ELDERLY PEOPLE AND THEIR FUNNY BEHAVIOURS

Have you ever stayed with an old woman or man before ?. Some from age 80 and above. How was your experience with them ?. Did they make you laugh or did they frustrate you ? .Did they act like babies sometimes.

For those of us who have lived with the very old people and those of us who haven't, I can tell you categorically that one of the most difficult people to live with are the very old and aged ones. Those folks can be really funny but annoying and frustrating sometimes. They can make your life a living hell.

I hear their attitudes are as a result of some psychological changes that come with age and it's a normal human phenomenon but I still find it hard to believe that a nice, calm and lovely person would become a nag, a short-tempered and sometimes an emotionally unintelligent person because of age.

Yes !, Old people can really nag and complain. They nag and complain about everything. sometimes I feel that nagging and complaining is their hobby.

They may complain that you gave them too much food, then next time if you reduce the quantity of food, they'll complain again that you're not giving them enough food, that you're starving them. They can be very demanding and almost insatiable. They can ask for the impossible and may even insult you if you fail to meet their demands.

The funniest of all is how they get angry
and flare so easily at the slightest provocation. Just like children, one minute they can be happy with you and the next minute they're angry. Also, just like children they can even take back something they had previously given you just because of a little provocation.

I have lived with a few old people, and I like being around them. My grandma is over a 100 now and her attitudes and behaviors really make me laugh.

I had once met her arguing with one of my little cousins (one of her little grandchild). She is more than 80 years older than this child but you needed to see how she was seriously fighting and arguing with the child as if they were age mates. It was really funny. They're were arguing about who owned something. Although I really can't remember what exactly the thing was but I remember it was not even something important. It was something very trivial and almost worthless.

When I met them she was telling the kid " give me my thing, it belongs to me", while the kid was saying " grandma, this is not yours, it's mine". That was what they kept saying and raising their voice till I came in and settled the issue. When I came in and saw what they were fighting for, I began to laugh once again. It felt like two little children fighting for a toy.

Old people really like to lay claim of things, they also like to hoard things and hardly ever disposes anything. Even when these stuffs are really old, dirty and smelly, they still claim to have plans for it. My grandma has bundles of old clothes, books, bags etc that she obviously would never use again but she wouldn't let go of any of them. Some are now rotting and making her room smell but they're just so comfortable with them. They'll be like "please don't throw that stuff away, I need it for something". Year after year, you'll come back and find those stuffs same way they were and they have not yet used it for whatever they said they're keeping it for.

Some Old people can be very blunt and emotionally unintelligent too. They say the the bitter truth without thinking whether it would hurt anyone. They can disgrace you and act like nothing happened. You may just come home with your fiance or boyfriend and show him to them and they'll be like "Welcome my Son, I can see you're rich even though you're Ugly" or if your friend comes home and forgets to greet them, they may just speak their minds without thinking. You may hear something like "Why is your friend stupid, so he wasn't thought to salute elders". They say these things in the presence of everyone and don't even feel like they did something they shouldn't have done.

Another very funny attitudes they have is that sometimes they can be very abusive, grumpy, cranky and they tend to find fault in the things done in recent times by the younger generation. They hardly appreciate new things trends but criticize them and always compare them to things done during their times.

When they hear young people nodding and grooving to the beat of a song, they may be like " you all think you're listening to good music when infact all you are listening to trash, you needed to have listened to good musicians like Elton John, Stevie wonder etc".
They always refer to their generation as " the good old days".

They can see a young lady swaggering and they'll be like "she is not even pretty, she doesn't even have an ass(butt). Why is she acting like she is pretty when she is not. She needed to see me when I was young, I was so hot and all the men loved me".

You need to be careful around them because although they forget a lot of things as they grow older, they don't forget abusive languages. They tend to curse excessively at the slightest provocation. You hear things like " you're so dumb, kiss my ass, asshole, stupid, son of a bitch." etc. You really don't want to mess with them else you're gonna get your ass kicked

Just see this funny video of two oldies cursing each other out 😂😂. This is what I'm talking about.

And the funniest of all is that they sometimes make funny faces too 😂😂.
They may do it when they intend to spite someone or when they want to mimic and ridicle a person.

When ever I hang around the elderly, I always anticipate these behaviors and since I'm conscious of it, I just laugh when I see them display those attitudes and behaviors. I try to tolerate and accomodate them because I know I will be old like them one day and someone else would have to tolerate those excesses too.

So don't always feel bad if ever you get a jab from them. Just see the humor in their funny behaviors and laugh it out. They're indeed lovely.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed this. 😂😂