Old woman trashed me today

[East Street Trader]

You handled the thing very well, Pekka.

You are right to be hesitant to correct your elders. That is mostly very unattractive in the young.

But bad manners are bad manners whatever the age of the person concerned. And this woman's manners were certainly bad.

I doubt anyone thought you acted like a punk. Your rebuke was not at all excessive. The other people in the queue will have been glad for someone to have spoken up.

When an older person delivers a reproof to a child it is with the hope that the child will learn better. I don't know whether this particular wrinkly is still capable of learning. But at least you gave her the chance.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Dude you were such a wuss. A real man would have kneed her in the ovaries and then kicked her out into traffic with a well planted boot to the forehead while she was doubled over in geriatric pain.

...

Yeah, right.

You were good, man. With somebody like that who just thinks that the world owes them, there's really nothing you can do. Actually, you would have shown tremendous dignity by just letting her have her way - it's clear to everybody that she's at fault, not you.

Good that you managed to get a little dig in edgeways, though - let her know that she's not quite the self appointed martyr that her ego makes her think she is!

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Dude you were such a wuss. A real man would have kneed her in the ovaries and then kicked her out into traffic with a well planted boot to the forehead while she was doubled over in geriatric pain.

Even better than what I said.

[Japher]

Should of put the moves on her Pekka, smuther her with kindness. That ussually pesses old ppl off even more since they are always too busy being cranky. Maybe could of got something out of it is she was lonely

[child of Thor]

Your were totaly in the right Pekka , so dont feel bad, feel sorry for her - she's lived her whole life and has learnt nothing!

I guess its easy to forget that just becasue someone is old doesnt mean they weren't a young assh*le as well.

I'm kinda half surprised you didnt just 'martial arts' her

[Pekka]

Japher, N-A-S-T-Y! I thought this would be something Dissident is interested of.. he's always hitting everyone

[Pekka]

YEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! I can feel all the acceptance..

'I am a real finnish man,
fight for the rights of every man!
I am a real finnish man
fight for what's right, fight for your lifeeeeee!!!

Well I feel stronger 'bout right and wrong
And I don't take trouble for very long
I've got something deep inside of me
courage is the thing that keeps us free!!

I am a real finnish man
fight for the rights of every man!
I am a real finnish man
fight for what's right, fight for your life!

When it comes crashin' down and it hurts inside
You've gotta take a stand, it don't help to hide
If you hurt my friends you hurt my pride
I gotta be a man, I can't let it slide!'

YEAAAH! *flexing muscles*

USA! USA!

[Bereta_Eder]

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[Alinestra Covelia]

Well that's better than hitting on everyone, especially somebody four times your age.

[Pekka]

four times? I'm 23.. that's less than 3 times. But I wasn't even thinking of that.. it was that pervert that goes by the name of Japher..

[Japher]

Attacking an old person is a lose-lose situation.

A) You win and are deemed a meaning and a bully
B) You lose, and are tormented for the rest of your days for being a weakling.

[Japher]

that pervert that goes by the name of Japher..

[MrFun]

He's not a pervert -- he's a married pervert.

[Pekka]

No no I didn't striking with hitting.. I meant hitting as in sexually harassing..

[Boris Godunov]

Way to go!

I can't tell you how many times I've seen old people being incredibly rude and selfish in this manner, as if they were entitled to everything. I am always hesitant, however, since it's been ingrained in all of us: "RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!"

Well, you're not obligated to respect anyone who doesn't act respectfully to you. Elders lose any "entitlement" the second they start behaving that way. I have no problem giving my seat on the train to an elderly person, unless they start out acting obnoxiously.

Of course, living in NYC has made me more...direct. I can see why people stereotype NYers as rude, but really it's conditioning based on having to put up with crap like you did on a more consistent basis, given the sheer numbers that surround you every day. You lose patience with twits.

My own story (not old people, but still...):

I was in the East Village one wintry night last year, and was trying to catch a cab with a friend to go uptown. It was around midnight, when cabs are hard to get due to the shift change. We'd been trying for about 10 minutes when a trio of rather skankily-dressed women (they reeked of New Jersey) appeared trying to get a cab as well. Sure enough, a minute later a free cab pulled up towards the curb...and the women raced to it.

I was pretty irked, so I went up and said, "Hey, we've been standing here for ten minutes, long before you were, so this cab is ours."

The women didn't stop getting in, and one said essentially "**** you, pal, we got to the cab first, so tough ****." My friend started arguing with her as she got in the cab, and she rolled down the window to continue hurling obscenities and insults.

I just walked over to a nearby trashcan, picked up an armful of garbage covered in dirty snow, and as the cab drove past, hurled the garbage into the open window, right on top of the girl and her friends.

Ah, I can still hear the screams of disgust from those rude *****es as the cab went off into the distance...