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"Old people - gawd bless 'em"

I've had a bit of a day with the old dears. I get a bus to work everyday and if I'm being lazy I don't go in to 9.30. This avoids the schoolkids on the buses but then you run into the pensionser - 9.30 being the time free bus permits are valid.
So anyway there are two horrible old crows that get on the bus everyday at 9.30 at the same stop as me. Today the bus arrived, there was no queue and the two old crows were rummaging around their numerous carrier bags searching for their bus passes which inevitabely are bound up in 92 furter plastic bags, string and elastic bands.
So I hopped on the bus. Old crow number one shouts out "If you don't want to queue get a f****ng cab". I'm obviously deeply upset that I've never thought of this classic line before but talk about slightly out of order. There was no queue, no one on the bus and they had 20 minutes to unwrap their bus passes before the bus arrived.
So get onto the bus and the two apple cheeked old dears sit in front of me. They start their usual racist/homophobic diatirbe. The final straw comes when a young guy with Cerebal Palsy gets on the bus. Cerebal Palsy is often characterised by a slight "spasticity" of the limbs - hence the offence term "spastic" people so enjoy. Queue old dears, shouting the term, pointing and generally having a go that he hadn't sprinted onto the bus.
This was the stage when I began to loose the plot. I guess that there is the myth that age mellows people. That you get older and wiser. This clearly hadn't happened for them. They got older, more bitter and more nasty. The irony was that their chief complaint was lack of respect from the "young".
I'd like to say I delivered a killer line when I got off the bus. I didn't. I muttered something incoherent at them about being "vicious old fools who were proably young fools" at some stage.
Guess I'll have to change my route to work.

Mr Nice Guy wrote:

Most have learn't from their mistakes in life
> and that is why they are the people they are they are the 'image' of an old
> person. But not such a while ago on channel 4 it had about OAP's who still
> steal, mug, commite crimes and nothing seems to bother them.

Just think of the Irn Bru Ad!

Pah, they normally shout at me for playing football near their car, and Im not even near their bleedin' car!

Goatboy wrote:
> Kitty wrote:
As for
> feeling sorry for Mr Hawkings it was him that jacked
> his loving and faithful
> wife for the nurse as far as I recalled.


I
> know, the mind boggles.
I'm sure he's a nice guy but...y'know?

I imagine being severley limited in terms of mobility will restrict your possibilities for infidelity. Which reminds me of a friend who though fully able to get out and about only ever pulls his flatmates. Considering he lives in a huge squat there is plenty of potential. But hey playing too close to home and all that.

Kitty wrote:
As for
> feeling sorry for Mr Hawkings it was him that jacked his loving and faithful
> wife for the nurse as far as I recalled.


I know, the mind boggles.
I'm sure he's a nice guy but...y'know?

Mr Nice Guy wrote:
> Your never too young Kitty :)

I don't have a lot more to say on this, I was
> just a bit surprised that no one else took any notice of it. Maybe it's because
> of the colour of your tag or not many people know you. What that does you see,
> on these forums, it means that they'll 'Read it later' when seeing your name but
> if someone like Tony or Grix did a post then everyone would automatically read
> it. Sad but true case. That is why most of my posts go unoticed even if they
> do win a film or game.

As long as I get one intelligent response to a post I'm happy. Que sera sera and all that.

Goatboy wrote:
> Kitty wrote:
Funny, witty, smart, kind. If only I was 50 years
>
> older.

Nice, but I'm surprised at you for propogating the female myth of that
> stuff mattering.
Or, if that is the case, how come Brad Pitt marries Jennifer
> Aniston whilst Stephen Hawkings get his nurse?

Ye Gods Goatboy it was a gag. A thow a way line. A joke. As for feeling sorry for Mr Hawkings it was him that jacked his loving and faithful wife for the nurse as far as I recalled.

Kitty wrote:
Funny, witty, smart, kind. If only I was 50 years
> older.

Nice, but I'm surprised at you for propogating the female myth of that stuff mattering.
Or, if that is the case, how come Brad Pitt marries Jennifer Aniston whilst Stephen Hawkings get his nurse?

Your never too young Kitty :)

I don't have a lot more to say on this, I was just a bit surprised that no one else took any notice of it. Maybe it's because of the colour of your tag or not many people know you. What that does you see, on these forums, it means that they'll 'Read it later' when seeing your name but if someone like Tony or Grix did a post then everyone would automatically read it. Sad but true case. That is why most of my posts go unoticed even if they do win a film or game.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Yeah I just thought it was ironic that they were complaining about badly behaved young people when they were so vile themselves. They obviously felt that age automatically gave them respect. I suppose the moral of the tale is that nasty young people probably grow into nasty old people.
Having said all that I do know some fantastic old people. I work with the elderly (occassionally) and have a couple of top old boys. Funny, witty, smart, kind. If only I was 50 years older.