Do you like old people?

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Kinda random, but ....

To me, they're just people. But I guess the cool thing about old people is they're not quite so arrogant, though the uncool thing is they're often old fashioned and conservative.

Also, do you have a close relationship with your grandparents?

I like old people because they provide a link to the past, a past that I was never a part of that I would have no first hand knowledge of. They are also sometimes too old to have the energy to argue. However, many old people, like my grandparents, think they know it all by virtue of having seen it all. Us young kids think we know everything (translation: How can you disagree with me since I'm old and you aren't?) Age rank always pisses me off since I rarely listen to arguments from authority, as it never holds weight by itself.

All of my grandparents were passed before I was born. I like the fact that 'older people' are "old fashioned and conservative". I wish more people of today had the respect of the majority of our senior citizens. I enjoy their kindness and patients that you don't see in younger folk. There is so much they can teach us... we just don't have the time (with all our tech gadgets) to listen and learn.

I AM old people. And I do know more than you young whippersnappers because I've wised up over the years.

I like old people out of the context of a retail environment. Some of them like to go into public to find things to complain about.

I do like having a meal with them and hearing their views. They provide a link to the past and their views are representative of what they were exposed to throughout their lives. We can better understand how the world has changed by listening to their anecdotes.

Unfortunately all but one of my grandparents passed away by the time I was 7 so I didn't really get to know them as more than old people who gave me candy. My one grandmother lived a mile down the road from me so I was fairly close to her. I remember when she made pizza she would cut it with scissors.

Depends on the person. I hate the ones that have the attitude that they're better than you because they're old, but the ones who don't have that attitude can be very friendly, interesting people.

old people irritate me. i work in a convenience store, they seem to pick the busiest time to come in and ask a million questions, then buy scratch tickets and stand at the counter to scratch them, thus holding up the line.

then i see them out in public, they pick an aisle at the grocery store and....move.....so......fricken.....slow.... my goal at the grocery store is to be in and out in ten minutes, including check out time (i hate groc. shopping)

aarrrrggghhhh! they make me mad, my grndmother included.

^ They come from a time when a person held actual conversations with other physical people, not shoot acronyms over cyberspace to a long-time best friend they've never actually seen in person.

They move slowly because their body is worn out, yours will be too someday, so appreciate it now while it still works.

I feel for your grandmother.

Old people annoy me in the sense that they believe because they are old, all the time gives them sudden respect. Old or young, respect is earned. Just cause you're older than me and have seen WW, you do not deserve my respect until you earn my respect.

I also don't like old people because I don't like people in general. If I don't normally talk to people, why would I talk to an old person? I prefer to sit in cyberspace or play video games.

I've thought about this and it's an empathy thing, for me. Especially when they reach the age when their families begin cutting them out of the decision-making process. I used to be an advocate for the elderly. I guess I've always been an advocate for those who are "pushed" against their will and for whom no one else is speaking up. I'm fierce. ROFL!! Not as fierce as I used to be, though. For the most part, I have come to believe that people are just doing the best they can. Even the "pushers" and the bullies.

But seriously, for me, old people are one of the two extremes. Some are easy to get along with and very kind, some are just chronically pissed off. Of course, this is just my generalization.

I never got an opportunity to meet any of my grandparents, so I can't answer the second question.

Wisdom comes with experience, but it can come from the experiences of others, meaning smart people look to those with more experiences to learn how to avoid mistakes, traumas and tragedy.

Those who ignore the value of this opportunity to learn from the experiences of their elders are arrogant, foolish and tend to destroy much of what's handed down to them out of blind stupidity. When you find yourself surrounded by idiots who won't listen when you tell them to look both ways before crossing the street, and who trash everything you've spent most of your life trying to build for them, its difficult not to be chronically pissed off.

Some of these comments amuse me, others exasperate. Such as feeling impatience for elderly customers because they move so slowly. I suffer from fibromyalgia, and believe me it can make you move slowly because you are in so much pain, old or not. And, I used to get annoyed with slow moving elderly people in grocery lines, until I began to suffer from pain issues in my thirties. Also, it must suck to not be able to move as fast as you remember being able to do, and to know that there is not a damned thing you can do about it.

Ditto for diminished visual acuity. I am not old yet, but I have suffered from an eye disorder that has given me some vision challenges. I used to work with elderly people when I was in health care. It got really depressing sometimes, but a lot of these people had great stories to tell from their younger days.

As for my own grandparents, my maternal grandmother died when I was nine years old. My paternal grandmother was a nutter. And, I never knew either of my grandfathers.

The comments about old people always complaining or having a poor attitude, could apply to any age.

Depends on the old person. But in general, yes, more often on average than young people. I guess they tend to be more mature, and the generation gap means that they're prepared to communicate with someone unlike themselves when they see I'm in my twenties. Also, they've lived decades more than I have and have usually seen and done interesting things, so I can pick their brains about what it's like to, say, be a bus driver or an elementary school teacher or to have lived through the sixties.

And this is why I am not fond of them.

I didn't have a close relationship with my grandparents - my grandpa was very, very withdrawn and when he died, it was like NOTHING changed with his death, while gran, though being the opposite of him in this respect, was very simple-minded and it was the reason for which our relationship, although superficially really very good, wasn't close - we just didn't have much to do with each other. We talked about common things but due to her being so uneducated, in our conversations we never raised any issues more complicated than my school marks and gossip concerning our relatives and inhabitants of her village.

I am old people. too. But I can remember how exasperating old people seemed because of their total lack of interest in new ideas and new trends. Now I realize that in the liftime of an old person, those "new" things, or something very like them, have cycled in and out of fashion several times and their inner reaction to the hot new item is, "What, YOU again?" So they are focused on more permanent, and yes, boring, things. They can't help but seem a little stuffy.

I knew all four of my grandparents: two were nice and two were not, or so it seemed at the time. In the long run, however, it seems I've taken away more from the not-nice ones, who somehow instilled in me the practical rules for living my parents and my other grandparents lacked.