My impression of an average eldery person is someone who is gracious and has an air of dignity around him or her. However such elderly people are hard to find.
Just this morning, I saw an old lady just snatching a seat away from a secondary school girl. This school girl was just placing her bag on the seat by the bus stop, and this old lady just came up next to the girl, sweep the surface of the seat with her hands and then just sat down, ignoring that school girl completely. I don't know what was on the mind of this old lady. Does she think she has the right of way to everything just because she is old? Such instances of ungracious eldery people are countless. Not forgetting "kiasu" eldery people who shove and push people aside while boarding the bus so as to get a good seat.
No wonder some people do not want to give up seats to these eldery people, because to me, they simply do not deserve this kind of good treatment!
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