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I must agree with this fireman.....I work as a auxhillary nurse with the elderly and I do think that they lose all manners that they most certainly had when they were younger.
It was only the other day that I was working with one elderly residant and I was stood outside her door disgusing something with the nurse-in-charge. The lady came out of her room and said to me '' what time do you call this you was supposed to get me dressed hours ago'' I explained to the lady that she was quite able to go and dress herself (promoting independance and all) she then said '' I hire you to dress me, now come and get my clothes and get me dressed''.
I was gobsmacked to say the least and a while later as I was thinking about I thought ''god I hope I dont lose my manners and blame it on BEING ABLE TO BECAUSE I AM OLD''.

Elderly people stood at busstops tickle me, you hear them saying things like ''KIDS nowadays they have no manners, we would have got a clip round the ear'ol''. Thinking about it I know we get some BAD kids these days but me at 25years old I do think I have more manners and respect for people than some of the elderly do.
Also the other thing that makes me laugh is the FIGHTING that goes on between elderly people. Some of the worse punches I have seen have been between two little elderly woman at work. So yes I do think that they can be rather rude and bad mannered at times.