Hubby and I were in a theater about five years ago where three women, all over 40, talked through the ENTIRE movie, despite us asking very nicely to be quiet, several times.
At the end, when we all were leaving and confronted these supposed "adults", we were told to "grow up". We replied that we were grown up and hence did not talk all the way through the movie.
My moral: Humanity hasn't changed one iota in several hundred (or thousand) years and will not change for several hundred more (assuming we aren't all extinct by then). Every generation thinks that the one after them is going to send us straight to hell whereas the younger generation all think that the older ones who are sending us to hell in a hand basket (George Bush, anyone?).
Sorry to hear about your fall - my mom had one earlier this winter that resulted in her hitting herself in the face with a shovel. No major damage and on the upside, she's pretty sure that she doesn't have osteoporosis, as the fall was hard enough to have broken something if she did.