Respect the Elderly! Or At Least Don’t Laugh And Point
Even though this happened nearly 24 hours ago, I am still so pissed off I am shaking.
My grandfather is a very sweet old man. He’s at the point in his life where he is very childlike in some ways (like zooming away with the shopping trolley, pretending to hit cars), and he doesn’t get to go out very often. His days are spent taking care of my grandmother, and filling in the time until my grandmother needs help. His world revolves around her, and it’s not a new thing - when he was much younger, he called my grandmother back from her holiday because he couldn’t bear to be apart from her.
He only goes out twice a week, both times to go to the supermarket and get what he and Nana needs. On Tuesdays he goes by himself; on Fridays my mother comes along. Whenever I don’t have classes, I come along and help the two of them. Grandad enjoys going out to the shops because it’s a chance to interact with other people. The people at the supermarket all know him well now, and always stop to talk to him and such. Occassionally other shoppers talk to him as well, and I’ve received a lot of kind words from people, saying how nice it is that I am taking care of my grandfather so well and spending time with him.
It is not these people I am angry with.
Yesterday, on one of my rare Fridays off, I went with Mum and Grandad to the supermarket, happy to see my Nana and Grandad. However, because of my Grandad being like a child and getting into everything/wandering off, I have to keep watch on him. When he wandered off at one point I called after him: “Grandad”.
And that’s when I heard it. Snickers and someone mimicking my call to my Grandad. I looked back to see two workers (both male, and in their late teens, early twenties) peering around corners and snickering to each other about my Grandad and me. When I spoke to Grandad again, I heard more mimicking and laughing. They watched us for a while, and snickered when I glared at them.
What the hell makes it okay to laugh at customers like that? Heck, what makes it okay to laugh at anyone like that? Would they like it if they were in my place and I laughed at them? Of course not. My Grandad is a sweet old man, and it would really hurt him to know that people were laughing at him like that (thankfully he was out of range and is losing his hearing - I never thought I would be grateful for the latter).
I hate people sometimes. I hope life comes back and bites them in the ass.
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Omg! I can’t believe that. I hate when things like that happen. You really should have had the last laugh and gone back and complained. Even if they didn’t have a name tag you should have described them if not when your Grandad was there then have gone back and done it. Behaviour like that really pisses me off. If theres one thing I hate its people who do not respect the elderly.
Seriously, write a strongly worded letter of complaint to the store describing the employees. That will teach the tossers!
I don’t know what’s wrong with people nowadays but it seems they’ve lost all kind of gentleness, respect and compassion.
Why do people laugh at other people, specially people who aren’t at the same level (elderly, handicapped, fat people) ?
Bloody idiots if you excuse my language, but I can’t stand that. I would have gone and faced them in the face telling them how idiots they were and I would have filed a complain.
I do hope life comes back and bite them in the ass so they learn no one is better than anyone. I am so pissed cause I experience this often too.
Ugh. This was such a sad story. People can be so awful to elderly people. I don’t understand it at all. I would have told those boys to F*** off. You should call the manager and complain.
I have tremendous respect for my grandfather and if some teenage toss pots dared to laugh at him I’d have to hold myself back from nutting them since I wouldn’t beat someone up in front of my grandad. I agree that you should write a letter of complaint. If not just go back to the store and pretend to be a fickle customer so you can give them hell.
Just reading that made me mad, too. I can’t believe anyone could have the nerd to disrespect someone like that!
That is just cruel! I don’t understand why people would be so cruel to seniors, it’s utterly disgusting. You should tell the store manager about the incident, that’ll teach them to make fun of elders, or any customers actually, in the future.