27 November 2007
Traveling with Senior Citizens
Today my husband and two children travelled on an airplane back home from a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. As we waited to board the plane I couldn’t help but notice how many wheelchairs were lined up at our gate getting ready to board. I counted about twenty-two of them.
Now, most of the people in the wheelchairs looked about eighty maybe some were seventy. I’ll give most of them the benefit of the doubt and say they probably really needed the wheelchair for a medical condition. But, I’ll bet you that most of them just needed a reason to board the plane first.
This particular airline that we were on was somewhat “general seating.”
When the original announcements came on to get ready to board they announced that families with small children may board after the wheelchairs—which makes sense.
Well, as we were getting ready to give our boarding passes to go on the plane this nasty(older) women opened her “big” mouth and shouted at us by saying, ” you have to go behind me—look at my ticket!” “I go first!”
I couldn’t help but open my mouth back to her and really told this woman off. Here we were the only family basically on the plane and she had the nerve to mouth off to us so she could get on the plane first.
We then had to wait and let her and alot of the other “older” people on first because of this certain letter that they had on their ticket. I was so annoyed.
Most of the people were arguing with each about who is supposed to get on the plane first. It was so ridiculous. A lot of these “older” people really think that they own this world just because they are older than most people. I really hope that I’m not like that when I get old.
The plane ride was so tense and crazy. Even the flight attendants never experienced such a terrible flight with these inconsiderate people. They expect younger people to worship the ground they walk on.
Now believe me, I know there are plenty of Senior Citizens who are kind and very sweet people. This experience that I had today is hopefully an isolated one.
Happy Travelling!!!
