The only special privilege seniority comes with is a sense of history...
...and with it, a sense of where the argument is going when it involves another old-timer, sonny. ;)
The drawback: sometimes myopia of the imagination sets in because of those assumptions. A new conversation with a new person can get short-circuited by things like that.
Please don't moderate your responses based on what you think you see, but only on who you are yourself. We all could use some shaking up from time to time. Many's the conclusion to which I leapt that saved me no time but sprained my ankle!
O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!