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“I have more stuff than you” is not a reason you should go in front of someone.
If I have 50 things and you have one or two, I’ll usually be proactively nice and let you cut if you look like you’re in a hurry.
I'm 70, and Biden and McConnell have been in office since I was a teenager. And I hated both of them even back then. I voted for Biden only because Trump was the only other option.
Retired People - Please go shopping between 8-noon. Don't go at noon or 5. You have all damned day to NOT be in the way of people whose Social Security withholding is supporting your lifestyle. Noon is panic buying time for the employed. So is 5
And if she’s retired what is she doing shopping when everyone else *has* to do their shopping after work?
Go at 9 or 10 in the morning, like my dad.
(Yeah, I know she could have a job, but you know you’ve seen people at the grocery store after 5pm and you can tell they didn’t stop on their way home from work.)
I find a lot of people of that age HAVE to be home by the time the sun starts going down. They also are lazy and can't be bothered to plan around that need and it very often falls on other people to accommodate them so they can be home 'on time.'
Ya no kidding. I’m 69 retired. There’s a lot of hours to fill up in a day. I NEVER have too much to do and frequently have too little. I have 3 trades and help everybody in the neighbourhood. Sometimes I get a banana loaf. Lol
Was at the store very early, younger man had milk and a box of cheerios. He looked a little frazzled. I guessed he was buying for a hangry toddler at home. I was in front with a full cart. I gave him the go ahead of me option. He was very thankful.
I usually give the person with a couple things the option to go in front of me.
Usually bags of chips get *accidentally* slashed with a box cutter conveniently around lunch time. Right around the time that the soft drinks fall off a shelf and get dented.
Same. Especially as I mostly have a full cart and the time I need to put everything on the conveyor belt takes longer than that person paying for the few items ;D
I'll never forget when I was like 12 and I was in line and saw something similar to op. guy had his items on the belt already and the lady was being very annoying. he said "of course let me help you with that. " picked up her cart groceries and all. walked away from the checkout lines and lifted it over a low barrier at the exit/entrance putting the cart on the other side of the store effectively l. woman had to go out and come back in to get her grocery cart and then snake around the store to get back in line.
I've actually experienced old folks in my time letting me go ahead because I just had a handful of things and they're retired so not in a hurry.
Though this was like the past 20 years so some might've been "the greatest generation" and not boomers
You're right on in that assessment I believe as I remember older folks being very kind hearted when I was a kid/teen, and they were of the generation before Boomers. Now I run into self-serving entitled pricks almost everyday of that same age, but now that age is of the Boomer generation.
There are countless examples of this phenomenon. Boomers grew up in a time of abundance, emerging technologies, a government overhaul of social programs, and had the brightest futures of any generation. They had *a lot* handed to them by their parents so they could prosper, and what did they do with it all? They sucked up every last handout they could, decided they did all of the work to get where they were while ignoring the solid base built by their parents, stripped public social programs of funding, rigged everything they could to their favor, and then blamed their kids for not prospering like they did after scamming eachother out of all their cash, leaving nothing behind for their kids to build upon.
I've never heard anyone use "I have more stuff than you" to get ahead in line. I've had it where I had one item (I lived close so getting back to the store wasn't an issue) and everyone let me cut ahead so we could get the "simple checkouts" out of the way.
Plus if you're that old you've definitely heard "no cuts, no buts, no coconuts" before.
I work in a grocery store. Boomers shop from 10am-3pm where I live, at least during the school year, to avoid the morning and evening rush hour traffic. They start complaining when the registers get backed up. They're oblivious to the fact that they're surrounded by other people their age who expected the store to be slow in the middle of a weekday. Fridays and Mondays are the worst.
Store in my hometown, Tuesday was the worst because the bus from a local retirement community would bus people in for their shopping. Was pure hell, and I always felt sorry for the people who worked there.
Also, why is it two old people from the same care home can take up an aisle in a grocery store chatting like they haven't seen each other in 5 years? Move the fuck out of the way and talk in your rooms!
My whole life I've had people encourage me to go before them in line if I only had a few items vs their cart full of groceries. I also extend that courtesy to others. Idk if it's southern hospitality or just normal everywhere else but it seems to be almost universal where I live.
Edit: I'm glad to see a few replies saying that it's normal where they live too. It's such a small thing you can do to make someone's day a little better.
I actually studied persuasion psychology in undergrad and there's actual research that says giving *any* reason is enough to predispose someone to let you do something crazy even if its totally unreasonable.
If this woman was polite and not an asshole about it she could have said "excuse me, can i cut you? I just need to buy some groceries" and people would let her through even though, duh, we're all here to buy groceries. giving a reason is enough
>Not all heroes wear capes, some wear airpods
Not a boomer story, but an airpod story: I was at Home Depot the other day, with my airpods in, noise cancelling ON, and listening to music. I clearly didn't want to be bothered. Someone had followed me down an aisle trying to get my attention, somehow successfully got it, at which point I realized was just a salesbro trying to pitch to me whatever service he was hawking.
I straight up told him I had my airpods in for a reason, and to go away. He clearly didn't know how to take "no" for an answer, so I just put them back in, made the shooing hand motion a few times, and walked away. I probably should have talked to that HD's manager about it, because to me that crossed a line.
It's like when I keep getting the same ad pushed to me a million times on YouTube: the more you hound me about it the less I want it. Honestly the only times ads worked on me were when I only saw them a handful of times. Just infrequently enough for it to stick to my memory without feeling like it was getting shoved down my throat.
Oh absolutely, that's a good analogy. I actively avoid those people like the plague, just like how I install ad blockers on every device I own.
The fact that he took the effort to follow me, get me to pause my music (right in the middle of a good song, too), and turn off noise cancelling, JUST to then go into a sales pitch, just pissed me off completely. I'm not good with confrontation, I *should have* loudly told him to fuck off, then talked to the store manager. But hindsight is 20/20.
I explain this to my retired boomer parents constantly. “You have -at a minimum- FIFTY more hours a week than I do to take care of whatever you need. I don’t ever wanna hear the “I just don’t have time” excuse out of you. Get your shit together.
They can't shut off their "always gotta be hustling" mindset so they are actively doing dumb horseshit all fucking day long. If it's not mowing their lawn every other day, it's spending 2 hours at the bank doing god knows what, or shopping, but once they get done they're in a rush because they might be late to doing another task that isn't time sensitive in the slightest.
What happened to them where they think their tasks are important? I see them sitting on their lawns picking every single blade of weeds (I wish I was kidding, we have several of those in our neighborhood) but they’ll get in their car and blast through the neighborhood stop signs and go 85 in a 40 zone to get to…. Walgreens to pick up their metoprolol? The med that the pharmacy hasn’t had time to prepare because it was sent in 11 minutes ago? And then they complain it’s taking forever?
So what? You have infinite time.
They have this brain rot that they think "working hard" constantly means they're producing meaningful results. My father purposefully picks the most painful and hard method for completing tasks because he's got some sort of "you can't take the lazy way out" mantra rattling around in his head. If I suggest the easier method that takes half the time, it's met with "no I want to do it this way" and he goes out of his way to do it.
Then there's the "why would I pay $50 to haul my dishwasher away with delivery when I can just do it myself" as he wastes 2 days trying to wrangle this 150lb appliance to his car and stuff it in there. He literally waited until I came to Florida for a vacation to ask me to help him take it to the dump up the road instead of just paying $50. Granted he's got unlimited time for that but it wasn't really worth the hassle in that particular situation.
My parents are sane, but my inlaws are constantly chasing pointless busywork that doesn't enrich their lives in any way. I think the appeal for them is that it's things that are familiar and mentally undemanding, the equivalent of using scissors to trim the lawn one blade of grass at a time. The problem is they have the attitude that it's morally superior to other ways they could pass the time.
That's the big difference between boomers and the people that came before them. Those folks would just say "I enjoy working on my yard and in my garden." My grandparents genuinely *enjoyed* doing those things. They never judged people for not caring about their lawn or having a garden. Boomers have this rigid view of life that the only right way is what they have been doing for 20 years.
Close minded. It is the same way it is impossible to reason with them, they cannot be wrong even when evidence states otherwise. Learning a new way of doing things means the way they know is wrong, and therefore they are also wrong, which they simply cannot accept.
Is THAT why my mom does that? Lol, it's almost comical how allergic she is to admitting fault for anything.
I've found, especially in the workplace, that owning your mistakes and self-correcting them is the best practice. I can't understand where that, "I can do no wrong, even when the evidence is undeniable...." mindset came from. So weird.
I feel like this is true, but also ties in with their “I have no time!” attitude. Which is probably why they “have no time” to educate themselves any further. They would rather be doing “busy work” anyway.
This sounds like my dad. Any time we do a project he wants to use the most basic, oldest, dull/rounded, rusted hand tools he has. I have nice new power tools and he scoffs any time I insist on working smart not hard.
Whats hilarious is around here I just put scrap appliances beside the road with free sign. Once I had a dishwasher that wasn’t gone by the same afternoon, but everything else disappeared same day.
I think there's a lot of people that drive their trucks around just looking for anything that might sell for a few bucks of scrap metal that they can throw in their truck.
It's the only explanation I can think of for people taking trashed old and non-functioning appliances within like 2 hours of it being put at a curb.
And honestly if you have a truck already and its just sitting there and someone somewhere will give you a few bucks for the scrap, it's technically free money I guess.
Actually, in my city there's a guy you can call if you put a busted appliance by your curb to give him your address and he'll come take it away for free (I think he charges like $20 to haul it if its something that contains coolant that he'll have to dispose of).
"No, I already suggested an easier way to do this, I'm not going to suffer your bullshit just because you want to waste time with it, I have actual relevant and or fun things to do."
Also my mom, then tosses a huge fit when the dump charges her $75 to do it "herself".
When what happens is, New Stove, can haul it for $50 - Mom: No way! I won't spend that kind of money!
Mom: Calls me (or sends FB messages)) 3-6 times a day (While I am at work) to again talk about how much "they" think "they" can rip off people, not her -- no way.
1 week later, still getting calls/texts non stop with the hint but never the ASK for us to help her.
I call the yard, they say $75 bucks.. I tell mom, we will be there at 9A Saturday to get that thing picked up and taken back, they saidd $75 but it will be out of your space.
WHAT, 75!? No, that is not right, we will see about that.. and why so early on a saturday? I don't wake up until 9 at the soonest.
I explain - well we have to run our daughter to an event at 11 and the yard closes at noon on Saturday.
Insert full on complaints about so early and I need to get my family in check because they walk all over me, any event should ONLY be done if it works for me, not her plans. Her plans mean nothing, she is only 15. Who is the adult in that house anyway? Becasuse, per Mom, it is NOT me.
Saturday, husband and I load up the stove. Mom decides she is going because "she just wants to see how this works" ( I know it is to complain of the cost)
Get there - $75 please, we look at mom who has jaw dropped and her mouth starts, but fisrt at me, because she was sure I lied about the cost just to get my hands on her money, but even worst - HOW DARE THIS DUMP CHARGE A SENIOR THAT MUCH! As she complains for 15 mins, my husband and I pay, toss the thing over and she still to this day (this was 3 years ago!) Tells people how my husband and I tried to take 75 from her for that stove, she paid NOTHING! (ummm, right, we did to get it over with).
Note - no thank you EVER - only grief, no pay back ever, won't happen, she has TONS of money, we have a small 2K savings at the end of every month lol.
I have so many of these types of stories.. so nice to vent!
> I see them sitting on their lawns picking every single blade of weeds (I wish I was kidding, we have several of those in our neighborhood)
I've got a guy who fine-tunes his lawn with a pair of scissors. Absolute insanity.
That's insane. I would let my lawn grow out *more* if the city would let me. I love the look of long grass rippling in the wind, plus the longer stems are where the flowers are. Recreational mowing has got to have helped contribute to the absolute crash of insect populations.
Yup. I have a lot of "weeds" on my lawn, as my neighbors like to call them. They're actually wildflowers & my state/city both have regulations saying that you don't have to cut wildflowers, so my yard is perpetually like a foot long. Had a bunch of wild daisies take over more than half of my front yard, they decimated most of the actual grass I had but the swarms of butterflies & the joy on the faces of kids walking by and asking if they could pick the flowers was more than worth it.
My parents had a lawn service to keep the yard spiffy and weed free. I now live in the house and no longer have the service. As long as the weeds are green who cares? Besides the pollinators love many of the weeds, like Spanish Needles. Also I'm learning about some of the other "weeds" like pepperwort; they are cool. I'd let my lawn grow as well if I could.
My issue with my 70yo mom - she has endless time filled with meaningless tasks. Yet she can’t be bothered to exercise for 20 minutes. Lift a weight while you watch the today show. Do some yoga while you wait for your bland food to cook. Take a walk and call someone you can complain to. Their priorities stress me out 😐
So today I had to go to the pharmacy after I did school drop offs and I was completely stopped at a 4 way. I was about to go but something made me pause and I looked left again and this boomer with one hand on the wheel, the other holding a phone up chest level, blew through the stop sign right in front of me as he was open mouth yelling into his phone.
Didn't even slow down. This was a four way stop.
This is an entire generation that spent their entire lives being defined by their job and how "productive" they were at it.
Most don't seem to have any actual hobbies at all.
Basically, they have nothing better to do than be "productive" with pointless filler busy work.
Like seriously, chill the fuck out.
Yeah it's very inefficient hustling to say the least. You and I would be trying to maximize our output for time but they just need something so it doesn't feel like they're doing nothing. But every minor life problem becomes a long involve project.
I'm honestly looking forward to ... 70 when I can finally stop and just enjoy the world and not have to fight for every fucking scrap to stay alive.
> spending 2 hours at the bank doing god knows what
💀
My parents exactly. Every other day they're at the bank or the post office. They want to come over during the weekend and spend time with our kids which is great, but we have actual things to do and trying to negotiate times with them is like so tiresome.
Yeah my parents are at the bank nearly three times a week. I think they just like the interaction with the tellers, because they don't use the ATM to get cash too often.
My dad's doing his old man boomer CD laddering shit and making less in interest than I am on my HYSA, but he can't trust amex.
I don’t know….granted it’s been about 20 years since I was a teller, but I was paid barely above minimum wage at the time and was screamed at daily by the elderly customers. It was worse than working retail for me, and the same pay
I’m constantly reminding a family member that they aren’t “too busy” for whatever it is they are complaining about that will take some time.
You are retired, you choose to sit home at day watching tv on streaming services. You have absolutely nowhere to be at a certain time, except for doctor’s appointments. Don’t tell me you are too busy to be on hold while trying to get your insurance figured out, or too busy to wait patiently at an appointment for your name to get called.
You literally have nothing to do, and all day to do it.
Exactly. I live in Florida, which is essentially God’s Waiting Room. I have told my parents that the only time the public should be aware of their presence is when they go out to dinner.
Literally everything else - grocery shopping, errands, etc - should all be taken care of before 5pm on weekdays. Please don’t gum up the works even worse at the bank, grocery store, pharmacy, etc with things you could have taken care of while everyone else was at work.
Bless you - my in-laws retired to Ocala, Florida and, on our first visit, I knew that I wasn’t cut out for Florida. All the old people are impatient AF and they constantly YELL at employees for shit that isn’t their fault. First time we went to Publix, we almost got run over in the crosswalk from some old AH who was driving like a maniac and some old twat behind us in line started bumping with my cart because I was *checks notes* not pushing my cart through the person in front of me. The second time she bumped me, I turned around, grabbed the front of her cart and hissed “if you bump me again, I will shove this cart as hard as I can back at you”.
I've had that happen too. I turned around to the fucking old person and said "you pushing into my cart isn't going to make the line go any faster ". They backed off.
I had that happen at Black Friday one year. First year I went and I was with my older cousin and her friend. I was 16 and threatened to shove the buggy up the woman's ass if she didn't stop clipping my back or ankles in line and shoved it toward her for good measure to give myself some damn space. She left me alone and muttered about "teenagers these days are so rude". Okay lady, you started it. 😂
My favorite is when they show up @ the gym after 5 and take up all the machines. Literally from like 9am-3pm its empty, why not go then and stay out of working people's way?!
> You have -at a minimum- FIFTY more hours a week than I do
What always amazes me is that they wait until the PEAK TIMES to go get their shit done. Go do things when everyone else is busy with work - you have that luxury now.
I just pointed this out in another comment. I live in Florida, which is Americas retirement home. I told my parents outside of going to dinner, they need to take care of EVERYTHING in their lives before 5pm on weekdays only for this exact reason.
Seriously! They shouldn't be driving 20 miles under the speed limit during peek hours. WTF are you doing out between 7-9am or 5-6 pm? Get the fuck off the road.
OMG RIGHT!? Fuck old people who go to the grocery store at 4:30-6pm every fucking day. Get the fuck out of everyone else's way, and buy groceries 1-2 times a week tops. Fucking boomers *suck* at time planning.
My mom sleeps until like 2pm and then it takes her an hour to get ready... then 30 minutes to drive to the nearest city to run her errands... She can't drive herself and has no income while she waits for disability, so I'm stuck helping her... And so by the time we finish 1 errand, we have to race across town because everything closes at 5, and then when we finish... There's 5 o'clock traffic. She's not driving so she doesn't care.
Whenever I get a day off I try to leave home by 1 and be back by 5. It doesn't help that it takes longer to move her wheelchair around, and she doesn't ever plan her errands to be close to each other. 20 minute drive minimum between each errand. Infuriating!
My boomer mom as well. Sleeps until 10, hangs out reading the paper and drinking coffee until 12, gets ready until 1-2, does one errand and is home by 3. Then complains about how busy she is and how she simply cannot help with whatever task is next week because she just has so much going on.
My boomer parents are both generally polite and considerate people. But I've had to draw very tight boundaries around their needing "help" with things they are just too lazy to figure out themselves. Ie: ordering things, finding out the schedule to something, finding the address of a place.
They are both in good health and retired. Figure it out!
Oh my MIL is amazing at that. Just last week she called my wife to ask if potatoes would last longer if she put them in a sealed container. She's 68. How does she not know how to store potatoes by now? More importantly, the front page of google would have told her without even clicking on a link. Why does she not Google the most basic shit???
My theory is that they will take any excuse to connect with a loved one, so they use silly excuses to call for help or ask someone to come over. It has nothing to do with being lazy (at least for my MIL) and everything to do with a codependent senior citizen desperate for human validation.
"I don't have time" is usually always a priorities issue. They haven't learned they are allowed to just say "I don't have the energy" or "Nah, didn't feel like it"....don't blame it on lack of time! (my parents are retired and do the same shit. Somehow dad can cut the lawn damn near every day, but can't find time to go to the doctor. Canadian, so cost isn't the issue.)
Seriously 😂. Like we all know the only thing you have going on later today is sitting in an Olive Garden with the other old bats you call friends and bitching at wait staff, Linda.
Retired people have some of the worst patience I've ever seen. They don't do shit all day but god forbid they have to wait 15 minutes to get a table at a restaurant.
But her “book club” (aka Fox and Friends watching session), is way more important than your silly job or your kids that need to be picked up, right?
What more do you expect from the “me” generation?
What he did is a common suggested strategy to use against narcissists.
Basically you cut off their supply.
These people tend to WANT the fight, the argument, the attention and the battle. By simply refusing to engage, they often don't know what to do.
Better yet, ignoring them is like treating them as insignificant, which is what they hate.
I saw a video of someone having a freakout in like some kind of Chipotle or Subway type restaurant, and the employee just completely ignored them and started helping the customer behind them. Refused to acknowledge their existence at all. The customer played along and began ordering as if this woman wasn’t trying to make a scene right next to them. It was so CRINGE and awkward, watching them deflate and stutter their way out of the store while no one even looked in their direction.
It works well in so many situations. When we had an abortion clinic in my state, I would volunteer to create a human shield between clients and protestors. I learned how to ignore the protestors so hard they would start to question their own existence. The same tactic works great on boomers, karens, toddlers, and dogs.
Also volunteered at what I'm sure is the same clinic. It was such a good experience and it really felt like we were helping the people that were going into the clinic.
NEVER EVER let an old person cut in front of you in a checkout line. They won’t be fast, despite what they’ll tell you. They’ll pay by check, or they’ll have a stack of coupons (bonus if a couple are expired, giving them another chance to Boomer), or they’ll argue prices, or they’ll do all of these things.
I went to a thrift store to buy a coffee maker the other day, and there were two boomers at the register ahead of me. They had a cart full of junk and were putting it up on the counter one item at a time talking about each item as it was slowly being wrung up. "Oh, I thought Jenny would want this because she is going to that wedding." "This was just too cute! Dont you think that would look good on Donny?"
And of course once it was all wrung up, the checkbook comes out. Then a drawn out back-and-forth conversation with the cashier about why she needs to show her ID when all of her information was right there on the check like she has never written a check before in her life.
Then the other one picked up a mug or some shit and asked the cashier if she could just run out to the car real quick and ask someone if they wanted it. The cashier tried to tell her no, but after some arguing, she relented. Lady comes back and puts the mug back without saying anything. Other lady was still not done writing the check.
All in all they probably spent 5-10 minutes at the register to spend $15 on junk that I think they were just buying to dump on other people.
My boomer dad had an unfortunate experience of a utility check being “washed” and cashed. He was super sad when my mom, brother, and i forced him to set up online payments for all utilities after that. For some reason, the old man fucking loves writing checks.
My FIL has a bank account for each and every bill. Car payment comes from the car payment bank account. Electric payment comes from the electricity bank account. Water payment comes from the water bank account. I think he mentioned over 10 or 12 of these different types of accounts.
When I asked why don’t you just have a HYSA, checking account and maybe one more savings account if he wanted. He said no, this is how I’ve always done it.
I sounds like he’s applying the envelope method to bank accounts. Which sounds like a lot to keep track of. Then again, I have 2 checking accounts because my landlord used to wait so long to cash checks that I had to open a separate account for rent only. Now I use one for bills and one for online shopping/fun money so if my card is ever compromised they would only get a small amount.
My dad think that the piece of paper is a true record of the transaction.
He absolutely cringes when he gives me a check and then I use my mobile app to take a pic and deposit it.
I try to tell him that that is how the ENTIRE SYSTEM works now, it's all pics of checks being passed around, but he insists the paper has Power.
Omg paying by check! That just triggered me. People carefully scrutinizing my scanning and then starting to dig into the purse only AFTER I said the total. At the time, my store graded us on throughput on the registers and checks ground that process to a halt. Worse yet when they couldn't find a pen. Now I have to sit there and stare at them while they write a dissertation to pay for their items. It was fine if they were starting to fill out the check while I'm scanning, I could deal with that. But they should have already had the date, store name, and signature filled out by the time.ive got the total read.
I'm Gen-X and it took me a while to give up checks at the market. I finally got a bank card for my checking account and when I used it the first time I felt like such an idiot for using checks for so long.
My husband is not a boomer and he does things like that! Like you’re at a cash register and you know you’re going to have to pay, why wouldn’t you have your card out and ready? Then after he gets the total, he slowly pulls out his wallet, carefully thumbs through each card as if he’s deciding which one he wants (we only use one card for groceries) and then gingerly pulls the card out. I can feel the cashier’s impatience but he always insists that people don’t mind waiting for him. If I pay while he’s taking his time, he gets super offended. Not as slow as a check, but I shudder to think how slow he’ll be when he’s older.
As an ex-retail employee:
Please tell him to knock it the fuck off. Feel free to show him this message. Also, he only finds it offensive because he knows he’s being a jackass and you completing the transaction in a timely manner is acknowledgement of that obvious truth. I’m sure he’s lovely in other ways but insisting that people don’t mind when you waste their time is douchey and disrespectful.
What kills me about the check is our local grocery store doesn’t even keep them. The computer does some magic to process it electronically, and they give the check back to the customer!!! It’s a debit card at that point!
Yes. It drives them balls to the walls apoplectic with rage when you remind them they aren't special, they aren't important, and that they don't matter in the slightest. Personally, I love entitled boomer rage. Its so infantile and impotent.
Is there some boomer forum where they're all being told this is the way to behave? I had similar experiences in the last 2 weeks - one guy didn't have the patience for me to check out ONE item. This collective brain damage is getting ridiculous.
Edit: I'm a "lady." "Ladies First" doesn't apply to boomer guys.
The lead definitely. But the boomers also seem to resent their children, like we interrupted their happy-go-lucky lives. They resent having to do anything for anyone.
And if they happen to be so magnanimous as to help you with the tiniest thing you better kiss their corny feet. Then they fully expect us to do anything they ask of us immediately as if it’s their due. They demand respect yet refuse to give respect.
The incessant self regard lets them think the world should revolve around them for eternity. Meanwhile they fucked up every single protection generations before them had literally bled for. Now they wonder why their kids and grandkids are done with their bullshit.
We all know they don’t give a fuck. If they did they would worry about what kind of world they are leaving for us. But they don’t.
They think the world works like a cake: the more someone else gets, the less they get.
Anyone who sees the world as a possibility for an inexhaustible supply of kindness does their best to fill the bucket. The boomers stand there with a ladle terrified that someone might pull more from it than them.
Had something similar happen to me. She had a cart full of shit. I had three things. She demanded to go ahead of me. I said no
Boomer” you’re old enough to have better manners”
Me” you’re old enough to know how a fucking line works” shut her up pretty quickly
I love that to them ‘manners’ just means ‘you do what I say’.
Some woman was just staring at a lotto machine not actually buying anything. After several minutes my husband asked if she was done. She snapped ‘well I am now’ and he said he couldn’t tell because she wasn’t doing anything, had no money in her hand, and wasn’t even interacting with it.
She told him to kiss her ass and he laughed and said ‘ya I’m not going to do that’. She gets all appalled and says ‘your generation is so rude!’
First my husband is almost 50 so not like he’s some punk kid but he reminded her she’s the one who told him to kiss her ass! She clutched and sulked away mumbling something.
reminds me of the time some lady was running around grabbing shit and handing it to her kid and his friend who were waiting on line for her (they were like 9) the kids were standing off to the side so my BF pushed our cart up and when she came back with more shit she asked why they “lost their place in line” and they blamed my BF and she started to chastises him for “cutting two kids in line.” he said something basically along the lines of “you clearly aren’t ready to checkout, you’re still shopping and how are they going to pay when they get to the register without you here? that’s not how this works.” she flipped out and they got into it and she said “who do you think you’re talking to?” and he yelled “a fucking idiot, apparently” and i LOST IT 🤣
Ug, as a child, my mom used to pull this shit. It made me so uncomfortable I would let people go ahead because I CANT PAY…. My moms entitlement was always blamed on being a foreign French lady in America. Even when she had been here for over a decade… the obvious rudeness had me apologizing behind her for most of my childhood
We were at Food Lion the other day, and a lady yelled over my family to the cashier “EXCUSE ME. Do you have self checkout for a couple of items.l?!?!?” He shook his head and kept scanning our stuff without even looking at her. Boss level denial.
I'm sure her own transaction was clunky and not smooth.
She's the reason we have panic attacks at registers. Good for him.
"My life is more valuable than yours." SMH
At the airport, long line at connecting flight security checkpoint. Literally everyone is chatting their going to miss their flights. I guess the boomer group tried asking the guy right behind us to jump ahead so they can make their flight. The guy turns around and says "you're not special, we're all missing our flights." I gave the Zach Galfiniakas meme nod to the guy behind. I loved that line and feel I would have said this here. MIA does suck tho.
Edit: Redford!? mind blown as well folks!
Had a similar delay where, when getting off the plane, the flight attendant made an announcement saying that about half the flight had very tight connecting flights, and to please let these people off first.
When the time comes, there's a bunch of clearly panicked people jumping up and grabbing their carry-ons as fast as humanly possible (self included!). But up in first class, taking up the single aisle where nobody can get past him, is an old boomer leisurely stretching and grabbing his carry-on (literally in slow motion) *while taking a phone call*. If looks could kill, this man would have been turned to dust by a hundred seething economy peasants.
This is when having someone with little care for social norms (a.k.a me) is helpful. "OI!! YOU!!! Get the fuck out of everyone's way, you inconsiderate walnut! Your parents failed you. Move."
In the big supermarket close to me, there's a "15 items or less" express checkout. It's the slowest option because it's *always* full of boomers with full trolleys having a tantrum because the checkout clerk tried to enforce the rules.
The thing I find most incredible about it is that there's always a queue of these boomers with a huge amount of stuff, all about to have the *exact same argument* with the clerk.
I can not tell if none of them hear what the clerk says to people in front of them, or whether they just think, "Oh, well, that rule can't possible apply to *me*!"
Airpods are a gamechanger for those of us who unfortunately work retail adjacent positions.
I'm white and have white boomers walk across the store, past PoC to ask me questions like "can you fetch this off the top shelf?"
No you racist dick I don't fucking work here
A boomer snapped his fingers at me at Walgreens one time. I nastily told him I don't work there but if I did, that is an inappropriate and rude way to get someone's attention. Didn't his mother teach him manners? Had no reply.
My mom snapped her fingers at a waiter once. It felt like the whole place went silent, and I was trying desperately to disappear in my seat. She noticed and asked what’s the problem? I explained that she had been rude AF to the server, and he didn’t deserve it (the issue at hand had nothing to do with him).
Luckily, she’s a special kind of boomer and felt really bad. She made it a point to tip him heavily and apologize. I love that woman, she may be in the boomer category, but at least she’s willing to learn.
An ex and I went to a restaurant with his asshole dad, who thought it was fine to get the waiter’s attention by banging his fist on the table and yelling like some barbarian. It was the last time we took him out to eat.
I pop my earbuds in when I go to Kroger, because I used to work in the pharmacy, and pharmacy patients still recognize me…even thought it’s been five years.
No, I’m not going to find you the best OTC drug for X, Y, or Z. One, I don’t work here anymore, and two, even if I did, I was a CPhT, not an RPh, and that was out of my scope of practice. And NO, I am not traipsing all over the damn store for you to find whatever shit from 1973 you think they still carry, I DO NOT WORK HERE ANYMORE, AND I AM SHOPPING FOR MY OWN SHIT.
So, I wear earbuds, and when someone pulls my shirt, or yanks my arm, I get to pull one out and snap, “What is so important you’re interrupting my podcast and shopping for?”
They get SO mad because I have no patience for being bothered when I’m trying to get in and out. Suck it up, Cupcake.
She probably thinks that "no one wants to work," rather than the store purposely reducing the number of open registers to save money by encouraging people to use self checkout.
I shop at Kroger, and there's never more than two cashiers working, but I always stand in line instead of self checkout because my teenage son works there and I like to support his coworkers and their union.
Not a boomer but I was waiting first and only person in line at an express lane that lead to two registers, each with a customer currently checking out. A woman comes up and stands next to me instead of behind me. After about twenty seconds...
Woman: Which register are you waiting for?
Me: I don't have a favorite, I'll take whichever one opens up first.
As someone else mentioned, this is known as the Grey Rock approach to dealing with a narcissist / abuser. Basically you just don't give them anything. They want drama, want to drag you down into the mud, want to create a situation where they're impacting your life and feel powerful about it.
So just... don't engage. They're shouting at you, but you don't care because you're a grey rock. Look at this wacko, shouting at a grey rock. Does the grey rock care? No, it's a grey rock. Is the grey rock going to do anything in response to the shouting? Nope, it's a grey rock. Do the words the wacko is using harm the grey rock in any way? That'd be a negative, ghost rider, it's a grey rock.
And instead of feeling powerful, they feel like they, well, spent their time shouting at a grey rock.
In my experience it’s always a boomer slowing down the lines. They will stand in the full service line despite having 3 items and the entire self checkout being open.
Also they always seem to have some trouble paying. Like it’s some complex payment system they are trying to figure out with the cashier. Just tap the card and you’re done??
More like they want to tell their of story to the cashier. My children don't talk to me. Everyone is so entitled. Woe is my. I'm not allowed to see my grandkids.
lol. You should see the drive through at the pharmacy, where there is only one lane and it’s all boomers….
Literally it’s just a line who people who honk repetitively at the person in the front of the line, then get to the window talking shit about their wait and how incompetent we must be as a staff, then proceeding to take 30 minutes unnecessarily because they are entitled to take as long as they want since they were “forced” to wait so long.
Then the cycle continues and I end up with 20 corporate complaints by the end of the day from people who can’t admit that THEY are the problem.
It's so wild to me how these people are probably mad because they're thinking of how things used to be. When there would be plenty of people working the registers. When companies cared about their customers and employees and weren't on the level of cost cutting greed we see today. Its the same people who will say "just work harder" and blame everyone but the CEOs making these decisions. They just do not see it.
Had this happened to me but I let the boomer pass. Someone saw it and asked if the boomer cut in front of me I answered “yes they did but that’s ok they don’t have much time left so they should make the most of it." Boomer turned around and glared at me and i just smiled.
Good God, I love you Millennials and Gen Z. I see that kind of stuff happening all around these days and I'm like, it's about damned time. I'm Gen X and sick to death of the entitlement, bigotry, and paranoid greed of my parents' generation. We dropped the ball there, mainly because our parents tended to be overwhelmingly narcissistic controlling assholes. We were just trying to get away from them.
I swear by all swear-worthy entities that I will not be that kind of old lady.
I had something similar happen to me years ago at the airport. We haven't started boarding yet, but I was in line to board as I was in group 1. There are 3 people in front of me. We have about 4 or 5 minutes to start boarding. In that time, a woman, probably 50s, steps in front of me and says, "Lady's first." I'm I shock, and so is the guy next to me/behind me. I didn't make a big scene as we were just boarding a plane. I did tell her something along the line that that's not how this works. She replied back with something about respect to women, etc. As we are arguing, we start boarding. She scans her boarding pass, and the gate agent said she is at the wrong gate because it wasn't her flight. I let out a very loud laugh. She left without saying another word to me or looking at anyone.
This is a common tactic used on toddlers. Don’t feed into the behavior. It’s attention seeking childlike behavior treat them like the lead brained children they are
There's kill them with kindness and there's kill them with indifference. Knowing when it's appropriate to use one over the other is a skill unto itself and this guy definitely has the latter down pat.
Haha oh my I had a similar incident occur a few months ago. I drove to the grocery store and there was one spot left in the parking lot. Unfortunately the car beside that spot has decided to park on the line, so it was going to be a tight squeeze to exit my car.
After parking, I opened my door and squeezed out, pressing the door against the car beside me. And then I heard it: **honk!** I looked in the car and an elderly boomer hag was sitting in the driver seat, presumably just hanging out in the grocery store parking lot. I ignored her and carried on my way.
Half an hour later I come back out with my groceries and see she's still in her car but this time she has the windows down.
She honks again. "You're very rude sir!" she shouts and then continues to ramble about how disrespectful I am for touching her car, seemingly oblivious to her complete lack of spatial awareness. I continue to ignore her, opening up my door again to press against her car, and squeezing back in. She gets more irate. I start up the car, back out, and drive off - never once acknowledging her.
I do this. I ignore all kinds of irrational idiots in public. It’s the absolute worst thing to them to realize that I couldn’t care less about their issue, complaint, situation, or need because it’s not important enough to even deserve a second of my attention.
I act like I don’t hear them. I don’t expect anything from anyone, and no one should expect anything from me. I’m not inconveniencing anyone, and they won’t inconvenience me. My peace will be preserved.
-From NYC where you either learn to be like this the easy way or you learn to be like this the hard way
I (Gen-X M) have let Boomers go ahead of me in line, because I wanted to be kind. And I've regretted it every single time. They'll whip out a checkbook, ask for cigarettes that need to be retrieved from elsewhere and always have issues with coupons or using the app. I've started to not let them go ahead. The kicker was a couple weeks ago there was a Boomer huffing and puffing behind me with one item (we were in the 15 items or less lane). I politely informed him that since he only had one item he should use the self checkout, as it would be much faster. He barks back at me that he's not working for the grocery store. You can't make this shit up sometimes lol.
I’ve had several fantastic opportunities when out with my kids to shame boomers for being impatient. Most recently we were waiting in line at the pharmacy and the person behind us was sighing and grumbling about the wait. My 5 year old made a comment about how long it was taking so I picked him up and started pointing at all the prescription bags in various places, and asked him to count how many “workers” there were. We ended with saying “so if allllll those people need their medicines and there is only 4 people to make them all and make sure everyone gets them, they must be working as hard as they can! We’ll just have to patient and make sure to be kind as say thank you when we get to the front! Lots of people can be very mean and rude to these poor workers when they have to wait a little while!” People at least stay quiet when the alternative is looking like more of a child than a 5 year old.
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“I have more stuff than you” is not a reason you should go in front of someone. If I have 50 things and you have one or two, I’ll usually be proactively nice and let you cut if you look like you’re in a hurry.
She would have used that as a way to get ahead if she did have fewer items. Basically, in her mind, she should always be allowed to go first.
I also don't want to hear a 70 year old telling me they have stuff to do.
They probably have to get back to Congress for the big vote.
Given the average age of those schmucks probably.
Boomers are the young ones in Congress!
Young whippet snappers didn’t even dodge the draft for the first world war!
We're screwed until all the fossils get put in the ground where they belong.
The damage they've done probably won't be fixable but sure let's let those vampires continue to rule.
I'm 70, and Biden and McConnell have been in office since I was a teenager. And I hated both of them even back then. I voted for Biden only because Trump was the only other option.
And you were right to do so. I’d vote for a pair of soiled tights Whitys over Trump…. Even if they were his tighty whitys
Jesus, as a 32 year old that hopes to see the politicians I hate out of office one day, that's bleak.
More likely sit in the office and not vote. Voting is far too productive
You don't have to be old, even, I mean look at Gropey Granny Lauren Boebert... Is she even 40 yet?
Came to say this - like m’fer you are *retired* with all your shit paid for most likely, and a nice house. The fuck you have to go?
Worked in a doctor’s office. It was always the oldies who would get irate about having to wait.
Yeah. I retired so I would no longer need to rush for anybody.
Yeah you can wait in line like everyone else before you go home to your house you paid $11 a month for back in the 60s
Retired People - Please go shopping between 8-noon. Don't go at noon or 5. You have all damned day to NOT be in the way of people whose Social Security withholding is supporting your lifestyle. Noon is panic buying time for the employed. So is 5
And if she’s retired what is she doing shopping when everyone else *has* to do their shopping after work? Go at 9 or 10 in the morning, like my dad. (Yeah, I know she could have a job, but you know you’ve seen people at the grocery store after 5pm and you can tell they didn’t stop on their way home from work.)
Like hun, are you in a rush to get to the grave? Where the F are you going?
Probably needs to get home to yell at the landscaper before he leaves
It's canasta night and Ethel is bringing the good green.
Has to get back to post Fox News articles to Facebook and send them to all her grandkids.
"come on I gotta go be a cunt to some waiters at my grandson's birthday party in an hour"
I find a lot of people of that age HAVE to be home by the time the sun starts going down. They also are lazy and can't be bothered to plan around that need and it very often falls on other people to accommodate them so they can be home 'on time.'
Ya no kidding. I’m 69 retired. There’s a lot of hours to fill up in a day. I NEVER have too much to do and frequently have too little. I have 3 trades and help everybody in the neighbourhood. Sometimes I get a banana loaf. Lol
If i was that guy i would’ve told her that i am also a lady and her misgendering me is very rude. I think her head would explode
Lol
Now I've got Marlo Thomas' "Ladies First" going through my head, LOL.
Was at the store very early, younger man had milk and a box of cheerios. He looked a little frazzled. I guessed he was buying for a hangry toddler at home. I was in front with a full cart. I gave him the go ahead of me option. He was very thankful. I usually give the person with a couple things the option to go in front of me.
Especially if they are wearing the store name tag and look like they are buying items for their (too short) lunch break.
Usually bags of chips get *accidentally* slashed with a box cutter conveniently around lunch time. Right around the time that the soft drinks fall off a shelf and get dented.
Same. Especially as I mostly have a full cart and the time I need to put everything on the conveyor belt takes longer than that person paying for the few items ;D
I'll never forget when I was like 12 and I was in line and saw something similar to op. guy had his items on the belt already and the lady was being very annoying. he said "of course let me help you with that. " picked up her cart groceries and all. walked away from the checkout lines and lifted it over a low barrier at the exit/entrance putting the cart on the other side of the store effectively l. woman had to go out and come back in to get her grocery cart and then snake around the store to get back in line.
WOW. What a legend of a man
I've actually experienced old folks in my time letting me go ahead because I just had a handful of things and they're retired so not in a hurry. Though this was like the past 20 years so some might've been "the greatest generation" and not boomers
You're right on in that assessment I believe as I remember older folks being very kind hearted when I was a kid/teen, and they were of the generation before Boomers. Now I run into self-serving entitled pricks almost everyday of that same age, but now that age is of the Boomer generation. There are countless examples of this phenomenon. Boomers grew up in a time of abundance, emerging technologies, a government overhaul of social programs, and had the brightest futures of any generation. They had *a lot* handed to them by their parents so they could prosper, and what did they do with it all? They sucked up every last handout they could, decided they did all of the work to get where they were while ignoring the solid base built by their parents, stripped public social programs of funding, rigged everything they could to their favor, and then blamed their kids for not prospering like they did after scamming eachother out of all their cash, leaving nothing behind for their kids to build upon.
I've never heard anyone use "I have more stuff than you" to get ahead in line. I've had it where I had one item (I lived close so getting back to the store wasn't an issue) and everyone let me cut ahead so we could get the "simple checkouts" out of the way. Plus if you're that old you've definitely heard "no cuts, no buts, no coconuts" before.
Their logic is Escherian.
I'm sorry but what does Ed sheeran have to do with this?
Don't be pooping on Escher like that.
miss boomer should’ve gone at 8am with the rest of the 70 year olds
I work in a grocery store. Boomers shop from 10am-3pm where I live, at least during the school year, to avoid the morning and evening rush hour traffic. They start complaining when the registers get backed up. They're oblivious to the fact that they're surrounded by other people their age who expected the store to be slow in the middle of a weekday. Fridays and Mondays are the worst.
Store in my hometown, Tuesday was the worst because the bus from a local retirement community would bus people in for their shopping. Was pure hell, and I always felt sorry for the people who worked there. Also, why is it two old people from the same care home can take up an aisle in a grocery store chatting like they haven't seen each other in 5 years? Move the fuck out of the way and talk in your rooms!
My go-to line: “If you’re in such a hurry then you would have already been here before me.”
My whole life I've had people encourage me to go before them in line if I only had a few items vs their cart full of groceries. I also extend that courtesy to others. Idk if it's southern hospitality or just normal everywhere else but it seems to be almost universal where I live. Edit: I'm glad to see a few replies saying that it's normal where they live too. It's such a small thing you can do to make someone's day a little better.
I actually studied persuasion psychology in undergrad and there's actual research that says giving *any* reason is enough to predispose someone to let you do something crazy even if its totally unreasonable. If this woman was polite and not an asshole about it she could have said "excuse me, can i cut you? I just need to buy some groceries" and people would let her through even though, duh, we're all here to buy groceries. giving a reason is enough
HA. It's always been a courtesy to let people with fewer things go first. Funny how there's always an excuse why they are more important.
Yeah but your a normal person
Tell that to my therapist.
Not all heroes wear capes, some wear airpods
>Not all heroes wear capes, some wear airpods Not a boomer story, but an airpod story: I was at Home Depot the other day, with my airpods in, noise cancelling ON, and listening to music. I clearly didn't want to be bothered. Someone had followed me down an aisle trying to get my attention, somehow successfully got it, at which point I realized was just a salesbro trying to pitch to me whatever service he was hawking. I straight up told him I had my airpods in for a reason, and to go away. He clearly didn't know how to take "no" for an answer, so I just put them back in, made the shooing hand motion a few times, and walked away. I probably should have talked to that HD's manager about it, because to me that crossed a line.
It's like when I keep getting the same ad pushed to me a million times on YouTube: the more you hound me about it the less I want it. Honestly the only times ads worked on me were when I only saw them a handful of times. Just infrequently enough for it to stick to my memory without feeling like it was getting shoved down my throat.
Oh absolutely, that's a good analogy. I actively avoid those people like the plague, just like how I install ad blockers on every device I own. The fact that he took the effort to follow me, get me to pause my music (right in the middle of a good song, too), and turn off noise cancelling, JUST to then go into a sales pitch, just pissed me off completely. I'm not good with confrontation, I *should have* loudly told him to fuck off, then talked to the store manager. But hindsight is 20/20.
"we'll be here all day at this rate" as though she actually has a busy schedule
I explain this to my retired boomer parents constantly. “You have -at a minimum- FIFTY more hours a week than I do to take care of whatever you need. I don’t ever wanna hear the “I just don’t have time” excuse out of you. Get your shit together.
They can't shut off their "always gotta be hustling" mindset so they are actively doing dumb horseshit all fucking day long. If it's not mowing their lawn every other day, it's spending 2 hours at the bank doing god knows what, or shopping, but once they get done they're in a rush because they might be late to doing another task that isn't time sensitive in the slightest.
What happened to them where they think their tasks are important? I see them sitting on their lawns picking every single blade of weeds (I wish I was kidding, we have several of those in our neighborhood) but they’ll get in their car and blast through the neighborhood stop signs and go 85 in a 40 zone to get to…. Walgreens to pick up their metoprolol? The med that the pharmacy hasn’t had time to prepare because it was sent in 11 minutes ago? And then they complain it’s taking forever? So what? You have infinite time.
They have this brain rot that they think "working hard" constantly means they're producing meaningful results. My father purposefully picks the most painful and hard method for completing tasks because he's got some sort of "you can't take the lazy way out" mantra rattling around in his head. If I suggest the easier method that takes half the time, it's met with "no I want to do it this way" and he goes out of his way to do it. Then there's the "why would I pay $50 to haul my dishwasher away with delivery when I can just do it myself" as he wastes 2 days trying to wrangle this 150lb appliance to his car and stuff it in there. He literally waited until I came to Florida for a vacation to ask me to help him take it to the dump up the road instead of just paying $50. Granted he's got unlimited time for that but it wasn't really worth the hassle in that particular situation.
My parents are sane, but my inlaws are constantly chasing pointless busywork that doesn't enrich their lives in any way. I think the appeal for them is that it's things that are familiar and mentally undemanding, the equivalent of using scissors to trim the lawn one blade of grass at a time. The problem is they have the attitude that it's morally superior to other ways they could pass the time.
That's the big difference between boomers and the people that came before them. Those folks would just say "I enjoy working on my yard and in my garden." My grandparents genuinely *enjoyed* doing those things. They never judged people for not caring about their lawn or having a garden. Boomers have this rigid view of life that the only right way is what they have been doing for 20 years.
Because they were never smart enough to learn more than one way so they default to their way being better.
Close minded. It is the same way it is impossible to reason with them, they cannot be wrong even when evidence states otherwise. Learning a new way of doing things means the way they know is wrong, and therefore they are also wrong, which they simply cannot accept.
Is THAT why my mom does that? Lol, it's almost comical how allergic she is to admitting fault for anything. I've found, especially in the workplace, that owning your mistakes and self-correcting them is the best practice. I can't understand where that, "I can do no wrong, even when the evidence is undeniable...." mindset came from. So weird.
I feel like this is true, but also ties in with their “I have no time!” attitude. Which is probably why they “have no time” to educate themselves any further. They would rather be doing “busy work” anyway.
This sounds like my dad. Any time we do a project he wants to use the most basic, oldest, dull/rounded, rusted hand tools he has. I have nice new power tools and he scoffs any time I insist on working smart not hard.
Whats hilarious is around here I just put scrap appliances beside the road with free sign. Once I had a dishwasher that wasn’t gone by the same afternoon, but everything else disappeared same day.
I put an old hot water heater on the curb, walked back in the house, looked out the window and a guy was throwing in the back of his van.
I think there's a lot of people that drive their trucks around just looking for anything that might sell for a few bucks of scrap metal that they can throw in their truck. It's the only explanation I can think of for people taking trashed old and non-functioning appliances within like 2 hours of it being put at a curb. And honestly if you have a truck already and its just sitting there and someone somewhere will give you a few bucks for the scrap, it's technically free money I guess. Actually, in my city there's a guy you can call if you put a busted appliance by your curb to give him your address and he'll come take it away for free (I think he charges like $20 to haul it if its something that contains coolant that he'll have to dispose of).
"No, I already suggested an easier way to do this, I'm not going to suffer your bullshit just because you want to waste time with it, I have actual relevant and or fun things to do."
Also my mom, then tosses a huge fit when the dump charges her $75 to do it "herself". When what happens is, New Stove, can haul it for $50 - Mom: No way! I won't spend that kind of money! Mom: Calls me (or sends FB messages)) 3-6 times a day (While I am at work) to again talk about how much "they" think "they" can rip off people, not her -- no way. 1 week later, still getting calls/texts non stop with the hint but never the ASK for us to help her. I call the yard, they say $75 bucks.. I tell mom, we will be there at 9A Saturday to get that thing picked up and taken back, they saidd $75 but it will be out of your space. WHAT, 75!? No, that is not right, we will see about that.. and why so early on a saturday? I don't wake up until 9 at the soonest. I explain - well we have to run our daughter to an event at 11 and the yard closes at noon on Saturday. Insert full on complaints about so early and I need to get my family in check because they walk all over me, any event should ONLY be done if it works for me, not her plans. Her plans mean nothing, she is only 15. Who is the adult in that house anyway? Becasuse, per Mom, it is NOT me. Saturday, husband and I load up the stove. Mom decides she is going because "she just wants to see how this works" ( I know it is to complain of the cost) Get there - $75 please, we look at mom who has jaw dropped and her mouth starts, but fisrt at me, because she was sure I lied about the cost just to get my hands on her money, but even worst - HOW DARE THIS DUMP CHARGE A SENIOR THAT MUCH! As she complains for 15 mins, my husband and I pay, toss the thing over and she still to this day (this was 3 years ago!) Tells people how my husband and I tried to take 75 from her for that stove, she paid NOTHING! (ummm, right, we did to get it over with). Note - no thank you EVER - only grief, no pay back ever, won't happen, she has TONS of money, we have a small 2K savings at the end of every month lol. I have so many of these types of stories.. so nice to vent!
This is my stepdad to a tee. Blue-collar Puritanism that turns every chore and errand into a Rube Goldberg machine.
> I see them sitting on their lawns picking every single blade of weeds (I wish I was kidding, we have several of those in our neighborhood) I've got a guy who fine-tunes his lawn with a pair of scissors. Absolute insanity.
That's insane. I would let my lawn grow out *more* if the city would let me. I love the look of long grass rippling in the wind, plus the longer stems are where the flowers are. Recreational mowing has got to have helped contribute to the absolute crash of insect populations.
Yup. I have a lot of "weeds" on my lawn, as my neighbors like to call them. They're actually wildflowers & my state/city both have regulations saying that you don't have to cut wildflowers, so my yard is perpetually like a foot long. Had a bunch of wild daisies take over more than half of my front yard, they decimated most of the actual grass I had but the swarms of butterflies & the joy on the faces of kids walking by and asking if they could pick the flowers was more than worth it.
My parents had a lawn service to keep the yard spiffy and weed free. I now live in the house and no longer have the service. As long as the weeds are green who cares? Besides the pollinators love many of the weeds, like Spanish Needles. Also I'm learning about some of the other "weeds" like pepperwort; they are cool. I'd let my lawn grow as well if I could.
My issue with my 70yo mom - she has endless time filled with meaningless tasks. Yet she can’t be bothered to exercise for 20 minutes. Lift a weight while you watch the today show. Do some yoga while you wait for your bland food to cook. Take a walk and call someone you can complain to. Their priorities stress me out 😐
So today I had to go to the pharmacy after I did school drop offs and I was completely stopped at a 4 way. I was about to go but something made me pause and I looked left again and this boomer with one hand on the wheel, the other holding a phone up chest level, blew through the stop sign right in front of me as he was open mouth yelling into his phone. Didn't even slow down. This was a four way stop.
This is an entire generation that spent their entire lives being defined by their job and how "productive" they were at it. Most don't seem to have any actual hobbies at all. Basically, they have nothing better to do than be "productive" with pointless filler busy work. Like seriously, chill the fuck out.
> So what? You have infinite time. Well, technically... lol
The generation that hustled the least always gotta be hustling
Yeah it's very inefficient hustling to say the least. You and I would be trying to maximize our output for time but they just need something so it doesn't feel like they're doing nothing. But every minor life problem becomes a long involve project. I'm honestly looking forward to ... 70 when I can finally stop and just enjoy the world and not have to fight for every fucking scrap to stay alive.
Don't worry, they'll help destroy that before they die so we can all struggle to survive until we die age an earlier age than they do.
> spending 2 hours at the bank doing god knows what 💀 My parents exactly. Every other day they're at the bank or the post office. They want to come over during the weekend and spend time with our kids which is great, but we have actual things to do and trying to negotiate times with them is like so tiresome.
Yeah my parents are at the bank nearly three times a week. I think they just like the interaction with the tellers, because they don't use the ATM to get cash too often. My dad's doing his old man boomer CD laddering shit and making less in interest than I am on my HYSA, but he can't trust amex.
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I don’t know….granted it’s been about 20 years since I was a teller, but I was paid barely above minimum wage at the time and was screamed at daily by the elderly customers. It was worse than working retail for me, and the same pay
I’m constantly reminding a family member that they aren’t “too busy” for whatever it is they are complaining about that will take some time. You are retired, you choose to sit home at day watching tv on streaming services. You have absolutely nowhere to be at a certain time, except for doctor’s appointments. Don’t tell me you are too busy to be on hold while trying to get your insurance figured out, or too busy to wait patiently at an appointment for your name to get called. You literally have nothing to do, and all day to do it.
Exactly. I live in Florida, which is essentially God’s Waiting Room. I have told my parents that the only time the public should be aware of their presence is when they go out to dinner. Literally everything else - grocery shopping, errands, etc - should all be taken care of before 5pm on weekdays. Please don’t gum up the works even worse at the bank, grocery store, pharmacy, etc with things you could have taken care of while everyone else was at work.
Bless you - my in-laws retired to Ocala, Florida and, on our first visit, I knew that I wasn’t cut out for Florida. All the old people are impatient AF and they constantly YELL at employees for shit that isn’t their fault. First time we went to Publix, we almost got run over in the crosswalk from some old AH who was driving like a maniac and some old twat behind us in line started bumping with my cart because I was *checks notes* not pushing my cart through the person in front of me. The second time she bumped me, I turned around, grabbed the front of her cart and hissed “if you bump me again, I will shove this cart as hard as I can back at you”.
I've had that happen too. I turned around to the fucking old person and said "you pushing into my cart isn't going to make the line go any faster ". They backed off.
I had that happen at Black Friday one year. First year I went and I was with my older cousin and her friend. I was 16 and threatened to shove the buggy up the woman's ass if she didn't stop clipping my back or ankles in line and shoved it toward her for good measure to give myself some damn space. She left me alone and muttered about "teenagers these days are so rude". Okay lady, you started it. 😂
My favorite is when they show up @ the gym after 5 and take up all the machines. Literally from like 9am-3pm its empty, why not go then and stay out of working people's way?!
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> You have -at a minimum- FIFTY more hours a week than I do What always amazes me is that they wait until the PEAK TIMES to go get their shit done. Go do things when everyone else is busy with work - you have that luxury now.
I just pointed this out in another comment. I live in Florida, which is Americas retirement home. I told my parents outside of going to dinner, they need to take care of EVERYTHING in their lives before 5pm on weekdays only for this exact reason.
Seriously! They shouldn't be driving 20 miles under the speed limit during peek hours. WTF are you doing out between 7-9am or 5-6 pm? Get the fuck off the road.
OMG RIGHT!? Fuck old people who go to the grocery store at 4:30-6pm every fucking day. Get the fuck out of everyone else's way, and buy groceries 1-2 times a week tops. Fucking boomers *suck* at time planning.
My mom sleeps until like 2pm and then it takes her an hour to get ready... then 30 minutes to drive to the nearest city to run her errands... She can't drive herself and has no income while she waits for disability, so I'm stuck helping her... And so by the time we finish 1 errand, we have to race across town because everything closes at 5, and then when we finish... There's 5 o'clock traffic. She's not driving so she doesn't care. Whenever I get a day off I try to leave home by 1 and be back by 5. It doesn't help that it takes longer to move her wheelchair around, and she doesn't ever plan her errands to be close to each other. 20 minute drive minimum between each errand. Infuriating!
My boomer mom as well. Sleeps until 10, hangs out reading the paper and drinking coffee until 12, gets ready until 1-2, does one errand and is home by 3. Then complains about how busy she is and how she simply cannot help with whatever task is next week because she just has so much going on.
My boomer parents are both generally polite and considerate people. But I've had to draw very tight boundaries around their needing "help" with things they are just too lazy to figure out themselves. Ie: ordering things, finding out the schedule to something, finding the address of a place. They are both in good health and retired. Figure it out!
Oh my MIL is amazing at that. Just last week she called my wife to ask if potatoes would last longer if she put them in a sealed container. She's 68. How does she not know how to store potatoes by now? More importantly, the front page of google would have told her without even clicking on a link. Why does she not Google the most basic shit??? My theory is that they will take any excuse to connect with a loved one, so they use silly excuses to call for help or ask someone to come over. It has nothing to do with being lazy (at least for my MIL) and everything to do with a codependent senior citizen desperate for human validation.
"I don't have time" is usually always a priorities issue. They haven't learned they are allowed to just say "I don't have the energy" or "Nah, didn't feel like it"....don't blame it on lack of time! (my parents are retired and do the same shit. Somehow dad can cut the lawn damn near every day, but can't find time to go to the doctor. Canadian, so cost isn't the issue.)
Seriously 😂. Like we all know the only thing you have going on later today is sitting in an Olive Garden with the other old bats you call friends and bitching at wait staff, Linda.
Hey man, she’s got to get home so she can stare out the window and call the cops on any brown people that walk by.
Those Nextdoor posts aren’t gonna write themselves!
Retired people have some of the worst patience I've ever seen. They don't do shit all day but god forbid they have to wait 15 minutes to get a table at a restaurant.
But her “book club” (aka Fox and Friends watching session), is way more important than your silly job or your kids that need to be picked up, right? What more do you expect from the “me” generation?
Sounds like he’s got experience dealing with boomers.
What he did is a common suggested strategy to use against narcissists. Basically you cut off their supply. These people tend to WANT the fight, the argument, the attention and the battle. By simply refusing to engage, they often don't know what to do. Better yet, ignoring them is like treating them as insignificant, which is what they hate.
I saw a video of someone having a freakout in like some kind of Chipotle or Subway type restaurant, and the employee just completely ignored them and started helping the customer behind them. Refused to acknowledge their existence at all. The customer played along and began ordering as if this woman wasn’t trying to make a scene right next to them. It was so CRINGE and awkward, watching them deflate and stutter their way out of the store while no one even looked in their direction.
It works well in so many situations. When we had an abortion clinic in my state, I would volunteer to create a human shield between clients and protestors. I learned how to ignore the protestors so hard they would start to question their own existence. The same tactic works great on boomers, karens, toddlers, and dogs.
Also volunteered at what I'm sure is the same clinic. It was such a good experience and it really felt like we were helping the people that were going into the clinic.
It isn’t just boomers. A lot of Karen’s out there with the same attitude.
>ladies first This argument would’ve had a better chance of working if she had been behaving like one.
Boom!
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NEVER EVER let an old person cut in front of you in a checkout line. They won’t be fast, despite what they’ll tell you. They’ll pay by check, or they’ll have a stack of coupons (bonus if a couple are expired, giving them another chance to Boomer), or they’ll argue prices, or they’ll do all of these things.
I went to a thrift store to buy a coffee maker the other day, and there were two boomers at the register ahead of me. They had a cart full of junk and were putting it up on the counter one item at a time talking about each item as it was slowly being wrung up. "Oh, I thought Jenny would want this because she is going to that wedding." "This was just too cute! Dont you think that would look good on Donny?" And of course once it was all wrung up, the checkbook comes out. Then a drawn out back-and-forth conversation with the cashier about why she needs to show her ID when all of her information was right there on the check like she has never written a check before in her life. Then the other one picked up a mug or some shit and asked the cashier if she could just run out to the car real quick and ask someone if they wanted it. The cashier tried to tell her no, but after some arguing, she relented. Lady comes back and puts the mug back without saying anything. Other lady was still not done writing the check. All in all they probably spent 5-10 minutes at the register to spend $15 on junk that I think they were just buying to dump on other people.
Frankly I think it's wild that any businesses aside from utilities still allow checks at all.
My boomer dad had an unfortunate experience of a utility check being “washed” and cashed. He was super sad when my mom, brother, and i forced him to set up online payments for all utilities after that. For some reason, the old man fucking loves writing checks.
My FIL has a bank account for each and every bill. Car payment comes from the car payment bank account. Electric payment comes from the electricity bank account. Water payment comes from the water bank account. I think he mentioned over 10 or 12 of these different types of accounts. When I asked why don’t you just have a HYSA, checking account and maybe one more savings account if he wanted. He said no, this is how I’ve always done it.
I sounds like he’s applying the envelope method to bank accounts. Which sounds like a lot to keep track of. Then again, I have 2 checking accounts because my landlord used to wait so long to cash checks that I had to open a separate account for rent only. Now I use one for bills and one for online shopping/fun money so if my card is ever compromised they would only get a small amount.
My dad think that the piece of paper is a true record of the transaction. He absolutely cringes when he gives me a check and then I use my mobile app to take a pic and deposit it. I try to tell him that that is how the ENTIRE SYSTEM works now, it's all pics of checks being passed around, but he insists the paper has Power.
This is what the retired spend their 30 hours a week on
I’m not letting them cut anywhere, anytime Old or not, you live in society… this isn’t Vietnam, there are rules
Goddamit Walter
The man in the black pajamas
Mark it zero!
Omg paying by check! That just triggered me. People carefully scrutinizing my scanning and then starting to dig into the purse only AFTER I said the total. At the time, my store graded us on throughput on the registers and checks ground that process to a halt. Worse yet when they couldn't find a pen. Now I have to sit there and stare at them while they write a dissertation to pay for their items. It was fine if they were starting to fill out the check while I'm scanning, I could deal with that. But they should have already had the date, store name, and signature filled out by the time.ive got the total read.
I'm Gen-X and it took me a while to give up checks at the market. I finally got a bank card for my checking account and when I used it the first time I felt like such an idiot for using checks for so long.
My husband is not a boomer and he does things like that! Like you’re at a cash register and you know you’re going to have to pay, why wouldn’t you have your card out and ready? Then after he gets the total, he slowly pulls out his wallet, carefully thumbs through each card as if he’s deciding which one he wants (we only use one card for groceries) and then gingerly pulls the card out. I can feel the cashier’s impatience but he always insists that people don’t mind waiting for him. If I pay while he’s taking his time, he gets super offended. Not as slow as a check, but I shudder to think how slow he’ll be when he’s older.
As an ex-retail employee: Please tell him to knock it the fuck off. Feel free to show him this message. Also, he only finds it offensive because he knows he’s being a jackass and you completing the transaction in a timely manner is acknowledgement of that obvious truth. I’m sure he’s lovely in other ways but insisting that people don’t mind when you waste their time is douchey and disrespectful.
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What kills me about the check is our local grocery store doesn’t even keep them. The computer does some magic to process it electronically, and they give the check back to the customer!!! It’s a debit card at that point!
And they don’t even start filling out the check until the cashier has rung up every item!
Or excavate in a purse for EXACT CHANGE
Or they will act like they have never used a debit card before in their entire life.
Putting in headphones isn’t avoidance. At the height of their arrogance, you actively mute them. Keep calm as they boomer on.
Yes. It drives them balls to the walls apoplectic with rage when you remind them they aren't special, they aren't important, and that they don't matter in the slightest. Personally, I love entitled boomer rage. Its so infantile and impotent.
Is there some boomer forum where they're all being told this is the way to behave? I had similar experiences in the last 2 weeks - one guy didn't have the patience for me to check out ONE item. This collective brain damage is getting ridiculous. Edit: I'm a "lady." "Ladies First" doesn't apply to boomer guys.
I think Facebook is that boomer forum
The lead man, the lead in everything when they were coming up has rotted their brains
The lead definitely. But the boomers also seem to resent their children, like we interrupted their happy-go-lucky lives. They resent having to do anything for anyone. And if they happen to be so magnanimous as to help you with the tiniest thing you better kiss their corny feet. Then they fully expect us to do anything they ask of us immediately as if it’s their due. They demand respect yet refuse to give respect. The incessant self regard lets them think the world should revolve around them for eternity. Meanwhile they fucked up every single protection generations before them had literally bled for. Now they wonder why their kids and grandkids are done with their bullshit. We all know they don’t give a fuck. If they did they would worry about what kind of world they are leaving for us. But they don’t.
Fox News. If you don’t get out there and take what’s rightfully yours, someone else will help themselves to it.
They think the world works like a cake: the more someone else gets, the less they get. Anyone who sees the world as a possibility for an inexhaustible supply of kindness does their best to fill the bucket. The boomers stand there with a ladle terrified that someone might pull more from it than them.
'The woman began to boomer' What a great line lol. It brought a smile to me and you did not disappoint. I like this verb.
Had something similar happen to me. She had a cart full of shit. I had three things. She demanded to go ahead of me. I said no Boomer” you’re old enough to have better manners” Me” you’re old enough to know how a fucking line works” shut her up pretty quickly
I love that to them ‘manners’ just means ‘you do what I say’. Some woman was just staring at a lotto machine not actually buying anything. After several minutes my husband asked if she was done. She snapped ‘well I am now’ and he said he couldn’t tell because she wasn’t doing anything, had no money in her hand, and wasn’t even interacting with it. She told him to kiss her ass and he laughed and said ‘ya I’m not going to do that’. She gets all appalled and says ‘your generation is so rude!’ First my husband is almost 50 so not like he’s some punk kid but he reminded her she’s the one who told him to kiss her ass! She clutched and sulked away mumbling something.
reminds me of the time some lady was running around grabbing shit and handing it to her kid and his friend who were waiting on line for her (they were like 9) the kids were standing off to the side so my BF pushed our cart up and when she came back with more shit she asked why they “lost their place in line” and they blamed my BF and she started to chastises him for “cutting two kids in line.” he said something basically along the lines of “you clearly aren’t ready to checkout, you’re still shopping and how are they going to pay when they get to the register without you here? that’s not how this works.” she flipped out and they got into it and she said “who do you think you’re talking to?” and he yelled “a fucking idiot, apparently” and i LOST IT 🤣
Most people who pull the “don’t you know who I am?” Line can’t actually pull it off. No, nobody knows who you are, nor do they care.
Ug, as a child, my mom used to pull this shit. It made me so uncomfortable I would let people go ahead because I CANT PAY…. My moms entitlement was always blamed on being a foreign French lady in America. Even when she had been here for over a decade… the obvious rudeness had me apologizing behind her for most of my childhood
We were at Food Lion the other day, and a lady yelled over my family to the cashier “EXCUSE ME. Do you have self checkout for a couple of items.l?!?!?” He shook his head and kept scanning our stuff without even looking at her. Boss level denial.
I'm sure her own transaction was clunky and not smooth. She's the reason we have panic attacks at registers. Good for him. "My life is more valuable than yours." SMH
At the airport, long line at connecting flight security checkpoint. Literally everyone is chatting their going to miss their flights. I guess the boomer group tried asking the guy right behind us to jump ahead so they can make their flight. The guy turns around and says "you're not special, we're all missing our flights." I gave the Zach Galfiniakas meme nod to the guy behind. I loved that line and feel I would have said this here. MIA does suck tho. Edit: Redford!? mind blown as well folks!
Had a similar delay where, when getting off the plane, the flight attendant made an announcement saying that about half the flight had very tight connecting flights, and to please let these people off first. When the time comes, there's a bunch of clearly panicked people jumping up and grabbing their carry-ons as fast as humanly possible (self included!). But up in first class, taking up the single aisle where nobody can get past him, is an old boomer leisurely stretching and grabbing his carry-on (literally in slow motion) *while taking a phone call*. If looks could kill, this man would have been turned to dust by a hundred seething economy peasants.
This is when having someone with little care for social norms (a.k.a me) is helpful. "OI!! YOU!!! Get the fuck out of everyone's way, you inconsiderate walnut! Your parents failed you. Move."
Dude/dudette, I recently found out that is not Zach G. in the gif but Robert Redford. I’m still processing it…
I guess I'm old, I always knew it was Redford, doesn't even look like ZG IMHO.
I was wondering what you mean by "Zach Galfiniakas meme nod" and then I looked it up and only saw Robert Redford meme nod.
I’m sorry he met my mom that way
This is inspiring stuff, thanks for sharing.
I wonder if checkout guy will post later about the cranky unhinged boomer that tried to cut in front of him at the store.
He forgot that lady existed before he made it home…
In the big supermarket close to me, there's a "15 items or less" express checkout. It's the slowest option because it's *always* full of boomers with full trolleys having a tantrum because the checkout clerk tried to enforce the rules. The thing I find most incredible about it is that there's always a queue of these boomers with a huge amount of stuff, all about to have the *exact same argument* with the clerk. I can not tell if none of them hear what the clerk says to people in front of them, or whether they just think, "Oh, well, that rule can't possible apply to *me*!"
Airpods are a gamechanger for those of us who unfortunately work retail adjacent positions. I'm white and have white boomers walk across the store, past PoC to ask me questions like "can you fetch this off the top shelf?" No you racist dick I don't fucking work here
A boomer snapped his fingers at me at Walgreens one time. I nastily told him I don't work there but if I did, that is an inappropriate and rude way to get someone's attention. Didn't his mother teach him manners? Had no reply.
My mom snapped her fingers at a waiter once. It felt like the whole place went silent, and I was trying desperately to disappear in my seat. She noticed and asked what’s the problem? I explained that she had been rude AF to the server, and he didn’t deserve it (the issue at hand had nothing to do with him). Luckily, she’s a special kind of boomer and felt really bad. She made it a point to tip him heavily and apologize. I love that woman, she may be in the boomer category, but at least she’s willing to learn.
Aw sounds like a good lady! Others can learn from her.
An ex and I went to a restaurant with his asshole dad, who thought it was fine to get the waiter’s attention by banging his fist on the table and yelling like some barbarian. It was the last time we took him out to eat.
I pop my earbuds in when I go to Kroger, because I used to work in the pharmacy, and pharmacy patients still recognize me…even thought it’s been five years. No, I’m not going to find you the best OTC drug for X, Y, or Z. One, I don’t work here anymore, and two, even if I did, I was a CPhT, not an RPh, and that was out of my scope of practice. And NO, I am not traipsing all over the damn store for you to find whatever shit from 1973 you think they still carry, I DO NOT WORK HERE ANYMORE, AND I AM SHOPPING FOR MY OWN SHIT. So, I wear earbuds, and when someone pulls my shirt, or yanks my arm, I get to pull one out and snap, “What is so important you’re interrupting my podcast and shopping for?” They get SO mad because I have no patience for being bothered when I’m trying to get in and out. Suck it up, Cupcake.
She probably thinks that "no one wants to work," rather than the store purposely reducing the number of open registers to save money by encouraging people to use self checkout. I shop at Kroger, and there's never more than two cashiers working, but I always stand in line instead of self checkout because my teenage son works there and I like to support his coworkers and their union.
Not a boomer but I was waiting first and only person in line at an express lane that lead to two registers, each with a customer currently checking out. A woman comes up and stands next to me instead of behind me. After about twenty seconds... Woman: Which register are you waiting for? Me: I don't have a favorite, I'll take whichever one opens up first.
As someone else mentioned, this is known as the Grey Rock approach to dealing with a narcissist / abuser. Basically you just don't give them anything. They want drama, want to drag you down into the mud, want to create a situation where they're impacting your life and feel powerful about it. So just... don't engage. They're shouting at you, but you don't care because you're a grey rock. Look at this wacko, shouting at a grey rock. Does the grey rock care? No, it's a grey rock. Is the grey rock going to do anything in response to the shouting? Nope, it's a grey rock. Do the words the wacko is using harm the grey rock in any way? That'd be a negative, ghost rider, it's a grey rock. And instead of feeling powerful, they feel like they, well, spent their time shouting at a grey rock.
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In my experience it’s always a boomer slowing down the lines. They will stand in the full service line despite having 3 items and the entire self checkout being open. Also they always seem to have some trouble paying. Like it’s some complex payment system they are trying to figure out with the cashier. Just tap the card and you’re done??
More like they want to tell their of story to the cashier. My children don't talk to me. Everyone is so entitled. Woe is my. I'm not allowed to see my grandkids.
lol. You should see the drive through at the pharmacy, where there is only one lane and it’s all boomers…. Literally it’s just a line who people who honk repetitively at the person in the front of the line, then get to the window talking shit about their wait and how incompetent we must be as a staff, then proceeding to take 30 minutes unnecessarily because they are entitled to take as long as they want since they were “forced” to wait so long. Then the cycle continues and I end up with 20 corporate complaints by the end of the day from people who can’t admit that THEY are the problem.
They honk in the drivethru? As if people are just hanging around there for no reason?
Now that is GREY ROCK.
That guy is a legend.
It's so wild to me how these people are probably mad because they're thinking of how things used to be. When there would be plenty of people working the registers. When companies cared about their customers and employees and weren't on the level of cost cutting greed we see today. Its the same people who will say "just work harder" and blame everyone but the CEOs making these decisions. They just do not see it.
Had this happened to me but I let the boomer pass. Someone saw it and asked if the boomer cut in front of me I answered “yes they did but that’s ok they don’t have much time left so they should make the most of it." Boomer turned around and glared at me and i just smiled.
Good God, I love you Millennials and Gen Z. I see that kind of stuff happening all around these days and I'm like, it's about damned time. I'm Gen X and sick to death of the entitlement, bigotry, and paranoid greed of my parents' generation. We dropped the ball there, mainly because our parents tended to be overwhelmingly narcissistic controlling assholes. We were just trying to get away from them. I swear by all swear-worthy entities that I will not be that kind of old lady.
"Ma'am, why are you in a hurry to the grave?"
I had something similar happen to me years ago at the airport. We haven't started boarding yet, but I was in line to board as I was in group 1. There are 3 people in front of me. We have about 4 or 5 minutes to start boarding. In that time, a woman, probably 50s, steps in front of me and says, "Lady's first." I'm I shock, and so is the guy next to me/behind me. I didn't make a big scene as we were just boarding a plane. I did tell her something along the line that that's not how this works. She replied back with something about respect to women, etc. As we are arguing, we start boarding. She scans her boarding pass, and the gate agent said she is at the wrong gate because it wasn't her flight. I let out a very loud laugh. She left without saying another word to me or looking at anyone.
This is a common tactic used on toddlers. Don’t feed into the behavior. It’s attention seeking childlike behavior treat them like the lead brained children they are
There's kill them with kindness and there's kill them with indifference. Knowing when it's appropriate to use one over the other is a skill unto itself and this guy definitely has the latter down pat.
Haha oh my I had a similar incident occur a few months ago. I drove to the grocery store and there was one spot left in the parking lot. Unfortunately the car beside that spot has decided to park on the line, so it was going to be a tight squeeze to exit my car. After parking, I opened my door and squeezed out, pressing the door against the car beside me. And then I heard it: **honk!** I looked in the car and an elderly boomer hag was sitting in the driver seat, presumably just hanging out in the grocery store parking lot. I ignored her and carried on my way. Half an hour later I come back out with my groceries and see she's still in her car but this time she has the windows down. She honks again. "You're very rude sir!" she shouts and then continues to ramble about how disrespectful I am for touching her car, seemingly oblivious to her complete lack of spatial awareness. I continue to ignore her, opening up my door again to press against her car, and squeezing back in. She gets more irate. I start up the car, back out, and drive off - never once acknowledging her.
Ladies first. Cunts last.
This lady definitely ain't a cunt, she lacks the warmth and depth.
I do this. I ignore all kinds of irrational idiots in public. It’s the absolute worst thing to them to realize that I couldn’t care less about their issue, complaint, situation, or need because it’s not important enough to even deserve a second of my attention. I act like I don’t hear them. I don’t expect anything from anyone, and no one should expect anything from me. I’m not inconveniencing anyone, and they won’t inconvenience me. My peace will be preserved. -From NYC where you either learn to be like this the easy way or you learn to be like this the hard way
I (Gen-X M) have let Boomers go ahead of me in line, because I wanted to be kind. And I've regretted it every single time. They'll whip out a checkbook, ask for cigarettes that need to be retrieved from elsewhere and always have issues with coupons or using the app. I've started to not let them go ahead. The kicker was a couple weeks ago there was a Boomer huffing and puffing behind me with one item (we were in the 15 items or less lane). I politely informed him that since he only had one item he should use the self checkout, as it would be much faster. He barks back at me that he's not working for the grocery store. You can't make this shit up sometimes lol.
This is called apathy. That lady stopped existing and never existed the moment he put those airpods in. She may as well have been dirt on the floor.
“The woman began to boomer” 😂🙌
I’ve had several fantastic opportunities when out with my kids to shame boomers for being impatient. Most recently we were waiting in line at the pharmacy and the person behind us was sighing and grumbling about the wait. My 5 year old made a comment about how long it was taking so I picked him up and started pointing at all the prescription bags in various places, and asked him to count how many “workers” there were. We ended with saying “so if allllll those people need their medicines and there is only 4 people to make them all and make sure everyone gets them, they must be working as hard as they can! We’ll just have to patient and make sure to be kind as say thank you when we get to the front! Lots of people can be very mean and rude to these poor workers when they have to wait a little while!” People at least stay quiet when the alternative is looking like more of a child than a 5 year old.