Well, that's my age bracket.... and a fair few other people on this forum!  I definitely don't slag off teenagers, indeed q the opposite and I definitely don't think that rude people fall into a certain age range or gender.

Re the rest of your post, I honestly don't understand what you're saying. Did you not invade the woman's personal space and privacy due to 'wedging' yourself in when the couple who let you through didn't move??? Maybe I've misunderstood, but, as it's written it sounds like you were the one being rude!

TBH, I don't think anybody was being particularly rude, but I have come across a lot of older people who feel they can say and do as they like by virtue of age and/or experience. I feel as I get older that I don't bend as much as I did when I was younger to please others, that might be considered rude, but I just want to be honest.

I think you'll find a good majority on this forum are women aged 50+...I don't slag teenagers off and I certainly hope I have manners... 

oh, maybe my grump is people making sweeping generalisations 

Who are the women of THIS GENERATION?

I'm 55 I'm a woman and I live now - THIS GENEREATION - have I missed something .

TBH - I don't have a huge list of trivial things that annoy me.  

No I was NOT the one being rude.  The couple in front of me let me in front, because I only had one item, but unfortunately, the couple didn't move back, so I was squashed between them and the RUDE woman... I actually did look away so that the woman could see that I was not peering over her shoulder and she SHOVED me out of the way.  It was NOT MY FAULT.

I take as I find, and I find most rude and obnoxious people (especially when I am out,) in that age bracket.  (50 to 70-ish)  That is a fact.  This is what *I* experience, and many people of under 45 who I know agree...    And I am NOT making sweeping generalisations.  I didn't say that ALL people this age group are rude.

There is not much I can do about it if some people on here fall into that category.  I am not saying that ALL people in this age group are rude; (which is how it has been interpreted by a couple of posters here.) I am saying that most rude people I encounter ARE in that age group, and are MUCH ruder than young people. 

Jeeez, loads of people complain about all kinds of shit, but when I do, I am jumped on AGAIN and my post taken out of context!  Maybe I should stop effing posting!   

How rude!  

zips it 

Thanks Cologne.  Like I said, I said that I find the rudest people on the whole is that age group.  I am going on my own experience, but of course, i have said the wrong thing again.  As I said, maybe I should just say nothing, as I seem to offend someone, no matter what I say.

But you put al women of that age in the same category in your OP. I notice you changed it to 'most' in your next one. I'd still contest that to be honest  

Maybe not stop posting but think a wee while before you do 

I didn't say ALL or SOME in my OP actually nuts.  But what I would like to know is why, yet again, the post that *I* put is being pulled apart AGAIN.  Anyone (virtually) can post on here, and very little is said, but as soon as I express my views or gripes, I get jumped on AGAIN.  Why is this?

I'm not offended Cupcake...my mother died last year at the age 0f 84....I had to reign her in many times when we were shopping, she could be very abrupt But, I can honestly say I've not met many rude people in my age group...if your going to be rude at 50+, I reckon you've always had it in you to be that way 

Well maybe I worded it badly/wrongly whatever, but I genuinely do find that at least 80% of the time, when someone is rude to me, it's someone in that age group.  More than anything though; I am pissed off with my views being jumped on.  I'm very close to not bothering to post anymore.

No, 'I' am not jumping on you. Just pointing out a sweeping generalisation 

We don't all fit into that category 

Sorry your mum died by the way Dame

I agree on the elderly rudeness, but to be honest I can't wait to be classed as elderly so I can be a cantankerous old sod.  I think they're either:

A. Tired of the shit life deals sometimes.

B. Senile (and I mean that in the nicest way, my mother in law was the nicest lady ever, but the Alzheimers on occasion made her come out with some very nasty stuff)

C. They just don't like you, and can't be bothered to pretend they do 

As i said up there ^^^  maybe I worded it badly/wrongly whatever, but I genuinely do find that at least 80% of the time, when someone is rude to me, it's someone in that age group.  I didnt say everyone was like that.

Some of them can be dreadfully rude and obnoxious.  And I am not saying ALL, but the vast majority of the time, if someone is rude, it IS someone from early 50s to mid 70s.  The very old are OK.

I think there are some people who command respect due to their age/position alone Col' which probably harks bark to the idea of 'respect your elders and betters' that many of us grew up with. Me, I think that's a loada rubbish, everyone deserves respect, irrespective of, well, anything really....There are, of course, other, factors and differences e.g. cultural which come into play re perceptions of what is 'rudeness,' including around 'queuing' and 'personal space' !!!

Anyway, the upshot is that maybe I am being over sensitive, but I do feel that when I post anything that is moderately controversial, I get a much rougher time than some others.  I'm pretty pissed off tbh.

Cupcake, may I ask how old you are?  I just find putting someone born in the mid 70's in the elderly bracket quite odd.

Ha ignore me, I reread it and I realised you meant the age range of 50's to mid 70's.  

Fair enough, but do you not see that maybe you were invading the woman's personal space and privacy due to 'wedging' yourself in 

And, you are making sweeping generalisations Cups: "The rudest people by a country MILE is women aged around 50 to 70/75.  They have the temerity to slag off teenagers and youths and yet they are much more polite than the women of THIS generation.  I find men of all ages quite polite and courteous, but older women (not very old like 75 plus,) but that 50 to early 70s age group are the most obnoxious when I am out."

As for your last sentence, well that's just plain silly...if you post controversial comments, expect a response/discussion. It's not personal in any way, well, not from me anyways

You're Samantha Brick, aren't you?   

Thank you 

people who jump ques gets right on my baps.

Ha Ha, think you do probably have a point that the older you get/ the more secure that you are in yourself, the less likely you are to take shit!

Back to supermarkets though: recently I was looking at cupcake decorations, I reached up to those rather nice pastel coloured sugar daisy ones, (D something or other, I want to say Decleor but i know that's wrong LOL)  Anyways, I accidentally knocked a packet of something or other to the floor, but was in 'the zone' and kept on looking, thinking I'd pick it up when I'd finished.Then this woman barged into me, (I don't think she had a fat arse, actually, I think she had a v nice arse, but I digress!) and said, v aggressively "You're obviously not going to pick that up, so I will," to which I replied, "Well, yes, I was going to," to which she replied, even more aggressively, "Yeah of course you were." Maybe she was having a bad day!

See, Super thats when you should have said 'Thanks dear, you'll get your reward in your heaven. Speaking of heaven we have a new church opening up this week, up by the....' and watch the blood drain from her face. then follow her around the shop asking 'will you come visit our church, shall i put your name down?'

Awww stop it

Your rants are legendry

If someone said that people of *cupcake's age/gender* are the rudest, you'd respond/react/defend wouldn't you?

GRRRRRR, dontchaknow I'm Samantha Brick.. I flutter ma lickle eyelashes at every bypassing man.... Poor, poor me, I'm just a helpless gawjuss woman who other woman hate 'cos of my gawjussness, please see my desperation, park my car for me, look after me, buy me lots of champagne and protect me from the all of those envious women who don't understand that the most important thing in life is to be dependent on men's adoration!

TBF, that's a v 'British' thing Moonbeams!

I'm still gladfully ignorant of Ms. Brick.

I really hope this masterpiece appears on CBB.

How to shortchange yourself in one easy lesson.

Moony, I know it's irrational, but she really p'd me off, making assumptions that were just plain incorrect. If she'd looked like someone who was a disgruntled Tesco employee I could have understood, but I don't see too many Tesco staff in Norfolk walking around in designer 'county' wear!

Me too for the most part VD

FWIW, she looked q 'good looking' to me... bit like an older, thinner haired version of the 'Samanda' twins

Aimee!!! Look at what your thread as done!!!! 

 This place cracks me up sometimes.

It's all very trivial dear boy 

We're brilliant at it though Rawks. You have to agree 

The trivial thing I hate is people in my family not hanging the tea towel up neatly on the oven door handle, using a knife after buttering bread then putting said knife into jar of jam/marmite or other spread and leaving traces of butter from the said knife in the jar...........oh and while I am at it, buttering toast with a knife and going back to the butter with toast crumbs on it to get more butter and leaving toast crumbs in the butter........

I have more but you would all think I am being rather over sensitive.....

Good one 

I have the same problem with the hand towel in the bathroom, how hard is it to put it back the way you found it 

only thing worse than that ^^^  is when you find crumbs in the butter or butter in the jam when you staying at someone else's house 

That's true ............it's yucky in your own house but as you say just so much worse at someone elses - not sure why - it just is.