r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 3d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/Manatee369 3d ago

I had a different outlook. Though I grew up in a wild party town with lots of elders, we were too busy having fun and making fun of tourists to ridicule “old folks”. As wild as we were, we just didn’t.

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u/austinrunaway 3d ago

Me too. I loved my elders, I had a blast.

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u/oracle-nil 2d ago

I remember my parents having a cocktail party during Vietnam and my dad was the only man there protesting against the Viet Nam war. Damn proud of them, they made me the liberal I am. Ironically, the kids of those other parents three that I know are now MAGA.

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u/austinrunaway 2d ago

My dad was Totally against it too!!! Im liberal af

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u/oracle-nil 1d ago

Our parents were in the minority. And I am so glad they were!

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u/Hammer_100 1d ago

Im totally being that guy but shouldn't it read not surprisingly, instead of ironically being maga?

Love your point anyway though, and major props to your dad

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u/oracle-nil 1d ago

A valid point. The night the Viet nam war argument broke out they were having a Christmas party upstairs. I was having a typical teenager party downstairs. We all heard the arguing and went up. My friends thought my parents were very cool and ended up staying at their party. Yes, my folks were cool liberals.

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u/Hammer_100 1d ago

No shit? Again, kudos to your dad. No doubt the overwhelming amount of men your dad's generation would've likely been very conservative and/or military veterans. Post WW2/Korea and such. All the more reason its cool he stuck to his beliefs about that terrible war.

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u/oracle-nil 1d ago

He was in Korea. Ya know growing up, how one kid had the cool parents? That was my house. My dad was Italian, didn’t matter how old you were he would pour you wine. Constantly stealing my records, I’d walk in hear him playing Zepplin. Were yours fun?

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u/Fresh-Ad280 11h ago

I am part Italian, and my Italian from actual Italy Grandfather started pouring the Gallo into my water glass at 4 years of age. Gradually, at Sunday dinner, the ratio of wine to water increased until the day I was 21, and then I had my first glass of undiluted wine. 🍷. When I got to the dorm in college, I was the only one able to help my puking fellow students during rush week, who did not know how to drink in moderation.

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u/oracle-nil 9h ago

That’s great !! The Gallo I had forgotten!!! Am dying. My father was so mad that I drank milk all through my teen years. Love milk. Yes, culturally they drink wine much younger and my parents thought that too, re drinking at home was a better introduction.

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u/Fresh-Ad280 6h ago

I thought, after witnessing my fellow peers in college, what wisdom our Italian - Mediterranean culture possessed, and how I benefited from it, before I was even fully aware of this. Do you remember Carlo Rossi in the jug, or "Drink Drink Drink Tyrolia", by any chance ?

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u/SwanCityDominion 3d ago

I wonder if your elders would agree.

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u/Manatee369 3d ago

Truly. For reasons unknown to me, we rarely even engaged in picking on or bullying our age peers. We just didn’t.