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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2301438" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Sad to say it but I suspect you're right. The most memorably offensive, inconsiderate, straight up selfish and rude things I've personally witnessed have been perpetrated by well off middle aged "important" (or self-important) people that assume you'll do what they say and also that no one can tell them what to do - and these types are also the ones blaming kids for everything and treating seniors like an inconvenience. Where I live (Saskatchewan) these types are quick to look down on anyone younger or older than them, to say nothing of how they talk about/make assumptions about the native people. I worked at a Dairy Queen to help pay the bills for a full decade of my life here…every single incident involving an "adult" being so rude or even screaming and swearing at 14-16 year olds over store policies or minor inconveniences that I can recall was perpetrated by entitled, financially comfortable middle aged white people, not the teenagers, seniors, and natives they talk down about all the time. </p><p></p><p>Please don't think this is what I think of all middle aged white folks haha, I'm soon to be one of them as are most of my friends. But all this to say you're right, it often isn't the people everyone finds convenient to blame that are actually being jerks.</p><p></p><p>To add to this affirmation that adults who are waaaay to old to not know better are often the most inconsiderate people…I'm a minister in town here and it has happened on MORE THAN ONE OCCASION that somebody has whipped past a funeral procession as we're headed to the cemetery. It's never been "stupid teenagers" or "demented seniors"…it's been well dressed adults who I guess simply feel that they and their plans are more important than respect for the dead and the living who are grieving (to say nothing of the safety of passing 8 or more vehicles at once). </p><p></p><p>This honestly just comes down to a disturbing, ever increasing lack of respect and human decency.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2301438, member: 109862"] Sad to say it but I suspect you’re right. The most memorably offensive, inconsiderate, straight up selfish and rude things I’ve personally witnessed have been perpetrated by well off middle aged “important” (or self-important) people that assume you’ll do what they say and also that no one can tell them what to do - and these types are also the ones blaming kids for everything and treating seniors like an inconvenience. Where I live (Saskatchewan) these types are quick to look down on anyone younger or older than them, to say nothing of how they talk about/make assumptions about the native people. I worked at a Dairy Queen to help pay the bills for a full decade of my life here…every single incident involving an “adult” being so rude or even screaming and swearing at 14-16 year olds over store policies or minor inconveniences that I can recall was perpetrated by entitled, financially comfortable middle aged white people, not the teenagers, seniors, and natives they talk down about all the time. Please don’t think this is what I think of all middle aged white folks haha, I’m soon to be one of them as are most of my friends. But all this to say you’re right, it often isn’t the people everyone finds convenient to blame that are actually being jerks. To add to this affirmation that adults who are waaaay to old to not know better are often the most inconsiderate people…I’m a minister in town here and it has happened on MORE THAN ONE OCCASION that somebody has whipped past a funeral procession as we’re headed to the cemetery. It’s never been “stupid teenagers” or “demented seniors”…it’s been well dressed adults who I guess simply feel that they and their plans are more important than respect for the dead and the living who are grieving (to say nothing of the safety of passing 8 or more vehicles at once). This honestly just comes down to a disturbing, ever increasing lack of respect and human decency. [/QUOTE]
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