IT was interesting to read Richard Weeks going on about the behaviour of some pensioners (Letters, June 14). It would also be interesting to know just how many of those in the post office queue were abusive towards him - two, three, four, or all of them?

I would suggest these were possibly in the region of three or four. These less than polite people and perhaps not over-burdened with a surfeit of intelligence, would probably be a small miinority.

In any case, their behaviour appears to be a little below the standard which you might expect from the generation who fought a war for freedom, ensuring that Richard Weeks would be free to express an opinion in a free newspaper.

For all the misbehaviour of, shall I say, a few of the pensioners in the queue, even they at least don't mug old people and steal money to finance drug habits and don't run into trees or walls with their cars on bends.

And if what Mr Weeks complained about relating to them is no worse than what he has written of, then we should all be thankful for that and be happy that they were in a minority.

ALBERT MORRIS, Clement View, Nelson.

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