Originally Posted by
Roverlord off road spares
I noticed there are some kind people out there that offer to assist , but i notice it's seems to be older people not the younger ones.
I was down at the lacal supermarket today, at the checkout line a lady and her daughter saw that I had a walking stick in one hand and a shopping basket in the other, She bea me to the line, but looked at me and offered her place so I could go first. After I unloaded my groceries on the counter the dame lady took by empty shopping basket and put it away for me.
If I am in a supermarket aisle and and drop my walking stick, a few seconds later before I get a chance to bend down to pick it up, some one has it to hand it back to me. Again it's older people.
I hobble along with my stick and find approaching young people usually high school students and mainly girls will walk in groups of 3 abreast, they will walk towards you and stand there ground and it is me that must detour around them, totally opposite when this happens with older people, they see you have a stick and will walk around you.
Recently I was hobbling along with my stick on a narrow foot path on the way to a a pathology, 2 high school student ( girls) approaching me walked side by side, they would not budge, and one move behind the other v so we could pass, I had to walk in the gutter kerb to pass . It never bothered me before, it is an observation I find more and more each day in my life as an older pedestrian with an affliction who must be a nuisance to the younger generation.
