# 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:** 9
**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, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/161 "2013-02-01T05:17:58Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Hey man, I apologize if my “grammar Nazi” post upset you that much. I didn’t mean to be un-feeling or callous. I’m sorry. Upon re-reading this, let me state: I am sorry for being a dick. I wasn’t trying to qualify my apology with an “I’m sorry _if_…” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/162 "2013-02-01T05:35:46Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Someone please tell me how to delete a post?? **DummyGladHands** , I have the same thoughts you do when I take my elderly mother out and I’ll bet she is even slower than your mom. That’s why I am enjoying this thread so much. Fortunately, when we’re out, most people are pretty understanding, even MeanOldLady types, no matter what she pretends on here. And just ignore **Ambivalid** ; he likes to pick on people whom he suspects park in handicapped parking spaces with their elderly mothers when clearly the mothers need exercise. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/163 "2013-02-01T05:50:54Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > 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 isn’t a total miss. I am really mean to young people. Ask 25 year old overgrown frat douches. > [@the\_diego](#): > > First of all, you’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 you’re attractive to old men isn’t all that impressive. Most old people think young people are nitwits but for their looks. > > Last, there’s always someone who’s more impatient than you and he’s standing in behind you in line. LOL. Nobody is impressed by the creepy old man perving on people. Oh, and there aren’t people more impatient than I am. These people just don’t exist. Now move over, or I’ll throw rocks at you. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > 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? Crips? Ha! I’ve never seen anyone in a wheelchair on an escalator in my entire life, but if I ever do, I’ll be more WTF’d by it than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/164 "2013-02-01T05:56:18Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Point #1: It is not mandatory for anybody, of whatever age, to walk up an escalator. However, if you’re not walking up the escalator then it IS mandatory to stand well over to the right (and keep whatever luggage or parcels you have over to the right too) so that people walking up the escalator can get by you. I hate when the escalator stops and the old people all scream about being trapped on it. Also, I always figured kimstu was somehow related to kimchi. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/165 "2013-02-01T06:15:15Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’m just gonna mostly borrow something from **MsWhatsit** , making minor corrections where necessary: > > It’s [del]the middle[/del] anytime of the day, I’m driving somewhere, and some asshole in traffic is going 20 over/under the speed limit, drifting across the center line, driving with their turn signal on for 5 miles, or pulling some other bullshit traffic maneuver that shows a blithe ignorance that there are other cars sharing the road with them. > > It is [del]almost[/del] always: > > 1. A car with California plates, or > 2. A driver from California. > > That’s how it is in Las Vegas, anyway. Those are rental cars that the tourists that flew in here drove out there. Couldn’t be actual Californicators in those cars because they’d be dead within a month of getting their licenses. Unless the cars have sand blast damage? Those guys are from the desert - Vegas scares them. 😃 ---
**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, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/166 "2013-02-01T07:04:21Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. You probably don’t know that teenagers (and some people in the 20-30 range) are the most insufferable segment in the population. It’ll help if their culture wasn’t so crappy compared to what previous generations had but even that’s impossible. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/167 "2013-02-01T07:17:37Z")
Yeah, but nobody takes crap from teenagers because they’re teenagers and everybody hates them. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/168 "2013-02-01T08:36:15Z")
> [@hrhomer](#): > > Fuck you, bitch. Take the stairs. [Moderating] Saying “fuck you” to other posters is against the Pit language rules. Please avoid this in the future. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/169 "2013-02-01T09:49:56Z")
I just want to be old so I can show off ACRES of sock. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/170 "2013-02-01T10:59:04Z")
Acres, and yet never quite enough. ---
**Author:** ![resting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@resting](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/resting)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/171 "2013-02-01T11:08:32Z")
Old people smell funny. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/172 "2013-02-01T12:53:45Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Well, I’m an old fart. . . . > > And, unlike so many oh so very important people, I clean up my dogs’ poop wherever they leave it. Pssst. . .dude. . .you don’t even have a dog.😕 ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/173 "2013-02-01T14:41:52Z")
I always assume that people in a hurry just haven’t _gotten it_ yet. ---
**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, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/174 "2013-02-01T14:49:28Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Pssst. . .dude. . .you don’t even have a dog.😕 Shhh… It’s how his family got him to clean up after himself when he first started going senile. They convinced him a stuffed toy dog was real. He walks it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/175 "2013-02-01T15:34:24Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > 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? Totally worth it on for the small chance you’ll lose your balance and flip over backwards painfully and spectacularly. Just kidding. 😉 > [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > Shhh… It’s how his family got him to clean up after himself when he first started going senile. They convinced him a stuffed toy dog was real. He walks it all the time. Is she pooping for it, too? :eek: ---
**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:** [February 1, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/176 "2013-02-01T16:08:47Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Totally worth it on for the small chance you’ll lose your balance and flip over backwards painfully and spectacularly… I read _Ambivald_’s post with awe, thinking “No, shit, he can really _do_ that?” I feel let down now, thinking I’ll never see that in real life (unless I offer the next wheelchair denizen I see five bucks to try it, hmmm…). But if I did see it, I think I’d jump on behind…convinced that he’d start to teeter backwards and I’d be the one to save him (and everyone behind him on the escalator) by propping him back into a stable position. And, on topic, an old person is less annoying than an “overgrown frat douche”. Known as a “Bro” to my kids, who hate 'em with a passion. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/177 "2013-02-01T16:47:19Z")
Overgrown frat douches get old too, you know. Frequently end up holding high office or chairing large corporations. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Conqueror_Worm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/178 "2013-02-01T16:54:35Z")
[Not quite a wheelchair on the escalator, but…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WmZRVsBSM) I didn’t post the really bad looking accident of which there is video. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/179 "2013-02-01T17:24:06Z")
Without reading the backlash from my last post, I just wanted to pop in today to semi-apologize for what was a minor meltdown on my part. Carry on. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904/180 "2013-02-01T17:28:33Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Without reading the backlash from my last post, I just wanted to pop in today to semi-apologize for what was a minor meltdown on my part. Carry on. It’s a good thing you aren’t back reading, because we tore you a new one, old man. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-going-to-let-old-people-get-away-with-their-horse-shit-anymore/648904.md?page=10)