I think that a lot of elderly people do u use excuses to get what they want, like pushing in line in a cue and expecting nobody to say anything because of their age. Well I'd bloody tell him to piss off! I know this might sound like a stab at older people and it's not my intention to do so, but I have found it a little unfair that they an get so much advantage over me. Here in Adelaide (I don't know about the rest of Australia), seniors can now ride the bus for free, they don't have to pay a cent. While I as a 22 year old student living alone with no employment, had to pay $4.40 per day for the bus so that I could study. PLUS, if I was studying full time for over a year I was going to have $100 cut out of my payments, only because I'm a student! So I have my money cut off and have to pay all this money for the bus when I'm trying to give myself a future, while other people get the age advatage. As I said, that's not a stabat the elderly, but I find it greatly unfair. They should be thinking about younger people's futures not just older people's pasts. If that support was given to people like me then there would be more qualified people, and I could get to where I want to go. I can't even study Vet Nursing (animal vet not war vet :P) because it's 2 years full time, or study Animal Behaviour or anything. I want to study, and I can't because I am too young to get the financial gain that older people do. It doesn't even make sense that I get paid more to sit on my ass all day than I do to get out and do something.
I'm sorry that was just a completely off topic rant, but this thread reminded me of it all, and it's something I've had to get off my chest for such a long time. I feel like I'm never going to have the future I want because the government won't help. I feel singled out because of my age, there is no problem in helping the elderly, but help people who are trying to make something of themselves too. Everyone thought I was going to be a failure because of the life I lived, and I'm starting to feel like one because I can't go to Uni or do any more study, because the qualifications I do have mean that any higher study mean losing money. Bastards. Anyway, on top of all this, tell this guy to bugger off, and if he says to you that you don't know what it's like to live with his PTSD, say he doesn't know what it's like to live with YOUR PTSD. OR say that when he comes in and gets mad it triggers your PTSD and if he knew anything about it at all he'd have the sympathy to act more civilised.
