According to Asia One News:
STEP aside yuppies, here comes a new set of people out to assert themselves – the grumpies.

The young urban professional (ie. the yuppie) was once in the limelight.

But now, talk has shifted to senior citizens who behave badly in public.

The latest flap happened on an SBS Transit bus and involved two passengers, both senior citizens.

It started when an elderly woman asked a male passenger to remove his plastic bags of food from a vacant seat so she could sit on it.

But the elderly man refused and launched into an angry tirade, at one point even asking her to ‘go and die’.

His rant created such a ruckus that the bus came to a stop for 10 minutes, when the bus driver tried to intervene.

Undeterred, the angry old man challenged the bus driver to make a police report. The sudden outburst by the man, who looked to be in his 60s, caught everyone in the packed bus by surprise, especially the elderly woman passenger.

Senior bus captain Adam Tan, 46, who was driving the bus, said: ‘In my 33 years of driving buses, I have never met such an unreasonable and inconsiderate passenger.

‘I didn’t expect him to be so unkind since he himself is a senior citizen and the woman who wanted to sit down is also an elderly person.’

The incident, which happened on a Monday afternoon two weeks ago , so incensed another passenger, Madam Sandy Nar, 46, that she took a picture of the man and sent it to The New Paper on Sunday.

Read the full article at Asia One News

- Personally I had seen older folks from above 50s to 70s think they are king of the world and jumped queue in EVERYTHING including food court ordering food to taxi queues.

Sometimes they can spit right to your leg at bus stops and bark at anyone near them for no particular reasons, spitting out vulgarities of all languages including curses of all kinds not suitable for the young.

I hate to complain against them but sometimes I had to show them compassion for their age and state of mind.

The common believe is some or majority of the older folks loss their ability to think properly when they reach a certain age and if their family or environment caused a great deal of stress to them…they are likely to suffer some sort of mental health problems.

Regardless of their bad behaviors the public have to understand some of them may not be “clear” in their minds and let them be.

Hope that there won’t be a group of people trying to put them into hostel similar to foreign construction workers….I won’t want to live in an old folks home when I am old.

There may have some kind of solutions to this social problems.

1. A old folk courtesy campaign on television, radio, road shows and many more.
2. Reward public friendly old folks and punish those who are rude by putting their videos in youtube or public papers.
3. More stickers to remind people to follow the queue system and other reminders.

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