Granny Tells It As It Is – Elderly Lady

Listen to Granny because Granny always knows best!

In the surgery of a doctor who looked to be about fourteen years old – okay, I may have been being uncooperative because he called for reinforcements.
Says to the occupant of the next room: “I have an elderly lady here refusing blood pressure medication.”
I couldn’t resist: “I can hear you. And I ain’t no lady.”
I don’t guess I’ll be seeing that doctor again. 
But I was cross. The term elderly lady is both patronising and pejorative. Had he said cackling crone I’d have laughed. And I might even have taken his fucking tablets. As it was. I walked…