offered an old woman my seat on the bus and she said "oh no I should wait for someone younger than you to offer me their spot" and *that* officially was the last time I did something nice to an OAP
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jul 29, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
If you’re going to write on this theme please can you also address the blight on civilisation that is the ‘visibly over 25’ button on a supermarket checkout.
jul 28, 2025, 1:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Ooooooof. Désolée.
jul 28, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I got up today to offer an old woman my seat. It's been a day, and I was using my cane. She said, I think you need it more than I do. Harrumph 😂
jul 28, 2025, 5:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh dearie me!!!
jul 28, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
One person declining your kindness is all it takes for you to turn your back on an entire community of seniors? Was that offer for their benefit or yours so you could feel good & now you feel cheated? Pretty petty don’t you think?
jul 28, 2025, 10:50 pm • 5 0 • view
Petty..
jul 28, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm a grey haired OAP and I constantly bob up and down to offer my seat on the bus to older people, and if someone said this to me I would be offended too
jul 28, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
🫣🤣🤣
jul 28, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Speaking as an OAP, that's awful. Just say thank you and accept it FFS.
jul 28, 2025, 2:13 pm • 6 0 • view
Wait til you fall on your arse one day and find the young people come running to check you’re ok rather than pointing and laughing
jul 28, 2025, 1:20 pm • 4 0 • view
I was offered a seat recently. It is crushing. I mean, I'm all for it for old people but I'm only... oh wait, yeah 64. But it still makes you feel like shit, trust me!
jul 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 20 0 • view
Happens to me sometimes on the bus to and from the football stadium - it usually takes a while before I realise "oh, they mean me".
jul 28, 2025, 1:08 pm • 3 0 • view
My dad is 83 and he still feels the same way. 😅
jul 28, 2025, 1:23 pm • 8 0 • view
Wow. Just.. Wow. Still, I assume she's dead now.
jul 28, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm hoping there is a suitably melancholic French expression for this emotion
jul 28, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
looking forward to your next email about how pensioners sitting in valuable properties should be legally compelled to downsize
jul 28, 2025, 1:19 pm • 5 0 • view
One day you're young and fun, next thing you know, the kid at McDonald's is saying the happy meal was for "the middle age lady" over there. I went home and cried 😂
jul 28, 2025, 1:28 pm • 3 0 • view
What? You thought she was insulting you? She meant you, too, deserved respect and that a kid should stand.
jul 29, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Axe the triple lock
jul 28, 2025, 1:23 pm • 13 0 • view
I really hope you are both taking the piss here?
jul 28, 2025, 1:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Obviously!!
jul 28, 2025, 1:35 pm • 3 0 • view
(I mean, I do actually think the triple lock is a bad policy that needs to be urgently reviewed. But my point here was only to make a joke)
jul 28, 2025, 1:36 pm • 10 0 • view
I don't disagree and I'm old. But given the hooha about the winter fuel allowance - which was as close to taxing the rich as you might get- reviewing the triple lock right now would be political suicide.
jul 28, 2025, 1:43 pm • 3 0 • view
I disagree, I think winter fuel was just extremely badly handled because this gov seems to be appalling at political communication. If they'd pushed up the pension credit threshold at the same time it would have been fine.
jul 28, 2025, 2:04 pm • 9 0 • view
I think they could do it in a way which will seem more generous in the short term but will have a future slowdown. E.g. Pensions should be x% of earnings. If y% below that they increase at 3%p.a. or earnings. Fix it now so that the slowdown occurs after the next election.
jul 28, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I think if the comms from government wasn't "oh but" from press both left and right, ( Refirm seem to be getting positives from rw regardless of comms glitches) then it would be less easy to say that. But yes, the wfa wasn't handled well, but they would have been clobbered whatever they did.
jul 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just political communication, it seems.
jul 28, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
@thelouvreof.bsky.social
jul 28, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
👏👏🙏🙏
jul 28, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah so this is the next stage after not being handed fliers for club nights is it?
jul 28, 2025, 2:35 pm • 3 0 • view
I *always* take a seat if it's offered, albeit a rarity these days. Doesn't matter who's offering. I get a rest and the person is more likely to do it again.
jul 28, 2025, 2:19 pm • 5 0 • view
Mistranslation - she implied you needed it as much as she did. Sorry
jul 29, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Sucks. Doesnt it.
jul 28, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
OMG - and you didn't try to trip her😂😂💚💖
jul 28, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Had my first seat offering on the tube last summer (at 63). Probably looked a little warm as had “power walked” from a Springsteen concert in Hyde Park to beat the rush Was a nice young man of the type some on the right would assume wasn’t British just by looking at him I declined. Not old enough
jul 28, 2025, 1:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Every time someone has offered me a seat, they’ve looked or sounded foreign born
jul 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Met someone at work yesterday with the same 1st name as me and said we must be close in age - she said I must be +/- 30 yrs younger than her so we both went our separate ways pleased with the convo (Susan was #1 female name for a long time in U.K. there were 5 in my class alone).
jul 28, 2025, 1:06 pm • 4 0 • view
Snap - and there was a Susanne as well
jul 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm going to give her points for laying a pretty heavy guilt trip on anyone visibly younger than you, and I assume that there were more than one, within earshot.
jul 30, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Ethered
jul 28, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 28, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Does she just want to whinge about younger people being horrible, or does she enjoy standing up on a crowded bus?🙄
jul 28, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
On the Central Line with daughter who was then a teenager, and a lady of indeterminate age said something to her about it must be nice to be out with your grandad. My daughter was savvy enough to just smile.
jul 28, 2025, 1:29 pm • 2 0 • view
That was a touch ungracious of her.
jul 29, 2025, 9:22 am • 0 0 • view
Fortunately, one passes through the phase of giving up ones seat to someone who is, on cursory inspection, younger. Eventually.
jul 28, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes! Another one who will vote for Logans Run* *moderated for the modern world to about sixty
jul 28, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Clearly she follows your Bluesky account. Salut.
jul 28, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Just wait until she finds out your online sobriquet
jul 28, 2025, 1:01 pm • 16 0 • view
😂 You can console yourself with the fact her eyesight isn’t what it was. I confess when someone offered me their seat for the first time, I was internally devastated
jul 29, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view
Damn, she didn't understand the type of fire she was fooling around with. 😳
jul 28, 2025, 7:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Offered my seat to a lady, and she got offended. :)
jul 28, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Fantastically brutal
jul 28, 2025, 1:00 pm • 13 0 • view
When you are old you don’t always realise you are old.
jul 28, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
yes but Marie's not very old
jul 28, 2025, 1:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Ouch.
jul 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
😂 omg that’s objectively hilarious though
jul 28, 2025, 5:42 pm • 12 0 • view
my brain clocked OAP as old-ass person but I assume that wasn't the intended abbreviation
jul 28, 2025, 1:03 pm • 18 0 • view
😹😹😹
jul 29, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
Old Age Pensioner, for anyone not familiar with the term.
jul 28, 2025, 1:41 pm • 9 0 • view
A young man, visiting London from abroad, stood up for my 65 year old partner on the tube and he declined. The visitor insisted and they ended up shouting “yes” “no” “yes” “nooooo” at each other. Far from being infirm he swims 60 lengths most days :-)
jul 29, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
jul 28, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Sweep kick the legs
jul 28, 2025, 5:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Hahaha
jul 28, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I offered my seat to a heavily pregnant person. I recieved a 20 minute lecture on female capability (which I support and fully appreciate already) I was mainly doing it as people couldn’t get past the person and a few missed their stops. This information was even less well received.
jul 28, 2025, 1:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Welcome to the Curmudgeon Life.
jul 28, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 29, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
I love thats she's gonna tell her friends the same story, starting with "you'll never guess what this cheeky bitch said to me on the bus today"
jul 28, 2025, 1:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Marie: welcome to middle age
jul 28, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Taking the OAP's side, perhaps she meant it would be better for an able-bodied teenager to offer her a seat (as in, that's what they should always do). When my boys were teens I would tell them not to sit on the bus if there were people older than them standing.
jul 29, 2025, 8:35 am • 1 0 • view
That is the funniest of all your many posts, Marie - made me laugh out loud!
jul 28, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Bodied by a biddy
jul 28, 2025, 1:29 pm • 2 0 • view
It's school holidays. Some kids on the bus here were jumping up offering their seat and a solicitous helping arm to anyone over 40, then falling about laughing at the offended faces.
jul 28, 2025, 1:08 pm • 35 0 • view
I love it!! Good fun
jul 28, 2025, 1:26 pm • 4 0 • view
It's up there with super gluing a 2 euro coin to the pavement and taking cover to watch.
jul 28, 2025, 1:45 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s brilliant fun. Well done to them.
jul 28, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey! We oldies should stick together!
jul 29, 2025, 6:09 am • 1 0 • view
Ouch! Not cool!
jul 28, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣
jul 28, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
My 73 year old husband will never take a seat from anyone, he much prefers standing at any opportunity.
jul 28, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Feel the burn
jul 28, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
murdered by a pensioner
jul 28, 2025, 1:10 pm • 62 0 • view
The new Knives Out movie
jul 28, 2025, 1:11 pm • 27 0 • view
new Knives Out movie is about a guy leaving his allotment
jul 28, 2025, 1:22 pm • 29 0 • view
Huh, as if there's such a thing as "an allotment"
jul 28, 2025, 1:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Manc Police are currently digging up clues regarding the alleged allotment Inspector Radish of the Yard is helping with the investigation
jul 28, 2025, 1:37 pm • 5 0 • view
I heard special branch are involved now too They are cultivating seeds sorry leads too
jul 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 2 0 • view
They were following a leek.
jul 28, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Must have been a mole then
jul 28, 2025, 6:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Could be worse. A colleague offered her seat and the reply was “no dear, someone in your condition needs the seat more than me” To which my colleague replied “I’m fat not pregnant”.
jul 28, 2025, 5:31 pm • 4 0 • view
The only reasonable response to that was to come right back at her with "You might die of old age while you're waiting though".
jul 28, 2025, 1:14 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm guessing you're in a bar now contemplating your mortality?
jul 28, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
unbelievably savage LOL
jul 29, 2025, 7:16 am • 1 0 • view
I offered my seat on the tube the other day and I am 60.
jul 28, 2025, 1:16 pm • 2 0 • view
I offer my seat to people who look like they need it whoever they are. I'm 66.
jul 28, 2025, 2:15 pm • 7 0 • view
The time between being asked for ID in a bar and being offered a seat on the bus has been officially measured at a fortnight.
jul 28, 2025, 1:15 pm • 8 0 • view
😢
jul 28, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view