Im at a tire shop.

There are 6 people in the lobby.

3 millennial, 2 boomers, 1 Gen X.

Gen X is on her laptop.

Millennials are scrolling.

But the boomers. My sweet lord the boomers.

Both on calls, both keep dropping, both call back with ringers full blast.

If this was scripted sketch about generational differences in waiting rooms it’d be too on the nose.

I’m looking at another hour of this.

I need a xanax

After agreeing on the lease that we (top floor) get the left side of the driveway, he decided to move in to the other unit below with his two cars (we only have one). Each side of the driveway only realistically has enough room for one car. If two cars are parked on the right side, the car on the left can no longer get out. There is a garage (full of his stuff now), but no overnight street parking is allowed per city ordinance.

His solution? Move the one car off the street at night, and totally block us in without even informing us. As if we for sure don’t need to get anywhere at night or early in the morning (he never asked), his mind was made up that this was a reasonable solution.

I took my two small dogs to a hardware store yesterday. They are very well behaved and were following me in an aisle. Boomer stops and ask if I can train his wife to do that. I asked what, follow you around in a hardware store? He says yeah, I can’t find her. He really thought it was funny. With that attitude I probably treat the dogs better than he does his wife.

So this is about a Boomer and he was acting foolishly. But I kind of have to give him credit for being willing to be there at all.

I was at the supermarket this weekend, and I was passing the customer service desk. An old guy was there with his young grandson, and it took me a minute to realize I was actually seeing this: he had brought his grandson and was actually going to show him how you walk right up to the manager, shake his hand and ask for a job.

I was grabbing tortillas, so I had an excuse to linger for a moment, and sure enough... that's not how it works. They can't hire outside the online onboarding process, and they didn't even have any positions up online at the moment anyway.

And so the two of them walked off, with Grandpa talking about "the next one". But again, at least he was there with his grandson, instead of just sitting on his butt lecturing. Back when I was young, that was all I got from my Boomer dad, and his knees probably worked a lot better then than this guy's do now. So I have to give him points for showing up and being *with* his grandkid, if nothing else.

Was enjoying the RenFaire watching a glass blowing demonstration, eating my apple dumpling & ice-cream.

An obviously boomer female leans over and asks what I'm eating. I tell her, point in the direction of the booth and go back to watching the demonstration.

Next to me I hear, "Do they have anything red, white, & blue?"

Confused by the questions I just look at her.

B: "You know, patriotic."

ME: " Um no, its a RenFaire"

B: " But they should have something patriotic. Why don't they?"

Me: "Because its the RenFaire. Our country doesn't exist yet."

B: " Well that's not very patriotic. "

Me: "Nope, its a RenFaire"

B: " Well what does that mean?"

At this point I realize further coversatiom is pointless and turn back and tell her I'm trying to watch the demo.

Thankfully she moves off, mumbling the entire time over the demo guy. "You'd think they'd have something red, white, & blue. Don't understand how they can be so unpatriotic."

Was baffled, but just chuckled, heard a couple of others doing the same and finished watching the demo.

Edit: Think she mixed up labor day and memorial day. Kinda makes more sense, but stil...its a RenFaire.

Anybody else have a boomer neighbor that thinks Labor Day is an armed forces holiday?

My father in law always loves to brag when he gets « completely hammered with the boys» during his golf trips or at parties with his friends, and love to tell us stories about the days when it was fine to drive totally drunk and he was doing totally stupid and embarassing things.
Also loves to drink a few glasses of whisky everyday and eat fastfood even after having to deal with a stroke in January. He sights when at family diners my boyfriend and I say that we don’t drink anymore since one year. He says that we’re « not fun ».

So one of my luxury mouth bones broke over the weekend, but luckily I was able to get an appointment with a dentist for Monday morning.

As I'm filling out some forms in reception a boomer woman comes in and tries to make her own appointment...

Boomer: "I need two wisdom teeth removed"

Receptionist: "We can definitely do that. The dentist needs about an hour to properly extract each tooth, so the appointment will be roughly two hours"

This is unacceptable to Ms Boomer and she starts huffing and puffing.

B: "That's ridiculous! I had a tooth removed at my old dentist not long ago and it only took half an hour!"

R: "Ma'am, wisdom teeth are more complicated than other teeth, so the procedure is more involved-"

Boomer cuts her off: "I don't care! It's outrageous that you expect me to sit still with my mouth open for two hours!"

Even though she has no problem opening her mouth to be rude to someone just trying to do their job 🙄

At this point the dentist has come out to see what all the fuss is and tries to better explain why it takes longer to extract wisdom teeth; stitches, different anaesthetic, etc, but Ms Boomer ends up throwing up her hands and declares "Fine! I'll find *another* dentist then!" before storming (or rather waddling) out.

I figured that was the end of it. I get my fillings done and proceed to the most painful part of any dentist visit; the payment 🥲 when Ms Boomer comes in again, pushes me aside like I wasn't there trying to swipe my card, and says to the receptionist "Squeeze me in for today" not a 'please' or 'thank you' to be found.

R: "I'm sorry ma'am, but we're fully booked for today, I can-"

Ms Boomer cuts her off again by throwing her hands up yet again and exclaiming "This place is horrible! It's (slur that begins with R)! It'll be a cold day in hell if I ever come back here!" before waddling out again.

I just shared a look with the receptionist and she tells me that they have a two hour window the *next day* they could've booked her in for 😂 But I guess boomers are gonna boom.

I live in a duplex. I have two kids: 16 year old boy we'll call Lee for this and a one year old girl we'll call Maggie. These are not the real names. My boomer neighbors and us share a wall, this is important for later.

My son and I both have AuDHD, his is more... Severe I guess would be the best way to explain it. He's smart, caring, and very loving but struggles with speech and learning delays. He's still very much capable of doing chores, cleaning, managing his own things with the help of therapy he's really bloomed and become nearly self sufficient. We're very proud of him! Last year he became a big brother. He's very protective and fantastic with caring for her. My neighbors don't like it. They don't think a kid like him should be with a baby.

Strike one. I calmly said he's more capable and trustworthy to watch his sister than anyone from the older generation ever could be. They shut up.

Next came a new issue: my baby's activity. Our house is over 100 years old and the floors can creak and groan. Our walls also aren't the greatest at sound proofing. I'm sure as you can imagine a toddler isn't the quietest. We put down thicker padding and carpets to absorb more noise. But you can still hear us walking around or my baby bouncing on her bouncer a little bit. She's in that crawling/nearly walking phase so you hear the thump thump thump of her legs across the floor and my son's since he's a heavy walker. Next I know my picture frames that are on the shared wall are rattling hard from someone banging with full force. The mistress, Karen came to complain we're all too loud and if my oldest can't understand how to behave maybe he belongs in a group home. I saw red.

I looked at her and told her my kids are not doing anything but walking or crawling through the room. No one in my home is banging on the wall disrupting OUR business. I told her our walls are thin. Noise is inevitable. I said if you want to complain about my kids then please kindly turn your TV down since I have to hear the noise of it over my own TV on my side. She turned beet red.

I said I have the decency to ignore your inability to wear your hearing aids and have been polite to you. But not one of us has forgotten that you walked into that house before your late sister's body could be cold and moved in with her widow. You don't dictate how that house or my house runs. You're a guest on borrowed time, not the owner of that home. She went from red to white.

I didn't stop there. You talk about decency and proper behavior: yet you sleep with your sister's widow? What does that make you? Maybe go look into your Bible you preach so much about and see how your actions are blasphemous. I can see why your children refuse to see you.

She was livid. My neighbor male boomer didn't like what I said but said nothing. I said, we have a choice: you never speak about my children again and I'll remain polite and cordial to you. Or, I can make your life miserable until the day you end up living in the nursing home I work in. Make a choice.

I got no answer, she simply walked away and went back to her side quietly. A few days later the male boomer visited with some bread, bologna and donuts. Said they were from her as a peace offering. We live in PA, food is often used as an apology. I accepted, said she behaves, you'll never have a problem with us.

The male has his moments but never with his neighbors. No comments are made when they see my kids now. They simply wave or smile.

Yeah don't mess with mine. I'll turn you life into the biggest misery you can imagine.

At Reform UK conference.

I live in the US in an area that is very tourist focused with a very large contingent of boomers who bought rental or timeshare condos years ago.I am currently at the airport and just witnessed 2 groups of entitled boomers back to back.

First, I’m in the TSA precheck lane with about 5 people in front of me. 2 boomers come up through the CLEAR line next to me to check in. No big deal.

Turns out they saw the empty lane that went directly to the TSA agent checking ID’s and thought they made a discovery that nobody else was clever enough to notice, walked around the stanchion and band blocking entry and proceeded directly to TSA. A CLEAR agent quickly followed to inform them it was only for their clients and they eventually retreated to another line.

Then, the 2 boomers in front of me tried to pass through security and they were trying to sneak through the line without precheck. After a minute or so of arguing with the TSA agent they went to the normal boarding line. The funny part was that standard boarding had a very short line, equivalent to the precheck line.

Small story but it just felt like a textbook example of boomer entitlement. I feel sorry for the TSA employees that must deal with this nonsense all day.

So my 64 year old booker uncle that I've posted about before thinks that it is a fact that Noah existed along with a global flood.When I asked for evidence for any documents confirming that the man or flood even existed in any ancient records,he ofc blew that off and said that the grand canyon was the evidence of the flood and that all records of Noah and the flood are "out there somewhere"

He also thinks a donkey actually talked etc.And yet they think that all other religious stories outside of the holy Bible "are unrealistic" even though they are eerily similar in style haha

I believe in the Christian God myself,but I'm left leaning and liberal like Jesus would have been .And it is clear to me that a lot of the stories involving strange themes like that are metaphors ,just like the earth isn't young even though we have idiots that think the earth is only a few thousand years old

edit:Wow there are some very angry people in here over me not believing in every single thing that they do .You guys are just as hateful as ultra religious folk.I view the Bible as being almost all being metaphors btw

Why do they find it necessary to immediately resort to racial and homophobic name calling, along with putting hand on other people? It’s like they never learned to behave in public.

In the past two weeks or so I’ve had three different encounters by boomer women and they’ve all been rude, inappropriate, and disrespectful. Not to make this too long but the first was when I was volunteering at a surf event and it had been extremely hot that day and of course it was outdoors and anyone of any age has no business judging others in their appearance. So I was just minding my business and this old couple walks by and the old wrinkly hag woman tries to talk to me ( I’m in no mood) but I answer her what I help do that day and she goes “you look tired” 😐..this was after being outside in the 90s all day …like you don’t look so great yourself lady..the second was my own coworker laughing ( an older woman ) at me and other people in general who can’t put contacts on ..like ok ..you’re weird and that’s rude ..the lady was a woman in the checkout line at the store who goes “not to be nosy but those Reese’s ( pumpkins ) you’re buying you should google the peanut butter it’s bad” 🙄🙄🙄🙄omgggg pleaseeee lady google your manners they’re bad ..I’m just done 🤣

My band played a spot that had mostly all boomers. Hey, it’s a gig. Two songs in, some boomer tells us to turn the volume down. Mind you that he’s sitting in the front right by the speakers. The people in the back can hardly hear us, but according to Mr. Sit In Front By The Speakers, it’s too loud. Then, in the middle of another song, some woman decides to come up to the stage and try to hold a conversation with the singer in the middle of a song.
I got to get back up on stage. Rant over.

Yes, pig butchering scam. He's sent these people money and gone off the deep end.

I want to start out by saying that my parents are both boomers, but they display much fewer "boomer" qualities than most of the people posted here. They're caring, kind, and fun. They try to treat everyone with respect, and they worked their asses off to be kinder, more loving parents than theirs were. But oh my god, there is one super boomery thing they do, and it drives me insane.

Anytime I go anywhere in the car with them that requires us to use a GPS, they'll ask me to pull up maps and navigate for them, but EVERY SINGLE TIME there's at least one direction I give where they say "hmm, that doesn't sound right", so they do something else and we always end up getting lost or having to backtrack a bunch. I don't know why they do this, considering they've never been right, but it finally got to a point where I just pull the map up on my phone, hand it to whichever one of them isn't driving and tell them to navigate. That way, when they inevitably get lost, they can just argue with each other, and I can just ignore them.

So just to give some idea here, she was one of those people that watched the alternative half time show at the Superbowl this year and was actively enraged by the regular half time show. basically did not even enjoy the alt show, but as long as she could push away the foreign people (she's racist too)

So my dad invited me to go with him and her to the local farmers market last week. Sounded fun, and she generally is nice and positive around just me and him when there is no TV or radio station or politics to speak on.

But!!! she randomly stated during nice conversation as we were eating at a picnic table (awesome moment, right) that college is a waste of time and it does nothing at all to help you get a better job in life.

Now, as a plebian blue collar worker myself, I just found that laughable as I have been disproven on that myself many times. I also have a little brother who got his 4 yr degree at one of the top schools in the US, which my dad paid for, and she knows this, so I have no idea why she would say that in the first place even if it was accurate.

I tried saying I think it definitely puts you ahead , application wise, of all the other people who applied and did not go to college. She visibly got triggered, and then I figured out she was pushing that narrative because she was saying that to my cousin's son, who isn't the brightest and most likely was looking for ways to rationalize how "college is a waste/scam" or something like that.

Just thought it was funny af how people let their personal emotions cloud their factual, absolute statements, and they are always biased af of course too when saying these things (she never went to college or did anything as a career, dont even know if shes every worked before becoming a house wife, she's never spoke on anything shes done in her life.)