[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Niall

I think old people can be ridiculously rude. I was going to an exam today and i was standing on the bus and two old women decided to come and stand next to me (we were all standing in the wheelchair spot) and one of them decided to start harping on about how young people are rude and how we don't move out of the way for others on the bus. So I moved across the bus and she shut up. I just stared at her but I felt like grabbing her, opening the doors on the buss, and hurling her wrinkly ass out.

There are indeed (as Vicky encountered), older people who will go out of their way to do what you experienced.

The flip side is though: given that the older woman had to verbalise her thoughts to someone else on the bus, BEFORE you and your friends moved along out of the 'wheelchair space' and moved across the bus ...... it 'could' have been perceived that she shouldn't have needed to say anything, that you and your friends 'could have' moved across as more people were coming onto the bus - thus not giving her the need to moan.

I am not saying for one second you were wrong - there are miserable old sods out there, just as there are impudent young ones..... all I'm saying is sometimes we need to consider: there are sometimes (sometimes...not always) 3 sides to a story... his side, her side, and what really happened.