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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaldfont" data-source="post: 2529448" data-attributes="member: 1472">Several years ago my wife and I were on our first vacation--a trip to San Francisco and the Napa Valley. We had a blast--newly married, sampling wine and enjoying the beautiful weather and scenery in a convertible.But dozens of times during our vacation, mostly at the wineries during tastings, we experience the lousy manners and general crankiness of senior citizens. The first few times we blew it off, but later we noticed a pattern. These old people were very impolite! They cut in lines! They complained about the service (even when it was exceptional)! They cut us off in traffic! They made loud, rude comments about other people!We were amazed. All of our young lives we had been berated by our elders to be polite and have good manners. There was no practicing what you preach here! We even came up with a motto we wanted to print on t-shirts: "Have some ****ing courtesy!"Later in life, we've come up with a theory to explain their behavior. We figured that after years and years of being hosed over by mistakes in bills, overcharges in restaurants, the bad behavior of others, etc. they just didn't have the patience for it anymore. Where we would generally take things in stride (like a food order mistake), these older people were just so tired of it that they spoke their mind.I don't know if this theory is true, but I think about it everytime the phone company screws up my cell phone bill or a server adds 2-3 beers to our bill after a night out at a bar figuring we won't notice.Hehehe. My wife and I still crack each other up, quoting this ancient guy at one of the vineyards, yelling over the top of the tour guide handing out free samples, "I DIDN'T GET MY SECOND GLASS OF WINE!!!!"</blockquote>

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