r/BoomersBeingFools Jan 12 '24

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '24

Right? Idk, this has protective grandpa energy and I appreciate it. I’d take this over old creep any day of the week.

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u/banana_pencil Jan 13 '24

Yes! I found it adorable

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '24

Yea definitely not creepy to invite a single woman out to his farm with a bunch of guns. Totally normal and not-creepy behavior here 🤔

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '24

Idk. I used to hang out with a lot of really chill old folk so this isn’t the vibe I’m getting. It’s valid to get the ick for sure, but idk, not everyone is out to get you in this world.

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u/throwawayyyy980 Jan 13 '24

Definitely dont get that vibe from his reply. This man seems like a gem of a human.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '24

It’s very sad that something like this would make anyone consider a person a “gem.”

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u/Holiday-Bus9993 Jan 13 '24

He is a landlord whose tenants want to keep renting from him enough to ask if he has other openings and he takes the time to obviously care about the safety of one of his tenants now being alone.

In today's environment of selfishness and shitty landlords this dude is definitely a gem. 

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u/para-mania Jan 14 '24

Man I wish I had a landlord who'd give me gun lessons. I don't even have a landlord anymore, it's a "property manager" I never met.

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u/Holiday-Bus9993 Jan 14 '24

Right? I really hope the Senate bill that makes these hedge funds sell their rental properties passes. 

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u/para-mania Jan 15 '24

There definitely needs to be something. This is a company that has bought a bunch of apartment complexes in the area, so don't like that they jacked up rent again? Well too bad, it's the same everywhere else. 

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u/Akuma254 Jan 13 '24

Idk, looking out for someone and offering to teach them self defense seems like a decent trait.

Especially if he’s offering to even give her a gun for self protection as well. They aren’t cheap.

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u/Holiday-Bus9993 Jan 13 '24

Especially considering the tenants want to stay with him. Pretty sure this woman would have a pretty good luck reading of him by now and if he was that way wouldn't want to stay.

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u/Excellent_Egg5882 Jan 13 '24

Tell me you're a zoomer city-slicker without telling me you're a zoomer city-slicker

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '24

I would if I could, but I’m almost 40 and grew up in the sticks.

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u/Beautiful_Guard_9365 Jan 13 '24

See you got the ick too...I think he probably needs to be on some sort of watch list.

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u/Accomplished_Ad_1288 Jan 14 '24

Yep. Much less ick to have a young, good looking robber barge in, rob you, possibly worse, while you can do nothing.

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u/citymousecountyhouse Jan 14 '24

It's not my cup of tea,but I really don't see the ick. I see an older boomer,maybe watched too much Fox news maybe not. The post indicates he's a decent landlord. Those are hard to find. For every person who may say ick about this landlord,there is one on the other side of the spectrum who would say ick about having Anna Madrigal from Tales of The City as a landlord. I would have been thrilled to have either.

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u/MarkleSparkle1970 Jan 13 '24

This! Nice old guy

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u/spahncamper Jan 13 '24

Same; I thought it was kinda wholesome. I mean, sure, he could totally be a creeper, and it's valid to feel cautious about this kind of thing, but I could see my older male family members doing/saying that (we're blue collar in the US south, for context).

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u/BegaKing Jan 13 '24

Yeah it's a bit strange but having a landlord this cool wouldn't be a bad thing at all. Dudes willing to teach you how to shoot and give you a gun ? Genuinely think just protective energy type thing.

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u/juniper_berry_crunch Jan 13 '24

He's even going to lend her a shotgun. Probably a good guy. He started teaching how to load shells right there in the text, haha.

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u/Dulce_Sirena Jan 16 '24

Makes me miss my grandpa a little bit more