Originally Posted by
bubie
Obviously age means nothing to you. In the old days, people would respect their elders (i.e.twenty years older than you) even if they disagreed with their behavior. Obviously gender (i.e. being a woman) trumps age in your world. Why would you give someone, old enough to be your father, "a lesson in civility"? That's disrespectful on your part. You need to look up the term "respect your elders".
I was sitting on a train into London the other day with a man aged about 70 in the next bank of seats (I am much younger). There were I think six carriages on the train. One is designated 'Quiet Carriage', and there are signs on every window saying 'Quiet zone, no mobile phone or headphones':
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The man made a phone call to some unfortunate woman, possibly his wife, complaining that it was such a pain to have get a taxi as he had a briefcase (!) and could she pick him up. She said no, she didn't like parking in London. I was quite irritated by his selfishness in ignoring the rules (and also too the woman he was talking to), but said nothing.
He then phoned a second unfortunate woman and said much the same before he lost signal. Ah, silence, I thought. But no, several minutes later he called her back. At this point I had had enough, there are six carriages on the train and he chose to sit in the 'quiet' one to make endless obnoxious phone calls, so I stood up and pointed out that mobile phones were prohibited. He said 'Why is that?', 'Complain to the train company if you don't like it', I said, and he terminated the call.