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Originally Posted by NichePay - StuartD
Hahaha.. I'm beginning to see why metaman just posts hateful stuff for fun around here...
he finally makes a thread about compassion and respecting the elderly and all he gets are responses about how they're bad drivers.
What's the use?
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hehe, be careful you may start making me sound like a nice guy.
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Originally Posted by ronaldo
That's a nice gesture on your part and yes, sadly gestures like that seem to be few and far between.
I love going down to our ANAF here and just shooting the shit with the veterans over a couple of beers. I can't ever repay them for what they risked for our country, but you can see the appreciation THEY have when people acknowledge it, just by spending a couple of hours a week talking to them and buying them a few beers.
However, many of them look at us and DEMAND respect because they're elderly. I've never bought into the argument "Respect your elders." I respect everyone and everyone can lose my respect just as easily. Elderly or not.
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i agree with your final statements, i myself do not know any kind of elderly like that, but i do not give those types of people the time of day anyway.
it was him actually doing the nice gesture, it was sad seeing no one taking him up on it, my girlfriend and i looked at eachother and just said "why not?". i am for sure not the do gooder type who is out there to rescue everyone either. just a nice meal with an elderly gentleman.