C/D: Random middle aged women who walk up to you and complain about people being on mobile phones all the time while you're trying to txt someone

This was a real life event.

hard to believe

anyway, classic.

Was it Anne Widdecombe?

Sounds like my mum. But if you'd have said "sttle down" to her she would have put you in the hospital so I presume it wasn't her. She doesn't like backchat.

"That woman...over there. She's wearing a brown coat. And you there with yer brown coat. All you and your brown coats! What is it with those brown coats! They're always wearing those brown coats!"

You're supposed to sit on a park bench and stare at the sun on your breaks.

was she a cougar?

You were in midtown yesterday and you didn't TELL US??? Because unless you live in Queens, I'm not sure how else you could have run into my boss.

did you get her number?

who were you txting?

the other girl, "over there".

Older people who feel it is there right to tell random younger strangers what they should or shouldn't be doing are generally dud.

Really? I think they're kind of great, depending on the exact tone of the address, I guess. But generally I plan to be an extremely cranky old lady so I'm taking notes now.

What about if they append "this is how Nazi Germany got started?"

I get the occasional disdainful "You kids and your computers," type of comment when I'm writing up summaries in a courthouse (THIS IS MY JOB SIR), and once I even had a random woman who came in reproach me for drinking coffee while I was working (I'M HERE WORKING EVERY WEEK, WHO ARE YOU?)

See but they're all baseless and completely misguided! That's the charm of it.

people should learn to shut up when they need to shut up

uphill ... BOTH WAYS

They're really just expressing dissatisfaction with the world at large/being old/winter/their offspring moving to the Bay Area/etc.

maybe they should just get a blog

lol

Older people who feel it is there right to tell random younger strangers what they should or shouldn't be doing are generally dud.

I maybe reading between the lines here but I don't think you're only talking about this thread's subject here.

"All you and your posting on ILX! What is it with those message boards?"

this makes me want a cell phone even more now!

so thread title should really be ONE r. m-a. woman...

I will only vote for the candidate who openly addresses this pressing matter

people who always get their phone out on buses boooooooooo

people on buses boooooooooo

people on buses boooooooooo

The Scale Of Misanthropy

What about if they append "this is how Nazi Germany got started?"

They wouldn't be up to date with their King Boy Pato memes.

This is how Putin's Russia started.

A woman once came up to me and complained that everyone was always listening to music instead of considering that there might be a fire in Portugal.

Very disappointed as I thought the thread title was 'Randy middle aged women who walk up to you....'

i went to adelaide, i have never seen so many unattractive young people in my life, we must all be kind to esteban and also esteban must leave there asap, my heart was breaking for him as i strode the gum-stained footpaths listening to amateur thugs shouting inarticulate threats into their phones, i don't know how he stands it.

-- estela

Touche.

I thought this was going to be a HOOS thread.

i'm transitioning into a period of my life where i have to answer "classic" to any question that starts "random middle aged women"

getting sonned by time in an age beef ;_;

I will only vote for the candidate who openly addresses this pressing matter

where does the Kucinich TEXT PEACE initiative fit in

the other day i was stuck in a 12 items or less line at the supermarket and the old dude behind me kept counting the number of items in the carts of the women in front of us and attempted to get my attention whenever he discovered one of them had at least thirteen. maybe he wanted me to say something.

What about if they append "this is how Nazi Germany got started?"

"That woman...over there. She's wearing a brown coatshirt. And you there with yer brown coatshirt. All you and your brown coatsshirts! What is it with those brown coatsshirts! They're always wearing those brown coatsshirts!"

lol at agitated old men in the x items or less line, we have them too.

She's absolutely correct. People use their phones in public way too much. It's rude and useless. Can't people spend five minutes waiting for a fucking bus without communicating communicating communicating their every synapse twitch to someone else?

You're right. They should simply look down at their shoes and consider the fleeting moments of their life.

I always get a little anxious when I'm waiting in line somewhere and the someone behind me starts looking around at everyone and announcing "THIS IS RIDICULOUS". No, I'm not going to conversate with you.

It reminds me of that guy I saw in the Las Vegas airport who had obviously flipped out and was making a grand show of emptying his pockets into multiple slot machines and giving the crowd that "Oh what a fool I am!" hands-up gesture when he lost (every time.)

This on-the-street color commentator on modern youth technology

sounds

AWESOME!!!!!

on friday night in adelaide i saw a red-faced boy with sickly yellow hair standing outside a hotel screaming into his phone, 'you tell that fuckin cunt justo that he better fuckin get here right now or i'll smash his fuckin head in,' who was gagging for a chiding from a random indignant middle aged woman.

someone (maybe here?) once suggested holding up a little recorder to any cell phone jabberer, since they are making their convo so public, they shouldn't mind you recording it.

OK estela that I would love to have seen. An old lady telling him off I mean.

Actually that reminds me of a story. When I was about 18, I was out walking around Canberra with my mum, nan and a friend Henry. Some angry looking rockabilly punk guys walked up to us and started getting into Henry's face accusing him of beating up their little brother on the weekend. This baffled us because Henry was from out of town, so there's no way they had thw right guy.

My 5 foot nothing nan then walked right up to the main guy, got up in his face and snapped "you leave that young man alone, obviously he isn't who you're after, where are your manners!?".

The 'billys all looked very chastened, said "sorry ma'am" and walked off.

I just think it's interesting that public conversation is considered cool when its directed towards an unseen other via cell phone, but it's weird/obnoxious/scary when a real actual person says "What is it with those mobile phones?" or "THIS IS RIDICULOUS". I understand why and everything, who wants to talk to a stranger or have them tell you what they think of your phone? Sure... it just seems kind of disturbing that it's more socially acceptable to talk on a cell phone than it is to say something out loud to a stranger.

on friday night in adelaide i saw a red-faced boy with sickly yellow hair standing outside a hotel screaming into his phone, 'you tell that fuckin cunt justo that he better fuckin get here right now or i'll smash his fuckin head in,' who was gagging for a chiding from a random indignant middle aged woman.

-- estela, Thursday, 6 December 2007 22:33 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OK estela that I would love to have seen. An old lady telling him off I mean.

-- Trayce, Thursday, 6 December 2007 22:37 (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

could be very cruel here

A homeless guy on the bus today was observing me get out my math homework from my bag. He said, "If my binder was that organized when I was your age, I'd be somewhere today!"

I know that is a story I will tell to my kids when they're disorganized.

C/D random middle class folks logging on their old-school free BBS emulator to complain about pensioners and teenagers being out of the house all time while you're trying to google for waffles invites

THIS TOO IS CLASSIC

could be very cruel here

-- Just got offed

just so long as you remember that one man's 'be very cruel' is another man's 'proffer ineffectual zing'

lol at agitated old men in the x items or less line, we have them too.

agitated old men OTM!

in adelaide i saw a red-faced boy with sickly yellow hair

esteban_b.jpg?

someone (maybe here?) once suggested holding up a little recorder to any cell phone jabberer, since they are making their convo so public, they shouldn't mind you recording it.

-- bnw, Thursday, December 6, 2007 4:37 PM (Thursday, December 6, 2007 4:37 PM) Bookmark Link

I'm going to start running up to people on the sidewalk and take close-up pictures of their faces with my camera.

A homeless guy on the bus today was observing me get out my math homework from my bag. He said, "If my binder was that organized when I was your age, I'd be somewhere today!"

This only confirms my long-held fear that I'm going to wind up homeless.

Albert Edward Foreman

Louis, were you going to be "cruel" to estela or myself?

People without mobile phones are missing out. It's a choice, it's not like you get one and your physical wellbeing is suddenly hotwired to responding to it all the time. They're good, that's why people use them.

Now if only Australia would do proper data rates so I can axs da intrnets without selling my car to pay the phone bill.

Louis, were you going to be "cruel" to estela or myself?

I was going to point out the way you shifted estela's "middle-aged" to "old"...but I don't actually mean you any ill-will so I feel kinda guilty for mentioning it.

Yeah in all honestly I realised/noticed that myself after I did it, so thats ok. It was a bit odd of me, but I think I made the jump as I was thinking of the story of my nan I then told.

I'm going to start running up to people on the sidewalk and take close-up pictures of their faces with my camera.

-- Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 6 December 2007 22:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Then make masks out of their faces, and wear while talking loudly on a mobile phone!

zOMG I think Kinko's has a new ad campaign right there...

Trayce, that's a beautiful story by the way!

My nan is awesome. 90something and almost blind and she'll still walk to the shops on her own. She just had a minor stroke though :(

She sounds awesome. Stroke=bah, but I don't doubt that she is surrounded by people who love her.

yah! i once saw an old lady attack a schoolmate with an umbrella, it was wicked :D

I so want to be that kind of feisty old lass when I'm that age, for sure.

yes, i think laurel's plan about being a cranky old woman is quite excellent.

(xpost)
Advantages of aging...I mean, she was possibly the only one among you at that moment who was capable of effortlessly subduing those guys.

Once I saw a 200 year old fragile little lady on a train, and two guys were up the end playfighting. They tumbled a bit too close to her, so she produced a FREAKING HACKSAW from her handbag and waved it at them. They dived behind a seat and vanished at the next stop.

Playfighting on the train. Man, I feel sheepish about conversing too loudly on the train.

OMG Adam thats freaking AWESOME.

It was a weekend and the carriage was empty, apart from us and the PSYCHO GRANNY.

I mean I'm sure she was lovely, but jeeeeeezus if my wife starts putting hacksaws in her handbag I may no longer catch the train with her.

better than being a cranky old woman is being a cranky old man, because then you just pick whatever big bunch of pedestrians you don't like and RAMMIN' SPEED

Smithers! Engage the cow catcher!

I hate that convenience store? RAM IT.
I hate that motorcycle? RAM IT.
I hate my own house? RAM IT.
you name it, old men in cars will drive into it. no dialogue necessary. no complaint threads after the fact, either.

of course since I don't even own a car anymore probably when I get old and retired and hateful I'll just be sitting here as usual refreshing site new answers and whenever some bozo who thinks he knows shit just because he has an office job starts a new thread I'll just post WE COVERED THIS ALREADY DIPSHIT and lock it.

with your holographic air keyboard, obviously

Hahah I love you tombot.

This thread rules

How about being gently scolded by random Olde Folk while smoking a cigarette? This happened to me at least a couple of times in my younger, cigarette-ier days, and it left me feeling more touched by their apparent concern than it did annoy me. Also, as the person would walk away, I would start to feel sad and wonder if maybe they had a spouse or other person close to them who had passed away prematurely from smoking-related ailments.

What does annoy me, and I'm not even sure I could explain why, is when random persons provide the public service of letting me know that my shoelaces are untied. At best I will mumble "thanks", but I never give them whatever satisfaction they might obtain from seeing me tie my shoes. There is obviously something deeply wrong with me.

When you're sunburnt and people keep saying "you're sunburnt," as though their telling you your face is bright red and peeling off and bleeding is in any way helpful.

I am a good five-sevenths of the way toward being an agitated old man. I am already getting in some early practise.

When you're young and angry you're headstrong and committed to your ideals. When you're old and angry you're cantankerous.

of course since I don't even own a car anymore probably when I get old and retired and hateful I'll just be sitting here as usual refreshing site new answers and whenever some bozo who thinks he knows shit just because he has an office job starts a new thread I'll just post WE COVERED THIS ALREADY DIPSHIT and lock it.

Why is zipcar so sacred you won't take one out to go RAMMIN'?

What does annoy me, and I'm not even sure I could explain why, is when random persons provide the public service of letting me know that my shoelaces are untied.

Hahaha dell, I get this with what aussies call "tagdagging", when your shirt tag is poking out from the back of your shirt.

i think you made that up.

Not made up, but it only happens at goth clubs.

oh, an insult of the night.

You bastards :)

"Beg pardon, Miss. I couldn't help but notice that you've got a tag dagging out your jorts..."

OMG hahah :D If someone tucked the tag into my PANTS I think I would deck them. :|

Tagdagging! That is a fantastic thing for a thing that doesn't have a name! (here)

t/s: tagdagging vs. debagging

vs teabagging

this october gone i was sitting in the park during lunch when an angry old man walked up to me and demanded to know what i was doing about all the leaves that were on the ground. Stood there, outraged, stuck his two hands out wide and turned two full circles looking at all the leaves. then walked off. i think fondly of him.

I love that man.