do you try and dodge pensioners in the shopping centres?

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have you ever been in a hurry and everywhere you go there are pensioners either using walking aides or wheeling shopping trolleys and stop smack bang in front of you without warning, they jump on the buses 1st whether or not they are 1st in the queue and think they are entitled to get served before the younger generation. I am doing a survey on it and would appreciate your responses to see who feels the same way.
 
What is worse in the UK they all have free bus travel and you try and get on or even get a seat is a Miracle and you are paying and have to get to work.
 
What we have got down to a fine art is overtaking you at 50mph then dropping down to 12mph. You see a lot of us old crippled pensioners cant afford a TV so we use our rear view mirrors for entertainment.The pensioners in your town are just amateurs wait till you meet us real shopping centre trolley aces.
 
I don't belive your doing a survey, and I don't belive you've had much experience of the issues you mention. I have seen pensioners do the things you've mentioned,but in equal proportion I 've also people of the younger generation being just as thoughtless.
As for those ctitising the pensioners,your parents and grandparents must be really proud of you
 
Perhaps it slipped your mind, that many of these "Dodger able", and honest hard working people also have lives. Many of them living and dying through two World-Wars my young friend.
 
Yes, they are a nuisance and they always repeat the last three words that you say, that you say.
 
I work in a big shopping center and yes I do see older people walking slowly or with canes, service dogs, electric carts. By far the most dangerous people in the store are those with small children who allow their kids to push the carts, flat out running in the store, pulling down all sorts of product and leaving it lying in the aisles, throwing such tantrums that a person's eardrums are in danger, and 1 little boy who was so mad at his folks that he was spitting at everyone who came anywhere near. I have never seen an older person crowd up in a line, they seem to all have very good manners. Sorry I do not agree with your point in the survey
 
I work in a big shopping center and yes I do see older people walking slowly or with canes, service dogs, electric carts. By far the most dangerous people in the store are those with small children who allow their kids to push the carts, flat out running in the store, pulling down all sorts of product and leaving it lying in the aisles, throwing such tantrums that a person's eardrums are in danger, and 1 little boy who was so mad at his folks that he was spitting at everyone who came anywhere near. I have never seen an older person crowd up in a line, they seem to all have very good manners. Sorry I do not agree with your point in the survey
 
That really does sum up the state of the world. It wasn't many years ago when people older than us were treated with respect, and looked up to for worldly advice.

But now, it's just a 'get out of my way old person, I'm in a hurry, and you are just waiting to die' attitude.

If an elderly wants to queue jump, take my seat on a bus, or ask for my help crossing the road, I'll willingly help them.

One day I'll be that elderly person, and I'll just hit every ignorant youngster with my walking stick!
 
I am a pensioner. I used to have a car but a stupid YOUNG woman on a mobile phone ran into the back of me whilst I was turning right. She wrote off my car and very nearly killed me. I use my bus pass now, which isn't valid until 9-30am in the morning, so I am not stopping anyone getting to work. I also remember the days when children and young people stood up for pensioners and gave them their seat. If you are lucky, you will live long enough to be a pensioner and then when you read such rubbish as this, you will just feel despair.
 
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Why is it when a "pensioner" pushes ahead is it rude but when a snot nosed brat does it is justified.
Just making themselves known and not forgotten. Maybe the person in front of them was to busy on the cell phone or texting to care about being polite and thought everyone should wait for them to finish their important conversation?
Our time is as important if not more than anyone elses.
People tend to treat others as they are treated.
Walkers rise up!
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Dont you just hate it when early in the morning you go to Tesco to do some shopping before work and the 'old dear' behind asks if you would mind if she went first. Well yes actually I do, I have a job to go to and you have all day to do your shopping, so why are you in here at 8am - I rest my case!!!
 
So what do you suggest to improve that situation? Should we just go on and shoot all the old people so that you won't be in any way inconvenienced? Try taking a different route where only people who are young and fit and always perfectly polite, travel.
 
No I don't dodge them because one of them will some day be me but what annoys me is small children running rampant through the store not only is this putting them in harms' way but me also because I may not see them running & might hit one with the cart or a perv could be on the loose & grab one
 
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