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I never can really understand why people get so frustrated with old people, sure they do things a bit slower than everyone else does, but how does that give them the right to get yelled at? Old people are just young people grown up. They’ve seen and done more in their lifetime than any person could ever imagine. I used to be one of those kids who were scared of the old wrinkly people over at our house every second day, who we were forced to hug. Then I took the time to get to know these strange people and found out that there not scary after all. I used to wonder that after you have taught your children everything you know and they have their kids, what is your purpose? That’s when those wrinkly people got renamed grandma or grandpa, and their former name seemed almost non-existent. When I was young I had this image of kind, loving grandparents, that never yelled and loved their grandchildren to death. The grandmother would sit in her rocking chair, knitting a jumper, waiting for her family to come on their weekly visit. And the grandfather would smoke a pipe, get his grandchildren to sit round him near a fire and tell of the good old days. My grandparents on my dads side did somewhat resemble the ideal grandparents, they didn