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Do you feel that elderly people often disrespect your personal space?
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I often get an impression that elderly people I see randomly on the street, gym, queues, etc are more inclined to stand too close to me, touch me despite of being total strangers, or just stop and stare.

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TerryVie
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
Stop complaining, you young whippersnapper!
In MY time, this would never have happened.
Everything was better back then!
For example in Spring 1950, it was a cold spring, and i mean colder than you people even know today, when...
(*** cut off because we care for the sanity of our readers,
TheManagement ***)
...and THATS why Buddha didn't like the smell of dead horses but considered starfish cute.
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Captain_Kegstand
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
@: TerryVie
While walking uphill to school (both ways) and beating a bear off with a spiral bound notebook.
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NeuroNeptunian
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
I agree, but I don't hold them in contempt for it. I subscribe to the doctrine that the elderly are to be respected and not argued with or complained against (in a non-criminal situation). I know a lot of people would disagree with my mentality towards the elderly (Western society is not as into the idea of revering the elderly because we all just have to be right, y'know?), but it's how I feel. They grew up in a different world than I, and to them, I am probably just as strange.
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dirtybirdy
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
Dude, they are old. They probably can't see too well or hear much or even smell you. Maybe they need to be that close so they don't feel like they are going to fall over. Maybe they are picking your pocket or wiping boogers on you. I love old people :)
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dappled
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
No, but they smell differently. I don't mean in a bad way. I just mean they smell of things like Old Spice (which is weird because I've recently seen them trying to rebrand it as a young man thing).
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Captain_Kegstand
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
@: dappled
I have a friend that uses old spice, and brute after shave. I was unaware that stuff was still made! He smells like such an old man!
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dappled
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
@: Captain_Kegstand
Oh God, Brut! That's the other one for old men. My mum said that when she was 21, a fifty-something year old colleague used to wear it. This is a man who is thirty years older than my own mother.... says it all, really!
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Captain_Kegstand
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
@: dappled
And he wonders why he isn't so smooth with the ladies, but gets friend zoned by all of them. It's because you smell like their grandfathers dude!
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Jessie735513
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
Maybe it's because old people can't see or hear as well as they used to?
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FrancoisDillinger
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
i'm assuming you're a woman. Probably very attractive.
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Avant-Garde
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
I don't think I've ever had that happen to me.
It depends on how they're acting. They could just be acting like old people or they could be trying to "flirt" with you. They grew up in much different times so, maybe they still live by the old ways.

I can't help but note that the extremely old ones often smell strange. The odor is often a mixture of urine, mushy food, dying/decay. :/
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BurnaBaby27
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
Hell yeah. They've touched my son, they've touched my hair, my hands, my legs, shoulders, even my feet as I was trying on a pair of shoes, all without permission. I don't know them but I guess because they're old they feel they have the liberty to do whatever they please. Doesn't bother me much, I just wish I knew if their hands were clean o_O.
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myboyfriendsbitch
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
My friend's grandma opened the door while I was in the bathroom a couple times and just stared at me a couple seconds and went about her business.Old people think they can get away with anything!
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VioletTrees
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
I think it's either a senility thing or a cultural difference, since culture changes over time.
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Francophile22
9 months ago | pl
I get quite the opposite - that skateboarding teens at the mall pass by too close and yell into my ear as they are on their cell phones.
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