Thread: There are some mannered poeple out there, but they seem to be the older generation

No ofcourse not, just able bodied young people who have years of standing left in their legs.

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.

They don't see you ... .they are usually off in there own world looking at phones. They do move around you if you walk along with the same attitude as them ............... I don't have a problem ......... No-one wants to walk into someone as ugly as me

Don't loose hope, there is some nice kids out there .... its just an age where people tend to be slightly self obsessed Give them a few years.

seeya,
Shane L.