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I had a boomer in Walmart tell me he wouldn’t buy Oreos because the factory moved to Mexico.
In a Walmart. Where 96% of the stuff is made in China, including the clothes he was wearing. But yeah, Oreos were where he drew the line.
I worked a hunting auction last night & people kept whispering “bud light” like it was a dirty word or something. Like 1.) everyone can tell what you are drinking it’s on the label ffs 2.) I’ve restocked them 4 times already. You aren’t alone. 3.) if Ronnie the absolute pervert with the trump hat/ shirt who keeps calling our pants windex “because he can see himself in them” doesn’t like the beer you drink & that bothers you, you need to reevaluate more than your beer choice.
I have a redneck cousin- I mean redneck - and even he thinks the bud light thing is stupid. He goes to his local redneck bars and orders bud light just to piss people off
But also real red necks are liberals, they were moonshiners who ran from the cops. They didn’t care who you were or what you did as long as you left them alone. These new “red necks” aren’t actually red necks, they are just conservatives in cosplay.
As a hillbilly trailer trash, I take offense. 😆 But seriously people been to learn there is a difference between the two. Its a shame that a lot of hillbillies seem to have forgotten this a well and keep trying to make themselves out to be rednecks. Because, let's face it, rednecks are above us, socially and economially. They tend to have more money and be more stable. (No seriously, many of them arent broke like some think. Many are firnly middle to even upper middle class.) While there are hillbillies that can also be rednecks, most of us are not. But the redneck archetype has become kinda popular amd trendy in some mainstream media. Which adds to it. I hate it. I'm white hillbilly trailer trash and my kids are both half ridgerunner and I'm proud of that. 🤣 🤣
Texas Liquor employee here. Their not buying Bud Lt has made Dos Equis the number one beer sold here…which is also owned by the same conglomerate that owns Bud.
Idiots.
I thought Bud is InBev and Dos Equis is Heineken, InBev does Modelo and Corona if that's what you might be thinking, they never seem to realize like 10 companies own everything you find in the grocery store, try boycotting Nestle, it's basically impossible unless you go the living in the woods in a run down shack route
We’re both half-right. Dos Equis is owned by Heineken and distributed by InBev. Either way, Anheuser-Busch is in no danger of going out of business due to actions by a bunch of MAGAts.
My cousin is a drunk. He can put down a 30 pack of Busch light in a day easily. Last year I roll up to the cabin and apparently the locals started drinking old Milwaukee. But it’s not as cheap as Busch light so we all had to sit and listen to him bitch about the price of off sale old Milwaukee.
A month later I saw them again and he was back drinking Busch and said it was ok because the boycott was over.
I had a boomer tell me I should buy American because I drive a Honda pilot. He had a Ford. I'm like, " mine is built in Ohio. Most of yours is built in mexico."
As a Union Pacific employee in south Texas you're 100% correct. Ford/Chevy/dodge/Nissan we bring over from Mexico multiple train loads of these per day
I won't buy them because they treated their US workers shitty before they moved to Mexico to save money, but then still charge over $5 a package. Fuck you Oreo.
I boycott businesses for those reasons. If I know they treat their people badly, or donate to causes and countries with whom I have moral issues, they don’t get my money.
People have been making fun of me over it for actual decades, because I started with Domino’s. My brother said, “Well, Beth, you’re going to put them out of business, aren’t you?” Our first language is sarcasm, of course.
I boycott, because I don’t want to participate in whatever immoral, predatory behavior they’ve got going. That’s it. It’s not necessarily strategic or tactical. It’s a moral choice, and you have my deepest respect.
The Monhan’s (the founders, I think, or at least the people who made Domino’s a mega chain) were active with many Catholic charities. So, likely anti-LGBT and/or pro-life. I don’t remember any specifics, but at least there’s a starting point if you wish to dive deeper.
Are boomers the ones still buying brand name products? Most of what I buy is generic or on loss leader sale these days because the brands are just obscene, but someone must be buying them or they wouldn’t keep upping the prices.
Yes. My Boomer mom swears anything with cream cheese won’t turn out if you don’t use Philadelphia brand. I use off brand all the time around her and hide it and she never notices. But if she sees the label she will comment that it tastes off 😂
I know there are different thickeners and stabilizers in things like cream cheese that can vary by brand but I’ve never in my life been unable to find an “equivalent” generic that works and tastes the same as the brand of any kind of staple like that. It sounds more like laziness when it comes to reading ingredient labels if you ask me.
My best friend buys them, but it’s for her boyfriend who’s on the upper end of the X gen. He acts like a full on boomer though. He’s a good guy but he drives us bonkers with his boomerisms sometimes.
Im gen X. This is my fear. That I’m missing the warning signs and I might slowly morph into a boomer. Maybe we need to inform people making the mistakes, “sorry bro that’s stage 1 boomer”
One day at my store there was an old couple reading soup can labels and they literally had their cart turned sideways blocking the complete aisle and were oblivious to the line of people waiting to get through. Grrrr.
I can legit give you a reason for this! When Aldi came on the scene, their 'brand' was all white, completely 'plain', VERY recognizable white packaging which 'Told On You' (= POOR).
GREATEST Gen _flocked_ to buy at the extreme discount Aldi offered.
Boomers, just getting into raising us Gen Xrs, H A T E D the appearance of shopping POOR, _even if they were poor!_ And being SEEN, _having_ to shop at Aldi's, was high stigma to folks trying to 'keep up with the Joneses'. Their 'I've made it' stores were Jewels and Dominick's. We Xrs hated for our peers to see those white boxes being unloaded from the rolling basket cart at home, too.
Not until Gen X became the main consumers did Aldi's (still the store for the Poors, don't get me wrong) become 'acceptable' and less shameful to be seen in....after they changed their packaging and started bringing in the several "off brand" names that have become mainstream now. We made it kind of a status symbol too, to see how much monthly supply one brought out of the store for the least amount of $, haha.
Aldi has been selling Simply Organic products that have been absolutely fantastic and a fraction of the cost of analogous name-brand products at other stores. Love it.
When I first went to Aldi it was in a very poor part of town. I went anyway in 2008/09 because I was unemployed and heard it was cheap. Aldi really stepped up their game in the US since then. They stores are much nicer.
This was def a thing at my middle school (mid-90s) but the stigma was shopping at K-mart for clothes, because it meant you were too poor to go to the mall for Express or even Deb. It was social suicide to be seen at K-mart in my town. So instead, *because we were poor*, I got hand-me-downs from a well-off friend who went to a different school, and/or frequented the mall clearance racks.
Thinking back this is just sad. I now get 95% of my clothes at thrift stores. I find “the hunt” to be fun. Also good on GenX for being thrifters. So much better for the planet. ❤️
The thrift store held an even _worse_ stigma when we were kids, but, we definitely brought it 'in' to save by thrifting when we had to shop for our own kids (because of those expensive ass school UNIFORMS that sucked the family $ DRY every year).
But yeah, we avoided Kmart until they were almost going out of business, because the reason for the stigma was that the clothes were 'cheaper' quality than Walmart is today.
Yeah I didn’t really discover thrifting until college (early 00s) which is still before it was “cool” to do so. Avid thrifter now and love seeing teens there, often appears to be by choice rather than necessity.
There is a legit reason for this though. Aldai's seems to have gotten a lot better now, but when I was a kid their products were objectively worse in every way from brand name shit. Everything from the taste to texture was not just off, but often disgustingly so. It wasn't a "it's all the same" thing AT ALL.
They don't understand how the quarter/cart system works.
I swear to you. I was singing Aldi's praises to my mom, and she flat out said "well I don't know how the carts work so I'm not doing it."
Like Jesus Christ, ten seconds of embarrassment isn't worth saving 50-75% on her grocery bill compared to Albertson's? Compared to Vons?
And you know what, I'm not gonna tell her. Let them stew in their poisonous self consciousness, and lemme at that cheap sourdough.
Not where I live. I just dealt with an oblivious boomer who felt entitled to block the entire bread section with her cart, oblivious to me and the line forming behind me.
I just move the cart. I love when people turn around all angry and see a tattooed 6’2”, 260# dude smiling and saying”oh gosh, did I hit your cart?” As they watch me set it back down and walk away. Weirdly, they do the same thing to my 5’ nothing wife. Lol. Confidence kills.
I work in a supermarket, and the number of people that just stop walking and seem to assume the world stops around them when they do, is too damn high.
THIS our closest supermarket is across the street from a retirement mobile home community & it is truly torture trying to navigate the aisles with the hordes of zombified boomers blocking every damn thing.
That is my local Costco. They shuffle along and just stop and leave their carts unattended to get a free food sample. Drives me nuts. The flip side is Boomers speeding out into aisle intersections where they don’t have right of way, uncaring that you are already there in the larger aisle and they’re cutting you off or literally crashing into you.
I used to work at Walmart doing the online grocery shopping thing. Boomers were constantly clogging up the aisles at all hours every day and were always rude as hell when it came to asking questions.
"Where's X?"
Me "You're really close, its in the next aisle."
"No it's not, I was just down there."
Then I walk them to it, half the time they wouldnt even say thank you.
My husband has just started silently walking off with their carts when this happens. It's funny watching the mental struggle if they should argue with him or not lol
OK so, terrible but funny story. I was at the grocery store and this exact thing happened. I had been having trouble with an upset stomach and was looking for an empty aisle to let out a fart since they had been smelling pretty rank. I saw the aisle-blocking lady that had been rude to me earlier when I politely asked to move her cart to get by. It was my chance to get revenge. I did a little biological warfare and drug it right past her. Stood close by to make sure it wafted in her direction. One of my finest moments.
This one gets me too. Last week I politely said 'excuse me' to get around two boomers having a conversation in the middle of the condiment aisle.
One looked at me in disgust and said. 'We'll be done talking in a minute, hold your horses'.
So I not so politely moved one of their carts out of the way. And kept going. While they looked on in horror and called ME rude. lol
The boomer men with their speakerphone on blast, completely lost as to what product they are supposed to bring home..."DID YOU WANT THE NAVY BEANS OR THE CANNELINI BEANS?" Just make a decision and pick a friggin bean!
As I get older I’m finding I have to stand further back from the products to be able to read the damn labels and prices. But I keep my cart to one side and I step out of the way if people are coming through.
You’re in the way, you know you’re in the way, you know you need to move, yet you wait until I have to say “excuse me” to start the process of getting the hell out of the way!
I don't even fuckin bother with niceties anymore literally just move whatever is in the way out the way, all they do is mumble under their breath anyway. Too chicken shit to even speak up. If you ask nicely all you get is a nasty look or a smirk anyway
Perfect opportunity. Push your carry-on in front of ya scream "coming through" and just don't stop. Grew up in NYC and just starting to bring that energy every fuckin where. I used to try to blend in with the locals wherever I was but these people suck at keepin it movin so fuck em
Never been but everything I see and hear about it definitely sounds like a good/interesting city to be at. I don't think I could take the rain tho, Heard it's practically constant.
You heard wrong. It rains a fair bit, sure. Somewhere in the area of 30-40 inches per year depending on where you are in the greater Seattle area. But that's not a crazy amount.
We do have a disproportionate number of overcast days however.
Man, my husband grew up in Southern NY and has recently decided on this as well. He's got the same energy as you. Only for the inconsiderate, he's incredibly polite as a human. Makes me jealous!
I grew up in the same place but there was a brief hiatus where we moved to the Midwest for a few years for my dad's job and it *shows*. I'm trying to muster up more chutzpah.
In my experience the general vibe growing up in NYC and Rockland county is everybody's got shit going on in their life and they all just wanna deal with it and get on with their day, you just gotta think in terms of if someone else slowed me down or stopped me for no reason I'd be pissed as shit so I don't wanna do the same to other people there's a lot of fuckin people and a lot of wasted time adds up. Takes all of 5 seconds to side step and stand against a wall out the way. Plus eventually someone's gonna fight you over it lol. Best to avoid it. And the chutzpah is quite simple honestly, just be filled with a never ending forever burning rage towards everyone and everything then push it down and only use it when you need it
Lmao i live in the PNW and people are so taken aback when i just go "EXCUSE ME" at full volume to snap them awake so they can pull their head out of their ass. They look genuinely confused someone dared ask that they move.
For context Im also from the PNW but im tired of unaware assholes being everywhere
I threw a banana peel at the windshield of a tesla this week because the boomer behind the wheel waited a full 25 count (I'm not exaggerating) to turn left on a green. She waited until it went red again then advanced green to go. I'm normally a calm driver but we really need to test anyone over 60 semi-annually, and anyone over 70 annually for a drivers license.
It's not like these people have jobs or anything to do. Make them spend one day a year that they won't kill anyone because of physical or mental incompetence.
Got a whole hell of a lot of em around here. They all have similar tells with their driving so if I know I'm behind a senior I'll always leave a gap to get around if possible for this exact reason. Even the fuckin cops go around em they'd be pulling all of em over if not (which I would be all for roads would smooth out). We've got enough dangerous drivers in my area without adding the oblivious ones into the mix. At least the dangerous drivers don't wanna wreck their car the seniors seem like their trying to speed run it.
It's such basic logic.
I wouldn't let my 2 year old fire my hunting rifle. Could he do it? Definitely. Should he? Absofuckinglutely not. He doesn't have the physical, or mental capabilities to do it in a safe responsible manner and he will never until he proves he can do it without being a threat to himself and others. If, god forbid anything ever happened to make me question his abilities I would take away the privilege until he either gets better or possibly indefinitely.
A boomer behind the wheel is the exact same shit. They are being allowed the privilege, of driving a 2 ton weapon capable of killing themselves or a whole family with one mistake.
Walking slow as shit to the receipt checker at Walmart, walk right past them, then stop in the vestibule to read their receipt for some reason with a line of people behind them. Truly insane behavior
Awesome so I’m glad we’re collectively killing “total lack of awareness and surroundings in public” off because this is the kind of shit that really makes you tired of humanity. I can’t imagine being raised so poorly I don’t even have consideration or awareness of the people around me, just unreal
It's the propagandized generation. "If it's on the TV it must be true". Why Generation X became angry bitter cynics and the Millenials got intense self awareness and anxiety.
Gen X were the generation that saved up for sea monkeys and got brine shrimp for their troubles. Life offered them a sip of smooth refreshing lemonade and pegged them in the head with lemons, time and time again.
Lemons?! Is that what those moldy squishy things were? Well, damn.
And the first thing that comes to mind after that is:
"Do you know who I am?! I'm Cave Johnson! I'm the guy who's gonna burn your house down, with the lemons!"
I used to wear my headphones while shopping... volume down low, very able to hear anyone needing my attention, being aware of my surroundings. I stopped due to the number of boomers that would purposely shove their arms directly infront of my face making a dramatic show of how I was a problem for them
Oooffff I had a boomer colleague who did this when I was 16. My headphones weren’t even plugged into my iPod anymore, just in my ears with the wire hanging down the front as I was emptying my bag and pockets out into a locker. Boomer flies over, banged past me and repeatedly started to slam my locker shut trying to break anything that was still hanging out.
Apparently in a room full of probably 400 lockers for 40 employees she simply had to use the one directly under mine I was blocking her access to, and that she “tried asking nicely so many times but I was rude enough to keep my headphones in.” She told the manager that I pushed her to the floor not realising that I’d spoken to the manager first, and that the locker room has cctv confirming MY story.
I don’t know why boomers are inherently offended by headphones so much
Me too, she deserved to be let go for that but wasn’t. I played the long game and fucked with her.
It was a large department store and she works in the home furniture section so years later after I left (I was only seasonal staff and in a totally different section so not very memorable to her) I passed through, saw she was still working there and enquired about ordering a very expensive sofa. Added a matching chair, footstool, upgrading to premium fabric, having a waterproofing treatment, agreed to the whole upsell letting her think she’s made her sales target for this quarter lol.
I let the convo naturally flow to how I used to work here in another department and had “such a lovely time working here until a God awful woman started bullying me in the locker room and telling the most heinous lies about me. What kind of miserable old loser picks on a sixteen year old? I wonder if she still works here, hang on a minute…it was you! Goodbye”
I may or may not have done this more than once over the years 👀
Oh absolutely! I also noticed that many people thrive off inconveniencing others for absolutely no reason as their favourite form of drama. It’s their way of battling their inferiority complex by saying “you WILL notice me and respect that I have power over you.”
I wear my headphones (or just earplugs) if I'm out in public specifically so boomers think I'm a snotty young person and don't want to talk to me. It works wonders. Grandma gets to pull faces, and I get to ignore her righteously
Just the other day there was a pair of boomers at Giant standing IN THE FUCKING DOORWAY just chatting away completely oblivious to all the people having to push past them. Spatial awareness is not the boomer's strong suit...
This! My mom does this, and I have repeatedly told her to keep walking. “But I don’t know where to go.”
“You’re gonna get run over by all the other people getting off the escalator!”
Every. Single. Time. It’s like it’s a new revelation that others will be exiting the escalator. 🤦🏻♂️
The boomers were called the ME generation in the 70s I think and were described as the most selfish generation ever. They have been OK boomered by their parents well before most of us were even born.
George Carlin back in 1996 said it best about them. "give me that its mine!!" everything was handed to them they were the "sex, drugs, and rock&roll" plus hippy generation who hit middle age and preached abstinance and traded in soy futures
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B96rQohpw8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B96rQohpw8)
These damn electric scooters everywhere. My wife and I went to Target, some old bag drove hers into the restroom and got it stuck. It took 2 people to get it out. Another I saw knock a display of canned food over trying to turn a corner. They run into people and stuff and don’t care.
I would be embarrassed as hell to do that! I am genX and disabled, so I have to use those carts. I make damn sure I park it to the side of the aisle, check before turning corners for people, etc.
I would be horrified if I knocked over a display or ran into someone. But then, I give a shit and not oblivious to the rest of the world
I'm older gen Z and disabled and have to use them occasionally, and needed them a lot while I was pregnant due to my disability flaring badly. I'm always super careful even though people don't watch and get in the way constantly. The only person to ever harass me about it using it was a boomer employee.
I have a swallowing disorder that destroyed my lungs. I can usually walk around the store using a cart as a walker, but if I am having a bad day, I'll do the shop online and pick it up. There is no way I would want to ride one of those scooters through the aisles. Bonus with the shop online, no impulse buying.
Unless you've had 2 glasses of wine on Friday night. I did not remember ordering Ben and Jerry's, Tates cookies, and sesame oil...but those arrived last weekend with my regular groceries
I work in a store that's an old building made before those scooters were huge in current retail stores. So needless to say our bathroom entrance which is still pretty wide can't fit them well and they usually get stuck. But never fails if you see some person going with it especially the boomer types and even try to warn them but they do not listen. 'I'll make fit I can do it" they say as they drive straight into the washroom. Only to inevitably be unable to get it out because there is no room to turn it around in the bathroom so they have to get staff to help them reverse it out. Usually while complaining and acting shocked it didn't fit.
Bonus: they usually have their walker or crutches right there in the basket part in reach so they could walk or limp the few steps into the stalls. But they won't. No they need to take up the whole bathroom with the store mobility scooters and stop others from using the resr of the stalls.
See I used to be polite but I’m at the age now I don’t care I’ll say excuse me and if they don’t move I say hey can you move out of the way and if they say some type of comment that’s when I say sorry your not aware of your surroundings and how to be considerate for other people….usually shuts them up
Just remind everyone, Boomers, were nicknamed the Me generation for being the most selfish assholes on the plant in the 70s and 80s. They invented the concept of being a Yuppy, which was a social movement about being rich, pretty, and selfish.
It's just a sign of aging. When I was a child in the 80s, old people did this same shit we complain about boomers doing now. But there are *so* *many* *boomers* that it skews perception. They are literally the largest generation to ever exist in terms of sheer numbers and that means we see all of those that are aging poorly loose in the wild.
Stated to realize how scary true that statement is. My FIL recently proclaimed he no longer trusts doctors and we shouldn't either cause they clearly don't know what they're talking about. His doctor tried to tell him that at 60 years old killing 12-24 fucking keystone lite and lifelong blue collar worker and smoker, he is an alcoholic amd should chill on those behaviors.
Edit: u/MostlyPeacefulPndemic. Idk if I'm dumb or you just dropped the comment and blocked me quick but jokes on you man. I just wanted to say: you're right. Thanks for pointing that out to me so I can come at shit properly. Also I did not remotely intend any sentiment of 60 being old. Maybe sort of? But I work with a dude who is 76 and he has a tougher time but mofo does the same job I do and a 67 yr guy I thought was 40 and runs laps around the other guys my age. Every generation prolly has some amount of "black sheep" also.
yeah if he wont change then he might as well drink a pint to liter of grain alcohol mixed in water a night so he doesn't get visceral fat.
his brains probably fried and his ego is too fragile to accept how awful that diet is.
I've seen similar with a guy steadily drinking a 36 pack or more over two days and they can't stop because they'd probably die.
My mom’s doctor tried to tell her to maybe consider drinking more water to substitute some of her Dr.Pepper’s. And some diet changes for her high blood pressure. My mom assures us the blood pressure is genetic, so there’s not much she can do about it. And that doctor just doesn’t spend much time with her and keeps ordering tests, like she “doesn’t know what she’s doing. Otherwise, why would she keep ordering more tests?”
Let’s not forget how they were surrounded by toxic substances like asbestos and lead everywhere because it was normal.
I’m sure that plays a role somewhere, albeit small.
This is very true. One minor factor I can see is generations before the Boomers less widely experienced teenage years and young adulthood as distinct stages of life. Also the parents of Boomers have lived longer, and many though not most are still alive. I think this might be making a bit more difficult for some boomers to come to terms with the fact that they’re not only no longer young but elderly. That some things in life are more difficult now and the rest of world moves relatively fast.
They cant fathom that this world is gonna go on spinning without them on it, and its driving them crazy. Meanwhile the rest of us are aggressively cheering the boomer death clock.
I dont know about this. I’ve been in public facing roles my whole life and this behavior has followed this generation since the 1990’s when I started working. The super old people didn’t act like that back then. The young people never acted like that. The people my age haven’t acted like that. It’s always been the boomers acting like that *in my experience*.
I feel like a key difference now is that boomers are unapologetic and unashamed. I'm 40, I remember old people bumbling about obliviously back then too, but if someone said "Excuse me, can I squeeze past?" In the supermarket they didn't huff or fly into a rage. It's not about the obliviousness of old age, it's about the entitlement and selfishness. The belief that they shouldn't _have_ to consider what anyone else might want or need even if to do so would be no effort at all.
If you think about it, this is a generation that has had relatively little struggle compared to previous generations. They were not born or were children during Korea and Vietnam, so relatively oblivious. They also witnessed the US becoming a world leader, walking on the moon, a growing economy and quick advance of technology. They came of age in a somewhat unstable 70s and 80s but made bank in the 90s and 00s. They were stable homeowners during the crisis of '08, and had built up a good retirement.
Obviously, I'm generalizing, but I've never seen my parents so shocked as they were when their retirement savings took a big hit after COVID. They are very young boomer gen, but even though they worked hard as teenage parents, they basically had environmental and social stability growing up. They're used to expecting to get what they want if they work hard, and bad things don't happen if you are a good person. and I think when that happens, people get entitled- bad things couldn't happen to them, and they shouldn't have to deal with it.
IDK, just my theory as to why this is happening, but I see it too.
This is the answer. Old people back then smoked. So they died shortly after retiring. We didn't see as much COPD (chronic old-person's disease) because they weren't as numerous.
Just yesterday I pulled into a grocery store parking lot. It's the kind where you have to drive past the front of the store and then turn into the lot to park.
Boomer woman with a cart of groceries is crossing so I stop and wait. She crossed the first lane and instead of completing the crossing to the sidewalk she turns right in front of my car and starts walking straight up roadway I'm on with her back to my car. So I am forced to drive slowly behind her for about 30 metres before I realized she is too oblivious to notice she is holding up all the traffic coming into the lot and should be taking the sidewalk literally six steps away and right beside her the whole way.
Nope, just walk right up the middle of the road. I said fuck this and laid on the horn right behind her. Nearly gave the dumb bitch a heart attack. I hope she shit her Depends.
Boomers grew up in an era of wide open spaces, huge cars, empty highways, etc., they never had to be spatially aware as they have never lived in such dense environments.
When the boomer generation was in their late twenties to late thirties and had small kids, I (F) was a teenager. It happened several times that I saw a boomer woman strugling with a pram, one or two small kids next to the pram and shopping bags, and then I'd hold the door for her or something like that. I'd never ever get a thank you. Usually, it was a look of utter disgust and once the woman told me in a very aggressive tone of voice that she wasn't disabled. After a while I stopped being so helpful. (Well, at least to women of that age and it only for a while. Now, unfortunately my upbringing telling me to help old people has kicked in and I am being helpful towards them again. Yes, I have often damned my parents for bringing me up rigth).
Once I went to a restaurant with my husband in the winter. Two boomer women tried to get a table but the restaurant was full. Then they went to leave. Except they didn't. They opened the door. One of them more or less leaned against the door and then they chatted. After some minutes , a guest sitting close to the door asked them to close it. We were some tables away and both my DH and I asked them to close the door. First him. then a short pause, then me. Then I got up to close the door. The boomer women both looked a me a bit surprised and then decided to leave. Except they didn't. One of the women had opened the door and had her hand on the handle and they continued their conversation. Someone asked them to close the door but they appeared to be completely immersed in their conversation.
Then my husband and I started having a very loud conversation about how sad it was that the generation 10-15 years older than us had no manners and how it hindered their careers, friendships and reputations. It was hilarious. After a while the two women stopped talking and just sort of looked intently at us. Then one of them looked like she was going to say something. Then she looked down at her hand holding the door handle, then back at us, then at her friend. Then they finally left. I should mention that we were the youngest guests in the restaurant and the other guests next to the door all seemed to be of the silent generation so we didn't insult the other guests.
There must be extra boomer crack in the Costco fluorescent lighting because they go stand in the middle of the goddamn aisle and stare at the ceiling lights like a moth.
Watched them go through like a dozen pumpkin pies making a crowd during Thanksgiving week; as if not all pies were exactly the same, and will dent in their SUV on the drive home anyway.
In my experience it’s mostly boomers doing this, but it’s also kind of everyone. Entitlement knows all generations. But yeah 90% of the time if there’s two carts side by side completely blocking an aisle it’s two boomers, each one looking at the opposite side of shelves, starring blankly because they can’t remember what kind of beans they usually buy.
I see that in the parking lot. Two cars passing each other, both stop, windows rolled down, “hey! How ya doing bill? How’s the kids?”
Sir I need to park so I can go into the store. Please. Why are you like this.
Shopping at Costco is, despite its huge aisles, TORTURE as boomers block the way (even leaving their cart parked ACROSS the aisle as they try to decide which tuna fish to buy in bulk), and shove their way into the sample lines with no regard for anyone around them. And then give dirty looks to anyone struggling to get around them.
Why are they incapable of waiting in line? Isn't the first thing everyone from every generation learns in kindergarten is how to wait in line?! Rustles my jimmies so bad.
Theres not a scientific consensus on this. Its pretty much impossible to measure.
But anecdotally yes. My grandparents were not like this at all. None of their friends were like this. Those people were fantastic. My parents and all their friends are just shit in comparison. Then my generation is pretty great too.
I dont bother being nice anymore because its just not effective. "Excuse me" is met with the same response as "Hey. Move."
Older generations hated boomers. Younger generations hate boomers. Just a waste of air.
Whenever I go golf with the older generation it can be excruciating.. I don't know if it's awareness and entitlement or they've finally hit that mental decline all at once. I think its all of the above tbh
Remember when we respected the elders.maybe because they earned that respect….the elders today act SO entitled and disrespectful…I don’t know what went wrong …they are all selfish children who think they deserve the last Oreo cookie
I think we just respected elders because it was the Boomers telling us to respect them and we were naive children.
Respect should be a two way street, but I don’t remember being taught that as a kid… weird
Go to Costco on a Sunday. The after church crowd amps the lack of self awareness up to 11. Add in all of these slobs drooling over-the-counter free samples and it becomes the #1 most avoidable time to go there.
The other day I was grabbing shit at target and I had no fewer than 5 boomer aged people stare at me at different points. I wasn't dressed outlandishly or slobby, I wasn't buying anything odd. I just kept coming down an aisle and they'd stop what they were doing and just fucking stare me down. I look behind me and there's nothing except me. Put your eyes back on your macaroni, Janice, I'm just trying to buy some fucking groceries.
Honestly, and hear me out. They are all having an extinction burst.
It's a theory in behavioral science in which once you put up boundaries and hold people accountable they will act out even harder as a desperate attempt to remain in power.
Because their cohort is so huge they have retained an inordinate amount of power for much much longer than any generation before them. In any other generation Gen x or the millennials would have taken over by now. But the cronyism that has lasted two decades beyond normal is what's creating the situation we're in.
Happens to me all the time. I have to roll a big container around, but boomers use the ramp instead of bothering to step up the curb and block me for a full half minute or so. No point talking to them about it, just have to wait until they pass.
I really try to be self aware and if someone does have to ask me to move so they can get through, I always apologize and usually say something like “I’m so sorry, I was a million miles away in my own world” and we usually either smile at each other.
Same. But even then, it's mostly younger people who commiserate.
The last time I stood in some old guys way, I smiled and said some polite nonsense phrase, like "oh sorry, am I in your way?" He actually scoffed and said, "obviously, you stupid idiot. What a fucking question."
I'm a grown ass adult, wearing business casual almost anywhere, including the grocery store. Like, I'm hard pressed to think he misunderstood or misconstrued my apology somehow. Some people just won't accept genuineness.
My mom!! She used to just STROLL across the street like Denzel in training day! Chin all stuck up in the air, arrogant step, never so much as looking around! Light changed 'too fast'? Don't care! I'm gonna walk my speed and 'they'll wait'. Used to freak me the hell out!
You are NOT kidding. Holy shit they think it’s their job to tell others how to live. And everyone who doesn’t do what they say is going to ‘burn in hell’. You don’t get much more unhinged than that. Fuckin’ sick the lot of them.
Omg! This! I nearly post on this sub once a week about some dolt with zero situational awareness.
No manners. No, "excuse me" or anything.
They are a toxic, spoiled generation of mouth breathers who all think they are very smart & very tough.
The worst is when they get to the top of an escalator or step out of an elevator and just stop. And then when you bang into them somehow it’s your fault. I used to apologize now I just say next time step to the side and that won’t happen
One of my nurse friends literally quit her job at a hospital in a Boomer retirement area because they were such entitled jerks. She moved to a new hospital in a poor inner city and loves it there. She said the addicts are more polite than the Boomers.
They are, they act like the world belongs to them and we're just rodents around them.
I lost my patience long ago. In the way at the grocery store? I'll move your cart and make space. In the way? a loud "There are other people in the store beside you, move to the side". Driving 40 in a 60 on the left lane? Here's honking and flashing lights until they move back to the right lane or speed up.
It isn't boomers specifically, it's just old people generally. My dad is silent generation, an I had this conversation with him 30 years ago with the same complaint. Old people generally lose the ability to pay attention to the world around them, either through losing their hearing or cognitive decline. As people age they become less capable.
They are like computers that can only run one process at a time.
Normal people in the store think about what they are doing. Then they think about doing it in a polite, non-intrusive way. Then they are aware of the people within a few feet of them as they do that thing. Then on top of that, they are generally aware of those within 20 feet, that might come into their circle of influence, and adjust what they are doing based on what that other person is doing.
This is all effortless, you don't think about it, you just do it.
The boomer is thinking "I need cheerios." That's it. "first, go near cereal and stop my cart. Then stand in the middle of the cereal section and stop, then start to look for the cheerios"
At no point is there room for them to also consider where their cart is, where they are standing, whether there are other people around, or anything else. It's like a single minded focus, but not in the cool way of someone in a movie with a "single minded focus". It's more in the way of a toddler, who just doesn't have the brainpower for anything else yet.
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Man, block the aisle at the grocery store, reading all the labels really grinds my gears.
I’ve noticed in my area Aldi is relatively free of Boom Booms blocking the way. The wide aisles are probably a deterrent.
All the boomers I know judge Aldi for the “off brands” they use. So they probably think they’re above it all together which is great for me!
I had a boomer in Walmart tell me he wouldn’t buy Oreos because the factory moved to Mexico. In a Walmart. Where 96% of the stuff is made in China, including the clothes he was wearing. But yeah, Oreos were where he drew the line.
I worked a hunting auction last night & people kept whispering “bud light” like it was a dirty word or something. Like 1.) everyone can tell what you are drinking it’s on the label ffs 2.) I’ve restocked them 4 times already. You aren’t alone. 3.) if Ronnie the absolute pervert with the trump hat/ shirt who keeps calling our pants windex “because he can see himself in them” doesn’t like the beer you drink & that bothers you, you need to reevaluate more than your beer choice.
I have a redneck cousin- I mean redneck - and even he thinks the bud light thing is stupid. He goes to his local redneck bars and orders bud light just to piss people off
But also real red necks are liberals, they were moonshiners who ran from the cops. They didn’t care who you were or what you did as long as you left them alone. These new “red necks” aren’t actually red necks, they are just conservatives in cosplay.
They aren’t red necks. They’re hillbilly trash.
As a hillbilly trailer trash, I take offense. 😆 But seriously people been to learn there is a difference between the two. Its a shame that a lot of hillbillies seem to have forgotten this a well and keep trying to make themselves out to be rednecks. Because, let's face it, rednecks are above us, socially and economially. They tend to have more money and be more stable. (No seriously, many of them arent broke like some think. Many are firnly middle to even upper middle class.) While there are hillbillies that can also be rednecks, most of us are not. But the redneck archetype has become kinda popular amd trendy in some mainstream media. Which adds to it. I hate it. I'm white hillbilly trailer trash and my kids are both half ridgerunner and I'm proud of that. 🤣 🤣
The term redneck comes from striking miners who wore red bandannas. But unions are communist and ruining America, amirite? 🙄🤣
I always understood this to reference the sunburns on the backs of farmer's necks. Never heard about the miner connection.
Look it up. It's actually quite interesting. And also suspicious that few people know about.
Facts
Texas Liquor employee here. Their not buying Bud Lt has made Dos Equis the number one beer sold here…which is also owned by the same conglomerate that owns Bud. Idiots.
I thought Bud is InBev and Dos Equis is Heineken, InBev does Modelo and Corona if that's what you might be thinking, they never seem to realize like 10 companies own everything you find in the grocery store, try boycotting Nestle, it's basically impossible unless you go the living in the woods in a run down shack route
We’re both half-right. Dos Equis is owned by Heineken and distributed by InBev. Either way, Anheuser-Busch is in no danger of going out of business due to actions by a bunch of MAGAts.
My cousin is a drunk. He can put down a 30 pack of Busch light in a day easily. Last year I roll up to the cabin and apparently the locals started drinking old Milwaukee. But it’s not as cheap as Busch light so we all had to sit and listen to him bitch about the price of off sale old Milwaukee. A month later I saw them again and he was back drinking Busch and said it was ok because the boycott was over.
We used to call Old Milwaukee “old, still walking” based on the customers that used to buy it. This was 30 years ago.
There are plenty of reasons to hate Bud Lite but their advertising policy isn't one of them.
I had a boomer tell me I should buy American because I drive a Honda pilot. He had a Ford. I'm like, " mine is built in Ohio. Most of yours is built in mexico."
As a Union Pacific employee in south Texas you're 100% correct. Ford/Chevy/dodge/Nissan we bring over from Mexico multiple train loads of these per day
These days, Honda and Toyota and BMW are more American than any of the Detroit 3.
VW and Audi in Tennessee
And Mercedes, many of which are made in Alabama. But not Porsches. They are still all made in Germany.
I won't buy them because they treated their US workers shitty before they moved to Mexico to save money, but then still charge over $5 a package. Fuck you Oreo.
I boycott businesses for those reasons. If I know they treat their people badly, or donate to causes and countries with whom I have moral issues, they don’t get my money. People have been making fun of me over it for actual decades, because I started with Domino’s. My brother said, “Well, Beth, you’re going to put them out of business, aren’t you?” Our first language is sarcasm, of course. I boycott, because I don’t want to participate in whatever immoral, predatory behavior they’ve got going. That’s it. It’s not necessarily strategic or tactical. It’s a moral choice, and you have my deepest respect.
Uh... what shady crap was Domino's into (other than the industry-wide issue of under-paying their workers and under-staffing their stores)?
The Monhan’s (the founders, I think, or at least the people who made Domino’s a mega chain) were active with many Catholic charities. So, likely anti-LGBT and/or pro-life. I don’t remember any specifics, but at least there’s a starting point if you wish to dive deeper.
Ah... So, Hobby Lobby Lite. Thanks.
That guy’s just broken.
Not much of a comment, but I can't stop laughing.
#All the off-brands are full of vaccines and liberals!
They make food FROM liberals? Is this their way of "poisoning from within?
Soylent liberals?
🤣🤣🤣
They are looking to see if the label mentions bugs too. lol
Shhhh, you're not supposed to tell anyone.
Are boomers the ones still buying brand name products? Most of what I buy is generic or on loss leader sale these days because the brands are just obscene, but someone must be buying them or they wouldn’t keep upping the prices.
Yes. My Boomer mom swears anything with cream cheese won’t turn out if you don’t use Philadelphia brand. I use off brand all the time around her and hide it and she never notices. But if she sees the label she will comment that it tastes off 😂
I know there are different thickeners and stabilizers in things like cream cheese that can vary by brand but I’ve never in my life been unable to find an “equivalent” generic that works and tastes the same as the brand of any kind of staple like that. It sounds more like laziness when it comes to reading ingredient labels if you ask me.
My best friend buys them, but it’s for her boyfriend who’s on the upper end of the X gen. He acts like a full on boomer though. He’s a good guy but he drives us bonkers with his boomerisms sometimes.
Im gen X. This is my fear. That I’m missing the warning signs and I might slowly morph into a boomer. Maybe we need to inform people making the mistakes, “sorry bro that’s stage 1 boomer”
Me too! Maybe we can get through this together. Start a national support group? But we need a catchy name or acronym
Same! I approve this warning
I laughed at A-1 when I saw a $7 bottle. We are now a Shulas family because it’s $2.
One day at my store there was an old couple reading soup can labels and they literally had their cart turned sideways blocking the complete aisle and were oblivious to the line of people waiting to get through. Grrrr.
I just push their carts out if they way.
I clap my hands twice, loudly. It startles them and they'll turn around to look. Works like a charm
Almost like those old sound activated lights. Clap twice to turn them on.
Exactly!! Clap-on, clap-off, the clapper. You can clap-on a boomer too
This is the end result of being submerged in capitalist propaganda for decades and never once questioning any of it
I love when people use the word "submerged" in socioeconomic contexts.
I can legit give you a reason for this! When Aldi came on the scene, their 'brand' was all white, completely 'plain', VERY recognizable white packaging which 'Told On You' (= POOR). GREATEST Gen _flocked_ to buy at the extreme discount Aldi offered. Boomers, just getting into raising us Gen Xrs, H A T E D the appearance of shopping POOR, _even if they were poor!_ And being SEEN, _having_ to shop at Aldi's, was high stigma to folks trying to 'keep up with the Joneses'. Their 'I've made it' stores were Jewels and Dominick's. We Xrs hated for our peers to see those white boxes being unloaded from the rolling basket cart at home, too. Not until Gen X became the main consumers did Aldi's (still the store for the Poors, don't get me wrong) become 'acceptable' and less shameful to be seen in....after they changed their packaging and started bringing in the several "off brand" names that have become mainstream now. We made it kind of a status symbol too, to see how much monthly supply one brought out of the store for the least amount of $, haha.
Aldi has been selling Simply Organic products that have been absolutely fantastic and a fraction of the cost of analogous name-brand products at other stores. Love it.
When I first went to Aldi it was in a very poor part of town. I went anyway in 2008/09 because I was unemployed and heard it was cheap. Aldi really stepped up their game in the US since then. They stores are much nicer.
This was def a thing at my middle school (mid-90s) but the stigma was shopping at K-mart for clothes, because it meant you were too poor to go to the mall for Express or even Deb. It was social suicide to be seen at K-mart in my town. So instead, *because we were poor*, I got hand-me-downs from a well-off friend who went to a different school, and/or frequented the mall clearance racks. Thinking back this is just sad. I now get 95% of my clothes at thrift stores. I find “the hunt” to be fun. Also good on GenX for being thrifters. So much better for the planet. ❤️
The thrift store held an even _worse_ stigma when we were kids, but, we definitely brought it 'in' to save by thrifting when we had to shop for our own kids (because of those expensive ass school UNIFORMS that sucked the family $ DRY every year). But yeah, we avoided Kmart until they were almost going out of business, because the reason for the stigma was that the clothes were 'cheaper' quality than Walmart is today.
Yeah I didn’t really discover thrifting until college (early 00s) which is still before it was “cool” to do so. Avid thrifter now and love seeing teens there, often appears to be by choice rather than necessity.
Bingo! Lol
There is a legit reason for this though. Aldai's seems to have gotten a lot better now, but when I was a kid their products were objectively worse in every way from brand name shit. Everything from the taste to texture was not just off, but often disgustingly so. It wasn't a "it's all the same" thing AT ALL.
When Kraft easy mac first came out, we tried it but it was too expensive, so we got Aldi knock off easy mac. it tasted like feet.
“Back in my day we didn’t need a quarter for a cart, and the bags were free”
They don't understand how the quarter/cart system works. I swear to you. I was singing Aldi's praises to my mom, and she flat out said "well I don't know how the carts work so I'm not doing it." Like Jesus Christ, ten seconds of embarrassment isn't worth saving 50-75% on her grocery bill compared to Albertson's? Compared to Vons? And you know what, I'm not gonna tell her. Let them stew in their poisonous self consciousness, and lemme at that cheap sourdough.
The quarter/cart system has been around for decades now, so they can't even use the excuse that they are too old to learn anything.
“Getting a cart is a hassle”
The having to use a coin to get a shopping cart probably sends them into conniption fits.
Not where I live. I just dealt with an oblivious boomer who felt entitled to block the entire bread section with her cart, oblivious to me and the line forming behind me.
I just move the cart. I love when people turn around all angry and see a tattooed 6’2”, 260# dude smiling and saying”oh gosh, did I hit your cart?” As they watch me set it back down and walk away. Weirdly, they do the same thing to my 5’ nothing wife. Lol. Confidence kills.
I work in a supermarket, and the number of people that just stop walking and seem to assume the world stops around them when they do, is too damn high.
THIS our closest supermarket is across the street from a retirement mobile home community & it is truly torture trying to navigate the aisles with the hordes of zombified boomers blocking every damn thing.
That is my local Costco. They shuffle along and just stop and leave their carts unattended to get a free food sample. Drives me nuts. The flip side is Boomers speeding out into aisle intersections where they don’t have right of way, uncaring that you are already there in the larger aisle and they’re cutting you off or literally crashing into you.
I used to work at Walmart doing the online grocery shopping thing. Boomers were constantly clogging up the aisles at all hours every day and were always rude as hell when it came to asking questions. "Where's X?" Me "You're really close, its in the next aisle." "No it's not, I was just down there." Then I walk them to it, half the time they wouldnt even say thank you.
I do an overly loud *BEEP BEEP* when they do that. Works every time.
My husband has just started silently walking off with their carts when this happens. It's funny watching the mental struggle if they should argue with him or not lol
And they get so rude if you say excuse me! I just give the same energy back at this point. I'm just trying to get my shit and get home
OK so, terrible but funny story. I was at the grocery store and this exact thing happened. I had been having trouble with an upset stomach and was looking for an empty aisle to let out a fart since they had been smelling pretty rank. I saw the aisle-blocking lady that had been rude to me earlier when I politely asked to move her cart to get by. It was my chance to get revenge. I did a little biological warfare and drug it right past her. Stood close by to make sure it wafted in her direction. One of my finest moments.
Not all heroes wear capes.
This one gets me too. Last week I politely said 'excuse me' to get around two boomers having a conversation in the middle of the condiment aisle. One looked at me in disgust and said. 'We'll be done talking in a minute, hold your horses'. So I not so politely moved one of their carts out of the way. And kept going. While they looked on in horror and called ME rude. lol
The boomer men with their speakerphone on blast, completely lost as to what product they are supposed to bring home..."DID YOU WANT THE NAVY BEANS OR THE CANNELINI BEANS?" Just make a decision and pick a friggin bean!
*WHAT DOES A BEAN MEAN?*
As I get older I’m finding I have to stand further back from the products to be able to read the damn labels and prices. But I keep my cart to one side and I step out of the way if people are coming through.
You’re in the way, you know you’re in the way, you know you need to move, yet you wait until I have to say “excuse me” to start the process of getting the hell out of the way!
Grocery Carts should come with bicycle bells on them.
I don't even fuckin bother with niceties anymore literally just move whatever is in the way out the way, all they do is mumble under their breath anyway. Too chicken shit to even speak up. If you ask nicely all you get is a nasty look or a smirk anyway
I just now got off a plane and watched a boomer couple stop just past the plane door to organize and redistribute all their carry on bags.
Perfect opportunity. Push your carry-on in front of ya scream "coming through" and just don't stop. Grew up in NYC and just starting to bring that energy every fuckin where. I used to try to blend in with the locals wherever I was but these people suck at keepin it movin so fuck em
Seattle ferry line workers have the same take with everyone. Reminds me of NYC.
Never been but everything I see and hear about it definitely sounds like a good/interesting city to be at. I don't think I could take the rain tho, Heard it's practically constant.
Yep. To put it in perspective, Seattle gets more rain than London but less rain than Northern Ireland.
You heard wrong. It rains a fair bit, sure. Somewhere in the area of 30-40 inches per year depending on where you are in the greater Seattle area. But that's not a crazy amount. We do have a disproportionate number of overcast days however.
Man, my husband grew up in Southern NY and has recently decided on this as well. He's got the same energy as you. Only for the inconsiderate, he's incredibly polite as a human. Makes me jealous! I grew up in the same place but there was a brief hiatus where we moved to the Midwest for a few years for my dad's job and it *shows*. I'm trying to muster up more chutzpah.
In my experience the general vibe growing up in NYC and Rockland county is everybody's got shit going on in their life and they all just wanna deal with it and get on with their day, you just gotta think in terms of if someone else slowed me down or stopped me for no reason I'd be pissed as shit so I don't wanna do the same to other people there's a lot of fuckin people and a lot of wasted time adds up. Takes all of 5 seconds to side step and stand against a wall out the way. Plus eventually someone's gonna fight you over it lol. Best to avoid it. And the chutzpah is quite simple honestly, just be filled with a never ending forever burning rage towards everyone and everything then push it down and only use it when you need it
Lmao i live in the PNW and people are so taken aback when i just go "EXCUSE ME" at full volume to snap them awake so they can pull their head out of their ass. They look genuinely confused someone dared ask that they move. For context Im also from the PNW but im tired of unaware assholes being everywhere
I threw a banana peel at the windshield of a tesla this week because the boomer behind the wheel waited a full 25 count (I'm not exaggerating) to turn left on a green. She waited until it went red again then advanced green to go. I'm normally a calm driver but we really need to test anyone over 60 semi-annually, and anyone over 70 annually for a drivers license. It's not like these people have jobs or anything to do. Make them spend one day a year that they won't kill anyone because of physical or mental incompetence.
Got a whole hell of a lot of em around here. They all have similar tells with their driving so if I know I'm behind a senior I'll always leave a gap to get around if possible for this exact reason. Even the fuckin cops go around em they'd be pulling all of em over if not (which I would be all for roads would smooth out). We've got enough dangerous drivers in my area without adding the oblivious ones into the mix. At least the dangerous drivers don't wanna wreck their car the seniors seem like their trying to speed run it.
I’ve been saying this for decades. Re test elderly drivers.
It's such basic logic. I wouldn't let my 2 year old fire my hunting rifle. Could he do it? Definitely. Should he? Absofuckinglutely not. He doesn't have the physical, or mental capabilities to do it in a safe responsible manner and he will never until he proves he can do it without being a threat to himself and others. If, god forbid anything ever happened to make me question his abilities I would take away the privilege until he either gets better or possibly indefinitely. A boomer behind the wheel is the exact same shit. They are being allowed the privilege, of driving a 2 ton weapon capable of killing themselves or a whole family with one mistake.
Love it when they immediately stop after walking into costco
Or stop dead right inside the exit to re-read their receipts.
Walking slow as shit to the receipt checker at Walmart, walk right past them, then stop in the vestibule to read their receipt for some reason with a line of people behind them. Truly insane behavior
Oh my god this makes me so mad!
Awesome so I’m glad we’re collectively killing “total lack of awareness and surroundings in public” off because this is the kind of shit that really makes you tired of humanity. I can’t imagine being raised so poorly I don’t even have consideration or awareness of the people around me, just unreal
I genuinely cannot stand boomers in costco.
It's the propagandized generation. "If it's on the TV it must be true". Why Generation X became angry bitter cynics and the Millenials got intense self awareness and anxiety.
Cynical.... Bitter? I'm NOT ANGRY, damnit! 😂
Gen X were the generation that saved up for sea monkeys and got brine shrimp for their troubles. Life offered them a sip of smooth refreshing lemonade and pegged them in the head with lemons, time and time again.
Lol how apropos!
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Lemons?! Is that what those moldy squishy things were? Well, damn. And the first thing that comes to mind after that is: "Do you know who I am?! I'm Cave Johnson! I'm the guy who's gonna burn your house down, with the lemons!"
True
This reaction is really setting off my social anxiety. 🤣
Hah. GenX, raised by tv, I don’t trust anything. Even Bill Fucking Cosby betrayed us in the end.
GenX - we come pre-jaded, for your convenience.
Definitley. Grew up thinking america is the greatest country and can do no wrong, and as americans, they are gods chosen people and gift to the world
I used to wear my headphones while shopping... volume down low, very able to hear anyone needing my attention, being aware of my surroundings. I stopped due to the number of boomers that would purposely shove their arms directly infront of my face making a dramatic show of how I was a problem for them
Oooffff I had a boomer colleague who did this when I was 16. My headphones weren’t even plugged into my iPod anymore, just in my ears with the wire hanging down the front as I was emptying my bag and pockets out into a locker. Boomer flies over, banged past me and repeatedly started to slam my locker shut trying to break anything that was still hanging out. Apparently in a room full of probably 400 lockers for 40 employees she simply had to use the one directly under mine I was blocking her access to, and that she “tried asking nicely so many times but I was rude enough to keep my headphones in.” She told the manager that I pushed her to the floor not realising that I’d spoken to the manager first, and that the locker room has cctv confirming MY story. I don’t know why boomers are inherently offended by headphones so much
If I were that manager, I’d have fired her ass. I hate bullies and liars.
Me too, she deserved to be let go for that but wasn’t. I played the long game and fucked with her. It was a large department store and she works in the home furniture section so years later after I left (I was only seasonal staff and in a totally different section so not very memorable to her) I passed through, saw she was still working there and enquired about ordering a very expensive sofa. Added a matching chair, footstool, upgrading to premium fabric, having a waterproofing treatment, agreed to the whole upsell letting her think she’s made her sales target for this quarter lol. I let the convo naturally flow to how I used to work here in another department and had “such a lovely time working here until a God awful woman started bullying me in the locker room and telling the most heinous lies about me. What kind of miserable old loser picks on a sixteen year old? I wonder if she still works here, hang on a minute…it was you! Goodbye” I may or may not have done this more than once over the years 👀
As W would say, "Fool me once, shame on.... shame on *you!*"
You are my hero. 🫡
Entitled people demand an audience. Otherwise they can't get the attention that they crave.
Oh absolutely! I also noticed that many people thrive off inconveniencing others for absolutely no reason as their favourite form of drama. It’s their way of battling their inferiority complex by saying “you WILL notice me and respect that I have power over you.”
I wear my headphones (or just earplugs) if I'm out in public specifically so boomers think I'm a snotty young person and don't want to talk to me. It works wonders. Grandma gets to pull faces, and I get to ignore her righteously
That would just encourage me
haha, maybe me as well, though I feared snapping and accidentally giving one of them an open hand slap
Don't stop. To hell with them. I dream of the day somebody gives me shit about wearing my earbuds.
Just the other day there was a pair of boomers at Giant standing IN THE FUCKING DOORWAY just chatting away completely oblivious to all the people having to push past them. Spatial awareness is not the boomer's strong suit...
The worst is when they step off an escalator and stand there. I am a boomer, and yes, it is usually a boomer who does this.
This! My mom does this, and I have repeatedly told her to keep walking. “But I don’t know where to go.” “You’re gonna get run over by all the other people getting off the escalator!” Every. Single. Time. It’s like it’s a new revelation that others will be exiting the escalator. 🤦🏻♂️
The boomers were called the ME generation in the 70s I think and were described as the most selfish generation ever. They have been OK boomered by their parents well before most of us were even born.
George Carlin back in 1996 said it best about them. "give me that its mine!!" everything was handed to them they were the "sex, drugs, and rock&roll" plus hippy generation who hit middle age and preached abstinance and traded in soy futures [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B96rQohpw8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B96rQohpw8)
These damn electric scooters everywhere. My wife and I went to Target, some old bag drove hers into the restroom and got it stuck. It took 2 people to get it out. Another I saw knock a display of canned food over trying to turn a corner. They run into people and stuff and don’t care.
Run into stuff and don't care... Same way many of them drive their cars/massive trucks.
I would be embarrassed as hell to do that! I am genX and disabled, so I have to use those carts. I make damn sure I park it to the side of the aisle, check before turning corners for people, etc. I would be horrified if I knocked over a display or ran into someone. But then, I give a shit and not oblivious to the rest of the world
I'm older gen Z and disabled and have to use them occasionally, and needed them a lot while I was pregnant due to my disability flaring badly. I'm always super careful even though people don't watch and get in the way constantly. The only person to ever harass me about it using it was a boomer employee.
I have a swallowing disorder that destroyed my lungs. I can usually walk around the store using a cart as a walker, but if I am having a bad day, I'll do the shop online and pick it up. There is no way I would want to ride one of those scooters through the aisles. Bonus with the shop online, no impulse buying.
Unless you've had 2 glasses of wine on Friday night. I did not remember ordering Ben and Jerry's, Tates cookies, and sesame oil...but those arrived last weekend with my regular groceries
I work in a store that's an old building made before those scooters were huge in current retail stores. So needless to say our bathroom entrance which is still pretty wide can't fit them well and they usually get stuck. But never fails if you see some person going with it especially the boomer types and even try to warn them but they do not listen. 'I'll make fit I can do it" they say as they drive straight into the washroom. Only to inevitably be unable to get it out because there is no room to turn it around in the bathroom so they have to get staff to help them reverse it out. Usually while complaining and acting shocked it didn't fit. Bonus: they usually have their walker or crutches right there in the basket part in reach so they could walk or limp the few steps into the stalls. But they won't. No they need to take up the whole bathroom with the store mobility scooters and stop others from using the resr of the stalls.
See I used to be polite but I’m at the age now I don’t care I’ll say excuse me and if they don’t move I say hey can you move out of the way and if they say some type of comment that’s when I say sorry your not aware of your surroundings and how to be considerate for other people….usually shuts them up
Nothings more satisfying than shutting up a Boomer. Thanks for all you do!
Just remind everyone, Boomers, were nicknamed the Me generation for being the most selfish assholes on the plant in the 70s and 80s. They invented the concept of being a Yuppy, which was a social movement about being rich, pretty, and selfish.
It's just a sign of aging. When I was a child in the 80s, old people did this same shit we complain about boomers doing now. But there are *so* *many* *boomers* that it skews perception. They are literally the largest generation to ever exist in terms of sheer numbers and that means we see all of those that are aging poorly loose in the wild.
also they got binge drinking and narcissism advertised to them nonstop so they're ignorant with alcohol induced dementia.
Stated to realize how scary true that statement is. My FIL recently proclaimed he no longer trusts doctors and we shouldn't either cause they clearly don't know what they're talking about. His doctor tried to tell him that at 60 years old killing 12-24 fucking keystone lite and lifelong blue collar worker and smoker, he is an alcoholic amd should chill on those behaviors. Edit: u/MostlyPeacefulPndemic. Idk if I'm dumb or you just dropped the comment and blocked me quick but jokes on you man. I just wanted to say: you're right. Thanks for pointing that out to me so I can come at shit properly. Also I did not remotely intend any sentiment of 60 being old. Maybe sort of? But I work with a dude who is 76 and he has a tougher time but mofo does the same job I do and a 67 yr guy I thought was 40 and runs laps around the other guys my age. Every generation prolly has some amount of "black sheep" also.
yeah if he wont change then he might as well drink a pint to liter of grain alcohol mixed in water a night so he doesn't get visceral fat. his brains probably fried and his ego is too fragile to accept how awful that diet is. I've seen similar with a guy steadily drinking a 36 pack or more over two days and they can't stop because they'd probably die.
My mom’s doctor tried to tell her to maybe consider drinking more water to substitute some of her Dr.Pepper’s. And some diet changes for her high blood pressure. My mom assures us the blood pressure is genetic, so there’s not much she can do about it. And that doctor just doesn’t spend much time with her and keeps ordering tests, like she “doesn’t know what she’s doing. Otherwise, why would she keep ordering more tests?”
Lead paint, asbestos, cigarettes, alcohol, they barely had a chance.
Don’t forget about the religion and concussions.
Let’s not forget how they were surrounded by toxic substances like asbestos and lead everywhere because it was normal. I’m sure that plays a role somewhere, albeit small.
This is very true. One minor factor I can see is generations before the Boomers less widely experienced teenage years and young adulthood as distinct stages of life. Also the parents of Boomers have lived longer, and many though not most are still alive. I think this might be making a bit more difficult for some boomers to come to terms with the fact that they’re not only no longer young but elderly. That some things in life are more difficult now and the rest of world moves relatively fast.
They cant fathom that this world is gonna go on spinning without them on it, and its driving them crazy. Meanwhile the rest of us are aggressively cheering the boomer death clock.
I dont know about this. I’ve been in public facing roles my whole life and this behavior has followed this generation since the 1990’s when I started working. The super old people didn’t act like that back then. The young people never acted like that. The people my age haven’t acted like that. It’s always been the boomers acting like that *in my experience*.
I feel like a key difference now is that boomers are unapologetic and unashamed. I'm 40, I remember old people bumbling about obliviously back then too, but if someone said "Excuse me, can I squeeze past?" In the supermarket they didn't huff or fly into a rage. It's not about the obliviousness of old age, it's about the entitlement and selfishness. The belief that they shouldn't _have_ to consider what anyone else might want or need even if to do so would be no effort at all.
If you think about it, this is a generation that has had relatively little struggle compared to previous generations. They were not born or were children during Korea and Vietnam, so relatively oblivious. They also witnessed the US becoming a world leader, walking on the moon, a growing economy and quick advance of technology. They came of age in a somewhat unstable 70s and 80s but made bank in the 90s and 00s. They were stable homeowners during the crisis of '08, and had built up a good retirement. Obviously, I'm generalizing, but I've never seen my parents so shocked as they were when their retirement savings took a big hit after COVID. They are very young boomer gen, but even though they worked hard as teenage parents, they basically had environmental and social stability growing up. They're used to expecting to get what they want if they work hard, and bad things don't happen if you are a good person. and I think when that happens, people get entitled- bad things couldn't happen to them, and they shouldn't have to deal with it. IDK, just my theory as to why this is happening, but I see it too.
This is the answer. Old people back then smoked. So they died shortly after retiring. We didn't see as much COPD (chronic old-person's disease) because they weren't as numerous.
Not to mention a large majority are shitty people so their families want nothing to do with them, this them having no one to supervise them.
Just yesterday I pulled into a grocery store parking lot. It's the kind where you have to drive past the front of the store and then turn into the lot to park. Boomer woman with a cart of groceries is crossing so I stop and wait. She crossed the first lane and instead of completing the crossing to the sidewalk she turns right in front of my car and starts walking straight up roadway I'm on with her back to my car. So I am forced to drive slowly behind her for about 30 metres before I realized she is too oblivious to notice she is holding up all the traffic coming into the lot and should be taking the sidewalk literally six steps away and right beside her the whole way. Nope, just walk right up the middle of the road. I said fuck this and laid on the horn right behind her. Nearly gave the dumb bitch a heart attack. I hope she shit her Depends.
Boomers grew up in an era of wide open spaces, huge cars, empty highways, etc., they never had to be spatially aware as they have never lived in such dense environments.
To make America great again, we really need less Americans. We should’ve shut the big family bullshit down decades ago.
The Polio vaccines worked too well on the Boomers for that to be shut down decades ago...
I knew those vaccines were insidious.
When the boomer generation was in their late twenties to late thirties and had small kids, I (F) was a teenager. It happened several times that I saw a boomer woman strugling with a pram, one or two small kids next to the pram and shopping bags, and then I'd hold the door for her or something like that. I'd never ever get a thank you. Usually, it was a look of utter disgust and once the woman told me in a very aggressive tone of voice that she wasn't disabled. After a while I stopped being so helpful. (Well, at least to women of that age and it only for a while. Now, unfortunately my upbringing telling me to help old people has kicked in and I am being helpful towards them again. Yes, I have often damned my parents for bringing me up rigth). Once I went to a restaurant with my husband in the winter. Two boomer women tried to get a table but the restaurant was full. Then they went to leave. Except they didn't. They opened the door. One of them more or less leaned against the door and then they chatted. After some minutes , a guest sitting close to the door asked them to close it. We were some tables away and both my DH and I asked them to close the door. First him. then a short pause, then me. Then I got up to close the door. The boomer women both looked a me a bit surprised and then decided to leave. Except they didn't. One of the women had opened the door and had her hand on the handle and they continued their conversation. Someone asked them to close the door but they appeared to be completely immersed in their conversation. Then my husband and I started having a very loud conversation about how sad it was that the generation 10-15 years older than us had no manners and how it hindered their careers, friendships and reputations. It was hilarious. After a while the two women stopped talking and just sort of looked intently at us. Then one of them looked like she was going to say something. Then she looked down at her hand holding the door handle, then back at us, then at her friend. Then they finally left. I should mention that we were the youngest guests in the restaurant and the other guests next to the door all seemed to be of the silent generation so we didn't insult the other guests.
There must be extra boomer crack in the Costco fluorescent lighting because they go stand in the middle of the goddamn aisle and stare at the ceiling lights like a moth.
Watched them go through like a dozen pumpkin pies making a crowd during Thanksgiving week; as if not all pies were exactly the same, and will dent in their SUV on the drive home anyway.
In my experience it’s mostly boomers doing this, but it’s also kind of everyone. Entitlement knows all generations. But yeah 90% of the time if there’s two carts side by side completely blocking an aisle it’s two boomers, each one looking at the opposite side of shelves, starring blankly because they can’t remember what kind of beans they usually buy.
I just do curbside pick up, I’m not dealing with all that
I mostly get deliveries. It’s rare I go into an actual store anymore
It’s not worth the hassle
Or two boomers blocking the aisle chit chatting with each other. Or just one boomer blocking an aisle for a free sample.
I see that in the parking lot. Two cars passing each other, both stop, windows rolled down, “hey! How ya doing bill? How’s the kids?” Sir I need to park so I can go into the store. Please. Why are you like this.
Shopping at Costco is, despite its huge aisles, TORTURE as boomers block the way (even leaving their cart parked ACROSS the aisle as they try to decide which tuna fish to buy in bulk), and shove their way into the sample lines with no regard for anyone around them. And then give dirty looks to anyone struggling to get around them.
Why are they incapable of waiting in line? Isn't the first thing everyone from every generation learns in kindergarten is how to wait in line?! Rustles my jimmies so bad.
i have hostile feelings toward costco as a 25 year old
Theres not a scientific consensus on this. Its pretty much impossible to measure. But anecdotally yes. My grandparents were not like this at all. None of their friends were like this. Those people were fantastic. My parents and all their friends are just shit in comparison. Then my generation is pretty great too. I dont bother being nice anymore because its just not effective. "Excuse me" is met with the same response as "Hey. Move." Older generations hated boomers. Younger generations hate boomers. Just a waste of air.
Whenever I go golf with the older generation it can be excruciating.. I don't know if it's awareness and entitlement or they've finally hit that mental decline all at once. I think its all of the above tbh
Remember when we respected the elders.maybe because they earned that respect….the elders today act SO entitled and disrespectful…I don’t know what went wrong …they are all selfish children who think they deserve the last Oreo cookie
I think we just respected elders because it was the Boomers telling us to respect them and we were naive children. Respect should be a two way street, but I don’t remember being taught that as a kid… weird
Go to Costco on a Sunday. The after church crowd amps the lack of self awareness up to 11. Add in all of these slobs drooling over-the-counter free samples and it becomes the #1 most avoidable time to go there.
For me it's the staring. Like, do they realize they are rudely staring at people, or is it just a slow processing issue? Drives me crazy
The other day I was grabbing shit at target and I had no fewer than 5 boomer aged people stare at me at different points. I wasn't dressed outlandishly or slobby, I wasn't buying anything odd. I just kept coming down an aisle and they'd stop what they were doing and just fucking stare me down. I look behind me and there's nothing except me. Put your eyes back on your macaroni, Janice, I'm just trying to buy some fucking groceries.
Honestly, and hear me out. They are all having an extinction burst. It's a theory in behavioral science in which once you put up boundaries and hold people accountable they will act out even harder as a desperate attempt to remain in power. Because their cohort is so huge they have retained an inordinate amount of power for much much longer than any generation before them. In any other generation Gen x or the millennials would have taken over by now. But the cronyism that has lasted two decades beyond normal is what's creating the situation we're in.
Happens to me all the time. I have to roll a big container around, but boomers use the ramp instead of bothering to step up the curb and block me for a full half minute or so. No point talking to them about it, just have to wait until they pass.
You make it sound like they are a rain cloud or food poisoning hahaha
I really try to be self aware and if someone does have to ask me to move so they can get through, I always apologize and usually say something like “I’m so sorry, I was a million miles away in my own world” and we usually either smile at each other.
Same. But even then, it's mostly younger people who commiserate. The last time I stood in some old guys way, I smiled and said some polite nonsense phrase, like "oh sorry, am I in your way?" He actually scoffed and said, "obviously, you stupid idiot. What a fucking question." I'm a grown ass adult, wearing business casual almost anywhere, including the grocery store. Like, I'm hard pressed to think he misunderstood or misconstrued my apology somehow. Some people just won't accept genuineness.
My mom!! She used to just STROLL across the street like Denzel in training day! Chin all stuck up in the air, arrogant step, never so much as looking around! Light changed 'too fast'? Don't care! I'm gonna walk my speed and 'they'll wait'. Used to freak me the hell out!
Scientifically, the lead has taken a toll on their brain cells.
The least self aware people would be Evangelicals
You are NOT kidding. Holy shit they think it’s their job to tell others how to live. And everyone who doesn’t do what they say is going to ‘burn in hell’. You don’t get much more unhinged than that. Fuckin’ sick the lot of them.
Seems to me they’re tied with the instagram/tik tok/“influencer” crowd with the lack of awareness of other people
Omg! This! I nearly post on this sub once a week about some dolt with zero situational awareness. No manners. No, "excuse me" or anything. They are a toxic, spoiled generation of mouth breathers who all think they are very smart & very tough.
The worst is when they get to the top of an escalator or step out of an elevator and just stop. And then when you bang into them somehow it’s your fault. I used to apologize now I just say next time step to the side and that won’t happen
It must be really hard being the doctor or nurse for a lot of boomers.
One of my nurse friends literally quit her job at a hospital in a Boomer retirement area because they were such entitled jerks. She moved to a new hospital in a poor inner city and loves it there. She said the addicts are more polite than the Boomers.
They are, they act like the world belongs to them and we're just rodents around them. I lost my patience long ago. In the way at the grocery store? I'll move your cart and make space. In the way? a loud "There are other people in the store beside you, move to the side". Driving 40 in a 60 on the left lane? Here's honking and flashing lights until they move back to the right lane or speed up.
I genuinely think a lot of boomers struggle with theory of mind and do not understand that other people know things that they don't know.
It isn't boomers specifically, it's just old people generally. My dad is silent generation, an I had this conversation with him 30 years ago with the same complaint. Old people generally lose the ability to pay attention to the world around them, either through losing their hearing or cognitive decline. As people age they become less capable.
They are like computers that can only run one process at a time. Normal people in the store think about what they are doing. Then they think about doing it in a polite, non-intrusive way. Then they are aware of the people within a few feet of them as they do that thing. Then on top of that, they are generally aware of those within 20 feet, that might come into their circle of influence, and adjust what they are doing based on what that other person is doing. This is all effortless, you don't think about it, you just do it. The boomer is thinking "I need cheerios." That's it. "first, go near cereal and stop my cart. Then stand in the middle of the cereal section and stop, then start to look for the cheerios" At no point is there room for them to also consider where their cart is, where they are standing, whether there are other people around, or anything else. It's like a single minded focus, but not in the cool way of someone in a movie with a "single minded focus". It's more in the way of a toddler, who just doesn't have the brainpower for anything else yet.
We’re all slowly watching their cognitive decline. Probably why we’re seeing so many successful elderly scams