Uekte, is that you? 
Actually, the personality shifts caused by everything from mini-strokes to changed circumstances can go either way. It’s more typical to lose executive function and get blunt and demanding, but I had one older relative who was a bitch on wheels when she was younger turn into a fluffy old lady. She wasn’t completely undemanding with her nearest kin, but even there she was a lot lower key. I’m not sure what left her, to make the change, other than energy.
I’m 65. I’ll put my internet skills, my driving skills and my reasoning ability up against yours any fucking day of the week. I don’t know why it is that race baiting, saying “fuck you”, gay bashing, etc. is off-limits on this board, but people are free to denigrate people for managing to stay alive. You, and all the rest of you, can fucking blow me.
I saw an old woman ranting and raving at the poor secretary at the allergy doctor’s office about “socialism” and how this country was going to the devil. I wanted to scream, did you drive on the roads here? Stop at traffic lights? If your house burns, will the fire department come? Are you on medicare? SOCIALISM, BITCHES!
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But instead I just went on my way.
I beg to differ, Chefguy. We’re not (really) pitting people for just becoming old. We’re yelling at them for becoming old and thinking it’s a pass to do mean and stupid shit. Blocking the middle of the aisle, being passive aggressive because we’re in a hurry (um, I have to get back to work), continuing to insist their driving is “just fine” when it sucks (not talking about you, but I’ve seen this so many times), absolutely refusing to learn anything new because “I’m old and I don’t have to,” trying to win the exact change award when there’s 27 people in line behind them, and omg the old men ogling our boobs. I WILL POKE YOUR DAMN EYES OUT.
I refuse to give anyone respect just because they are old. They can earn it like everyone else.
Oh, and the one reason it’s permissible to yell at old people? We are all going to get old (or die). It’s not permissible to race bait partly because we never walked a mile in their shoes, but we’ll all be walking the old age mile, and the fact is, some people just handle it better.
Pro tip: if you want to put old people On Notice, the Internet is probably not the way to go. Unless you’re doing it via an e-mail forward.
Hear, hear!
However, the pit threads about annoying children in restaurants has been done several times. Let’s just move on to the “hate 98% of people” thread. the scope is broader and would encompass pretty much every pit thread ever!
Can you still get it up?
I’ve received 3 email forwards from my grandmother in the time we’ve both had emails. They were all legitimate concerns as listed on snopes and the latter two emails had the previous email addys stripped and my email address was in the BCC field. I mention this just to point out how awesome my family is compared to everyone else’s.
Do you even lift?
How about if after age 60 you just have to pass a competence test every year? Every once in a while there would be something new (can you use a debit card? Dial a cell phone? Use google?) and always a driving test. Fail and you’re euthanized.
That way we keep our Betty Whites but lose out cloud-yeller-atters.
You’ve convinced me that 60 should be the cutoff. Clearly after 60, old people lose their sense of humor and become cantankerous and irrational.
Chefguy, you should go soak in some Epsom Salts and have your prostate checked.
On edit: bups idea could work too. But even if they pass the test at 60, they still have to surrender their sedans and their nipple-high pants.
Me thinks you were just on Betty White’s Off Their Rockers.
I have no major complaints with old people, I intend to be one someday, I have chosen my grandparents well. They lived quite long.
But…WHO THE FUCK has to write a check in the super market checkout line? And record it in your check register while standing there?!?
Didn’t your bank send you a little plastic card that you can just swipe through the reader? They give you a receipt that you can enter into your little book when you get to the car or home! Paper checks are for mail only, and even that will be a thing of the past soon.
However, having said that, I find people who insist upon walking or running up escalators to be among the most annoying people on the planet. Just can’t spare that extra 30 seconds, huh?
You drive slow in the fast lane, right? 
Oh look how clever and original you are. References to prostates, high pants and old-people cars all in one post. What a fucking asshole you are. This is a pit thread, or have your cognitive skills degenerated too far to recognize that? Pit threads are for insults, so why would I take the OP or your comments as anything but insulting and assholish? Perhaps some of you could show some character, put down your fucking lattes and stop texting for ten seconds, and help out folks who seem confused or disoriented instead of mocking them. Both your lives will be better for it. Asking a lot, I know.
By the way, here’s a link I’m sure you can relate to.
Logan’s Shuffle?
Nice callback!
If you think the escalators in my area will take you up in 30 seconds, you’ve got another thing coming. I don’t care if people choose to stand, but instead of standing in the middle of the fucking thing, they should at least stand to the side to let people pass them.
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I’m a cantankerous bitch already. Still working on the old part. Not quite there yet.
Most old people do.
No. I have a muscle car and everyone gets out of my way. Or I blast past them.
But I don’t use it on the stairway.