Quiz: Why are older people seemingly intolerant and often grumpy
(a) They are now quite prepared to give you a response, where before they might have thought it prudent to say nothing?
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(b) They've finally got the confidence to tell you exactly what their opinion is, as against what they knew you always wanted to hear?
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(c) They see that the people around them have lost their manners, so they too can interject, talk over other people, speak with their mouths full, and behave in unseemingly impolite ways, which they never did before?
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(d) They have to cope with people pushing and shoving, drivers taking their parking spaces, younger people taking the bus seats, and people knocking them in the shins with shopping trolleys? Sounds like reason enough to be a bit out of sorts perhaps?

Select one of the above, or perhaps all of them...
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(d) It's frustration, boredom, and lack of some sense of achievement, or a feeling that nobody really cares? . They know that life is rushing by and they are not making the most of every day. Complaining has become their way of dealing with it. They do know that these wonderful days and years will soon be just a blur, and that they have to change in order to enjoy the last of it... OR DO THEY?