You Know You Are Old When

[Alan46]

I’ve always been like that!
Funny thing happened the other day. I took the stairs to my Doctors office, there was an older couple behind me so when I got to the office door I held the door for them and they got in line first, I thought that was rude!

 

[MossRoad]

I’ve always been like that!
Funny thing happened the other day. I took the stairs to my Doctors office, there was an older couple behind me so when I got to the office door I held the door for them and they got in line first, I thought that was rude!

Should have kicked their canes!

 

[not2old]

I saw this on a news feed today....
You are old when you get mad when they rearrange the grocery store shelves.

I've had that reaction longer than I can remember.

 

[Jstpssng]

Why do some people have a problem with simple courtesies?

Feminists hate it when a man does something for them. Not speculation, I have talked to a few about it. -

 

[BravoXray]

Why do some people have a problem with simple courtesies?

Because they are petty, nosey, jackasses.

 

[ultrarunner]

Feminists hate it when a man does something for them. Not speculation, I have talked to a few about it. -

It must be hard to carry and maintain that feeling through life.

Working at a hospital the women out number the men by a large margin but we generally have a very cohesive workforce…

 

[sixdogs]

Why do some people have a problem with simple courtesies?

I view it as mowing with a zero turn mower. When you're heading for an immovable object, like a tree, you just make a circle around the tree to the other side and keep going as though nothing was there.

I don't let these losers bother me, nothing will convince them otherwise and I don't want to anyway. I just want to keep doing the things I want to do and go bother someone else.

 

[Semper Paratus]

Forty something years ago I was a young 4/C Cadet at a Military Academy. I was heading into am English literature class and I arrived at the building door about the same time as a middle aged professionally dressed woman. I held the door for her and got a lecture about being a sexist pig. When the lecture started I tried to say a word or two and was shut down so I said excuse me and walked off to find my class. Low and behold who do you think my instructor turned out to be? The very feminazi that lectured me on holding a door for a lady. I passed the course but it was an uncomfortable semester.

 

[ultrarunner]

My early mornings at the front desk catching up on reports and directing patients are well received.

Maybe because it’s when many are feeling most vulnerable with pending surgery.

Some with wheelchairs, crutches, canes, etc. and I have no problem holding doors and pulling out a chair…

It’s been very rare but some patients in Burka wardrobe feel uneasy about receiving courtesies…

By far pronoun use is the current minefield.

 

[WinterDeere]

By far pronoun use is the current minefield.

Just start calling everyone "sir". That'll shut 'em up.