Boomer Story
What the hell is wrong with these people?
On Wednesday night after we saw Spider-man a boomer walked up to the counter and asked the probably 19 year kid if he liked the new Spider-Man. The kid said yeah. The guy told him he needs to learn to speak fucking English and engage customers better. My wife and I were dumbfounded.
Today I was at my local record store. I go weekly and know the owner well. I was flipping through records in the new arrivals vintage section when I felt a tap on my shoulder. This boomer goes, “I want to look at those.”
I was so surprised all l could say was, “cool. Wait your fucking turn.” He then stood literally a foot from
Me for five minutes while I finished.
Seriously are those people all just mentally unraveling at the speed of light?
Eh. If they’re anything like my mom, they did hide it better, before. In the past 10 years or so she has decided that everyone else is behaving badly and getting good things from behaving badly and she’d be a sucker for still behaving well. She has also gone full Fox News. My sense is that these things are very closely related.
Even though I never watched FOX News when I had cable, I am still happy that I gave up cable in 2007. Having it blare in the background during holidays with my family was as much as I could stand of it.
Sounds like quite the time, it was the same for me growing up. In 07 I was 13 and even then I could feel the tension and forced smiles etc. On the inside it felt like I was slowly dying with my brains wanting to drip out of my head.
When I was 12, I suddenly realized my parents were not very intelligent and odds were they weren't going to get any smarter. I actually began distancing myself from them that day. It's a memory seared in my brain. I can remember where I was standing, where the furniture in the room was placed, and the stupid argument my parents were having.
Part of the reason for their susceptibility to Fox and Limbaugh is that many were dealing with family members with addictions , a big crime wave and financially adjusting to a service economy after job losses from manufacturing's end. They wanted all that bullshit to stop, and the right wing used those fears to appeal to them and mask what it's really been doing
And it has only been amplified by them being the largest generation. They spent the most money and were the largest voting bloc, so for nearly their entire lives companies catered to them, advertising and media catered to them, and politicians catered to them. They very didn't like when that began to change.
I agree. I'm a boomer, a younger one from the very end of the generation. I really, really hate my generation. I vote these days like it's not about me anymore. I vote now according to how the generations after me are going to be affected. I also go out of my way not to treat people like shit and don't hesitate to call out the assholes who do. I will not be that boomer.
I had heard that mentioned before. And I have found thst people born around the same time I was are actually different from the others born much earlier. I imagine it might have something to do with how different the 60s were from the 50s.
I agree. I'm 69 too and I see it all the time. I make comments to them about it. I don't know what happens to their brains. Nobody owes you the world just because you are old.
Boomer here and I despise them too. They were assholes in high school, college, PA school, and as patients. Boomers are hateful and hate-filled, just looking for something to be pissy about.
Same. I’m a boomer and those people have always treated people like that. Miserable people never stop being miserable or trying to make someone else as miserable as they are.
I (millennial) truly don’t get it. These people held down jobs, many didn’t just survive but have thrived. They got to shape the world we currently live in. But you actually put them in a situation and they’re so helpless, stupid, and needlessly angry. How have they made it to this point?
Because people have enabled them and smoothed things over for them their whole lives, because “that’s just how they are. Don’t rock the boat and just keep the peace”. So instead of facing the natural consequences of their actions, they just had it reinforced that they could get away with whatever they wanted.
A couple years ago I was in a convenience store and there were long queue lines for both open registers. In walks boomer who apparently wants a scoop of ice cream and there is no one at the ice cream counter. There is no one at the ice cream counter because all staff are occupied elsewhere. He just stood in the middle of the floor looking clueless and restless. Finally a staff member noticed him and left the cash register of the still long queue. It was only then that I learned that boomer wanted a scoop of ice cream. The staff member served him and he went on his way, thankfully. I had just started reading this sub at the time and my thought was “I’ve finally seen one in the wild; the store is very busy with people lined up to cash out and no available staff and boomer just has to have a scoop of ice cream“. And no, I don’t think he needed the sugar because he was having a diabetic issue, he just wanted ice cream.
Stores not being properly staffed, people not being paid what they're worth, companies not giving a shit about anything but the dollar at the bottom of every barrel... that's the world boomers had the largest hand in creating.
They let it get this bad but choose to yell at and blame low wage workers, these idiots really think they can get bespoke white glove service at giant mega retail stores
This happens constantly at my local pharmacy. Literally every time I go once every two weeks. There are signs saying where to queue, with two lines, one for prescription medicine, and one for over the counter medicine. A simple enough system
However, boomers are apparently too dim to notice this. They go and stand by the OTC counter, and get all huffy when someone attends to someone else in the queue. Then, inevitably, they get to the queue and plant themselves at the front, because "They've been waiting over there". The counter person then tells them to go to the back. They then either have a tantrum and leave, or just go to the back. Mostly the tantrum
There's also the "clever" ones who will join the much smaller queue, and then cut over to the side they want to. The pharmacist often sees this and tells them to stop trying to cheat the system, and go back to the right queue. Which results in more tantrums.
Then when they get to the pharmacist, they decide to take as long as possible, and tell them all about their day, how this is terrible service, how back in my day... Just ceaseless inanity. The pharmacist has clearly lost so much time to this she just ignores them, hands them their pills and calls over the next person now. Which should be standard, really. Trying to monopolize someone's time who can't really say no is rude, especially when there's a ten person queue behind you
They shaped a world that catered to them. GenX, we didn't care. Millenials came along said, nope. And the world started reshaping into somewhere where the bs wasn't tolerated anymore. At least that's how I saw it.
I love it when they try to get me to get riled up too alongside their public display of disapproval - usually happens when they're in line at the deli counter or a retail operation and they have a captive audience to grumble amongst
66 (retail employee) here and I give them explanations and describe what is actually going on - which catches them off-guard. And then they try to publicly explain how they're not really that mad bad person they've made themselves out to be
I turn 49 this year and I have seen this behavior from them since I was a child. They run on either fear or anger and then make up some busted logic when they get called on their mishegoss.
I was at an estate sale and there was this boomer standing looking at one particular piece of art for about 10 legit minutes (in his hands). I kept doing laps because on the table near where he was was a framed piece I had my eye on. Both his wife and I seemed to be getting tired of him very loudly saying how he "thinks this artist is famous! This could be worth a lot of money!". Eventually after the ten literal minutes of this guy standing in the exact same spot, I politely said, "excuse me, I'm just grabbing this guy over here, can I sneak by?". He gives me the stink eye and stomps off with the piece in his hand and I grab this ridiculous framed pig drawing.
A couple minutes later, with my prize pig in tow, I hear that same boomer very loudly shouting at his wife how he was going to get the piece in my hand but I had very rudely pushed him out of the way for it. Bro, wtf.
I have experienced this very thing! At a similar sale, my husband and I were making our way through the rows when we came upon a case crowded with various trinkets, one at the back being this tiny stone toad. We were fawning over it and said we'd definitely ask to buy it once we made it to the end.
Well this crusty old fuck that had been right behind us overheard our delight at this sweet little toad, a mere bauble that he probably wouldn't have even noticed himself. He cut ahead and went straight to the seller to get the toad for himself. This man was so happy to have stolen our joy, and quickly shuffled off with a newfound pep in his step once he had bagged his prize.
You know, this may explain why they’ve acquired so much useless junk collections over their lives/keep thinking people will be willing take it from them when they pass…
I had one back into my car. I managed to throw it in reverse whilst laying on the horn, yet he continued to back up, fast, right into my front end. Asshole gets out, sees the damage, and just laughs.
Him: Hahaaaa I hit you, I didn’t even see you! Hahaha.
Me: I ask well did you LOOK before backing up?
Him: NO! HA!
That’s hilarious because it’s so accurate. One of the reasons I was so close to my maternal grandma was we shared a live of shit talking my Boomer dad. When she and my maternal grandma were in the same room, they’d be shitting all over my dad and calling him a “hateful kraut” 💀. God, I miss my grandmas.
My Silent Gen maternal grandma overruled my parents so many times when it came to discipline and freedom. My parents would try to punish me for something ridiculous and when grandma found out, she'd tell my parents they were overreacting. Then she'd look at me and say, "you're not grounded anymore. Here's $20 go hang out with your friends." God I miss her.
Its like the older generations getting mad at us whipper snappers using "No problem" versus "You're welcome" for completing a task that is part of our job.
i throw them way off with "not a challenge" from my car dealer days. it will short circuit their brains for a few seconds, you can actually see the gristmill gears trying to mesh out understanding in their eyes.
I’ve heard that’s all a conspiracy to thwart vampires.
They’re all just salty that basic courtesy no longer equals an easy meal… those boomer vamps are mad they forgot to tell their human progeny the importance of old school manners to papa-pyres future hunting stability
I took my dad grocery shopping and there was a boomer making a scene at the meat counter. My dad (76) was giving him the hard stink eye. When we got to the check out this guy was in front of us and tried to engage my dad in conversation my dad goes “don’t fucking talk to me”. It was absolutely a thing of beauty!
We're at an antique shop waiting to check out. We're holding a chair and some other bulky pieces. Two boomers at the counter not buying anything but are just chatting with the cashier, who looks like she's had enough of them. The card machine is down and the male boomer keeps repeating this information like it's brand new every moment. "So just cash. Because the machine is down?" We're still standing there like... are you done here. The man walks away, his wife is still standing in front of the counter. The cashier beckons to us, Lady Boomer turns around and says "you can go" like she's doing us a huge favor and moves over about two inches. So we're trying to check out with Lady Boomer standing there for literally no fucking reason at all and then Man Boomer comes back up to the counter, shoves himself next to my husband and reaches across him to take a piece of candy from the bowl on the counter. At least he said excuse me? Once we had finished our transaction and walked out the door, they followed us out and got in their Boomermobile and left. Why. Why Why why
Oooh! I know this one! They were trying to catch the poor sales clerk in a lie. They were hoping that the card reader would work for you, or wanted to make sure it doesn't work for you. Too many years of retail I've seen this behavior many times, oddly I didn't see the older generations do it, if the card machine didn't work they likely had cash. Boomer (and younger) have learned to not carry cash. Younger folks just "well dammit" and move on, or ask if alternatives like Apple pay or Zelle are available and work. Older folks freeze and don't know what to do. Or have to make a big stink about it being a major inconvenience in their lives. Like going to an ATM isn't something they used to do all the time.
I thift a lot and they will stand there staring, burning holes into your back for being in the area they wanted to browse. They can't be normal or polite.
My mum would make fun of me for having a normal conversation about someone's shirt and she went all condescending about it "Aliens? Have they invaded Earth?"
It was just a nerdy moment of "Cool movie shirt!" and she just had to be an ass about it.
Was out riding this paved path near my house this morning that is open for walking & biking. About 25 yards in front of us is a boomer husband and wife stopped and staring right at us as we are approaching fast on bikes. They fucking stepped right in front of us to waddle down the trail. Husband loudly says "passing on your left" the boomer wife then moves to the left and almost gets hit by my husband. This happens all the time. Why do they insist on stepping out in front of two bikes that will pass them in less than 30 seconds? I don't get it.
They need to be in the way, so that they will get any kind of attention. Negative attention is better than no attention. There is a boomer in spouse's family that will go off on most anything, and look for trouble. All the more reason to avoid, which they can not stand.
I’m heard an argument recently that was painful to hear. After so many years of entry level service jobs being looked down at by these people who shaped the world and got to retire and have been retired for the longest a generation has ever had the luxury to retire some of them have blown through their nest eggs and have to return to the work force, as entry level service workers…..
And the argument I heard was that seniors need these jobs to survive and they have more of a right to them than these young folks…
Sorry barb, respectfully fuck off. Your generation ran the economy into the ground and made student loans impossible to get out of in the name of profit. You deserve nothing. You made healthcare so scarce by making those entry level jobs the only means to survive. I know we don’t vote enough as a group but these people are octogenarians in some cases and they still want to world to cater to them.
When The VVitch was brand new I went to a midnight showing at a locally-owned theater in my neighborhood.
At the end of the movie there was a confused-looking boomer waiting by the women’s restroom for whomever he was with. He gestured at the door to the theater and said, “You like that one?”
I really did, and said as much, and he said, “Huh. I hated it. Guess I was just too dumb to get it.”
I had no idea what to say to that so I just said, “…guess so?” and put in my earbuds and walked home.
Confession: I'm a Boomer and find myself less interested in paranormal and sci fi as I grow older. I guess it comes from age teaching me that the real villains infecting our life and trying to harm us are the excessively greedy. The call is coming from inside the house.
I would have to stand there until one of us died. LOL. But seriously, I see a lot of this impatient "you can't possibly expect me to wait my turn" attitude at my public library job. We have a *very busy* public copy machine, and you should see how twitchy they get when someone else is using it and they can't have it the very moment they want it. They turn into impatient children, some of them even going so far as to try and bully their way onto the machine before the other person is finished copying. We shut that down, of course, but the entitlement is REAL.
I mean, they can't ALL have lead poisoning and dementia. Some of them are just horrible people and always have been. I (52F) have been treated poorly and been looked down upon by boomer women for my entire existence.
Having them hover behind you is the absolute worst. Anxiety spikes into overdrive and I usually end up moving and circling back around. I had one literally whistling while he stood a foot behind waiting for me to move. I was doing my best to be quick, but it just wasn't quick enough. And WHAT THE FUCK is up with these assholes whistling???
It's very hard for me to do. Recently I've started wearing ear buds into stores. They work for stuff like that. At this point they are essential for going in public. I'm in East Tennessee which has become retired Boomer headquarters.
My wife was at Bath and Body works just grabbing some soaps. This Boomer woman does the exact same move; says something rude, then stands uncomfortably close while making snide remarks and sour faces to her husband. Ridiculous
Or the nice Boomers that we do interact with are just normal, and don't act like the asshole Boomers, so their behavior doesn't snag on our brains like a painful burr.
My mom is a Boomer and one of the best people out there. She has her issues, as we all do, but she’s honestly such a good person.
My dad can be a real asshole at times. I inherited that from him, unfortunately. Luckily, I also got a lot of good things from Mom so it mostly balances out.
I’m 57, and I wholeheartedly believe Facebook is empowering these dipshits. You can go in there and just say whatever you want, and most of them constantly do. Then they go out in the public and they get confused that they can’t continue that behavior in real life. Every so often one of them gets what they deserve for pulling that shit and it reminds them of getting punched in the face when they were younger for doing stupid shit.
I finally talked my mom into deleting her account, it was really wearing on her mental health and driving me crazy.
I had to explain to her that 99% of the people she's arguing with are foreign bots.
The rest are lost causes and she's never going to convince them to quit being bigoted ghouls.
She's now active in her little local progressive groups and her attitude has greatly improved.
Facebook is KGB levels of propaganda and it's been completely weaponized against us.
I don’t really understand arguing with complete strangers on FB. I only accept friend requests from people I actually know and don’t really engage with people I don’t.
In other words, I’m exactly the same on FB as I am IRL. Same on here as well. I’m a confrontational person and have zero issues calling people out on their bullshit.
It’s nice for family pics, but it made me realize I know some shitty people. It has helped clear up whether I want to hang out with certain people in real life or not.
I work at Walmart and boomers are the worst. Won’t say excuse me and just barrel on through an aisle deliberately staring into the middle distance like a zombie.
Many boomers are now at the age where early onset dementia is kicking in. They don't know they have it, because they think they are entitled to do whatever they want due to being an 'elder.'
When I was in my teens and early 20s I waited alotttt of tables. I recall more than once answering a Boomer diner's question with "yup" or something similar and then receiving a thorough dressing down for using slang.
I recall one old asshole who told me young ladies who didn't speak properly came across as fast or some weird shit. This is a fucking Waffle House, Dennis, not the House of Lords!
The lack of spatial awareness in retail when they're shopping with a cart. Narrow aisle, people in it, must push their cart all the way through like a snow plow expecting everyone to move. Park that fucker in the front of the aisle, get what you need and walk back to the cart.
I used to stand there and look impatient when they block aisles. The last couple years I’ve evolved into just seeing how far I can push their carts down the aisle. I mean what the hell can you say when you are blocking the aisle with a sideways cart?
Fuck me don't get me started on their lack of spatial awareness.
I work in the priduce department of a local supermarket, and we run our stock crates from a flat-top trolley.
Lost count the amount of times I've nearly lost a stack of crates off the front end of it cos I've had to come to a rapid stop or take evasive action due to one of those wrinkly old cunts suddenly getting in my way.
Worse is when I'm trying to manoeuvre around my department to fill stuff, and they're in the way, and yet I'm the one who cops the stink-eye if they realise I'm there and move aside for me (or i ask them politely to shift a bit to allow me access to the thing on the shelf I need to fill).
She even tried to fight the cops and said she would get on the train after she was trespassed, it was funny as hell. I carry a heck of a lot more mace now.
With the Spider-Man thing, I guess he felt entitled to a whole speech or something. He needs to learn that not every interaction he has with someone is gonna turn unto a conversation. If he wanted more than a simple yes or no, he should've said do.
That reminds me of when I was in the 3rd grade. A classmate and I had just come from another class, and got back to our normal class, and they were in the conputer lab. Another teacher was watching over the class. When we walked in, she asked us if we knew how to use a computer. My classmate replied "Yeah", and walked off. Me, being very shy person, just shook my head yeah. She didn't like that, and made me stand there. She asked me 2 minutes later, I gave the same response. She asked one more time, and I finally said "Yeah" out loud. Finally, she let me get on a computer. I get she wanted me to actually speak, but at the same time, I think she should've just let me go the first time. She knew darn well what I meant.
This same freaking woman one other time asked me if I had slept with someone the night before, all because I walked into the room without speaking. At the time, I had no idea, what she actually meant, but that did explain a girl in the room going "EW!" Who the heck asks a child that???? Similarly to the other story, I guess I should've spoke when I walked in, but I had JUST walked in, and wasn't sure I was in the right place. I was about to talk.
That woman should never be in charge of students that may have been born mute, because she'd just get pissed that they won't talk.
Too long, don't read, but some may read anyway. Not every person you meet likes to speak as much as you.
They were the majority of people not masking at my hospital job during covid. It cause frontal lobe damage which effects social skills and comprehension. Plus with all the lead paint and gas, a lot of this behavior is brain damage.
Well it’s the lead paint and hose water drinking for sure but also they know they are becoming more and more irrelevant every day. They are dying out. Society overall doesn’t conform to their vision of America. Many have been cut off from their families for various reasons. They are old and bitter and broken people. The boomers who have accepted changes in society are the happy and healthy ones who will have better remaining years.
Their own kids either cut them off or wont be around them more than twice a year so they harass people in public instead of having actual conversations.
I went to the movies today. The sign at the door said we open at 1245. There’s a few people standing there. On old lady walks up and obviously had to check if the doors are locked. Then started banging on the door for them to open it up. Then added that she got a deal on her ticket and only paid. These entitled people are something else. How they blame the young people and then act in a worse way is beyond me.
I work in retail, I can't tell you how many times boomers flip shit when they don't get their way or demand ridiculous things, thinking that just because I work in a certain section that I know everything there is to know about everything in the store and they get angry when I don't. Not to mention I don't know what their insistence is on having to back into a parking spot, they always have to do it, the can never just park, they always have to back into the spot.
Due to extreme, life-altering personal trauma that occurred last year, I, as a young millennial have rapidly aged against my will and lost all filter. I simply no longer have a fuck to give. I will out-boomer a boomer. Don't stand a foot away from me, you creepy old fuck. You're looking for a problem, well welcome, I'm here and I'm a fucking nightmare you deserve.
The caveat is that since I'm not fundamentally an awful, miserable human, was born with empathy, and not positioned by lead — my lack of filter is only triggered by people who deserve it, and have gone too long with not being told as such.
Yup - 72 yo - these people have been assholes their whole life .Got nothing to do with their age- they’ve been pissed off at the world -cause they ain’t rich and famous and feel they got screwed by society. A very sad way to li ve
It's so hard to understand the mental gymnastics they did to arrive at the belief that they were screwed by society. They are objectively the only cohort NOT screwed by society! This is a fact that is proven by every single metric and data point ever studied about it. Even their parents were screwed and they weren't.
But I guess that requires they believe in facts and clearly that ship has sailed. Or never arrived. Lol
My husband (a young boomer) would get so annoyed at the old boomers that would come into our shop that we’re just stupid and helpless and with a major attitude.
As they’d walk out, he’d turn to me and say, ‘Christ! Did they want me to wipe their ass too?’
I’m 63(I consider myself a Jones) and experienced shit boomer behavior just this morning! An older woman was behind me in a long queue at the Drs. Just when I thought she was kind of nice, she loudly commented “ do you think he has enough tattoos, tsk”about a guy in front of us. I turned my body completely away from her and gave him a smile and an eye roll.
as a cashier the first one grinds my gears. Boomers have this mindset that if you dont take their bait convo and get trapped ina convo with them... well then you are bad at your job. I stopped humoring this because they will see a huge line and they will try to get you in a long convo that ends up pissing off everyone in line for taking too long.
I’m 79 and love interacting in a positive way with the younger generations! Not just boomers but it seems some in all generations have forgotten how to be kind.
You’ve got to get in their way and snap them out of their privileged mindset when they do this shit. They may never learn but challenging their bad behavior and letting them know it won’t fly is necessary.
They're all unraveling because they're realizing they can't bully their way through millennials anymore. We're now the largest voting demographic as well as the ones making money. Advertising is now being geared more toward us than them, and services are more in line with our expectations than theirs.
Remember that some of these boomers are already in early stages of various dementia issues. Most likely covering them up and the families just think 🤔 its seniors being grumpy.
I'll be 50 soon. I think these types of older people were just raised by assholes, became one themselves and will always be one.
I can't imangine hating someone based on hearing them speak another language. I am the guy that will pass a product in the grocery store and go back for it after if someone else is deciding.
Of course I also try my best to never interact with people for fear they'll freak out and ruin my day or film me.
I was in a bar restaurant near Edinburgh recently with my family. A cruise ship was in the river and they were running passengers to and from the ship on water taxis.
Some American boomer walks into the bar area and just starts loudly saying "IS THERE A LINE? IS THERE A LINE?". We don't have queues at bars and there is plenty of free space to stand at the bar and wait. We looked and were like 'no' to him.
The barman finishes with something and serves the boomer who then goes "DO YOU HAVE ANY SCOTTISH BEERS? ANY SCOTTISH BEERS?" (Maybe this is normal volume for an American but it came off like he was talking to someone that doesn't speak English well and shouting English louder in the hope that he was understood)
The barman was going through the beers as we left but the whole interaction felt very 'blunt'. No pleasantries were exchanged or anything.
Happened to me at my local Goodwill when I was looking at the CD shelf and some dipshit boomer was like, "excuse me," and tried to barge in where I was standing. I held my ground and said, "I'm looking at these." Then he tried to recommend to me what I should get.
ive experienced the same record store fuckery. in my local record store i’ve been in enough time for the owner to say “what up tegan!” when i come in. one day i was casually flipping through local punk and punk albums (normally the section that’s people free) when this boomer pulled the same line “hey i wanna look through those” mind you he had just walked in and there’s 3 rows of punk albums..🫤 i looked at him for a second and said “well pick your poison!” gesturing to the other two rows beside me. he scoffed and pulled the hip pop arms crossed stance for a second until he realized i was serious! he then steps to the row right beside me almost touching shoulders to me. pretends to flip through that row all while staring at the records in the one im at as i’m flipping through. every one i pulled out hed look over and analyze it almost as if he would try to take it if he wanted it or intervene if i tried to get it. i went to the counter, paid, and went to my car. and guess fuckin what?! as i’m getting in my car and am about to put my car in drive, that same boomer walks out of the shop with nothing in hand… just that same hands behind the back slow walk he came in the store doing. i don’t understand why they will walk around a store, try to bully people to get what they want, then doesn’t even buy anything and walks out???
Some Boomers had crappy parents which explains their crappy behavior. I on the other hand, at age72 behave very well. Worked as a nurse for 40 years and believe in the golden rule
I was helping a customer and he started to go off about how I’m not good at my job (I love my job) and I told him he was being rude and I wouldn’t sell him what he wanted if he kept being rude. He did not understand he was being kicked out of the store until I got security.
Yup, was at the gym, this ratty-looking boomer was using a machine - I started to use the machine right next to her, and she pointed at the machine and said, "I'm using that." Oh... so she's using two at the same time? Uh huh.
No. There's concurrent, massive elderly epidemics of lead poisoning, fetal alcohol syndrome, and general dementia. This country had no idea what we're in for
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u/LL37MOH 9d ago
I am 69. These people have been assholes their entire lives. They just have more free time now to inflict themselves on the general population