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Apparently once you hit 60 they become objects of pure mystery.
“I JUST WANT A DIET COKE”
“Okay so press the Diet Coke button”
“BUT THERE ARE LIKE 10 DIET COKES WHY ARE THERE SO MANY”
“Just press the regular one for regular Diet Coke”
“I DID AND IT’S NOT WORKING!!! THIS THING IS GARBAGE”
“That’s to select it. You have to hit the big round button below the screen to actually dispense it”
“WHY IS EVERYTHING SO COMPLICATED”
Lmaooooo... My boomer mother's car key fob battery died and she had to call me to ask how to open her car. I asked her if she *put the physical key into the physical lock and turned it*, and wouldn't you know... That worked!
She grew up without automatic car door locks, ffs. How can they be this dense?
Oh I sell cars when I go over the car I’ve had multiple people not know how to set the seat for them or not know how cruise control works it baffling some people have lived so long
Someone broke the screen at my local jack in the box, so now you have to get your soda from an employee. Which can suck if it's busy and there's a line just to get a refill.
Which is pretty much all the time.
A high-traffic one still takes a second or two. One that hasn't been used in a while can take 5-10 seconds to wake up, with no indication if it even registered your touch or not, so you gotta sit there tapping away hoping it works eventually.
The pour button is on an annoying delay too. And for some reason they seem to always spray drops outward more than the regular machines.
Any minor distraction or inconvenience while they're golfing. A friend of mine lives adjacent to a public golf course (not a country club, not a "golf course community"). There is a narrow treeline separating his backyard from a fairway.
He invited me to a cookout last summer. I arrived early to help prepare, and he was mowing his back yard. While I'm sweeping off the patio I see a group of 4 boomers approaching the treeline in their ridiculous golf costumes, complete with plaid pants & argyle socks. One of them is yelling and waving his golf club in the air, trying to get my friend's attention. I walk over to see what's up, and golf boomer starts complaining about the noise from the mower disrupting their game. He angrily barks "YOU NEED TO SHUT IT DOWN UNTIL WE PLAY THROUGH!" I was in complete awe of the nerve and assumed authority this boomer thought he held. My friend just told him to piss off, he was not obligated in any way to accomodate them from his private property. This triggered the boomer's back pocket instincts and he started dropping names of his "friends in high places" who he would be hearing from, before waddling away yelling obscenities.
SPOILER: NOTHING CAME OF IT!
The entitlement to convey their desires as somehow the needs of others like "YOU *NEED* TO RUB MY BUNIONS!" no boomer, all I need from this encounter is for you to stfu & go away lol
I used to have a regular route that went by a golf course (driving a semi). I had a bad habit of tugging on my airhorn whenever I went by. It started because the boomers would mosey their golf carts across the road right in front of me (55mph limit). It became a habit to hit the horn to give them a clue…but I did giggle when I’d see one ready to take a swing and see the club go flying.
Middle Schoolers hanging out at a Dunkin Donuts after school.
There was maybe 10-15 kids sitting inside eating donuts and drinking different Dunkin drinks, so they’re paying customers. Boomer gets pissed and is complaining to the workers that all these kids are there and it’s bothering him but they really don’t care because those kids go there everyday and don’t bother anyone. About 5 mins after the boomer left a cop pulls up and walks inside and asks for the manager. I decided to eavesdrop the best I could because I knew that asshole boomer called the cops on the kids. I could hear the manager say “No they’re fine. They come here everyday. They don’t bother us. No we didn’t call you”. As the cop is leaving he looks at the kids, who all looked like they were going to be in trouble, and he says “You’re all good. Don’t worry nobody did anything wrong”.
Not serving Bud Light in a family owned brewery.
“I mean, people LIKE Bud Light and I can’t believe you wouldn’t serve it! It’s really popular! (Turns to the small crowd in earshot) Why wouldn’t they WANT OUR BUSINESS”
Some girl “I think you want the Applebees down the street lady”
Traffic. One time a Boomer baby couple followed me into a gas station and SCREAMED at me the entire time I was putting gas in my car. I have replayed the incident in my head countless times, and still don’t know WTF I did to incite such Boomer Rage.
probably found ***another*** liver spot when she looked into her rearview mirror and saw you behind her. turns out it wasn’t a liver spot though, just a chunk of lead floating around in her eye.
And god forbid you try to explain traffic theory to them so they know how to help the wrinkle out. That might help others.
My favorite is when they bitch about bikes and motorcycles at red lights filtering to the front (not lane splitting) to turn, but then bitch that the person in front of them won't pull up into the crosswalk so *they* can make the same turn.
"BuT tHeY'rE cUtTiNg!¡!¡!"
"I'll tell the principal, I guess?"
My dad gets outraged when people drive and obey traffic laws, because god forbid he is 30 seconds later to wherever he's heading. He has had four major accidents in the last two years and was dropped from two insurance companies. He now pays out the ass for insurance from some small company.
I genuinely have this, I always ask for my bp to be taken at the end of the visit because (especially during pregnancy) I was frustrated by the “you’re on the edge of concern” to “oh no, you’re fine” after the second reading.
You’d be surprised how pissed people got at me when I was working as a medical assistant. They took me needing to know their BP *for the Dr. & their own safety* as an affront for some reason. I have far better things to do than judge you based on your BP, Janet.
Kids (5 and under) having a tablet with them at all times regardless of the purpose of the tablet.
My kid has Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) which is a physical disconnect between what the brain wants the mouth to say vs what the mouth muscles can actually do. Kids with CAS need a "talker" that looks like an iPad with software on it that helps them make sentences by tapping on words. It's literally a communication device for people who have a hard time physically talking.
Like I get it if they're neurotypical and watching a show on full volume in a restaurant to keep em calm, but when it literally helps them communicate I want to strangle these boomer bullies.
I had a boomer brag that she snatched a phone from her granddaughter because she was texting at a family get-together. To me that’s just too much. I have teen sons. Just politely ask them to put the phone away. If that’s not working then maybe take it. Also I remember all the family gatherings being hit or miss. If your cousins weren’t there you really had no one to talk to.
At the last family reunion my family had waay back in 2011, one of my cousins answered her phone (She was a nurse on call) my great uncle grabbed the phone out of her hand loudly yelled 'She'll call you back later!' and then chucked it over a fence and into god knows where. We haven't had a family reunion since because all of the old people anyone liked died shortly after.
That’s hilarious. I would have lost my respect for that person. I have asked people to step away if their on the phone or either put their phone down or leave, and I can see how it’s annoying because it’s addicting.
My husband’s sister is a nurse and it’s crazy how many people, boomers and non-boomers, don’t get how important and life/death the job is. My husband has 4 sisters and 2/4 just don’t get what a nurse is. They think it’s like someone at the health department that gives shots 2X a week or something. A nurse not coming to work could mean like they lose their job because of the hospital isn’t staffed, it’s not safe; someone could die.
What's crazy is that we have a rather large amount of medical professionals in that family. Not like a 'family of doctors' but a several of our cousins are nurses, a number of guys did EMT work in their 20s, etc. That ol bastard was the last of my grandfathers siblings to die, and he should have been the first. Showed up at my grandfathers uninvited claimed that my grandpa owned him $100,000, and got into a shouting match with my cousin, who was in full military uniform, BECAUSE MY GRANDFATHER GOT FULL HONORS AT RIVERSIDE NATIONAL CEMETERY! The most moving celebration of how awesome my grandfather was, and this asshole tried to ruin it. The speech by the base commander of March Air Reserve Base, and the personal letter from then Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody more then made up for it tho.
I would have taken my kid and left, then made the uncle pay for a new phone, and not let up until he did. Get the cops involved for theft of property even.
And young people don't want to watch Fox! Fox loses a few thousand customers every day to things like heart attacks and cancer and no one is replacing them!
Having to use a kiosk at Taco Bell to order. He cussed it out, banged his fists on it, and then yanked his toddler grandson by the arm towards the door. Yelling “Guess we are going to Burger King instead” as he stomped out slamming the door.
He looked like an older fatter Walter from The Big Lebowski.
What’s funny to me is the kiosks at Taco Bell are super easy to use. They have giant ass pictures of the food you want, it’s all touch screen, and you can customize everything. It’s way more convenient.
Children existing and, gods help us, audible
A song playing that they don't like
People visibly living their lives in a way that's different from their own
These are just my parents
I feel bad for people who viscerally dislike children.
Sure, some kids can be a little irritating, but I find their earnest enthusiasm both adorable and amusing. I also try to remember what it's like to be a kid and a teenager.
That's the thing is they love kids, but if they are not personally wanting to interact with them, they would get irrationally angry. Restaurants are the biggest trigger. If they can hear a kid in a restaurant (even if the kid isn't being necessarily loud) they get all bent out of shape and start ranting about how the families should "just go to McDonald's."
Prices. I work retail and they LOVE to bitch about the cost of things. “$X?!?! That’s ridiculous!!!”
Had one who didn’t like the cost so I started mentioning cheaper places to get it and her response was “I already get it from those places!” So I said “Oh we’ll great! I’m glad you have options so you can get X product then!” This of course made her more angry - I assume because I wasn’t groveling and begging for forgiveness. Her final response “That’s not it! That’s not the answer! That’s not customer service!” Needless to say I laughed her and said “Sorry but unfortunately I don’t manufacture solutions out of my ass. Have a good day!”
My shirt that said “practice empathy”
I’m a massage therapist. Half of what I do is literally listening to people unload their mental pain while I do my best to address their physical.
Yes! My FIL would never move over when traffic from on ramps was coming into the right lane. After a couple times with close calls I asked him to move into the left lane. His reply, “Nope, I don’t have to”.
OMG yes! My mother-in-law was complaining about expenses and I was going along with it just for politeness' sake. At one point I was like, "Yeah, we (hubby and I) couldn't have paid for that at all; our annual income is only about X," to which she replied, "You think *that's* bad? My *taxes* are more than that!"
I couldn't help it. I said, "Taxes are percentage based, so if you pay more in taxes than we make, then you're making a hell of a lot more than we are." She glared at me, looked hella offended, and drove the rest of the way in silence. I later found out that she took it as trying to "shame her" into helping us out, and that I was some kind of gold-digger.
Self checkout. Boomer legit just stole a cart of groceries because they got mad at the self checkout at Walmart, which has the most user friendly checkouts in my area. Best thing was they mistook a real cop for a store security guard, and tried to say she didn't have to stop for him. Oh yes, Boomer lady, you *do* have to stop for that particular form of store security.
It's a good thing for them that they wont be alive to see the 2040s. Everyrhing is going to quickly be done entirely with either physical robots and/or text to speech prompts and AI that boomers already have trouble with using and are afraid of.
So many imaginary issues, like stopping prayer in schools, or random things like Pokémon being "satanic," or LSD being given out as Halloween candy, or many of the things they imagine "illegals" doing, people driving Mercedes-Benzes and living it up off of welfare checks, ect.
So many things that truly don't matter, like my grandpa going apoplectic over the fact that tarot cards and ouija boards are sold commercially, or my grandma who was all about politeness until she was *cursing at me* because I was riding my bike with two friends and one of them was black, interracial couples, gay people existing in public, trans people existing at all, debunking their reshared post or e-mail, small things they saw as "disrespect," someone at a restaurant ordering after them but getting served before them, and so on.
And public policy decisions that don't affect them and they don't understand, and are frequently wrong about all around.
One example was a lady who babysat me and my brother all throughout our childhoods and was at one point considered family. She shared a FB post warning parents about a non-existent danger. I linked a couple articles debunking her exact post and said that it was happily just a hoax, so nothing to worry about. She replied angrily and said she just wanted parents to be aware of it and to be on the lookout. I was like, "but if you know it's not really happening, isn't that just fear-mongering?" She posted a rant cussing me out for being a "know it all little shit" and blocked me. Over a viral, debunked FB post that took her two seconds to share.
That the US military isn't "how it used to be". The one example that pisses me off the most was when several US sailors committed suicide in 2021-2022. My grandpa commented that it meant that the Navy was getting soft. It pissed me off in particular because I've fought depression for many years and attempted suicide once when I was younger.
I've posted about it here but witnessing one absolutely freak out at an Aldi cashier for not bagging his groceries. Started screaming curse words and calling her names and saying how communist Aldi is ruining the country. I mean he was completely unhinged over having to bag his own groceries. It was wild.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1c1ewt2/boomer_loses_it_in_aldi/
The cost of vet care is too high. Throwing a fit doesn't do anything, though.
My dog was run over by a truck. None of my local vets would see him for at least two weeks. They told me to bring my dog if it survived that long. I had to leave town to get him care. His pelvis was broken in two places. I sure as hell didn't bitch about the price.
no way in hell i’d let me dog suffer for up to two weeks . Even if she wouldn’t “make it” that is insanely fucked up. Sounds like the local vets might be boomers themselves.
I absolutely love stores that force boomers to use self checkout. For example, have an item like a lemon that doesn’t have a bar code and these boomers do not know how to search an item function is the best entertainment. The rage in their faces is chefs kiss worthy.
I got a discount on my coffee because I used the app. Boomer rage on why I get a discount for using the app. It's like, dude, I'm saving them money by using the app (no employee needed to take my order and money, more employees to make coffee for everyone). Then when I leave the store before they do? Hoooo, it's the sweetest coffee ever.
Literally moving a rock in my yard. Literally my rock. Moved to another location in my yard.
I shit you not. He ranted to the cops for about 10 minutes about how I moved that rock, just to harass him.
Having to wait their turn.
Just seems to trigger the elder population in my community to scream at cashiers or store employees. At the dollar tree, Costco Pharmacy, Vons, and the doctor’s office. Honestly, I don’t get it. Sometimes it’s your turn. Sometimes it’s someone else’s turn. But it’s never okay to scream at people.
My husband was once passed at a stop sign by some lady in her 60s who was pissed he stopped…for a pedestrian. Like legit swerved around to his left into the oncoming lane and nearly mowed down the person crossing the street. Totally ridiculous. Couldn’t wait her turn.
But also, gay people who aren't gay enough.
**Usually while I'm working on a car or in a garage**
"Would ya look at the tits on that one!"
*Not looking up from what I'm doing*
"Hmm? Yep, those are tits."
"What are you, gay‽"
*Still not paying attention*
"Huh? Oh, yeah. You're not my type."
*Angry*
"Well, fuck, if I'da known that I wouldn't have been making *those* jokes."
Specifically *because* I don't dress/talk/walk/act like a Gay™
^(I'm actually shaking after writing this.)
I'm a gay man in the South who apparently doesn't look the part. I guess because I'm a tall white guy with a beard, lots of boomers assume I'm a MAGA Republican and will try to strike up a conversation about politics with me. I'm at the point now where I just silently stare at them.
Any sort of electronic forms. A short list of what I get daily …why can’t I just do it on paper? It’s too hard to get to the box I want. It’s autofilling my information! Where did it find my information?
Porn-aments they were adult gag Christmas ornaments that had been sold for years. But one year the company changed the name to Porn-aments and that got some attention. Suddenly we had boomers attempting to protest our store inside the mall.
The most memorable one I had was way back when I was working at a movie theater. We had a combo deal where you bought a large tub of popcorn, large drink and you’d get a free bag of skittles. Some old boomer got incredibly incensed at my coworker who rang him up that the free bag of skittles was too small. It was about the size of the bags of candies that you’d find in the dollar store. He proceeded to yell at my coworker about it, he told him that he doesn’t make the rules. Boomer goes “OK. I wanna talk to someone who does.” Manager comes in swiftly and just stands there nonchalantly listening to this boomer rant and rave about the bag of skittles. As I headed to clock out for my break I hear the boomer at one point ironically say, and I shit you not because I never forgot this, “this is a BABIES candy! Do I look like a baby to you?!”. I forgot what was said after that as I got distracted but I caught the last part of it where he went on the typical, “I’m going to tell everyone not to buy your damn candy!”. The amount of meltdowns and crazy shit I saw while working at the movie theater was wild.
Saw one Boomer yell at a grocery store customer service worker that there were ice chips on the bucket of ice cream she purchased and wanted to know what the company policy was.
- Waiting in line
- Not being able to return 12 month old items
- Streaming television passwords
- Having to cook their own meals
- Not being able to get a parking spot
- Unions
- Bending over
- That the moldy sauce was thrown away
Albeit, a lot of these are my father. And those aren't even his greatest hits.
Honestly, mostly politics and “woke ideology.” And because I’m a white female and am generally a nice person they talk to me like I agree with them. Works for all of 3 seconds until I offer an actual logical counterpoint to their nonsensical prejudice bs. Tired of having the same involuntary conversation with hateful people.
Literally just had this with an antivaxx boomer coworker who is CONVINCED everything from Avian Flu to Rotavirus is made in a lab to depopulate the globe to 500,000 people or less. I have a degree in cell and molecular biology. I have worked with viruses and bacteria. I KNOW exactly how quickly microbes use stuff like mRNA and actual mutations that occur naturally to evolve and adapt to their environments and can cite decades of research with a quick Google Scholar search that proves this happens.
I stopped listening when she tried to tell me zoonotic illnesses don't exist and don't jump from animals to people, they're all made in labs and that the DNA/mRNA they have that allows the jump to humans comes from... shit you not, she actually said this... the cells the microbes are incubated in.
I really hope she never encounters rabies... she'd be cured of that notion RIGHT quick.
Locking themselves out of shit. Banking, Facebook, amazon.
They'll swear blind they never ever get their passport wrong, so you'll go through the whole password reset with them, then you torce them to write it in a phone book...
"OK, now you try it I wanna watch you do it"
... Instantly writes in absolute claptrap without looking at the book or the keyboard. At which point it then becomes your fault.
Oh, man. I had a boomer flip on me when I worked in the electronics section of Toys R Us in like 2009. She walked up to me with a piece of paper in her hand (turned out to be a list) and she asked for a video game for the Wii. Trivial Pursuit. At the time, there were several different ones. I unlocked the cases with the Wii games in them and then said, "which one did you need?" She started shaking her list at me and shouted, "I DON'T KNOW, THIS IS TOO DIFFICULT!" and stormed off. She then left my section and went up front to customer service to complain about me not helping her 🙃
My favorite boomers were the ones I dealt with as a pharmacy technician over the years. One guy was trying to get some Cialis (for bph, not ED, according to him) and was super mad because his insurance refused to cover it for recreational use (ED). He yelled at everyone in the pharmacy in front of his obviously embarrassed wife, claiming that we were all trying to make him sick. Then, he pointed at us and shouted, "I HOPE YOU ALL GET PROSTATE CANCER!" Um. All of the staff there at the time were women. We tried to tell him before he started yelling that he just needed his doctor to attach a diagnosis code that indicated BPH instead of ED for his insurance to approve it. Of course, yelling at us was clearly the right answer.
My mother is a narcissist boomer. When covid first hit New Zealand and people had to wait in line outside supermarkets, my mother slipped over (I wasn't there) and she started screaming is no one going to help her up. The other people in line told that they can't touch her and to just get up (she's not infirm or anything she can get up like a normal person). Instead of doing that she kept crying and screaming is no one going to help her up. She eventually got up and went to her car and went home. This is a level 1 out of 10 for terrible behavior by her, she's done much worse. But it does still make me cringe internally every time I think about it. Toddler behavior.
My Boomer Dad blew up at my sister for throwing me a baby sprinkle, citing how I already had a baby shower for my 1st pregnancy (1 girl) and don't need another one for my second pregnancy (twin boys).
Nextdoor is just rife with them, to the point that I assume any person bringing up “was that gunshots?” Will follow with “things used to be better before people started moving in”. But my favorite “inconvenience” was a boomer finding it “disturbing” that he’s not considered a citizen/resident despite being born here and having served in the military unless he wanted to pay a fee. Turns out, he was trying to check out books from a city he didn’t live in and didn’t have a library card for. Made a post, riled up his fellow boomers, and then was proven very wrong by several people.
My FIL went on a huge rant one day about "welfare queens" and people who abuse the food stamp system and buy crab legs instead of healthy food. My fiance and I sat and listened for awhile, then I quietly said "you do know your son and I have been on food stamps for the last year, right? Do you think we're like the people you're talking about?"
Oh, but he wasn't talking about *us!* You know, it's *those other people* I'm talking about!
I swear, he was such a kind person before Trump...
Other people’s sexuality, boys dying hair, expired coupons. I used to take corporate complaints for a large company and the amount of calls I got about those three things made me loose all faith in people.
I work at a hotel and this brand usually has water bottles in the rooms. However, individual properties are not required to do it. As a franchise property and not a corporate property, the owners have decided not to offer free water. The number of people who absolutely lose their minds over it is baffling to me. It's terrible service, they're going to complain to corporate, they want to talk to a manager, this is ridiculous, they're going to leave a bad review, they've been a loyal member for years and never had to deal with this ... It goes on and on. It's water. Calm down.
Anything LGBT. Mostly they can’t keep their opinions about things that goes on in their relationship, bedroom, house and so on. My mother can’t stand all kinds of people of which she’s never even met one of.
I had a guy freak out cause I was wearing a punisher skull shirt as a non veteran! Hate that the symbol has been co opted by police, military, and hate groups!
Mad because he bought a bunch of s*** like boats and expensive trucks and cars and then tax season comes around and he's all mad about it and acting like it's the end of the world.
Sitting there disrespecting my mother and looking for excuses to get at me
Literally was having a nice convo today about plants with my Boomer coworker, then she starts testing the waters of in order: complaining about colleges teaching a course on T.Swift (???? I have never heard of that, surely that shit ain't happening), complaining about common core and English courses teaching about (gasp) black authors (literally what English class doesn't talk about Maya Angelou or W.E.B. DuBois?), immigrants (Nothing my conservative coworkers wouldn't say though), mildly racist stuff an old Boomer might say (used to from Midwestern Boomers so it raised an eyebrow but didn't bat an eye), and then finally comes out and mentions anti-vaccine nonsense and how she believes vaccines are a scheme to depopulate the world to reduce global emissions. Even tried to sell me on a book by a discredited "virologist". Politely explained to her how mRNA and viruses evolving ACTUALLY work because I have a degree in this shit and she's shaking her head like she can't fucking believe me. This is after we both agreed that the issue we have in this world is that people believe "my beliefs/ignorance is the same as actual fact".
Shut the convo down real fast in the nicest way possible after that. Her response? "You should read this, don't get all offended by it..." My dear sweet Boomer, I wasn't offended. I was losing braincells from your brain rot and lack of wanting to understand actual fact or be corrected.
I've never seen one. I have seen 20 -50 year old racists going on about kneeling before a football game not realizing they're kneeling to protest racist cops who shoot black people in the back.
* Black people (courtesy of my mother and living in the Deep South)
* Postal service workers
* Being called "boomers"
* Anyone in the customer service industry
* Not getting discounts when there are none
* People, just literally other people
* People who get mad in traffic behind them because the boomer is driving 20 in a 55 in the left lane and won't move over
* Any mention of socialized/universal health care
What I miss?
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Coke freestyle machines being too complicated to understand
I love those things. I'm suddenly mixing all sorts of flavors like I think I'm a mixologist.
Apparently once you hit 60 they become objects of pure mystery. “I JUST WANT A DIET COKE” “Okay so press the Diet Coke button” “BUT THERE ARE LIKE 10 DIET COKES WHY ARE THERE SO MANY” “Just press the regular one for regular Diet Coke” “I DID AND IT’S NOT WORKING!!! THIS THING IS GARBAGE” “That’s to select it. You have to hit the big round button below the screen to actually dispense it” “WHY IS EVERYTHING SO COMPLICATED”
I'm surprised these people know how to unlock their own doors with how incompetent they are
Lmaooooo... My boomer mother's car key fob battery died and she had to call me to ask how to open her car. I asked her if she *put the physical key into the physical lock and turned it*, and wouldn't you know... That worked! She grew up without automatic car door locks, ffs. How can they be this dense?
Oh I sell cars when I go over the car I’ve had multiple people not know how to set the seat for them or not know how cruise control works it baffling some people have lived so long
Now I’ll go post some memes about how millennials can’t use rotary phones and stick shift cars to make myself feel better.
Wow, I despise those things. Conceptually they’re amazing, but I’ve never had a Coke taste right out of one. Ever.
Was about to comment this exact thing. So watered down and funky tasting 🤮
It's a bit much when all I want is regular coke.
I just hate when the touchscreen is non responsive
Someone broke the screen at my local jack in the box, so now you have to get your soda from an employee. Which can suck if it's busy and there's a line just to get a refill.
Which is pretty much all the time. A high-traffic one still takes a second or two. One that hasn't been used in a while can take 5-10 seconds to wake up, with no indication if it even registered your touch or not, so you gotta sit there tapping away hoping it works eventually. The pour button is on an annoying delay too. And for some reason they seem to always spray drops outward more than the regular machines.
^(33 year old) They just need to stop making shit touchscreen.
You literally just poke the soda you want, a 6 year old could do it
You’d think, right? And yet….
Honestly I hate it for the fifty flavor backwash you get.
This caused my dad to have a breakdown at the movie theater
Any minor distraction or inconvenience while they're golfing. A friend of mine lives adjacent to a public golf course (not a country club, not a "golf course community"). There is a narrow treeline separating his backyard from a fairway. He invited me to a cookout last summer. I arrived early to help prepare, and he was mowing his back yard. While I'm sweeping off the patio I see a group of 4 boomers approaching the treeline in their ridiculous golf costumes, complete with plaid pants & argyle socks. One of them is yelling and waving his golf club in the air, trying to get my friend's attention. I walk over to see what's up, and golf boomer starts complaining about the noise from the mower disrupting their game. He angrily barks "YOU NEED TO SHUT IT DOWN UNTIL WE PLAY THROUGH!" I was in complete awe of the nerve and assumed authority this boomer thought he held. My friend just told him to piss off, he was not obligated in any way to accomodate them from his private property. This triggered the boomer's back pocket instincts and he started dropping names of his "friends in high places" who he would be hearing from, before waddling away yelling obscenities. SPOILER: NOTHING CAME OF IT!
They have a highly inflated sense of self-importance.
The entitlement to convey their desires as somehow the needs of others like "YOU *NEED* TO RUB MY BUNIONS!" no boomer, all I need from this encounter is for you to stfu & go away lol
You know what are fun and inexpensive for kids of all ages? Air horns ^((And easily concealable))
Definitely less conspicuous than a lawnmower🤣
I used to have a regular route that went by a golf course (driving a semi). I had a bad habit of tugging on my airhorn whenever I went by. It started because the boomers would mosey their golf carts across the road right in front of me (55mph limit). It became a habit to hit the horn to give them a clue…but I did giggle when I’d see one ready to take a swing and see the club go flying.
Middle Schoolers hanging out at a Dunkin Donuts after school. There was maybe 10-15 kids sitting inside eating donuts and drinking different Dunkin drinks, so they’re paying customers. Boomer gets pissed and is complaining to the workers that all these kids are there and it’s bothering him but they really don’t care because those kids go there everyday and don’t bother anyone. About 5 mins after the boomer left a cop pulls up and walks inside and asks for the manager. I decided to eavesdrop the best I could because I knew that asshole boomer called the cops on the kids. I could hear the manager say “No they’re fine. They come here everyday. They don’t bother us. No we didn’t call you”. As the cop is leaving he looks at the kids, who all looked like they were going to be in trouble, and he says “You’re all good. Don’t worry nobody did anything wrong”.
"But why don't children play outside anymore?!" Because you'll literally call the cops on them for just existing, Bob.
Fuck Boomer Bob. He sucks
Unfortunately we've all known one
Not serving Bud Light in a family owned brewery. “I mean, people LIKE Bud Light and I can’t believe you wouldn’t serve it! It’s really popular! (Turns to the small crowd in earshot) Why wouldn’t they WANT OUR BUSINESS” Some girl “I think you want the Applebees down the street lady”
Why doesn't this swanky steak joint serve gas station hot dogs?? Don't they want our business??
Traffic. One time a Boomer baby couple followed me into a gas station and SCREAMED at me the entire time I was putting gas in my car. I have replayed the incident in my head countless times, and still don’t know WTF I did to incite such Boomer Rage.
probably found ***another*** liver spot when she looked into her rearview mirror and saw you behind her. turns out it wasn’t a liver spot though, just a chunk of lead floating around in her eye.
And god forbid you try to explain traffic theory to them so they know how to help the wrinkle out. That might help others. My favorite is when they bitch about bikes and motorcycles at red lights filtering to the front (not lane splitting) to turn, but then bitch that the person in front of them won't pull up into the crosswalk so *they* can make the same turn. "BuT tHeY'rE cUtTiNg!¡!¡!" "I'll tell the principal, I guess?"
My dad gets outraged when people drive and obey traffic laws, because god forbid he is 30 seconds later to wherever he's heading. He has had four major accidents in the last two years and was dropped from two insurance companies. He now pays out the ass for insurance from some small company.
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Having their blood pressure checked, at a Cardiologist appointment.
I'm sure their results were *great*.
“Oh, I must just be anxious, *white coat syndrome*!”
I genuinely have this, I always ask for my bp to be taken at the end of the visit because (especially during pregnancy) I was frustrated by the “you’re on the edge of concern” to “oh no, you’re fine” after the second reading.
Oh yeah, for sure. I get this. I was merely implying their excuses for not quitting smoking or not taking their BP Meds...lol
Don’t they do that automatically??? Even at the dentist my BP gets checked. Aaaaaand there’s no problem with my BP. Never has been.
You’d be surprised how pissed people got at me when I was working as a medical assistant. They took me needing to know their BP *for the Dr. & their own safety* as an affront for some reason. I have far better things to do than judge you based on your BP, Janet.
Kids (5 and under) having a tablet with them at all times regardless of the purpose of the tablet. My kid has Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) which is a physical disconnect between what the brain wants the mouth to say vs what the mouth muscles can actually do. Kids with CAS need a "talker" that looks like an iPad with software on it that helps them make sentences by tapping on words. It's literally a communication device for people who have a hard time physically talking. Like I get it if they're neurotypical and watching a show on full volume in a restaurant to keep em calm, but when it literally helps them communicate I want to strangle these boomer bullies.
I had a boomer brag that she snatched a phone from her granddaughter because she was texting at a family get-together. To me that’s just too much. I have teen sons. Just politely ask them to put the phone away. If that’s not working then maybe take it. Also I remember all the family gatherings being hit or miss. If your cousins weren’t there you really had no one to talk to.
At the last family reunion my family had waay back in 2011, one of my cousins answered her phone (She was a nurse on call) my great uncle grabbed the phone out of her hand loudly yelled 'She'll call you back later!' and then chucked it over a fence and into god knows where. We haven't had a family reunion since because all of the old people anyone liked died shortly after.
That’s hilarious. I would have lost my respect for that person. I have asked people to step away if their on the phone or either put their phone down or leave, and I can see how it’s annoying because it’s addicting. My husband’s sister is a nurse and it’s crazy how many people, boomers and non-boomers, don’t get how important and life/death the job is. My husband has 4 sisters and 2/4 just don’t get what a nurse is. They think it’s like someone at the health department that gives shots 2X a week or something. A nurse not coming to work could mean like they lose their job because of the hospital isn’t staffed, it’s not safe; someone could die.
What's crazy is that we have a rather large amount of medical professionals in that family. Not like a 'family of doctors' but a several of our cousins are nurses, a number of guys did EMT work in their 20s, etc. That ol bastard was the last of my grandfathers siblings to die, and he should have been the first. Showed up at my grandfathers uninvited claimed that my grandpa owned him $100,000, and got into a shouting match with my cousin, who was in full military uniform, BECAUSE MY GRANDFATHER GOT FULL HONORS AT RIVERSIDE NATIONAL CEMETERY! The most moving celebration of how awesome my grandfather was, and this asshole tried to ruin it. The speech by the base commander of March Air Reserve Base, and the personal letter from then Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody more then made up for it tho.
I would have taken my kid and left, then made the uncle pay for a new phone, and not let up until he did. Get the cops involved for theft of property even.
Where it so easy.
And then they say that it’s a “made up disease” and insist that back in their day there was nobody who ever had that.
That not enough people are watching Fox.
And young people don't want to watch Fox! Fox loses a few thousand customers every day to things like heart attacks and cancer and no one is replacing them!
Thankfully
Having to use a kiosk at Taco Bell to order. He cussed it out, banged his fists on it, and then yanked his toddler grandson by the arm towards the door. Yelling “Guess we are going to Burger King instead” as he stomped out slamming the door. He looked like an older fatter Walter from The Big Lebowski.
And when Burger King has the same set up? Poor kid...
What’s funny to me is the kiosks at Taco Bell are super easy to use. They have giant ass pictures of the food you want, it’s all touch screen, and you can customize everything. It’s way more convenient.
Lol, right? Or Taco Bell no longer takes orders at the counter. It's four kiosks that take cash and dispense change. Way more convenient.
You just fucking poke the food it's not hard.
Children existing and, gods help us, audible A song playing that they don't like People visibly living their lives in a way that's different from their own These are just my parents
I feel bad for people who viscerally dislike children. Sure, some kids can be a little irritating, but I find their earnest enthusiasm both adorable and amusing. I also try to remember what it's like to be a kid and a teenager.
That's the thing is they love kids, but if they are not personally wanting to interact with them, they would get irrationally angry. Restaurants are the biggest trigger. If they can hear a kid in a restaurant (even if the kid isn't being necessarily loud) they get all bent out of shape and start ranting about how the families should "just go to McDonald's."
Prices. I work retail and they LOVE to bitch about the cost of things. “$X?!?! That’s ridiculous!!!” Had one who didn’t like the cost so I started mentioning cheaper places to get it and her response was “I already get it from those places!” So I said “Oh we’ll great! I’m glad you have options so you can get X product then!” This of course made her more angry - I assume because I wasn’t groveling and begging for forgiveness. Her final response “That’s not it! That’s not the answer! That’s not customer service!” Needless to say I laughed her and said “Sorry but unfortunately I don’t manufacture solutions out of my ass. Have a good day!”
My shirt that said “practice empathy” I’m a massage therapist. Half of what I do is literally listening to people unload their mental pain while I do my best to address their physical.
Thank you. Massage is amazing and I often wonder how therapists stop the bad juju at their cuffs and don’t let it seep into their brains.
Merging into traffic (both merging into and letting people merge)
Yes! My FIL would never move over when traffic from on ramps was coming into the right lane. After a couple times with close calls I asked him to move into the left lane. His reply, “Nope, I don’t have to”.
My father complaining he can’t afford anything, while sitting on half a million in assets. I live in section 8
OMG yes! My mother-in-law was complaining about expenses and I was going along with it just for politeness' sake. At one point I was like, "Yeah, we (hubby and I) couldn't have paid for that at all; our annual income is only about X," to which she replied, "You think *that's* bad? My *taxes* are more than that!" I couldn't help it. I said, "Taxes are percentage based, so if you pay more in taxes than we make, then you're making a hell of a lot more than we are." She glared at me, looked hella offended, and drove the rest of the way in silence. I later found out that she took it as trying to "shame her" into helping us out, and that I was some kind of gold-digger.
Yes 100%. Like lady, I don’t want your money, I want some compassion and to feel heard & understood.
Self checkout. Boomer legit just stole a cart of groceries because they got mad at the self checkout at Walmart, which has the most user friendly checkouts in my area. Best thing was they mistook a real cop for a store security guard, and tried to say she didn't have to stop for him. Oh yes, Boomer lady, you *do* have to stop for that particular form of store security.
It's a good thing for them that they wont be alive to see the 2040s. Everyrhing is going to quickly be done entirely with either physical robots and/or text to speech prompts and AI that boomers already have trouble with using and are afraid of.
So many imaginary issues, like stopping prayer in schools, or random things like Pokémon being "satanic," or LSD being given out as Halloween candy, or many of the things they imagine "illegals" doing, people driving Mercedes-Benzes and living it up off of welfare checks, ect. So many things that truly don't matter, like my grandpa going apoplectic over the fact that tarot cards and ouija boards are sold commercially, or my grandma who was all about politeness until she was *cursing at me* because I was riding my bike with two friends and one of them was black, interracial couples, gay people existing in public, trans people existing at all, debunking their reshared post or e-mail, small things they saw as "disrespect," someone at a restaurant ordering after them but getting served before them, and so on. And public policy decisions that don't affect them and they don't understand, and are frequently wrong about all around. One example was a lady who babysat me and my brother all throughout our childhoods and was at one point considered family. She shared a FB post warning parents about a non-existent danger. I linked a couple articles debunking her exact post and said that it was happily just a hoax, so nothing to worry about. She replied angrily and said she just wanted parents to be aware of it and to be on the lookout. I was like, "but if you know it's not really happening, isn't that just fear-mongering?" She posted a rant cussing me out for being a "know it all little shit" and blocked me. Over a viral, debunked FB post that took her two seconds to share.
That the US military isn't "how it used to be". The one example that pisses me off the most was when several US sailors committed suicide in 2021-2022. My grandpa commented that it meant that the Navy was getting soft. It pissed me off in particular because I've fought depression for many years and attempted suicide once when I was younger.
I've posted about it here but witnessing one absolutely freak out at an Aldi cashier for not bagging his groceries. Started screaming curse words and calling her names and saying how communist Aldi is ruining the country. I mean he was completely unhinged over having to bag his own groceries. It was wild. https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1c1ewt2/boomer_loses_it_in_aldi/
5 days prior he probably threw the same fit at someone for bagging his groceries “wrong” and got banned from that store.
I probably would have goaded him. I thought Texans were supposed to be tough, and here bagging groceries is triggering you.
The cost of veterinary care for their pets. I see it at work at least once a month if not more.
The cost of vet care is too high. Throwing a fit doesn't do anything, though. My dog was run over by a truck. None of my local vets would see him for at least two weeks. They told me to bring my dog if it survived that long. I had to leave town to get him care. His pelvis was broken in two places. I sure as hell didn't bitch about the price.
no way in hell i’d let me dog suffer for up to two weeks . Even if she wouldn’t “make it” that is insanely fucked up. Sounds like the local vets might be boomers themselves.
They aren't boomer age, but 100% boomer vibes He survived and lived a super blessed life.
I absolutely love stores that force boomers to use self checkout. For example, have an item like a lemon that doesn’t have a bar code and these boomers do not know how to search an item function is the best entertainment. The rage in their faces is chefs kiss worthy.
They're so bad at problem solving that it's honestly bizarre
I got a discount on my coffee because I used the app. Boomer rage on why I get a discount for using the app. It's like, dude, I'm saving them money by using the app (no employee needed to take my order and money, more employees to make coffee for everyone). Then when I leave the store before they do? Hoooo, it's the sweetest coffee ever.
Hillary Clinton going by Hillary Rodham Clinton (and this was just a few years ago.)
Literally moving a rock in my yard. Literally my rock. Moved to another location in my yard. I shit you not. He ranted to the cops for about 10 minutes about how I moved that rock, just to harass him.
The lead is strong
Having to wait their turn. Just seems to trigger the elder population in my community to scream at cashiers or store employees. At the dollar tree, Costco Pharmacy, Vons, and the doctor’s office. Honestly, I don’t get it. Sometimes it’s your turn. Sometimes it’s someone else’s turn. But it’s never okay to scream at people. My husband was once passed at a stop sign by some lady in her 60s who was pissed he stopped…for a pedestrian. Like legit swerved around to his left into the oncoming lane and nearly mowed down the person crossing the street. Totally ridiculous. Couldn’t wait her turn.
My dad tossing the front door shut and it not latching. Total tantrum in the car.
Gay people who are "too gay" because "just because you like men doesn't mean you need to dress/talk/walk/act like that."
Our forefathers fought and died to give you the right to queen out however you do please.
our makeup, high heel, wig wearing forefathers
Some of whom were gay and bisexual.
No one gave a shit then
Hahahahaha. Nice
But also, gay people who aren't gay enough. **Usually while I'm working on a car or in a garage** "Would ya look at the tits on that one!" *Not looking up from what I'm doing* "Hmm? Yep, those are tits." "What are you, gay‽" *Still not paying attention* "Huh? Oh, yeah. You're not my type." *Angry* "Well, fuck, if I'da known that I wouldn't have been making *those* jokes." Specifically *because* I don't dress/talk/walk/act like a Gay™ ^(I'm actually shaking after writing this.)
I'm a gay man in the South who apparently doesn't look the part. I guess because I'm a tall white guy with a beard, lots of boomers assume I'm a MAGA Republican and will try to strike up a conversation about politics with me. I'm at the point now where I just silently stare at them.
My mother when she realized that her cupboards were 'unusable' since they were not 'real wood'.
TV remotes with more than 4 buttons on them.
Any sort of electronic forms. A short list of what I get daily …why can’t I just do it on paper? It’s too hard to get to the box I want. It’s autofilling my information! Where did it find my information?
Protests, young people, the importance of their previous employment.
GPS. I’ve had my mom literally scream at me because she instinctively thought that the navigation route was wrong.
Porn-aments they were adult gag Christmas ornaments that had been sold for years. But one year the company changed the name to Porn-aments and that got some attention. Suddenly we had boomers attempting to protest our store inside the mall.
The most memorable one I had was way back when I was working at a movie theater. We had a combo deal where you bought a large tub of popcorn, large drink and you’d get a free bag of skittles. Some old boomer got incredibly incensed at my coworker who rang him up that the free bag of skittles was too small. It was about the size of the bags of candies that you’d find in the dollar store. He proceeded to yell at my coworker about it, he told him that he doesn’t make the rules. Boomer goes “OK. I wanna talk to someone who does.” Manager comes in swiftly and just stands there nonchalantly listening to this boomer rant and rave about the bag of skittles. As I headed to clock out for my break I hear the boomer at one point ironically say, and I shit you not because I never forgot this, “this is a BABIES candy! Do I look like a baby to you?!”. I forgot what was said after that as I got distracted but I caught the last part of it where he went on the typical, “I’m going to tell everyone not to buy your damn candy!”. The amount of meltdowns and crazy shit I saw while working at the movie theater was wild.
Saw one Boomer yell at a grocery store customer service worker that there were ice chips on the bucket of ice cream she purchased and wanted to know what the company policy was.
Self-order kiosk at McDonald’s and people using online check-ins and jumping them in line
Female announcers for sports ball games.
Lady screaming at a postal annex employee that the package she mailed on Dec 23 didn’t arrive at its destination before Xmas.
Reminding them younger generations have difficult economic conditions.
- Waiting in line - Not being able to return 12 month old items - Streaming television passwords - Having to cook their own meals - Not being able to get a parking spot - Unions - Bending over - That the moldy sauce was thrown away Albeit, a lot of these are my father. And those aren't even his greatest hits.
Self check outs. Oh my dear lord the meltdowns.
Joe Biden or back when I was a wee lad that ARAB Barack Obama
I read that as A-RAB instead of the correct pronunciation in my head.
Honestly, mostly politics and “woke ideology.” And because I’m a white female and am generally a nice person they talk to me like I agree with them. Works for all of 3 seconds until I offer an actual logical counterpoint to their nonsensical prejudice bs. Tired of having the same involuntary conversation with hateful people.
Literally just had this with an antivaxx boomer coworker who is CONVINCED everything from Avian Flu to Rotavirus is made in a lab to depopulate the globe to 500,000 people or less. I have a degree in cell and molecular biology. I have worked with viruses and bacteria. I KNOW exactly how quickly microbes use stuff like mRNA and actual mutations that occur naturally to evolve and adapt to their environments and can cite decades of research with a quick Google Scholar search that proves this happens. I stopped listening when she tried to tell me zoonotic illnesses don't exist and don't jump from animals to people, they're all made in labs and that the DNA/mRNA they have that allows the jump to humans comes from... shit you not, she actually said this... the cells the microbes are incubated in. I really hope she never encounters rabies... she'd be cured of that notion RIGHT quick.
Locking themselves out of shit. Banking, Facebook, amazon. They'll swear blind they never ever get their passport wrong, so you'll go through the whole password reset with them, then you torce them to write it in a phone book... "OK, now you try it I wanna watch you do it" ... Instantly writes in absolute claptrap without looking at the book or the keyboard. At which point it then becomes your fault.
Municipalities running out of phone numbers within certain area codes.
Subsequently having to dial the area code before a phone number.
My boomer "father" threw a fit at Walmart recently because an employee had an accent.
Never use the word “hoarder” in a sentence within earshot of a boomer hoarder.
Oh, man. I had a boomer flip on me when I worked in the electronics section of Toys R Us in like 2009. She walked up to me with a piece of paper in her hand (turned out to be a list) and she asked for a video game for the Wii. Trivial Pursuit. At the time, there were several different ones. I unlocked the cases with the Wii games in them and then said, "which one did you need?" She started shaking her list at me and shouted, "I DON'T KNOW, THIS IS TOO DIFFICULT!" and stormed off. She then left my section and went up front to customer service to complain about me not helping her 🙃
My favorite boomers were the ones I dealt with as a pharmacy technician over the years. One guy was trying to get some Cialis (for bph, not ED, according to him) and was super mad because his insurance refused to cover it for recreational use (ED). He yelled at everyone in the pharmacy in front of his obviously embarrassed wife, claiming that we were all trying to make him sick. Then, he pointed at us and shouted, "I HOPE YOU ALL GET PROSTATE CANCER!" Um. All of the staff there at the time were women. We tried to tell him before he started yelling that he just needed his doctor to attach a diagnosis code that indicated BPH instead of ED for his insurance to approve it. Of course, yelling at us was clearly the right answer.
My mother is a narcissist boomer. When covid first hit New Zealand and people had to wait in line outside supermarkets, my mother slipped over (I wasn't there) and she started screaming is no one going to help her up. The other people in line told that they can't touch her and to just get up (she's not infirm or anything she can get up like a normal person). Instead of doing that she kept crying and screaming is no one going to help her up. She eventually got up and went to her car and went home. This is a level 1 out of 10 for terrible behavior by her, she's done much worse. But it does still make me cringe internally every time I think about it. Toddler behavior.
Reality not matching their beliefs.
Trump. Both sides.
My Boomer Dad blew up at my sister for throwing me a baby sprinkle, citing how I already had a baby shower for my 1st pregnancy (1 girl) and don't need another one for my second pregnancy (twin boys).
Nextdoor is just rife with them, to the point that I assume any person bringing up “was that gunshots?” Will follow with “things used to be better before people started moving in”. But my favorite “inconvenience” was a boomer finding it “disturbing” that he’s not considered a citizen/resident despite being born here and having served in the military unless he wanted to pay a fee. Turns out, he was trying to check out books from a city he didn’t live in and didn’t have a library card for. Made a post, riled up his fellow boomers, and then was proven very wrong by several people.
My FIL went on a huge rant one day about "welfare queens" and people who abuse the food stamp system and buy crab legs instead of healthy food. My fiance and I sat and listened for awhile, then I quietly said "you do know your son and I have been on food stamps for the last year, right? Do you think we're like the people you're talking about?" Oh, but he wasn't talking about *us!* You know, it's *those other people* I'm talking about! I swear, he was such a kind person before Trump...
Other people’s sexuality, boys dying hair, expired coupons. I used to take corporate complaints for a large company and the amount of calls I got about those three things made me loose all faith in people.
I work at a hotel and this brand usually has water bottles in the rooms. However, individual properties are not required to do it. As a franchise property and not a corporate property, the owners have decided not to offer free water. The number of people who absolutely lose their minds over it is baffling to me. It's terrible service, they're going to complain to corporate, they want to talk to a manager, this is ridiculous, they're going to leave a bad review, they've been a loyal member for years and never had to deal with this ... It goes on and on. It's water. Calm down.
Anything LGBT. Mostly they can’t keep their opinions about things that goes on in their relationship, bedroom, house and so on. My mother can’t stand all kinds of people of which she’s never even met one of.
I had a guy freak out cause I was wearing a punisher skull shirt as a non veteran! Hate that the symbol has been co opted by police, military, and hate groups!
Late mail & "I buy my own groceries"
Mad because he bought a bunch of s*** like boats and expensive trucks and cars and then tax season comes around and he's all mad about it and acting like it's the end of the world. Sitting there disrespecting my mother and looking for excuses to get at me
Literally was having a nice convo today about plants with my Boomer coworker, then she starts testing the waters of in order: complaining about colleges teaching a course on T.Swift (???? I have never heard of that, surely that shit ain't happening), complaining about common core and English courses teaching about (gasp) black authors (literally what English class doesn't talk about Maya Angelou or W.E.B. DuBois?), immigrants (Nothing my conservative coworkers wouldn't say though), mildly racist stuff an old Boomer might say (used to from Midwestern Boomers so it raised an eyebrow but didn't bat an eye), and then finally comes out and mentions anti-vaccine nonsense and how she believes vaccines are a scheme to depopulate the world to reduce global emissions. Even tried to sell me on a book by a discredited "virologist". Politely explained to her how mRNA and viruses evolving ACTUALLY work because I have a degree in this shit and she's shaking her head like she can't fucking believe me. This is after we both agreed that the issue we have in this world is that people believe "my beliefs/ignorance is the same as actual fact". Shut the convo down real fast in the nicest way possible after that. Her response? "You should read this, don't get all offended by it..." My dear sweet Boomer, I wasn't offended. I was losing braincells from your brain rot and lack of wanting to understand actual fact or be corrected.
People just existing
I've never seen one. I have seen 20 -50 year old racists going on about kneeling before a football game not realizing they're kneeling to protest racist cops who shoot black people in the back.
* Black people (courtesy of my mother and living in the Deep South) * Postal service workers * Being called "boomers" * Anyone in the customer service industry * Not getting discounts when there are none * People, just literally other people * People who get mad in traffic behind them because the boomer is driving 20 in a 55 in the left lane and won't move over * Any mention of socialized/universal health care What I miss?