# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/141 "2013-02-01T02:58:24Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > So damn sorry to offend, I was emotional writing that. I will try not to offend your eyes any longer. Ok thanks. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/142 "2013-02-01T02:58:45Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > No empathyā€¦:smack: Oh, itā€™s your turn to be a jerk for being pick about could of/could have? Iā€™m glad to hand that off to you! šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/143 "2013-02-01T02:59:41Z")
This is yet another example of a misleading username. \*\*MeanOldLady \*\*is quite obviously not mean or old. She does appear to be a lady, so one out of three isnā€™t a total miss. But, who among us has an accurate user name? Some are obviously meant to look like a normal name, as in our inestimable \*\*Lynn Bodoni \*\*or even myself. However, how do we really know if **Stranger On A Train** is, in fact, a stranger? If so, stranger than what? Does **Nzinga, Seated** ever just lie down? Is **Enola Gay** really a bombshell? It is to wonderā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/144 "2013-02-01T03:05:06Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > There are two groups of people who will always find you pretty: Old people and dudes trying to bone you. Note to selfā€¦ \ ***MeanOldLady** ā€¦ NOT into old dudes, trying toā€¦ bone herā€¦\* Got it. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/145 "2013-02-01T03:09:55Z")
Someone please tell me how to delete a post?? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/146 "2013-02-01T03:27:35Z")
First of all, youā€™re supposed to stand still in an escalator. In fact, I pit people who somehow need the extra 3 seconds to make it to the next floor by elbowing their way upwards. Second, your tactic of telling us youā€™re attractive to old men isnā€™t all that impressive. Most old people think young people are nitwits but for their looks. Last, thereā€™s always someone whoā€™s more impatient than you and heā€™s standing in behind you in line. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/147 "2013-02-01T03:34:26Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Someone please tell me how to delete a post?? First, you canā€™t. Second, why would you want to? You did nothing wrong. You told us your story, one to which we can all relate, if not now then sooner than weā€™d prefer. Third, you still canā€™t. Now, letā€™s get back to the purpose of this thread: ribbing **MeanOldLady** and whistling past the graveyard. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/148 "2013-02-01T03:36:19Z")
What I hate is when the old lady (or man, it could be a manā€“itā€™s usually a lady, though) is just so so starved for attention that she has to get it from, say, the Walgreenā€™s clerk, while sheā€™s getting her purchases rung up. Look, pictures of her grandchildren. But she never sees them because they moved to Phoenix. Oh, they wanted her to move to Phoenix, too, but nope. Too hot for her! And so on and so fucking forth and yada yada yada. And what can you say? "Shut up lady. Some of us were working and then we stopped here on our way home, and UNLIKE YOU, bitch, we have people at home WAITING for us, so shut the everloving fuck up, this is not part of the Walgreens service guarantee. Unlike MeanOldLady I am really old, also really mean, and yet I just canā€™t bring myself to shoot these old ladies who are gabbing away. Nor can I bring myself to haul out pictures of MY grandchildren (yep, Iā€™ve got 'em). If I ever do that, somebody please shoot me. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/149 "2013-02-01T03:36:19Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Someone please tell me how to delete a post?? Convince a mod. Otherwise, itā€™s here _ **foreverā€¦** _:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/150 "2013-02-01T03:38:33Z")
NM. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/151 "2013-02-01T03:43:14Z")
Well, sorry, then how do I unsubscribe? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/152 "2013-02-01T03:44:30Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Someone please tell me how to delete a post?? Send a bribe to a moderator or administrator. Chocolate works on most of us. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/153 "2013-02-01T03:44:58Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > They donā€™t walk up escalators How do you feel about crips who hog up the entire escalator stairway by getting on it with their wheelchairs and riding up in a protracted wheelie? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/154 "2013-02-01T03:53:42Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Iā€™m serious about this. Pretty much every single old person in the world gets a free pass on all kinds of _incredible bullshit_ that Iā€™d never put up with from someone my age. Or under the age of 65 for that matter. They drive slow, they donā€™t walk up escalators, they donā€™t get how The Google works. Whatever. Honestly, I donā€™t even get annoyed when the person is a senior citizen. I donā€™t know if itā€™s because both of my parents are old enough to be my grandparents, or because Iā€™ve been programmed to feel compassion for people whose age doesnā€™t allow them to move as quickly as I do, but old people have been working this ā€œOh, but Iā€™m old so whatever I do is okayā€ card a little too hard lately, and itā€™s pissing me off. > > Exhibit A. > > Old man at the bus stop says hi to me. Iā€™m usually irritated by people who talk to me at bus stops, but he was short and old, so I think itā€™s cute. Iā€™m not sure what his height has to do with anything, but whatever. Anyway, well ā€œcuteā€ 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 ā€œBut with a nicer figure.ā€ 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 Iā€™m pretty, asks if Iā€™m single (!!!), and this shit just goes on and on. And then I realize the only reason Iā€™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 wonā€™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 Iā€™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 donā€™t have it in me to be irritated by old people acting like old people. So sheā€™s paying with some mixture of dollar bills and change from her fucking COIN PURSE and ends up being a dollar short. Oh god, justā€¦ just kill me now. She starts whining to the cashier ā€œOh no, Iā€™m a dollar short,ā€ 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 Iā€™m nice, bla bla. No, Iā€™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 ā€œThanks so much!ā€ and getting out, she proceeds to ā€œblessā€ me, and tell me how sweet and pretty I am. The whole time Iā€™m thinking, ā€œYes, yes, yes, Iā€™m very nice. Now wrap it up.ā€ And the only reason I didnā€™t exclaim, ā€œCan you just leave already?ā€ is because she was old. > > I canā€™t do this anymore. Old people: Youā€™re on notice. Iā€™m tired of your bullshit, and next time you pull a load of crap on me, Iā€™m going to treat you like youā€™re 35 and call you an asshole. > You wanna know the worst part about this OP? Is that Iā€™m kind of a little bit serious. > > I was gonna put this in MPSIMS, but placed it here so yā€™all can call me names. I just want to compliment the Poster-name/post combo. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/155 "2013-02-01T03:54:53Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > What I hate is when the old lady (or man, it could be a manā€“itā€™s usually a lady, though) is just so so starved for attention that she has to get it from, say, the Walgreenā€™s clerkā€¦ Or me! As a telemarketer I expect people to get me off the phone as fast as they can. I neither expect nor want to hear about their kid who didnā€™t update his contact info before moving to Zimbabwe or about their trip to the States (ā€œOoh! You have a lovely country! And Chicago is so CLEAN!ā€). And lately I fear Iā€™m sounding too sympathetic so I have people coming to me with their customer service problems (the WRONG response to ā€œIā€™m glad you calledā€ is ā€œOh? Why is that?ā€). Wife is in customer service for a big-box retailer and she gets calls like that, except with a lot more anger and swearing. We agree that there should be a law that forbids people over 65 using a phone, either incoming or outgoing. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/156 "2013-02-01T04:00:37Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > be the first to ā€œLickā€ this post Lick There, there. Someone appreciated your joke. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/157 "2013-02-01T04:04:51Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Well, sorry, then how do I unsubscribe? [del]Oh, why would you want to do that?[/del] šŸ˜‰ Aw, stick around. Like I said, you brought a moment of realism to the thread. The moment passed and we forgot about it. Or would if youā€™d let us. šŸ˜ƒ New to The Pit, I suppose. Too nice, too. No problem. Plenty of nicer parts of the SDMB that youā€™d like better. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/158 "2013-02-01T04:18:06Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > But, who among us has an accurate user name? Some are obviously meant to look like a normal name, as in our inestimable \*\*Lynn Bodoni \*\*or even myself. However, how do we really know if **Stranger On A Train** is, in fact, a stranger? If so, stranger than what? Does **Nzinga, Seated** ever just lie down? Is **Enola Gay** really a bombshell? I, on the other hand, am a genuine kimstu. The only trouble is that it has never been clear exactly what a kimstu is. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/159 "2013-02-01T04:25:11Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Well, sorry, then how do I unsubscribe? Hey man, I apologize if my ā€œgrammar Naziā€ post upset you that much. I didnā€™t mean to be un-feeling or callous. Iā€™m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/160 "2013-02-01T04:57:33Z")
I have to ask if the mean old church going ladies are Southern Baptist. Not that Iā€™m knocking that faith, but my biker club goes to different churches every week. (Well some of us only go to one church, but those who want to share take turns taking us to explore other ways of praying. Iā€™m not going hijack the thread with that now.) The Christian Church of the Valley folks always welcomed us with handshakes and smiles. The Catholic church ladies gaves us hand made doilies to wear on our heads. The Mormans offered us cold water. The Southern Baptists gave us such looks that all of us girls went out to get our jackets and zip them up in the middle of the summer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904.md?page=9)