I would like to thank the young man who drove my dear friend to hospital when she had a nasty accident.

My most valued friend of over 45 years had a horrid turn of luck today when she had a funny feeling which escalated into dizziness and then collapsed by the side of the road.

The weather was horrendous and the location was quite rural. It wasn't exactly an overly busy road and so if it hadn't been for the gallant young man at the farm I frantically knocked at, my friend could be in a mutch worse condition than she is now.

My friend was covered in mud, extremely ill, getting soaked in the rain and being utterly unconscious, having not a shred of consideration at her abdication of dignity. However despite this, the young man in question didn't think twice about letting her be taken to nearest A and E.

If this wasn't heartwarming enough, for the 45 minutes it took to drive there, he kept her copus mentis by engaging with her non-sensical toddler like musings as I desperately tried to contact her husband (he's currently over seas) and attended to her chin with tissues.

I know people on SW like to get the wrong idea about me and say that I like to 'hate on' the young for their lack of direction, backbone, fashion sense and general moral bearing, when I see young people who aren't like that, I really do notice, and I really do get vocal about it

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Gloomy · F

Now Imagine the young man had pink hair and a nostral piercing
Would that have made a difference?

Bellows · 61-69, F

@Gloomy That would've been extremely unlikely because I'm friends of the family that own the farm and know they provided a stable environment for their son. He is back from University at the moment actually, and even if he had fallen in with the wrong crowd and made his hair pink and got a nostril piercing, it would have not made an iota of difference.

Gloomy · F

@Bellows Then why bash people for looking a different way and for not conforming to your conservative traditionalist standards when what matters are a persons actions and "soul"?

I'm still uncertain whether you are for real or just a satire project.

Bellows · 61-69, F

@Gloomy they are not 'your' (ie mine) *conservative standards*. They are our *ancestors* and they seemed to have serviced us and them for 1000s of generations so perhaps you should give traditionalist, orthodoxy, and old fashioned thinking a chance before you chide me because I do not believe in the last thing I read on the internet.

I would suspect I'm significantly older than you dear girl. Perhaps when you have enough years behind you, you'll find your current beliefs ridiculous, wrong and embarrassing.

Gloomy · F

@Bellows You must assume we have shared ancestry?
Norms and values have changed throughout history and vastly vary by culture and we are always progressing and changing. No generation is the same and that’s a good thing. Human societies and cultures have never been static.

It hasn't got anything to do with internet culture or your personal belief yet your criticism of younger generations today is based on a certain kind of traditionalist thought. Because you wouldn't judge tattoos or nose piercings would you follow the culture of some indigenous tribal societies.