Why is it that the elderly generally have 1 of 2 opinions towards children? They are either cooing over them like “oh aren’t they adorable” or they act like they are worst creatures in existance. It’s a bit like marmite they either love them or they hate them. Classic example of this was on a recent trip to Derby.
Lucie now likes to sit on a seat of her own instead of sitting on my knee on the bus. On the bus an elderly lady sat next to Lucie and the pair of them were chatting away quite happily with the occasional coo in Holly’s direction. Whilst waiting for the bus home an elderly lady barged straight into Lucie knocking her off balance and causing her to get tangled up in the lady’s bags. When this factor was pointed out to her she looked disgusted at Lucie and those of us who pointed this out to her. Her response was: “well she shouldn’t have been in my way, her mother should have better control over her”. My jaw dropped at this point as Lucie was standing right next to the pushchair causing no trouble at all.
Other instances where have encountered this bizzare attitude is queuing for toilets and in supermarkets when either waiting to pay for the items or whilst actually doing the shopping