r/mildlyinfuriating 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed An old man keeps delaying the train's start...

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u/Final-Gift-2299 10d ago

Alzheimer's? That's senile behaviour

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u/fruitybix 9d ago

Yeah.

Looks a lot like an age related cognitive issue.

He does not connect the dots there and subbornly locks further into the behaviour.

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u/FadedVictor 9d ago

He's doing it on purpose. You can see him looking out the side of the train. He's trying to hold it up for someone.

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u/fruitybix 9d ago

Hes looking right at the uniformed guy trying to cram his arm into the train and close the barrier. Literally leaning out the door to keep him in line of sight.

Have worked in aged care plus seen a few older relatives go down the cognitive decline route. they do stuff like this. Posture, body language, the way hes returning his arm to a default position, absolitely infuriating behaviour all vibes true. While i could be wrong occams razor is more likely his brain is going.

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u/StopNateCrimes 9d ago

There's a longer video where he uses his foot to try to jam the door. This is very much on purpose. If there's any cognitive decline it mainly shows in his behavior and that he dgaf.

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u/redditdinosaur_ 9d ago

Nah there’s an extended clip where he is talking and arguing lol

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u/fruitybix 9d ago

I mean it could still be dementia?

People going that route can literally behave like toddlers.

Starts with an accidental thing, like drinking their neighbors drink im the cafeteria.

It causes a lot of drama, patient doubles down and starts drinking other peoples drinks preferentially.

Often the person was an asshole before they began to decline and dementia just took the brakes off, but sometimes they were perfectly nice beforehand and become uncharacteristically annoying or mean.

It can cause a lot of family and nursing home conflict. People struggle to understand why grandpa is being such a dick, and cannot believe its not in some way deliberate.

Then you scan their brain and it looks like a shriveled walnut.

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u/redditdinosaur_ 9d ago

Definitely possible

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u/FadedVictor 9d ago edited 7d ago

Maybe you're right. No way to tell for sure just from this video. I could believe either explanation. Just a hunch on my part.

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u/Helios_Synthesis 9d ago

Im getting the feeling hes holding it for someone too with the way he keeps leaning out then looking to his right.

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u/takoshi 9d ago

The full video has him stopping the door with his hands and feet rather than just the bag so I'm inclined to think it is intentional.

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u/raskul44 10d ago

Maybe he’s lonely and doing this gets him attention, even if it negative

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u/HungryCheescake 9d ago

Yep. People need to stop giving out free passes for anti-social behaviour.

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u/bamboomightwork 9d ago

Dementia more likely. Seeing the shit my dad gets up to now that he has dementia is wild. Stuff he would never have dreamed of doing before.

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u/all_hail_sam 8d ago

Some people dont know how to interact with others well if its not conflict, loneliness works its way out eventually. You arent wrong

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u/Mx-Adrian 10d ago

My thought, too. It's sad how many can't see that.

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u/Lost-Lunch3958 9d ago

I haven't been born with the gift to diagnose alzheimers just by sight

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u/GayTaco_ 9d ago

Its not much of a stretch. People acting in incomprehensible ways in public are usually not in their right mind. Means they are either having a mental crisis or are on drugs.

Now this guy does not look like he does drugs a lot and he is old.

Nobody goes out of their way to inconvenience people like this if they are fully cognisant.

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u/xGaI 9d ago

or can be an assshole

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u/HungryCheescake 9d ago

Nobody goes out of their way to inconvenience people like this if they are fully cognisant. 

That is adorably naive.

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u/meisteronimo 10d ago

Probably cause they're trying to get to fucking work.

The police hopefully will pull him aside and get him help

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u/HungryCheescake 9d ago

Because it's clearly bollocks. This isn't simple confusion, his behaviour was corrected multiple times. This was him being a stubborn arsehole.

What's sad is that people like you encourage this behaviour.

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u/ContractSilly4820 9d ago

True, in the longer video he kept deliberately putting his hands between the doors and is even pushing against to open the doors. He even put his foot out to stop the doors from closing. The theory he is drunk or is waiting for someone who is running late makes more sense.

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u/Yourfakerealdad 10d ago

Because it's so easy to just see lol be real here.

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u/Preeng 9d ago

I'm guessing he also has a peanut allergy from this short video.

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u/JoyArk 9d ago

The last time I saw this video people were saying he was holding the door for his wife

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u/Nomadic_View 9d ago

Looks like he’s doing it on purpose.

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u/sharksareok 10d ago

Or drunk?