pissing me off. > > Exhibit A. > > Old man at the bus stop says hi to me. I’m usually irritated by people who talk to me at bus stops, but he was short and old, so I think it’s cute. I’m not sure what his height has to do with anything, but whatever. Anyway, well “cute” old man quickly turns creepy as he compares me to some celebrity who I look nothing like, while making gestures toward his chest and saying “But with a nicer figure.” Wait, WHAT? WTF? Why is saying that okay? Could a 25 year old guy say this without getting kicked in the balls? Then he starts telling me his theories about the world, tells me I’m pretty, asks if I’m single (!!!), and this shit just goes on and on. And then I realize the only reason I’m putting up with this mountain of crap is because this guy is about to die in three weeks. So I get on the bus, move promptly to the back, assuming he will sit in the old guy seats, but then he follows me and it won’t let up. Jesus Fuck, what is this crap? I end up exiting early and just walking the rest of the way home to get away from him. > > Exhibit B. > > So I’m at the store and get in line behind a tiny little old lady who is paying for her item via coin purse (REALLY?!), and I let it go because whatever. I just don’t have it in me to be irritated by old people acting like old people. So she’s paying with some mixture of dollar bills and change from her fucking COIN PURSE and ends up being a dollar short. Oh god, just… just kill me now. She starts whining to the cashier “Oh no, I’m a dollar short,” repeatedly, as if complaining about being a dollar short is going to change anything. This goes on and on and fucking on, before I just give the woman a fucking dollar. She thanks me, tells me I’m nice, bla bla. No, I’m not nice. I am paying you a dollar to go away. This is my service fee to get you to shut the fuck up and just leave. I just wish you were gone, okay? I think my plan backfired, though, because instead of just saying “Thanks so much!” and getting out, she proceeds to “bless” me, and tell me how sweet and pretty I am. The whole time I’m thinking, “Yes, yes, yes, I’m very nice. Now wrap it up.” And the only reason I didn’t exclaim, “Can you just leave already?” is because she was old. > > I can’t do this anymore. Old people: You’re on notice. I’m tired of your bullshit, and next time you pull a load of crap on me, I’m going to treat you like you’re 35 and call you an asshole. > You wanna know the worst part about this OP? Is that I’m kind of a little bit serious. > > I was gonna put this in MPSIMS, but placed it here so y’all can call me names. My wife and I went on a cruise several years ago. Many old people around. My Og, what uncivil, mean, selfish bastards and bastardesses. If they were younger, I would have smashed them repeatedly in the face with my fist. But hey, they are old. I don’t put up with BS well but, for some reason, I cheerfully put up with near infinite crap from old people. My wife has mentioned that on several occasions (She said I give 2 groups much slack - old people and older teenagers) . 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/53 "2013-01-31T15:29:21Z")
I got no beef with old people as long as they stop trying to get me to eat things like ham spread. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/54 "2013-01-31T15:32:14Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I’m okay with the lady paying with a coin purse… No, no, no! As an Old People, I do NOT have the right to hold up a line in the grocery store for ANY reason. I had a student bust my chops for some little Old Guy habit I do and she had a great line: _“Hope you don’t mind me calling you on your shit.”_ We all need that, at any age. If younger people start letting us get away with being slow/creepy/weird/whatever, then we’ll just get slower\* and weirder. It’s human nature. Now, I do think we should make allowances for things that are beyond their control. They’re slower mentally, can’t dunk a layup like back when they played pickup with Jordan at Cabrini Green back in the day I think it was a Wednes… oh, and they’ll get off-topic on long stories you’ve heard before. But on the things that are in their control, that they’re getting lazy about (c’mon, how many of them CAN’T pay with a $20, or have a dollar’s worth of change counted out while waiting for the total? So call an old people on their shit. You can do it nicely–just laugh: “Whoa, watch out-- you’re verging on Old Creepy Dude. You better keep your opinions of younger women’s looks to yourself.” \*aside: I’m faster and more efficient than when I was young. Hey, I may only have a couple of decades left on this planet, I’m not going to waste it. So I’ll be the old fart speeding through the checkout (and maybe red lights). ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/55 "2013-01-31T15:37:10Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Almost every day I have an opportunity to feel, in a strong and certain way, that everyone who chooses to drive a Buick should have their licenses revoked. I support this. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/56 "2013-01-31T15:41:05Z")
Damn, digs, your post just makes me want to go hug my grandma. It doesn’t get me in the mood to ruthlessly pit old people at all. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/57 "2013-01-31T15:48:31Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I got no beef with old people as long as they stop trying to get me to eat things like ham spread. If old people take over, _all_ foods will be spreadable. That’s why they must be stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/58 "2013-01-31T15:48:34Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah yeah, and your dick is made of oat bran. Jeez, get some new material, guys. And I’ll bet you too find it hard to get a log out. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/59 "2013-01-31T15:52:30Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > And I’ll bet you too find it hard to get a log out. Ha ha! You are talking about poop. I get it. On topic: I actually like old people, when they are not driving in traffic around me. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/60 "2013-01-31T15:54:46Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Almost every day I have an opportunity to feel, in a strong and certain way, that everyone who chooses to drive a Buick should have their licenses revoked. What about people who chose to save money by inheriting their grandpa’s old buick when he bought a new car? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904.md?page=4)