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Old people are rude, or nice.
Middle-aged people are rude, or nice.
Young people are rude, or nice.
I've worked in retail for years now, and young people are the ones who just leave when we say we're closing. "I'll come back some other time, I know you have to get home too." Young people also come into a bookstore on roller skates, bother customers, put googly eyes on every book with a face on the cover, then leave.
Middle-aged people are the best. They have disposable income, and they understand that if nobody buys anything, the business goes under. They buy tons of stuff. Middle-aged people are the worst too. They're the ones who ask for the manager when they can't get two items, each priced at $10, for $10 total.
And old people are usually entrenched (not permanently) in 60-70 years of habits, like taking your dog into a store with no leash and letting him pee on the merchandise. Or they'll bring you brownies, just because.
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Again, none of these are hypothetical situations.
Some people are very good and some people are very bad, and most are somewhere in between.
It's way more complicated than age or generation.
Worked in a credit union. Had one older member bring us cornbread and chicken soup every few weeks during the fall and winter. Another old man would buy us candy (we sold worlds finest to support charities) because he was a diabetic and if he couldn’t have it someone else should. Had a young woman scream at us because she overdrafted her account by a good amount and we wouldn’t refund her fees....because she had been in the previous mouth about the same thing.
Old people are rude, or nice.
Middle-aged people are rude, or nice.
Young people are rude, or nice.
I've worked in retail for years now, and young people are the ones who just leave when we say we're closing. "I'll come back some other time, I know you have to get home too." Young people also come into a bookstore on roller skates, bother customers, put googly eyes on every book with a face on the cover, then leave.
Middle-aged people are the best. They have disposable income, and they understand that if nobody buys anything, the business goes under. They buy tons of stuff. Middle-aged people are the worst too. They're the ones who ask for the manager when they can't get two items, each priced at $10, for $10 total.
And old people are usually entrenched (not permanently) in 60-70 years of habits, like taking your dog into a store with no leash and letting him pee on the merchandise. Or they'll bring you brownies, just because.
Some people are very good and some people are very bad, and most are somewhere in between.
It's way more complicated than age or generation.