For years now I've responded to anybody saying we should "respect our elders" by saying "they just don't make elders like they used to."
It was easy to be old and wise when the world only changed on a scale of centuries. Now it's easy to see large cultural changes every decade or less; the wisdom of somebody who came of age in the 1950s is of no value today if they've learned nothing else since.
Not me but my uncle had a meeting scheduled at the WTC on 9/11. Only reason he wasn't there was because somebody moved the venue across town the night before.
Do people become less of a twat as they age?
Or should I lose hope in humanity completely now?
What event did you miss that saved your life
Saw the post asking people for mising their plane stories and made me wonder if peoples lives where saved by missing some event so here I am asking