old coots

I have made the effort in my life to be friends, or at least friendly with several old coots. I was startled to find that these certain so-called well-educated gentlemen have very shallow, hypocritical, and anachronisitic values. In all sincerity, a pit bull has better civility.

My mother half-heartedly attempted to inculcate in me the old hypocritical standards, because they had been taught her. But, bless her rebellious heart for detecting the hypocrisy of it all. And so, although she gave me the requisite social education, most importantly she instilled in me a glorious, freeing sense of rebelliousness against the falseness of snobbery, which, let's face it, amounts to nothing but small, weak egos that depend upon social placement for a sense of Self. So be it. It is what all the old birds were taught as children, so you cannot really blame them. I did rebel against it, more so than mummy.

Coot n. An eccentric or crotchety person, especially an eccentric old man.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition Copyright 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.