Old people nagging.

Oh yes.:( I hope I won't be like that when I am old.

I am not a spring chicken. But,I prefer to teach good manners by setting a good example. If the younger people do not get it, that's their problem. Nagging takes us nowhere. Do not blame foul attitude on age. It all depends on the individual.

I also should have said that older people do have more experience of life, but when younger, it's impossible to realise it until we all get older ourselves. The gift of hindsight is a brilliant one. I don't profess to know everything...far from it, as I find the world more confusing as I age, but I definitely know a lot more than I did when I was say aged 17, 20, 30 etc.

I'm not in my 60s yet, but don't have long to go before I'm there. I always, when younger, promised myself that I'd never criticise youth when I got older, but sadly I'm now in a position where a lot of what I see around me causes me and my generation a lot of distress, plus it must be remembered that people from my own generation were pretty wild when young themselves. I'm not saying all young people are like this or tarring them with the same brush, but I see so much that is loud, ugly, noisy, disrespectful and wasteful. My own generation, as said, were pretty wild but we never lost respect for others. I'm by no means suggesting you personally are ill-behaved as I'm sure you're fine otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here as a member of MyLot...just that I'm explaining, I suppose, how I and a lot of other people of my age and older feel in the world - we feel uncared for, disrespected, fearful and insecure much of the time. We don't want to feel like this, as we want to get on with younger people.

I am of the opinion that a lot of old people tend to struggle with the fact that times are changing, and they just can't seem to keep up with them. They also think that just because they have been on the planet for the longest amount of time, they have the right to say that they're better than the younger people. I have seen elderly people on a bus fighting for a seat with a young woman who had been there for the full journey so far. I can understand when they are disabled, but there was nothing wrong with them so I don't think that age can be the only thing that you go off when thinking about who is in the right or wrong.

Yes I do but not all the time. I'm with my grandparents and I usually encounter such temper tantrums. Hehe. Before I used to mumble and attempt to defend myself but I realized that it's normal for old people to act that way for the are easily irritated. And also I'm a nurse so no matter how mad I am if they ever nagged at me it's my responsibility to just understand them. We should always have respect for our elders. shadow41