Uprising
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 Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:24 am Post subject: Are older people friendlier than younger ones in your area? |
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Over here they're equally as annoying as the young ones sadly enough (maybe slightly less tho).
But I like to hear your stories. |
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MONKEY
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Yeah, they're more sociable and quite open with strangers.
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:26 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I live in a small town so generally our community has a lot of older people who live here. Yes, most of the adults and older people are generally nicer than the younger people. It's a kind of place when you walk down the street you smile and say hi to the person even if you don't know them. A lot of the teenagers here can be really annoying though. |
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kx250rider
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I always had friends in the 50s and 60s when I was a teen. I know people today would think that's weird, and probably think there was something dirty going on, but of course that wasn't the case at all. It's just that older people didn't judge me as being weird, which my peers did.
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sluice
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Some are, though I think some older people are leery of me. I would say little kids and animals seem to find me interesting. The rest are more generational in how they feel they should respond towards people. |
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DanRaccoon
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Depends on the gender really.
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Uprising
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| DanRaccoon wrote: | | Depends on the gender really. |
old women are more friendly to you than old men? |
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DJFester
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I would say that older people have always been more friendly towards me, than those of my own generation or younger... for the most part. Of course there are a few exceptions every now and then.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Generally the older people are much nicer to me than the younger ones are. The older people understand that there is something "different" about me, so they don't comment on my eccentric behavior, but I have been teased by children and teenagers. |
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In some ways, the adults in my neighborhood are more dramatic than a lot of people I know. One lady threatened to call the cops on us for "animal cruelty" because we got mad at her dog for being set loose to pee on everything. She said that "We don't provide adequate shelter when he is put outside" (which is not true, he has a dog house that he can stand up in, turn around in, has a memory foam pad, and a heated blanket that we turn on when it's raining), "letting him run around loose" (we all know that dogs get out sometimes), and that "we never feed him enough, because he's too skinny" (He's on a diet and he was recently weighed in at 98 lbs).
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Sam2001
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| some are some not. People tend to keep themselves and can be bit wary of others and it takes a lot of time for people to be friendly. Young people tend to be rude and inconsiderate I was on the train yesterday and 2 girls were sharing their music with the rest of the passengers on the train even though nobody asked them to. Then I went on holiday and most of the travellers there were older people and they were miserable and dour. |
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howzat
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| In my area i would say the older people are more approachable and therefore can have a nice chat. |
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Stargazer43
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| MUCH more friendly! I find that they're usually much nicer and more approachable than the people my age. Perhaps those extra few years dampened their egos a bit |
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tjr1243
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| sluice wrote: | | Some are, though I think some older people are leery of me. I would say little kids and animals seem to find me interesting. The rest are more generational in how they feel they should respond towards people. |
I have the same experience, especially with older women (there are exceptions, of course...), particularly if they are educated and of means - not as much if they are poor. People from broken backgrounds or on the social margins are far friendlier than people who are well-connected or appear to have stable lives. If I were in a bind and needed help, I would find a friendlier response from someone living under an underpass than a well-groomed person walking quickly above.
How friendly people seem is at least partially a reflection of how I come across to them, so these same people may welcome others with open arms...... |
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