I figured as much.
I hate it when the truth makes me sad.
No worries, jerk!
I’d be surprised if your mama wouldn’t slap the black off of you for that kind of disrespect.
Ha! This actually happened the first time I built up enough nerve to try it. I was with my girlfriend (at the time) and I almost made it all the way up. Almost. I must have shifted my bodyweight ever so slightly, in anticipation of making it to the top and ending the wheelie-hold, and it threw off my balance and I (and my chair) went tumbling down the escalator. It looked downright horrible. :eek: My chair had flipped a couple times in the air and landed upside down; while I landed several feet away from it. Despite the fact that I was completely unhurt, it caused quite a scene in the mall we were in. The security guards made me have an “escort” push me out our car (as well as sign a waiver), as to cover their asses as to any potential liability.
My mom can’t smack me anymore because I’m bigger than she is. Plus I don’t give her reason to because I’m scared of her.
Seconding this. I don’t mind teenagers because they’re condemned by biology to be the way they are. Young adults disappoint me because they have more choices, and too often take the wrong ones: young men think life is some Glengarry Glen Ross dick-measuring contest, and they adopt close-minded, “it’s better to be full of shit than to appear indecisive for even one second” attitude to show how hard-headed & all grown up they are. Young women often have an incredibly self-absorbed outlook of “this world was made for beautiful, affluent people like me: the rest of you are just trash on its margins.”
Mmm hmm. Get y’alls mamas some comfy walking shoes and keep 'em movin…:dubious: #geriatricdoesntequaldisabled
Does it kill your soul when you have to enforce the dumbest fucking rules on the planet?
You know it does. You can just feel it. I can see Miller right now logging into the SDMB, seeing another post reported to him, going, “Oh god, not this bullshit again,” then he goes into the Pit, annoyed, “Stop saying that,” he says to the offender, and then he mumbles to himself, “Can people please stop reporting this shit already?” This is exactly what happens to him every single time. I dare you to tell me I’m wrong, Miller.
Do not meddle in the affairs of mods, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
Somebody is sounding suspiciously old here. Is counting out change at the soda fountain counter at Woolworth’s in your near future?
You couldn’t pay me in mithrill and willing elven lasses to be a moderator here.
Having been many other ‘places’ on the connected tubes we all like to call the Interwbez, I can say this place is head and shoulders over the others. And not just because Miller doesn’t have dandruff problems.
I’m 58 and disabled. When I get on a bus, I expect to get a front seat. However, they are all occupied by young idiots who think being addicted to their electronic devices is a disability, not stupidity. I will tell the OP when I tell them:
When you get old and people treat you like shit, just remember this moment. And if you think you won’t get old, you are sadly mistaken.
Hush!
Good point, because people here were totally advocating not giving up our seats for the elderly and/or disabled.
Speak up for yourself then. You sound capable of that. I for one would gladly give you my seat, but I don’t consider it my responsibility to constantly scan for needy disabled people. I’m going to read my newspaper (a real paper one) and if you need my seat, say “excuse me.” And hey, if your disability isn’t obvious, nobody wants to ask just because you look old, because that says “you look old.”
My wife just turned 50, she’s had mobility issues for years and sometimes has to use a cane, it’s weird but for the most part it’s the elderly that are the least considerate if not outright rude. My wife has the ‘gift’ and can drop a line or look that conveys volumes. 
Shit like that, I tell them either to drop it in a coin box at Tims or play it forward, what’s a few bucks and sometimes it gets them thinking
all the posts here…we should have posted our ages…it’d be interesting for myself 53
I think the part of the thread title old people is unfair. Why not old A’holes (or similar)? There would be much more agreement, and much less offense taken. We can agree that some, few, even most of any group may be creeps, but certainly not all, and that’s what the title implies. Ageism should be no more acceptable than racism.
Fifty-eight. Wife is 59, a fact I take sadistic joy in every day.