Show old people some respect

chris

In the last few years I have had far more problems with young women with baby buggies than I have older people with trollies.

Some of them expect to wheel monster buggies along the pavement and in shops, two abreast, never deviating from a straight line and think everyone else should jump out of their way or get hurt.

What is with some of these super- sized tanks they put tiny little children in these days? Send ten of those to Iraq and the war would be over in a week.

lol, Gainsborough lad, shopping trollys?

Only person to ever assult me with a shopping trolly or anywhere in shops for that matter have been the elderly. You know what it's like in supermarkets with 3 people at the front of a trolley rolling road stopping at the same time and blocking everyone off to choose which loaf of bread to buy. I had to stop because of a trolley blockage and found myself being rammed repeatedly by an elderly man and elderly woman both pulling the trolly back and then launching it into me.

My ankles were actually bruised the next day. After I politely told them I couldn't move anywhere because no one else was. They rammed me again when I looked to my front again. This time I pulled the trolley toward me with both of them still clinging on, bought them to within a foot or so of my face and told them to turn around and use another isle. I then got told to move out of their way and so I forcefully pushed their trolly around to face the other way and told them to grow up.

Any person no matter the age, skin colour, sex or disability will have common courtisy and respect from me unless I'm given reasons or cause not to.

Some of the most scheming, nasty, ill tempered people I know all have an age above that of 80.

I really see your point. I am a child in the sixth grade and love my grandparents. I hate it when I see people just having no respect at all. I'm like, ok, they are humans, like us, but have a little respect! They're older than you! I think it is very rude how you are being treated. It's not right.
Angel.

I think the posters who keep banging on about old people having to earn respect are the kind of rude and selfish people who want an excuse for not putting themselves out by showing consideration to those who need it. Look at how offensive "Paul Squire" was to Nikki just because she had a different opinion.

We all have a different thing in mind when we talk about "respect" so maybe we should be talking about older people who may be frail deserving some kindness and consideration.

I work in an area where recently a lot of paedophiles have "disappeared" from the offenders register. Many of these have been out of prison for many years and many are elderly now. This is currently in the news.

Nikki, if you have or plan to have children, would you feel happy opening your door (or any door)to one of these gentleman. They will seem like the nicest old men to you and will definitely be kind to your child...

I completely agree with Congo, respect should be earned and not insisted upon regardless of age, race, religion, creed or any other factor.

With them being older, they are not in as much of a position to bite back if faced with any sort of confrontation, ie.. shopping trolly, carpark space, or turn to be served at the bar,

I think a blind eye should be shown sometimes if some of them get a bit annoying, but if it is persistant from them, then it is ok to have a go back at them in my book.

Why on earth just because someones old should they get respect? thats really stupid, the Queenmother was over 100 when she died and I had more respect for a stray dog than I did for that Yellow toothed piss smelling interbred german parasite.

BTW Nikki does that mean you have respect for rapists, murderers and child abusers? because lots of them are old......Stupid Cow

Oh dear, I'm off for a cup of tea nicci 247. The wit of your response is simply too dazzling!

miserablemoaninggit;'A simple repeat of your argument will not lend it any additional validity.'
I presume that you think yours does ?

'I withdraw from this exchange' I seem to recall, Congo, are the words you last uttered in your posting before last, after our mutual 'personal attack' postings. I'm sure you are as tired with this debate as I. A simple repeat of your argument will not lend it any additional validity. Oh well . . . . I withdraw from this exchange, or maybe not!

What a shame, I thought this had been settled but I am once again drawn into this debate.

Simply put, one cannot possibly earn respect because one has managed to survive for a given number of years.

It is axiomatic that civilised people should afford courtesy and consideration to all until circumstances dictate otherwise however respect, and let there be no doubt about the precise definition of the word - 'respect' - must be earned by conscious action and deed, not by existence.

With the exception of the Kray's - if I am right, then at least 1 of them is dead ... I will automatically give respect to ANY old person. Do you not open a door for an old person? Or if you see them struggling, try and help them? This is just common decency. But it goes further ... frankly, if someone has lived to a grand old age, then yes, they have EARNED respect ... just by the very fact that they have reached 90, or whatever grand old age they have reached. I knew a lovely old man who died at the age of 99. He was a grumpy old curmudgeon, but he had my uttermost respect, because he was OLD. HE had lived through THREE wars - the Boer War, the first and the second world war, he was fascinating, he was the most interesting human being I have ever met. And he had, and still has, my uttermost respect.