My Last Visit To Subway Sandwiches

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Years ago on I snuck into a Subway, starving. As I'm approaching the entrance an old bag appeared right behind me, shuffling her feet. Of course I do the gentlemanly thing and let her proceed, holding the door for her as well. She orders 2 sandwiches and a tuna salad, each item called out painfully painfully slow. The last thing she specifies on the tuna salad was "and of course tuna!" I considered being a gentleman and getting the door for her again on the way out but...
 

Jocko said:
Years ago on I snuck into a Subway, starving. As I'm approaching the entrance an old bag appeared right behind me, shuffling her feet. Of course I do the gentlemanly thing and let her proceed, holding the door for her as well. She orders 2 sandwiches and a tuna salad, each item called out painfully painfully slow. The last thing she specifies on the tuna salad was "and of course tuna!" I considered being a gentleman and getting the door for her again on the way out but...
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Oh good, a thread about the intolerance of old people! This is what a forum titled Senior Forums has been missing all this time.

I wonder if you could elaborate on this experience of yours by answering a few questions:
* Why do you consider this person to be an "old bag"?
* How old would you say this person was?
* Will you be refraining from visiting other establishments if you come across someone there that you consider & perceive to be an "old bag".
* Do you have, as you put it, any "old bags" in your extended family?
* If so, would you be prepared to shame them too?
* Have you deliberately omitted something from your story, and if so, why?

Be careful you don't meet someone like yourself when you reach the point where your cognitive and physical abilities become significantly slowed.

Quote: "Years ago on I snuck into a Subway, starving."
I suggest in future, don't leave the house starving, buy some food in instead. You then won't be so irritated, dismissive and critical of people. It fact that this happened "Years ago" and it still irritates you says a lot about you. Last question, * What kind of person you you consider yourself to be?

Quote: "I considered being a gentleman"
I don't think you have it in yourself to even 'consider' it, never mind be one.
 
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When a gentleman holds the door for a lady and the next thing she comes to is a line to be served, the polite thing for her to do is step back and let him go first. His holding the door for her did not mean she should go ahead of him in the next instance. Since I started walking with a cane, men and women hold the door for me quite often and I always make sure it doesn't mean I end up being seated ahead of them at the restaurant or served first in the store. It was particularly rude of her since she had three orders to give and wasn't well prepared with any of them.

Calling older women old bags isn't polite, but then I expect Jocko wouldn't have called her that if she had been nicer.
 
Jocko said:
Years ago on I snuck into a Subway, starving. As I'm approaching the entrance an old bag appeared right behind me, shuffling her feet. Of course I do the gentlemanly thing and let her proceed, holding the door for her as well. She orders 2 sandwiches and a tuna salad, each item called out painfully painfully slow. The last thing she specifies on the tuna salad was "and of course tuna!" I considered being a gentleman and getting the door for her again on the way out but...
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I hope you have learned your lesson, not to be a gentleman again.

My wife and I understand your rambling quite well. Several times at lunch break it happened to her that such an "old bag" visited the bank and interrupted the flow for a long time, because many of them are not able to fill out the forms for cash transfers.

My wife complained that they, although not working anymore, always visited the bank during her lunch break at high noon. It is more than annoying that such people with a lot of time stop people who only have half an hour to do their transactions.

By the way: "Alter Sack" (old bag) is very often used by young people, even in colloquial German, for an old man. The noun "Sack" is male in our language and therefore only for men.
 
Della said:
When a gentleman holds the door for a lady and the next thing she comes to is a line to be served, the polite thing for her to do is step back and let him go first. His holding the door for her did not mean she should go ahead of him in the next instance. Since I started walking with a cane, men and women hold the door for me quite often and I always make sure it doesn't mean I end up being seated ahead of them at the restaurant or served first in the store. It was particularly rude of her since she had three orders to give and wasn't well prepared with any of them.

Calling older women old bags isn't polite, but then I expect Jocko wouldn't have called her that if she had been nicer.
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When I open the door for someone, I don't care if they get service first. I actually insist on it if they are older or disabled.
 
Jocko said:
Years ago on I snuck into a Subway, starving. As I'm approaching the entrance an old bag appeared right behind me, shuffling her feet. Of course I do the gentlemanly thing and let her proceed, holding the door for her as well. She orders 2 sandwiches and a tuna salad, each item called out painfully painfully slow. The last thing she specifies on the tuna salad was "and of course tuna!" I considered being a gentleman and getting the door for her again on the way out but...
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You will get there one day. Let's hear from you then.
 
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