Is this so they won't be missed when they die.
2007-06-17 05:38:08 · 26 answers · asked by Dreams 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
We don't have to be crabby in order not to be missed when we're gone - most everyone on Earth is quite forgettable. There's a lot of thought going on in those old brains, lots of unanswered questions, many of which don't even have answers. When the end of life is visible on the horizon and there a million regrets of missed opportunities, mistakes that have robbed the joy that we once hoped for, aches, pains, diseases, a world so different than what we once knew, plus a few little whippersnappers wondering why we're such crabby curmudgeons, all of these thing mulling around in one's thoughts ... well, go figure. Read the words of the song that Roy Clark song some years ago, "Yesterday When I was Young."
2007-06-17 06:08:30 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a senior. I act as a curmudgeon because young people seem to believe that my wishes no longer count as long as they can do what THEY want. I missed 5 hours of sleep last week because I got to hear the boom boom boom of their "music" and their loud party out in the street. Just the lack of sleep is enough to put one out of humor. When in a conversation they rudely cut me off at the pockets as if I had no value. (I have been places and have done more in my lifetime than they ever will). I guess it is the rudeness of the young that gets me down. I try not to be around them. It seems they generalize about old women. It seems that I (an old woman) am supposed to be sitting in my rocking chair knitting and watching TV never having done anything but raise children and keep house. Sorry! I do not have a rocking chair, don't know how to knit, and hate keeping house.
2007-06-17 05:55:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am not a senior, but, I give 'tude, when I get 'tude. So do they.
I have always loved being around seniors, because they have a lot of interesting stories. Look how many wars they have been through and how many presidents. Back when they were young, they were made to work, earn their keep by the sweat of their brows, and they were taught to respect; and listen to their elders.
When my elderly uncle goes to repeat a story that I have heard a few hundred times, I do not stop him. I let him finish his story, because I love him.
All that the elderly want is for the young to respect and love them; and to want them. You would not feel very well if you thought that no one in your family wanted you. And the pain,
I thought that I would be elderly before I started hurting, but hear I am with pain in my joints and feeling old. Especially when a neice or nephew that I helped raise graduates.
2007-06-19 07:58:07 · answer #3 · answered by moose 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all the time, and not to everyone.
When they do, it's because younger people -
- have and act out prejudice against them
- think and behave as though they are invisible. There have been far too many times I have seen in the mall, park - younger people just walk/rush/run/cut into into the personal space of older people, which they won't do if it were not an older person
- are impatient with older persons, who are actually physically weaker and mentally less agile, sometimes eg making choices when ordering, and younger people do not give them what they want
- ignore older persons
- have not got the patience with older persons
.........and so on and so forth. If you will just dress up in disguise as an older person for one day, you can find out what happens.
Of course, there are times when cars stop to let the elderly cross the street, there are younger people who will hold the door or give up the elevator for the elderly - they do happen too.
2007-06-19 05:51:35 · answer #4 · answered by autumnleaves 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, everyone else already answered with what I would have said.
The point I like most, is that seniors are people too and just responding to how they are being treated.
I don't know what a curmudgeon is, getting ready to look it up.
So, be nice to a senior and see what kind of response you get, or be nice to anyone for that matter and see how they respond to you.
2007-06-18 15:32:16 · answer #5 · answered by ginger 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that this question comes up at least once a week? You are just the latest in a long line of people posting it.
You shouldn't lump people together like that. People are individuals, and as individuals they all are somewhat different from each other.
That means that not all seniors are crabby. Just as not all young people are rude and insulting.
2007-06-17 08:35:16 · answer #6 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, your acquaintanceship with seniors has been very limited. OR, you bring out the worst in them when you're around them.
Like all other age groups, seniors do not tend to be crabby by nature, only by provocation. But they have learned that life's too short for indirect and circuitous conversations, and THAT can translate as impatience.
2007-06-17 06:26:58 · answer #7 · answered by suenami_98 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm crabby and curmudgeon-like, and that's cause I was born with no sense of humor. I ain't no senior, so shut up.
2007-06-17 05:44:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
i don't think all of us are crabby but we get tried of people pushing us around acting like we a 2 yr old. talking loud and ssslllooowww we are not dumb.. so that make us crabby. we hurt and we are slow moving and every one is moving fast and trying to push us along. wouldn't you get mad.. we eat slower because our teeth don't work as well and our tummie get up set if we eat too fast. then we have to take a nap our body wont go as long as someone young.. do you care do? do you try to understand? ya it makes us crabby. the more i think of it the more i get up set. think about it
2007-06-17 07:46:57 · answer #9 · answered by jackie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If your body parts were wearing out, and you were in pain most of the time, you might be crabby, too.
2007-06-17 08:05:54 · answer #10 · answered by kiwi 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋