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Stranger giving kind advice - oh fcuk off

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  • #32
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Was on a train once, working on a PowerPoint presentation for some crappy meeting and got cornered by what I would deem "a mad owlad" up for a chat.

    Well after ten minutes I realised no PowerPoint would get done so I put it away. He told me how he left Ireland, for America where he met his wife (now deceased) and all about his life and what corporate life was like back in his day. Back living in Ireland when his wife passed away.

    Lovely, lovely man, well read, intelligent, well travelled, great sense of humour and sharp as a tack.

    That was a couple of years back- I can't remember what the PowerPoint presentation or meeting was about, but I remember that conversation with that lovely man.

    Learned more from him than any PowerPoint presentation.

    She was right about one thing Op, you might go far one day, but you've clearly a long way to go.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So an old lady got the better of you OP and you thought you'd receive tea and sympathy here in AH? :D


  • #34
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    paralysed wrote: »
    You must be spending too much time on boards if you recognised my username and remembered that post. Not to mention it's unfair to use it against me.

    In fairness even I, who regularly forgets most things, remembered your innate anti social comments on that earlier one.

    That old woman was harmless and probably in early dementia herself but you treat her like a pariah. You really need to put life in context and learn the art of polite conversation.


  • #35
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    The Specialist wrote: »
    You sound like the kind of guy who could start a fight with a monk OP. Was the elderly woman really such a threat to you with her kind words that you needed to react like that?
    I said she older. She wasn't exactly a 80 either. You should know that anyone that arrogant in the first place can handle feisty person. I pointed out some fair questions to highlight the assumptions she was making. I'll do her no harm.


  • #36
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    R P McMurphy wrote: »
    What happened with the taxi?
    Wha? Did I have a thread about a taxi?


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  • #37
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    R P McMurphy wrote: »
    What happened with the taxi?

    Yeah I kind of did not get the jist of that one. It was a bizarre tale.

    Is there some reason why a person should come up with a complex strategy to avoid sitting in the middle.?


  • #38
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    paralysed wrote: »
    I said she older. She wasn't exactly a 80 either. You should know that anyone that arrogant in the first place can handle feisty person. I pointed out some fair questions to highlight the assumptions she was making. I'll do her no harm.

    That makes no sense whatsoever.


  • #39
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    paralysed wrote: »
    Not to mention it's unfair to use it against me.

    Don't you just hate it when people have the audacity to use your own words against you.

    Now, stop being a stain of a human being.


  • #40
    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    paralysed wrote: »
    You must be spending too much time on boards if you recognised my username and remembered that post.

    Don't flatter yourself, honey.
    Twas a simple search.

    paralysed wrote: »
    Not to mention it's unfair to use it against me.

    Yeah........... I suppose I should have showed some compassion.....


  • #41
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    anewme wrote: »
    She was right about one thing Op, you might go far one day, but you've clearly a long way to go.
    She didn't use the word "might". And if I haven't gone far, then there's no more reason that I will, than would be anyone else. She presumed I needed encouragement and that I was naive enough to believe her insight... typical cliches.

    Do you know what I learned from her? How not to just sit there and let her wear my ears out. Would James Bond let someone wear his ears out? No, nothing sexy about doing that.


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  • #42
    R P McMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭R P McMurphy


    paralysed wrote: »
    Wha? Did I have a thread about a taxi?

    The post about sitting in the middle. I couldn't follow it. Did you sit in the middle or what? Why would someone avoid sitting in the middle and sit in the passenger seat instead ? These are troubling questions


  • #43
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So an old lady got the better of you OP and you thought you'd receive tea and sympathy here in AH? :D
    She tried to? but I got rid of her, didn't I?


  • #44
    Avatar MIA
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    paralysed wrote: »
    Would James Bond let someone wear his ears out?

    James Bond would have smashed the smug disrespectful git's face into the bar counter.

    Are you sure she didn't say you'd go far on the next bus?


  • #45
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Dustin Greasy Recording wrote: »
    In fairness even I, who regularly forgets most things, remembered your innate anti social comments on that earlier one.

    That old woman was harmless and probably in early dementia herself but you treat her like a pariah. You really need to put life in context and learn the art of polite conversation.
    I didn't say she was old. I said older! I'm 26


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    paralysed wrote: »
    She tried to? but I got rid of her, didn't I?

    A badge of honour you can wear with pride- you'll go far :pac:


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    paralysed wrote: »
    She didn't use the word "might". And if I haven't gone far, then there's no more reason that I will, than would be anyone else. She presumed I needed encouragement and that I was naive enough to believe her insight... typical cliches.

    Do you know what I learned from her? How not to just sit there and let her wear my ears out. Would James Bond let someone wear his ears out? No, nothing sexy about doing that.

    You deserve some praise for your honesty. A friend of mine updated his FB status recently with a "spoke to an old person today, he was very interesting, so everyone be nice to old people" and I thought "oh fcuk off".

    But it's just about consideration. And taking a little time to be nice. Your mum could be alone one day, and impinge on someone's else's space, and I'm sure you would hope she would get nothing but kindness.


  • #48
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    paralysed wrote: »
    She didn't use the word "might". And if I haven't gone far, then there's no more reason that I will, than would be anyone else. She presumed I needed encouragement and that I was naive enough to believe her insight... typical cliches.

    Do you know what I learned from her? How not to just sit there and let her wear my ears out. Would James Bond let someone wear his ears out? No, nothing sexy about doing that.

    Wow you really see the worst in people don't you? You take a seemingly innocent compliment and warp it into some strange kind of personalised insult , I don't think this lady was nearly as calculated and scheming as you believe her to be

    Like seriously, 'youll go far' is quite a nice thing to say to somebody, most people would take it for what it is and appreciate it. But you look at it from a completely different aspect and assume by that compliment that she's implying you're not going for right now? She obviously said it because you're young, and young people don't have their lives sorted out. You are about as cynical as they come


  • #49
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    anewme wrote: »
    Yeah I kind of did not get the jist of that one. It was a bizarre tale.

    Is there some reason why a person should come up with a complex strategy to avoid sitting in the middle.?
    Oh yes, I remember the taxi now? Anyone would know that was a piss take.


  • #50
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,998 ✭✭✭Satriale


    wakka12 wrote: »
    When I read this it reminded me a lot of that short film 'Caca Milis' . Granted ,old Brendan gleason is annoying af in it but doesn't make the young woman any less of a rude gee bag aka you in similar sounding situation.


    http://www.thisisirishfilm.ie/shorts/caca-milis


  • #51
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    paralysed wrote: »
    Oh yes, I remember the taxi now? Anyone would know that was a piss take.

    At least, whatever career she thought you were going to go far in, we know it wasn't comedienne.


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Flint Fredstone wrote:
    Meh. Some people need to know their place and not impose on others.


    Others need to learn some manners & maybe a little empathy.

    Some people are socially awkward, autistic etc. Hope your mammy is proud of you.


  • #53
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Deleted User wrote: »
    But it's just about consideration. And taking a little time to be nice. Your mum could be alone one day, and impinge on someone's else's space, and I'm sure you would hope she would get nothing but kindness.
    Yes, but this woman was not senile. She was fast - perhaps faster than me, which is why I decided to take her on.


  • #54
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    paralysed wrote: »
    Would James Bond let someone wear his ears out? No, nothing sexy about doing that.

    I'm going to imagine the OP makes all his decisions in life by determining whether James Bond would do it.

    "Will I put jam on my toast? No. James Bond wouldn't put jam on his toast, would he? Nothing sexy about that."


  • #55
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    One day, you could be old and lonely. Craving any kind of human interaction.
    For the last time, she wasn't old!


  • #56
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Poor old woman. Just being old. God love her. All old and all. Awwww.


  • #57
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,998 ✭✭✭Satriale


    paralysed wrote: »
    For the last time, she wasn't old!

    Not old? Maybe she was coming on to you!.
    What would Bond have done?


  • #58
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Ah God love her. The poor old lady, lonely and just trying to be nice and she got a mouthful from the OP. Very sad world we live in when a compliment sucks so much.


  • #59
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    paralysed wrote: »
    You must be spending too much time on boards if you recognised my username and remembered that post. Not to mention it's unfair to use it against me.

    'You know you can just click on someone's username and see all their previous posts?


  • #60
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Terrible when an old person can't even catch a break.


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  • #61
    paralysed
    Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Satriale wrote: »
    Not old? Maybe she was coming on to you!.
    What would Bond have done?
    Sh1t!


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