Pensioners....

[kathryn d]

This thread needs less hate and more funny imo

Anyway I love chatting to pensioners, especially when you start getting dirty stories out of them. 70 year old grannies talking about sex with that old lady toothless cackle coughing up dust is bloody hilarious

My former co-workers used to work in nursing homes. They said there was a lot of sex going on there..and not by the staff

 

[BayView]

maybe people dont worry about petty crap like you do

Prolly true.

But hey; you keep responding to me.

Come on Andy, cheer up lad.

 

[Macca]

Funny stories, I remember this one

I was playing online poker and this UK aged care nurse came on about a dirty old man in his 80s who was doing "self love" in his own room.

She thought it was "disgusting" all us guys were saying " Gee, we hope we can still point to the sky when we are 80"

She just couldn't get the male attitude at all, I mean he did have the door closed she said so what was the problem ?

 

[gottabespotless]

This thread needs less hate and more funny imo

Anyway I love chatting to pensioners, especially when you start getting dirty stories out of them. 70 year old grannies talking about sex with that old lady toothless cackle coughing up dust is bloody hilarious

I sniff a 'Golden Girls' fan here! I bet you've even got the box set of each season beside your DVD player.

 

[Sheryn]

No pattern to it.
Funnily, our busiest day for punctures is Monday.

Of course there is a pattern to it, Mondays have to be busier for punctures as you are shut for one and half days and people oftern drive more on weekends

We don't have any more staff that day because there isn't any other staff - we just go harder.

So every Monday your staff know in advance the day will be busier!

Keep up the observations Bayview as that is how many people learn, now who was it that saw apples fall off a tree and worked out gravity.


Cheers
Sheryn


Friday and Saturday nights are the busiest nights at Emergency Departments as you would know.

 

[pennyk]

When I read the original post, I was assuming that penguins was referring to nuns..... and was trying to work out the relevance of Thursday bank queues and pensioners to the nuns.

I'm not even Catholic.........

 

[Peter Parker]

Well run businesses know and staff accordingly. Just lately I have observed 2 grocery chains have changed the day their specials start so they can link into this phenomen.

I think it depends on the business they're in and the extent of competition.

Retail and restaurants are customer-responsive. They open whatever hours suits the customers and roster staff accordingly. If they don't they go out of business.

Whereas government departments, post offices, banks and specialist legal/accounting/medical as well as some trades are customer-unresponsive.

They're monopolies (eg Post Office), would prefer not to serve counter customers (banks) or note that counter customers are more expensive to service than online or phone (insurance). They may only be open weekday business hours (and occasionally Saturday mornings). Hence working customers wishing to use their services must alter their schedules (eg take time off). Bank branch opening hours, in particular, are short and reflect a 1950s society where nearly every man had a housewife to do the banking.

Hence there's a different mentality that reflects what the business can get away with (and still make money) - and this varies between industries.

 

[random]

We lived in a Gods waiting room town for 3 yrs but couldn't stand it any longer and got out.

Never been so disgusted with the older generation to be honest , what a selfish bunch of bloody hypocrites they were .We were just continually absolutely gob smacked day after day for that whole 3 yrs.

Dunno if that was typical or not, maybe they change if they move up to one of these places in old age but this was the most selfish unrelenting town I've ever seen. Families trying to live there didn't stand a chance and were just bagged out day in day out, supplied with nothing or the oldies would complain, even by the local papers.

 

[evand]

What town are you referring to?

We lived in a Gods waiting room town for 3 yrs but couldn't stand it any longer and got out.

Never been so disgusted with the older generation to be honest , what a selfish bunch of bloody hypocrites they were .We were just continually absolutely gob smacked day after day for that whole 3 yrs.

Dunno if that was typical or not, maybe they change if they move up to one of these places in old age but this was the most selfish unrelenting town I've ever seen. Families trying to live there didn't stand a chance and were just bagged out day in day out, supplied with nothing or the oldies would complain, even by the local papers.

 

[random]

Better not say sorry Evand , it wouldn't be fair on what good aspects and people of the town there were .

Actually , when we left I sent into the papers there, a website about the new area we'd decided to move to. And pointed out their ridiculously one sided ways and ideals as compared to this new towns principals, ideals and concept and that what a breath of fresh air it was after 3 yrs there. But they were still too selfish to even acknowledge it and friends still there now tell us it's worse than ever.

Cheers

 

[BayView]

So every Monday your staff know in advance the day will be busier!

I do most of the punctures, and try to leave the mechanics free to be more productive in their areas of expertise, so it's usually me running around like a headless chook.

Talk about Monday-itis!

 

[jaycee]

I do most of the punctures, and try to leave the mechanics free to be more productive in their areas of expertise, so it's usually me running around like a headless chook.

Talk about Monday-itis!

So human beings follow patterns

Including old people

Some human beings insist that they despite the simlariires, they are better than other people

Including adults who should know better than children but mock other epople for things that they do themselves



How enlightening

 

[cu@thetop]

Marc observations are quite correct IMO - are they worthy of comment- well yes I think so.

These pensioners roll up to clear the account out so the government wont take it back, or so they wont missout if the bank runs out of money etc etc. Some are living hand to mouth- but if they saved $5 a week then after a year they wouldn't need to line up.

I dread to think I will be the same when I get older and my thinking patterns will somehow degenerate to this level.

I don't think of myself as "better" or "smarter" as I don't know what befell these people along their life journey- but I don't want my life to degenerate to that extent that I would waste my time in a similar fashion.

(* returns to internet to surf various forums)...

 

[jaycee]

Marc observations are quite correct IMO - are they worthy of comment- well yes I think so.

These pensioners roll up to clear the account out so the government wont take it back, or so they wont missout if the bank runs out of money etc etc. Some are living hand to mouth- but if they saved $5 a week then after a year they wouldn't need to line up.

I dread to think I will be the same when I get older and my thinking patterns will somehow degenerate to this level.

I don't think of myself as "better" or "smarter" as I don't know what befell these people along their life journey- but I don't want my life to degenerate to that extent that I would waste my time in a similar fashion.

(* returns to internet to surf various forums)...

That's a bit different than the original post subsequent & comments made by Marc, which I was responding to.


Well, here's the thing; almost all these people have not much else pressing to do with their time I'd say, so why the hell are they all lining up at the exact same time to get their money out?

Why not learn to use an ATM? FFS
Why not wait a coupla hours (as I did when I went back there to make a deposit at 11.45am), avoid the swarm, and do your pension picking in relative comfort and peace?

It's idiotic; I wandered in there as I said, and there was ONE other customer in there other than me.


I never suggested that observing what happens in life and what could happen and preparing against the bad things / for good things etc was not a good idea

 

[tom32]

I never suggested that observing what happens in life and what could happen and preparing against the bad things / for good things etc was not a good idea

I am all for technology but I don't trust making deposits at ATMs, maybe I will be the old codger still lining up to make deposits.

I have no trust issues when taking cash out of a wall, it is putting an envelope into one and hoping it makes it to my account I get nervous about.

 

[jaycee]

I am all for technology but I don't trust making deposits at ATMs, maybe I will be the old codger still lining up to make deposits.

I have no trust issues when taking cash out of a wall, it is putting an envelope into one and hoping it makes it to my account I get nervous about.

Agree with you on that one, When I have had deposits, I always gone into the bank..... I do remember doing it ageas ago, no idea why now. When I have had deposits, I always gone into the bank....

 

[tom32]

Agree with you on that one, When I have had deposits, I always gone into the bank..... I do remember doing it ageas ago, no idea why now. When I have had deposits, I always gone into the bank....

Trouble is as we get old the youngens will say look at those buggers. All lining up at the only branch left in Western Australia that actually has people in it.

I can see my future granddaughter trying to explain why it is all safe to put my cash in a hole in the wall and why me driving 3 hours across the city to the only teller is stupid.

 

[BayView]

So human beings follow patterns

Including old people

Some human beings insist that they despite the simlariires, they are better than other people

Including adults who should know better than children but mock other epople for things that they do themselves



How enlightening

You are truly hilarious JC.

Have the guts to come and out give me a full-on personal attack.

I know we all follow patterns. I never said that was bad, and I, believe it or not, follow a few.

You can continue to be a smart @rse, dude. cool with me.

This is about the patterns that we follow that are idiotic...or maybe you didn't get that bit?

And yes; again; who cares? I don't; just making an observation for the sake of a conversation is all.

Not bad; eked out 4 pages on this one.

Keep on snipein'.

 

[jaycee]

You are truly hilarious JC.

Have the guts to come and out give me a full-on personal attack.

I know we all follow patterns. I never said that was bad, and I, believe it or not, follow a few.Dude, uou called it idiotic and suggested you wouldn't be so stupid ! That's what I was respnding to. LOL had you said the aobve it would have been a different story you were telling and no one woudl have responded like some of us did

You can continue to be a smart @rse, dude. cool with me.

This is about the patterns that we follow that are idiotic...or maybe you didn't get that bit?

And yes; again; who cares? I don't; just making an observation for the sake of a conversation is all.
Not bad; eked out 4 pages on this one.

Keep on snipein'.

Sorry, didn't understand that.
It's just the tone of taking the **** out of people, calling them idiotic, saying how you'd act so much more logical that made me feel for the poor old people.

Perhaps your "point" amongst all the rest of the presentation was too subtle for me.

 

[BayView]

Sorry, didn't understand that.
It's just the tone of taking the **** out of people, calling them idiotic, saying how you'd act so much more logical that made me feel for the poor old people.

Perhaps your "point" amongst all the rest of the presentation was too subtle for me.

Nice try.

My point was perfectly clear right from post 1, and without it there was no thread.

Of course it was taking the ****

Like I'm the only one here who does.