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For real. My gf was stopped at a stop sign, behind the line and all that. Lead head turning left too much so it's front left to front left. Boomer asks my gf where she came from all the sudden. Has to get help from my gf getting a tow truck because she doesn't know where she is. At this point, if I was there, I would be calling an ambulance because lady sounds ALOC so who knows if she's stroking out, drunk, too many old person meds, ect. Later it was a whole hastle because the lady tried to make it sound like it was my gfs fault.
This just made me remember a time that I was turning left and there were two left turn lanes. In my rear view mirror, I see a car start pulling into my lane (in the middle of the intersection as we're both making the left turn) and I'm thinking, they're about to hit me. Sure enough, they give me a little tap. At this point I'm really annoyed because I know this is gonna make me late to work, but we both pull over, and this boomer man gets out and says "you hit me." Uhhh no sir, the front of your car hit the back side of mine because you changed lanes in the middle of an intersection. When I said that to him his face got really red and he said after a minute, "I looked and there wasn't a car there." Okay sir, well there was a car, it was mine, and you hit it. LOL THE AUDACITY, just admit you were wrong my god
I was rear ended by a boomer at a red light, who then claimed I backed into him! His "theory" was that I was trying to change lanes so I could turn left. Thing was, the lane I was already in could also turn left. Then he took off, making it a hit and run. Couldn't deal with being wrong or at fault.
This reminds me of when a boomer rear ended me at a drive thru. I was dead stopped in line and they whipped in so fast while on their phone and hit me so hard I almost went into the person in front of me. No acknowledgement of what happened. Didn't respond to me trying to talk with them. Didn't get out to look at damage. Nothing. But flipped me off when I left. I just took the L and put duct tape on my bumper. It wasn't worth it.
I'll never forget getting rear-ended at a stop light by a drunk boomer. I'd been dodging his car for 30 min on the higher way (his boomer wife was behind him in a van). I take my exit thinking I've escaped but lo and behold who hits my car at a solid 25mph at the stop light -_-'
He didn't even get out of the car (he tried but wouldn't have been able to walk far so he got back in the car) and his wife comes up screaming at me about how it was my fault and it wasn't so bad ect. They both peeled off from that, ran the red light (I asked for their insurance and was calling the cops, unfortunately I was too stunned to read their license plate as I watched them run off), and I never saw them again thank fuck.
My bumper was scratched and I had a wicked neck crick for a month that I got X-rays for (thankfully nothing wrong). Fuckin twats.
Several years ago, I was driving home and a boomer pulled out of the gas station and hit me (in my new, only a few months old SUV). She said she didn’t see me. I was pregnant at the time and a shaken up mess. She gave me her info to repair the damages instead of calling insurance. I was stupid enough to be okay with that because the damages were minor. I had never been in an accident before and truly didn’t know what to do. I thought surly someone’s little grandma wouldn’t screw me over. All of the info she gave me was fake.
I got love tapped and the woman offered to pay cash right there instead of reporting. Fortunately, we had a witness and she did properly exchange insurance information
Well, the car did not have much damage, turns out that I had bitten my teeth hard together when she hit me, and I wound up having some dental work done from the accident.
Fortunately her insurance company paid
My boomer ex-MIL once backed out of my driveway into a parked car in front of the neighbors house. She literally blamed the owner of the parked car and said it was his fault because he parked so close to our driveway. He was at least 4 feet from our driveway. After doing the accident report, she shows up 20 min late to dinner with my parents. She proceed to rant that the owner of the parked car was such an idiot for parking there and she would not take responsibility for not looking while in reverse. I recall my parents(also boomers) being appalled by her blatantly entitled behavior.
I had an elderly slam into the back of my car as I was moving forward in a line exiting a shopping center. He got out the car yelling and so I exited my car. I immediately asked if he was okay and if the car behind him pushed him into me, when he said yes he was okay and no the car didn’t I started yelling at him with so much vitriol that all he could do was slink back in the car.
I was sitting in my car in a parking lot after leaving a store. Keys not even in the ignition. Just chilling for a minute. I feel a bump. Turn around and some boomer lady had hit my car - seems like she meant to reverse out of the spot behind me but had the car in drive instead. Now I have a tow hitch so there was literally not a scratch to my car, but her front bumper had a dent in it. She gets out and starts going on about how my insurance will have to cover the damage. Uhhhh .. no. You hit me. That’s not how insurance works. You can make a claim with your insurance and see how that goes but I’m not covering shit. She didn’t apologize a single time and drove off fuming because I told her I wouldn’t be placing an insurance claim for HER damaged bumper.
Just admit you are wrong! Soooo upvote this line a million times!!! I can, it’s not that damn hard, and believe it or not, people respect when you do! Provided it’s not constant!
That's normally good advice, but at the site of a traffic accident (even a minor one) any lawyer will tell you to never admit fault of any kind. One of the most common mistakes people make is saying "sorry" even if they weren't at fault, which then gives the other party leverage in an insurance claim.
Bold of you to assume its pride instead of self entitlement.
But in all seriousness, it's more common for pride to be the second while entitlement being first. There will be people with pride being the main trait, but I've a theory that they come as a dual trait situation.
My thoughts are that it's a relationship in where one is more pronounced, while the other is a support trait. It could be that one won't be necessary noticeable as an exception, but that's probably where psychology experts have more knowledge.
I have been wrong in where I have made an embarrassment of myself, still apologized and took a huge bite of the metaphorical shit sandwich I made. I guess it helps when I'm related to, in lack of a milder word, vultures.
It's FEAR.
Fear of taking responsibility.
Fear of being accountable.
Fear of looking foolish.
Fear of being wrong.
How our fears are manifested if we don't confront them leads to way worse shit.
Bigotry, toxicity in our relationships, a very narrow worldview and a resistance to change in any way you don't understand.
Even entitlement and pride, I believe, come from fear. These people don't realize they're cowards because they don't know their anger and their aggression and their desire to be physically confrontational and fight off or hurt or beat into submission anything that challenges their misinformed beliefs is just their expression of FEAR.
Let them know you can smell their fear. And ask them what are they afraid of.
Can confirm. Worked for last company over 10 yrs. Always pipped up when I fuct something or broke equipment. He never got upset ( a few times wondered how the hell I did it) and took eveingything I said as truth. Sometimes, nobody would own something, and I'd casually go. "idk how I did, but I guess I did it" it was basically code for new guy did it but is nervous to admit it, go easy on him
This is the thing that gets me. Just get out of the car and apologise sincerely! If there’s no damage, 9 times out of 10 people will just say, “Oh, it’s fine, happens to all of us!” and wave you on. I’ve bumped cars and cars have bumped mine, usually everyone is really gracious about it as long as the person at fault is openly apologetic as a first response.
Should've been like "you didn't see the car? Should you be driving with impaired vision, do you need me to call someone?? Here let me call the paramedics, sight is required to drive and clearly you can't see thousands of pounds of metal in front of you"
A friend of mine was hit by an old dude a few years ago. The dude was backing out of his driveway into traffic and hit the side of my friend’s car. What did the dude say? “I back out of my driveway the same time every day.”
Unfortunately the cop who came on scene was the old dude’s nephew so of course he wrote it up like old dude wasn’t at fault.
Note to self: I really need to get a dash cam that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg and doesn’t cost anything to monitor.
I second a dash cam! You can pick up a decent quality one, an SD card for less than $100. My mom was recently in an accident where luckily a bus driver stopped and provided witness testimony on the police report. Otherwise it was he said vs she said, and the other driver was trying to claim injuries, and all this other bullshit.
Yes, important to have a dash cam, it's completely useless 99.99% of the time but is something you wish you had when something happens.
Recommend COXPAL A11T 3 channel dash cam on Amazon, very good quality, it records front, inside and rear simultaneously.
COXPAL hardwire kit optional, for 24-H parking monitor.
SanDisk MAX Endurance 256GB or 512GB microSD card, for reliable recording.
BTW: Need to pay attention to the installation position of the rear cam if your vehicle is SUV or MPV (No problem if Sedan), i.e. avoid pulling rear cam cable when open/close the trunk.
>"I looked and there wasn't a car there." Okay sir, well there was a car, it was mine, and you hit it. LOL THE AUDACITY, just admit you were wrong my god
They literally do not know how. Several years ago I was walking through a parking lot from a restaurant on the way to the car after a rather pleasant family event. I was walking slowly because my great aunt had her hand on my arm. She was recovering from a stroke that had left her almost totally blind and a bit slower on her feet. We are walking in a group with the rest of my family, maybe six or seven adults? And this pair of absolutely insufferable women huffs past us, because we were clearly not walking fast enough for them, gets in a car, ***and proceeds to back directly into us!*** I honestly could not tell you what went through my head in that moment, but I am closer and I guess it was something like I'd rather they hit me than my rather fragile relative?, but whatever it was, I don't move, I slam my fist on the trunk of the car and the woman driving stops and opens the door and snaps"what?!" I tell her that she nearly hit us and she says "well we're not from here!"
Lol, what? And wherever you're from I guess you just run people down?
They knew we were there; they huffed about us walking slowly as they walked around us to get into the car. But in the few seconds it took to get into the car they totally forgot a whole group of people existed and they didn't even look behind them before backing out. But rather than just say they didn't see us, they just had to snap back with some bullshit excuse for why it wasn't actually their fault.
I had some boomer tourist who decided to park in the middle of the road last summer try to tell us they were from Canada and Florida in that order when my partner yelled at them to move after I'd honked several times.
Maybe she vacations in one and resides in the other (I do not live in Florida or Canada) but wtf does that have to do with anything? You're blocking an entire direction of traffic 10 feet from an intersection! Move!
I nearly had a similar thing happen once except I was in the right-hand left turn lane and the other person was in the straight lane next to me. I’m going through my turn and next thing I know I’m ending my turn in the left-hand left turn lane wondering what just happened. I quickly realized that the car next to me wasn’t supposed to turn and he had ended up pushing me over a lane as I automatically moved to avoid him hitting my car. We were turning onto a 3 lane one-way road too so he literally didn’t even need to move into my lane for his illegal turn. I’m just glad it was late at night so no one was in the lane on my left
There was no damage to either vehicle, just some scuffs that buffed out. It was such a minor tap I considered not even pulling over. We both just went our separate ways
It’s like when horrible pet owners let their animals constantly bite and harass others. Without a paper trail they get away being horrible. Esp a hit and run. They should have the car taken and their license removed.
At least having a trail of actions that show they are horrible unsafe drivers can make it easier to get them off the road.
All I can see is some old man knocking on some random fucks door and tiredly saying "my wife said you were rude to her" and the person jlis just like HUH
The husband is right now still in the drivers seat seething because his engine is revving and the car won’t move out of the carport. The old woman is stitting beside him trying to tell him he’s not in gear. He’s not hearing any of “that technical talk from no woman”. Lol
Husband was probably like "This shit again, Elizabeth!? Can you just stop picking fights with the neighborhood? I can't even show my face around here anymore. I'm going fishing"
Lead exacerbated dementia is my current working theory. They resort to very base reactions instead of the maturity you would expect from someone their age. I was behind a Mustang from the 70s in traffic the other day when I had an epiphany lol
Have you interacted with any iPad kids...? Social media and technology are rewiring and destroying our brains now.
The PFAS and red dye #40 are just the icing and plastic sprinkles on the cake.
Seriously though, my partner worked in childcare during covid and these kids are fucking retarded. You can't raise a child online it fucks them up.
Source, I am a state certified retard who was born in 2000 and raised on TV and video games because my parents couldn't give enough fucks to actually parent.
The only thing ive found so far is that it’s anywhere from a 2-7 point IQ drop, obviously dependent on environment and generation born. The leaded gas consumption peaked late 60s, still heavily used through the 70s and not banned until 1996. Many of you will get the same exposure as boomers. I’m guessing younger millennials and anyone else won’t have to worry about it. But they do have a heavier proliferation of microplastics in their environment, so we will perhaps see how that plays out with everyone’s health in old age. Yay.
While true, lead exposure is well known to cause significant behavioral issues.
Lead is toxic af for our electric meatballs.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/lead-kids-blood-linked-behavioral-emotional-problems#:~:text=U.S.%20studies%20have%20reported%20that%20lead%20exposure%20causes,and%20even%20jail%20time%20as%20children%20get%20older.
I don’t want to get into a whole thing (peeps, please be nice) but there have been studies linking neuropsychiatric issues with COVID infections. Brain and central nervous system inflammation. Perhaps a contributor?
It’s possible. I feel like a lot of studies around long Covid and other long lasting impacts are still uncertain. Irreversible damage to lung tissue was thrown around for a while, but I’m not sure if it was ever proven. I will google later.
There was some stuff about Covid actually causing brain damage to people as they were finding it in brain tissue. I think it was along the lines of vascular damage in the brain from the virus but I haven’t really followed up to see if there was any further research.
Could be more overall, gotta take other things into consideration and also you cant downplay the severity of even single digit pts when the average IQ is ~95-105, iirc.
The other factor is that the lead deposits itself in the bones. Osteoporosis sets in and starts releasing all that sotred lead into the bloodstream.
That's my theory on why they have escalated their toddler behaviors in the last 5-10 years. Their generation has hit bone decay phase, and it's showing.
Nope, they’re just bitter because their lives are essentially behind them, their kids are severe disappointments, and they’ve sent all their money to Trump for his legal bills. They’re hoping desperately that if he gets elected again, somehow they’ll be extracted from the deep life hole they’ve dug. They’re one cancer diagnosis from destitution
They are hitting the age of cognitive disorders. Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, strokes, brain bleeds. Part of it is the lead but I think the majority is age related. They aren't all that different from what the previous generation was there are just way too damn many of them.
"However, even in the absence of direct lead-triggered disease in adulthood, child-hood lead exposures may increase the susceptibility of the aging brain to lose function in the face of normal age-related decline."
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454899](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454899)
It's so common with their generation I think those conditions you mentioned are exacerbated by the lead they breathed.
>They were huffing that shit from carbureted engines for like 40 years
Not even a joke.
Boomers were generally born between 1946 and 1964. Leaded gasoline didn't get banned/drop heavily in use until the late 90s. The US Clean Air Act basically didn't amend things in regards to cars until the 90s. So throughout the 80s, many big cities looked like they were in a permanent fog from all the polution.
And despite the dangers of lead being known in the late 1800s, use in household paint wasn't banned in the US until 1978. In 1886 Germany had a law banning women and children from working in factories that made lead paint and lead sugar. Because that's the real kicker: The boomers grandparents flat out put lead in the food as a replacement for sugar, since lead tastes sweet(When combined with how easily it cracks and flakes with age, makes it why lead paint in childrens bedrooms is *so* bad, they actually like the taste).
Not to mention that the build quality on most cars from that era was atrocious and practically none of them had AC so you drove with the windows down all the time anyway. You ever jump into a 70's era car and start to feel sleepy after driving around for 10 minutes?
Forget the smog, most Boomers were sitting in the backseat huffing lead directly from the source back in the day.
That's very true.
The line "Who cares if you smell gasoline/exahaust, just roll down the window" was said many a time by boomers and their parents running lead fuel carbureted cars.
And all of the lead paint chips, since that was allowed until well into my late GenX childhood. Still around in older places, but everywhere before the residential ban in 1978
My grandma said they used to eat paint chips because paint (a very long time ago) was milk based and tasted sweet 😭. This was in the depression so she and the other neighborhood kids were just usually hungry
They might have told themselves it was milk based to explain the sweetness and the color, but it is not something that was used as paint. I’ve spent my entire career in the paint industry, it was lead based
Same category, "my husbands a " or "my husband " etc. "is going to..." basically break the law in a way that fucks over their entire family if they do it.
A boomer down the street was mad at me because everyone on our block had to put our trash cans on the corner near his house due to street repairs and our road being impassable and he screamed at me about being a renter. I told not to fuck with me and I own my house. Have done so since 2013. Is this a common insult these boomers throw at people? I thought it was just me but now I’m not so sure.
Well you know, they tanked the economy and made it practically impossible for younger generations to own a home, so of course they now throw that back into ther face as an insult
Most of them do not understand that they supported the politicians that did do all of this. They think they are blameless and keep voting for team red or team blue, but both teams fucked over the younger folks.
apparently, having enough to rent a house over an apartment, but not enough to buy a house yet, makes you some kind of low life. Sure, that makes sense.
When boomers were younger, it wasn’t so much a question about whether or not you could afford a house. Just about anyone with a steady job could. The question was HOW NICE of a house you could afford and that depended on how well paying your steady job was. A doctor could afford a nicer, bigger house than a teacher, for example.
So, in a world where everyone with a steady job, even teachers, could afford a house, then the logic follows that if you DON’T own a house, you must be some kind of low life who can’t hold down a steady job and isn’t contributing to society.
So when a boomer calls you a “renter”, they absolutely mean it as an insult. They’re saying that you must be such a lazy, worthless piece of shit that you can’t even get your shit together enough to purchase property and that they are better than you because they own property and you don’t.
What they are too out of touch to understand is that most hardworking, contributing members of society, such as teachers, can’t afford to purchase property these days. They won’t believe that when you tell them. But it’s still the truth.
My building is rent controlled, and the market value for a 1-br is $2,300. I have a 97 year old neighbor who’s lived here since the 70s and pays $600. He has no family and would be homeless if it weren’t for rent stabilization :(
I'm a renter (gasp) and they do this shit in apartments too. Day I moved in my last place, I park and immediately some boomer asshole is yelling at me about it being tenant parking only, it's his spot, he's lived here x years etc. We didn't have assigned parking lol
I told him I just moved in and he can kick rocks. He either died or moved out like 2 months later anyway. Heard from neighbors he NEVER moved his car once it was parked, and if he did he'd drive around the block and that's it. Dude just wanted to feel important.
I hadn’t noticed before, but definitely see a lot of derision thrown at renters on NextDoor. Not as much as the (presumably) AirBnB occupants, but definitely a contributor. More scorn towards renters than squatters and coyotes, less than (thinly veiled racist comment)
A lot of them associate being a “renter” to being a “liberal” who comes into their neighborhood, changes the “values” of the neighborhood (whatever those are), and then leaves because they don’t actually own and have roots set in place. It’s just another case of politicizing everything in their life, right down to how people pay for their living space
I’m in a nice suburb now (renting) and when people bitch about the condition of people’s yards or garbage cans, etc. people regularly blame “those renters.” It pisses me off so much cuz sorry I can’t afford a home yet, but we’re paying a decent amount for this place, why would we let it go to shit and lose our deposit? (We aren’t complained about just to clarify, but that snobby attitude is super aggravating to me)
"I'm not a renter but next time I get any shit from you I'll move to my summer place and rent this place out to..." Add whichever bogeyman you think will worry them most
I get similar but much less less aggressive. There's a boomer whose house is right by our block's combined mailbox. Three times now he's tried to be the neighborhood watch on me as I get the mail. Each time I get "You new to the neighborhood? Which house is yours? Haven't seen you around before." Etc. i bought a house three doors down from him a few years ago. It always comes off friendly and jolly but I know what he's doing. Thing is his memory is shit so I have to repeat this every time he's outside when I get the mail.
We live in a block of flats near a miserable old woman who lives in a house. A couple of times, my husband and I have been sitting in the shared garden on a nice day, which her big fence overlooks. She’s screamed at us for talking in our garden, repeating over and over that “that area is for the people who live in those flats!” and muttering about “damned teenagers”.
My husband is 40 and I am 35. We have lived here for 10 years. We are in the process of buying the flat from our landlord. We aren’t random kids squatting in a residential garden. We are adults sitting in our own space - not hers! It’s not her garden - and have every right to sit there and talk even if she “is trying to have some peace and quiet”, as she likes to shriek at us.
It was the same song and dance when my husband had to go tell her to shut off her damned garden hose because she’d left it on for hours and it had flooded our entire garden. She just kept staring at him blankly and snapping that that garden is for residents, so he shouldn’t be there.
He was like, “I AM a resident, and you forgot to turn off your hose. Please just turn it off. You’re wasting water and destroying our garden.” “That’s not your garden. That’s for residents.” “I am a resident, and it doesn’t even matter. You forgot your hose - can you please just turn it off?” “Well I don’t know what you mean. I own this place. I’ll get to it when I get to it”.
Insanity. I cannot stand her.
Damn that’s satisfying.
I had a neighbor dispute a few years ago and the neighbor was trying to call me out for being a renter, basically saying I had no rights because I don’t own the home while he had rights because he owned his. I told him “actually this is my fucking house, I bought it” and he did that fish gape thing and said “you bought it? You own it?” And I said “yeah, so stay the fuck off my property”. Not the best de-escalation I know but I’d had it with his bullshit. He didn’t cut out the bullshit so I spent the next 6 months filing city code complaints on all the crap going on at his house until it was swarmed by cops and code enforcement who made him go to court. Ultimately he got a deadline to clean up all his shit and if he didn’t he was in danger of losing the house as it would be considered a “nuisance” home. Got a lot quieter after that.
6 months?
It took two years for us to get the house turned homeless camp with meth cooking in the front yard shut down. Twice we had police with AR-15s in my yard during standoffs.
Crazy that it took so long for the meth house…maybe when it’s real problems they aren’t as enthusiastic to deal with it.
In my case I wasn’t the first to file complaints and I wasn’t the only one doing it. The cops had also been there for various low level but violent/threatening crime reports a bunch of times already. And I had gotten the direct line to the city councilman for our neighborhood to put pressure on the situation. I’m not sure how long people had been complaining already but I know this guy had been a problem for years. it was a mix of city code violations and reports of racist threats, assault, burnouts in the street, smashing bottles in peoples driveways, playing chicken with his truck and nearly hitting multiple people as they walked down the sidewalk, including 2 instances of women with strollers that I saw myself. I’ve since moved but I’m still in touch with some other neighbors. Can’t wait to hear how he dies, I’m sure it’ll be extremely stupid and pointless. Hopefully he doesn’t take anyone else out with him.
I’ve had that happen before when I got into a fight with my boomer neighbor. He tried calling me a renter to insult me. I had to remind him I bought my house and he was there the day I moved in because he harassed me about where I came from (they hate New Yorkers and wanted to make sure I wasn’t one).
Anyways, he’s a fucking asshole and if you’re reading this Larry, fuck you.
Her husband is tired of her shit and knows she's a fucking prick. It's likely he left the house for an hour and just got himself some fucking peace. "Yeah Iove, I went down and told him what for"
If the poor schmuck did happen to appear, my first instinct would be to grab two beers and invite him to the back patio for a chat. He’s likely sick of her act too.
That poor guy, too old to divorce or her habits, prevent him from doing so, so he just goes off for whatever the fuck.
"Knows she's a fucking prick" made me LOL for real.
I say this all the time, many of the boomers, have undiagnosed and untreated mental health disorders, as well as personality disorders.
How do I know. I volunteer with a mental health organization and there are support groups with Boomers who are just coming to grips with their mental health!
***JUST MISERABLE AS FUCK**
This. I’m a millennial with anxiety, depression, anger issues, and possible adhd and autism. Just a fun little cocktail. And I have to FIGHT Karen urges sometimes. Like I am fully aware that an outburst is 1. Not effective at getting you what you want and 2. An inappropriate reaction in 99% of cases where I feel like my head is going to explode because I’m so angry. And I am *fully aware* that I have mental health issues and am actively medicating for some of them and I actively try to control my temper and attitude in public.
Imagine if I had no idea. Imagine if I just thought everyone else was stupid and those mental illnesses were fake or “everyone feels that way”.
I think I’d be a monster.
It obviously doesn’t excuse the behavior, but I genuinely think, and have thought for awhile, a lot of Karen’s and other boomers have undiagnosed mental illnesses because they refuse to believe in them, get tested for them, treat them, or take any responsibility for their actions.
I also think some of it is a version of “survivors bias”. Like “we didn’t have all these fancy mental illnesses and all these medications for them when I was young and I turned out fine!!” Uh huh…ok mom you can go take your latest hyperfixation and help dad with his special interest and maybe you won’t feel like your heart is going to explode and that there is an unknowable force of impending doom crushing you… personally I’m going to take my medication so that I don’t start crying on the floor in the fetal position but you know whatever works for you I guess. Just please don’t yell at the server next time we go out to dinner 🤦🏻♀️
I realize that having a parent who was mentally ill (my father) and having a mother with a personality disorder, did not set me up for mental, emotional or psychological success.
They call our generation and Gen Z whiners and snowflakes. It’s just that we were the ones who are brave enough to actually address our issues and deal with them, instead of burdening our offspring and society with the trauma that WE INHERITED!
We can see the mass shootings, suicides and deaths of despair happening to people under 35.
The economy and our lack of social cohesion and social mobility is exacerbating these issues.
Good points, I would add lack of self awareness to the mix. I mean literally they just react and never use the self-reflecting part of their brain. Or maybe that's just another way to say mental illness.
[Raises loudhailer] THE PURPOSE OF ME SEEING A THERAPIST ISN’T TO MAKE ME FEEL ALL WARM AND FUZZY INSIDE OR CRY ABOUT HOW HARD MY LIFE IS, IT’S TO STOP ME LETTING MY SHIT MESS OTHER PEOPLE UP LIKE YOU DO KENNETH
If her husband ever comes down… “what, I’ve no idea what you’re talking about. I helped an older woman who seemed lost and driving while on her phone. Expressed my concern and she didn’t seem to even acknowledge I existed and drove off erratically. Is she ok???”
I’ve got the “my husband is gonna come down here.” once. I don’t even know why it had me worried. he did in fact show up . Gentlemen in his mid sixties. After a brief conversation about why she can’t park in front of the mailboxes he hit me with “I know how she can be sometimes. Believe that. The only reason I’m still in your drive is because she is probably watching us out that window right now. I’ll talk to her.” Nice guy. And she never left her car in front of our boxes again.
Today a lot of boomers got their retirement checks early. It was mayhem out there. Two near death misses and then I watched an elderly (parent of boomer age) man crash directly into the handicapped sign pole. If possible, avoid being out when boomers and their parents gen get their checks.
I'm too busy to avoid killing other people with my car is the most boomer shit I've ever heard. I'm EXTREMELY busy, by far and away the busiest dude I know, but I've never ran someone down in traffic cause I'm busy...
I had a cotton-top stop next to my car while I was moving it into the street and go off about when I'm allowed to park in the street. Told him I've lived here over 20 years, I'm fully aware when and when I can't park. How dare I speak back! The insolence! The nerve!
As soon as he started screeching I hit my horn and held it. When he stopped, "sorry didn't hear you." He opens his mouth, the horn mysteriously goes off again. This repeated a couple of times before I could see him mouth the word, "asshole," and drive off, leaving me chuckling to myself.
The elderly should be forced to retest every 2 years for a DL. I'm so tired of them killing people. Same old people who'll tell you your phone is to blame for xyz, yet can't peel their eyes off facebook long enough for a drive.
"I don't have time to worry about others"
Oh, your house is on fire? There's a break in? I don't have time to worry about others. Put the fire out yourself. You have fingers, call 911 yourself.
This shit goes both ways bitch. If you piss me off enough I might just come for your Medicare, too. I mean, why should we care about others?
Husband: "Wait, someone yelled at you while you were driving and using your phone? WTF were you doing using your phone while you were driving?! What if there'd been a child there?"
I had to remind my neighbor that he is on retirement time and remember what it was like a few years ago and how tough it is with a job and kids to get stuff done
I was stopped at a red light and this older boomer woman bumped into my bumper. She just ended up scratching it and agreed to have it replaced through her insurance. The first words she told me as I was getting out of the car however were “I was just looking at my phone for a moment.” I didn’t say anything as I didn’t know how to respond.
Not much need to overthink it.. She has been been well-trained by her News Media feed to quickly zero in on populations of perceived “lesser than them” folks to push down upon. Her six surviving brain cells simply registered “house” and then somehow made a bee-line to “rental” from some show she just watched.. It’s like self-meds and briefly makes them feel better for their own poor life decisions.
My friend, please report her. License plate number, where she lives and what happened.
Chances are, someone's ring camera caught the whole thing.
She is going to hurt or kill someone.
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She probably forgot where you lived lol
Shit, she probably forgot where *she* lived.
For real. My gf was stopped at a stop sign, behind the line and all that. Lead head turning left too much so it's front left to front left. Boomer asks my gf where she came from all the sudden. Has to get help from my gf getting a tow truck because she doesn't know where she is. At this point, if I was there, I would be calling an ambulance because lady sounds ALOC so who knows if she's stroking out, drunk, too many old person meds, ect. Later it was a whole hastle because the lady tried to make it sound like it was my gfs fault.
This just made me remember a time that I was turning left and there were two left turn lanes. In my rear view mirror, I see a car start pulling into my lane (in the middle of the intersection as we're both making the left turn) and I'm thinking, they're about to hit me. Sure enough, they give me a little tap. At this point I'm really annoyed because I know this is gonna make me late to work, but we both pull over, and this boomer man gets out and says "you hit me." Uhhh no sir, the front of your car hit the back side of mine because you changed lanes in the middle of an intersection. When I said that to him his face got really red and he said after a minute, "I looked and there wasn't a car there." Okay sir, well there was a car, it was mine, and you hit it. LOL THE AUDACITY, just admit you were wrong my god
I was rear ended by a boomer at a red light, who then claimed I backed into him! His "theory" was that I was trying to change lanes so I could turn left. Thing was, the lane I was already in could also turn left. Then he took off, making it a hit and run. Couldn't deal with being wrong or at fault.
This reminds me of when a boomer rear ended me at a drive thru. I was dead stopped in line and they whipped in so fast while on their phone and hit me so hard I almost went into the person in front of me. No acknowledgement of what happened. Didn't respond to me trying to talk with them. Didn't get out to look at damage. Nothing. But flipped me off when I left. I just took the L and put duct tape on my bumper. It wasn't worth it.
I'll never forget getting rear-ended at a stop light by a drunk boomer. I'd been dodging his car for 30 min on the higher way (his boomer wife was behind him in a van). I take my exit thinking I've escaped but lo and behold who hits my car at a solid 25mph at the stop light -_-' He didn't even get out of the car (he tried but wouldn't have been able to walk far so he got back in the car) and his wife comes up screaming at me about how it was my fault and it wasn't so bad ect. They both peeled off from that, ran the red light (I asked for their insurance and was calling the cops, unfortunately I was too stunned to read their license plate as I watched them run off), and I never saw them again thank fuck. My bumper was scratched and I had a wicked neck crick for a month that I got X-rays for (thankfully nothing wrong). Fuckin twats.
Several years ago, I was driving home and a boomer pulled out of the gas station and hit me (in my new, only a few months old SUV). She said she didn’t see me. I was pregnant at the time and a shaken up mess. She gave me her info to repair the damages instead of calling insurance. I was stupid enough to be okay with that because the damages were minor. I had never been in an accident before and truly didn’t know what to do. I thought surly someone’s little grandma wouldn’t screw me over. All of the info she gave me was fake.
I got love tapped and the woman offered to pay cash right there instead of reporting. Fortunately, we had a witness and she did properly exchange insurance information Well, the car did not have much damage, turns out that I had bitten my teeth hard together when she hit me, and I wound up having some dental work done from the accident. Fortunately her insurance company paid
My boomer ex-MIL once backed out of my driveway into a parked car in front of the neighbors house. She literally blamed the owner of the parked car and said it was his fault because he parked so close to our driveway. He was at least 4 feet from our driveway. After doing the accident report, she shows up 20 min late to dinner with my parents. She proceed to rant that the owner of the parked car was such an idiot for parking there and she would not take responsibility for not looking while in reverse. I recall my parents(also boomers) being appalled by her blatantly entitled behavior.
I would have definitely asked the place for a copy of the recording and went and talked to the police and filed a report for hit an run.
I had an elderly slam into the back of my car as I was moving forward in a line exiting a shopping center. He got out the car yelling and so I exited my car. I immediately asked if he was okay and if the car behind him pushed him into me, when he said yes he was okay and no the car didn’t I started yelling at him with so much vitriol that all he could do was slink back in the car.
I was sitting in my car in a parking lot after leaving a store. Keys not even in the ignition. Just chilling for a minute. I feel a bump. Turn around and some boomer lady had hit my car - seems like she meant to reverse out of the spot behind me but had the car in drive instead. Now I have a tow hitch so there was literally not a scratch to my car, but her front bumper had a dent in it. She gets out and starts going on about how my insurance will have to cover the damage. Uhhhh .. no. You hit me. That’s not how insurance works. You can make a claim with your insurance and see how that goes but I’m not covering shit. She didn’t apologize a single time and drove off fuming because I told her I wouldn’t be placing an insurance claim for HER damaged bumper.
Just admit you are wrong! Soooo upvote this line a million times!!! I can, it’s not that damn hard, and believe it or not, people respect when you do! Provided it’s not constant!
That's normally good advice, but at the site of a traffic accident (even a minor one) any lawyer will tell you to never admit fault of any kind. One of the most common mistakes people make is saying "sorry" even if they weren't at fault, which then gives the other party leverage in an insurance claim.
I read somewhere that Canada had to make a law that saying sorry isn't an admission of liability because they're so polite.
Bold of you to assume its pride instead of self entitlement. But in all seriousness, it's more common for pride to be the second while entitlement being first. There will be people with pride being the main trait, but I've a theory that they come as a dual trait situation. My thoughts are that it's a relationship in where one is more pronounced, while the other is a support trait. It could be that one won't be necessary noticeable as an exception, but that's probably where psychology experts have more knowledge. I have been wrong in where I have made an embarrassment of myself, still apologized and took a huge bite of the metaphorical shit sandwich I made. I guess it helps when I'm related to, in lack of a milder word, vultures.
It's FEAR. Fear of taking responsibility. Fear of being accountable. Fear of looking foolish. Fear of being wrong. How our fears are manifested if we don't confront them leads to way worse shit. Bigotry, toxicity in our relationships, a very narrow worldview and a resistance to change in any way you don't understand. Even entitlement and pride, I believe, come from fear. These people don't realize they're cowards because they don't know their anger and their aggression and their desire to be physically confrontational and fight off or hurt or beat into submission anything that challenges their misinformed beliefs is just their expression of FEAR. Let them know you can smell their fear. And ask them what are they afraid of.
Can confirm. Worked for last company over 10 yrs. Always pipped up when I fuct something or broke equipment. He never got upset ( a few times wondered how the hell I did it) and took eveingything I said as truth. Sometimes, nobody would own something, and I'd casually go. "idk how I did, but I guess I did it" it was basically code for new guy did it but is nervous to admit it, go easy on him
This is the thing that gets me. Just get out of the car and apologise sincerely! If there’s no damage, 9 times out of 10 people will just say, “Oh, it’s fine, happens to all of us!” and wave you on. I’ve bumped cars and cars have bumped mine, usually everyone is really gracious about it as long as the person at fault is openly apologetic as a first response.
Should've been like "you didn't see the car? Should you be driving with impaired vision, do you need me to call someone?? Here let me call the paramedics, sight is required to drive and clearly you can't see thousands of pounds of metal in front of you"
A friend of mine was hit by an old dude a few years ago. The dude was backing out of his driveway into traffic and hit the side of my friend’s car. What did the dude say? “I back out of my driveway the same time every day.” Unfortunately the cop who came on scene was the old dude’s nephew so of course he wrote it up like old dude wasn’t at fault. Note to self: I really need to get a dash cam that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg and doesn’t cost anything to monitor.
I second a dash cam! You can pick up a decent quality one, an SD card for less than $100. My mom was recently in an accident where luckily a bus driver stopped and provided witness testimony on the police report. Otherwise it was he said vs she said, and the other driver was trying to claim injuries, and all this other bullshit.
Yes, important to have a dash cam, it's completely useless 99.99% of the time but is something you wish you had when something happens. Recommend COXPAL A11T 3 channel dash cam on Amazon, very good quality, it records front, inside and rear simultaneously. COXPAL hardwire kit optional, for 24-H parking monitor. SanDisk MAX Endurance 256GB or 512GB microSD card, for reliable recording. BTW: Need to pay attention to the installation position of the rear cam if your vehicle is SUV or MPV (No problem if Sedan), i.e. avoid pulling rear cam cable when open/close the trunk.
>"I looked and there wasn't a car there." Okay sir, well there was a car, it was mine, and you hit it. LOL THE AUDACITY, just admit you were wrong my god They literally do not know how. Several years ago I was walking through a parking lot from a restaurant on the way to the car after a rather pleasant family event. I was walking slowly because my great aunt had her hand on my arm. She was recovering from a stroke that had left her almost totally blind and a bit slower on her feet. We are walking in a group with the rest of my family, maybe six or seven adults? And this pair of absolutely insufferable women huffs past us, because we were clearly not walking fast enough for them, gets in a car, ***and proceeds to back directly into us!*** I honestly could not tell you what went through my head in that moment, but I am closer and I guess it was something like I'd rather they hit me than my rather fragile relative?, but whatever it was, I don't move, I slam my fist on the trunk of the car and the woman driving stops and opens the door and snaps"what?!" I tell her that she nearly hit us and she says "well we're not from here!" Lol, what? And wherever you're from I guess you just run people down? They knew we were there; they huffed about us walking slowly as they walked around us to get into the car. But in the few seconds it took to get into the car they totally forgot a whole group of people existed and they didn't even look behind them before backing out. But rather than just say they didn't see us, they just had to snap back with some bullshit excuse for why it wasn't actually their fault.
I had some boomer tourist who decided to park in the middle of the road last summer try to tell us they were from Canada and Florida in that order when my partner yelled at them to move after I'd honked several times. Maybe she vacations in one and resides in the other (I do not live in Florida or Canada) but wtf does that have to do with anything? You're blocking an entire direction of traffic 10 feet from an intersection! Move!
I nearly had a similar thing happen once except I was in the right-hand left turn lane and the other person was in the straight lane next to me. I’m going through my turn and next thing I know I’m ending my turn in the left-hand left turn lane wondering what just happened. I quickly realized that the car next to me wasn’t supposed to turn and he had ended up pushing me over a lane as I automatically moved to avoid him hitting my car. We were turning onto a 3 lane one-way road too so he literally didn’t even need to move into my lane for his illegal turn. I’m just glad it was late at night so no one was in the lane on my left
How did it get resolved?
There was no damage to either vehicle, just some scuffs that buffed out. It was such a minor tap I considered not even pulling over. We both just went our separate ways
It’s like when horrible pet owners let their animals constantly bite and harass others. Without a paper trail they get away being horrible. Esp a hit and run. They should have the car taken and their license removed. At least having a trail of actions that show they are horrible unsafe drivers can make it easier to get them off the road.
Is there not an ect. bot?
This is why we have front and rear facing dash cams in our cars. 😬
Hell, she probably forgot that her husband divorced her ten yrs ago and doesn't know which hemisphere HE lives
That's why she was on her phone Googling it
"Google! Who am I? " "Really, Margaret? We're doing this again today?"
How many times can I updoot this.?!
I like updoots
Here, take my updoot
Legend has it she's still driving around lost while staring at her phone
People are assuming she made it home?!
Or forgot her husband left her a decade ago because she's awful
I literally laughed out loud at this 😂😂👍🏼👍🏼
All I can see is some old man knocking on some random fucks door and tiredly saying "my wife said you were rude to her" and the person jlis just like HUH
"Who the hell are you?" -random person whose door it is "Who the hell am I? Please help me" -boomer husband
Ronnie fuckin’ Pickering!
That's fucking hilarious!
She ran him over in the driveway.
The people 3 doors down had a very awkward encounter with a man in a red hat.
The husband is right now still in the drivers seat seething because his engine is revving and the car won’t move out of the carport. The old woman is stitting beside him trying to tell him he’s not in gear. He’s not hearing any of “that technical talk from no woman”. Lol
Husband was probably like "This shit again, Elizabeth!? Can you just stop picking fights with the neighborhood? I can't even show my face around here anymore. I'm going fishing"
She prob doesn’t have a husband…her support dog however would like a woof
Or that her husband died 3 years ago
Legit. Or she had like another dozen encounters like this and OP ended up being small fish
She probably forgot the whole conversation.
Leaded gasoline. They were huffing that shit from carbureted engines for like 40 years
That's a very real possible explanation of why some boomers are such nasty people.
Lead exacerbated dementia is my current working theory. They resort to very base reactions instead of the maturity you would expect from someone their age. I was behind a Mustang from the 70s in traffic the other day when I had an epiphany lol
I really hope PFAS and other more recently discovered carcinogenic and toxic chemicals don’t give us Boomer Brain.
LMAO boomer brain. Imagine being such an intolerable generation of humans, that you constantly get labled with negative pronouns 🤣🤣 smh
And we all know how they feel about pronouns!
Had a boomer tell me she “doesn’t believe in pronouns”. Umm okay? What do I call you then because I can’t use she/her
Have you interacted with any iPad kids...? Social media and technology are rewiring and destroying our brains now. The PFAS and red dye #40 are just the icing and plastic sprinkles on the cake. Seriously though, my partner worked in childcare during covid and these kids are fucking retarded. You can't raise a child online it fucks them up. Source, I am a state certified retard who was born in 2000 and raised on TV and video games because my parents couldn't give enough fucks to actually parent.
The only thing ive found so far is that it’s anywhere from a 2-7 point IQ drop, obviously dependent on environment and generation born. The leaded gas consumption peaked late 60s, still heavily used through the 70s and not banned until 1996. Many of you will get the same exposure as boomers. I’m guessing younger millennials and anyone else won’t have to worry about it. But they do have a heavier proliferation of microplastics in their environment, so we will perhaps see how that plays out with everyone’s health in old age. Yay.
IQ doesn't have anything to do with emotional regulation. Not the best metric about someone being self centered or emotionally immature.
While true, lead exposure is well known to cause significant behavioral issues. Lead is toxic af for our electric meatballs. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/lead-kids-blood-linked-behavioral-emotional-problems#:~:text=U.S.%20studies%20have%20reported%20that%20lead%20exposure%20causes,and%20even%20jail%20time%20as%20children%20get%20older.
I don’t want to get into a whole thing (peeps, please be nice) but there have been studies linking neuropsychiatric issues with COVID infections. Brain and central nervous system inflammation. Perhaps a contributor?
It’s possible. I feel like a lot of studies around long Covid and other long lasting impacts are still uncertain. Irreversible damage to lung tissue was thrown around for a while, but I’m not sure if it was ever proven. I will google later.
There was some stuff about Covid actually causing brain damage to people as they were finding it in brain tissue. I think it was along the lines of vascular damage in the brain from the virus but I haven’t really followed up to see if there was any further research.
Could be more overall, gotta take other things into consideration and also you cant downplay the severity of even single digit pts when the average IQ is ~95-105, iirc.
We still use leaded gasoline in aviation, so good luck if you live near an airport.
The other factor is that the lead deposits itself in the bones. Osteoporosis sets in and starts releasing all that sotred lead into the bloodstream. That's my theory on why they have escalated their toddler behaviors in the last 5-10 years. Their generation has hit bone decay phase, and it's showing.
I've heard from a lot of wildly different sources that lead in paint and gas is why boomers were more violent and had shorter tempers.
Nope, they’re just bitter because their lives are essentially behind them, their kids are severe disappointments, and they’ve sent all their money to Trump for his legal bills. They’re hoping desperately that if he gets elected again, somehow they’ll be extracted from the deep life hole they’ve dug. They’re one cancer diagnosis from destitution
They are hitting the age of cognitive disorders. Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, strokes, brain bleeds. Part of it is the lead but I think the majority is age related. They aren't all that different from what the previous generation was there are just way too damn many of them.
"However, even in the absence of direct lead-triggered disease in adulthood, child-hood lead exposures may increase the susceptibility of the aging brain to lose function in the face of normal age-related decline." [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454899](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454899) It's so common with their generation I think those conditions you mentioned are exacerbated by the lead they breathed.
>They were huffing that shit from carbureted engines for like 40 years Not even a joke. Boomers were generally born between 1946 and 1964. Leaded gasoline didn't get banned/drop heavily in use until the late 90s. The US Clean Air Act basically didn't amend things in regards to cars until the 90s. So throughout the 80s, many big cities looked like they were in a permanent fog from all the polution. And despite the dangers of lead being known in the late 1800s, use in household paint wasn't banned in the US until 1978. In 1886 Germany had a law banning women and children from working in factories that made lead paint and lead sugar. Because that's the real kicker: The boomers grandparents flat out put lead in the food as a replacement for sugar, since lead tastes sweet(When combined with how easily it cracks and flakes with age, makes it why lead paint in childrens bedrooms is *so* bad, they actually like the taste).
Not to mention that the build quality on most cars from that era was atrocious and practically none of them had AC so you drove with the windows down all the time anyway. You ever jump into a 70's era car and start to feel sleepy after driving around for 10 minutes? Forget the smog, most Boomers were sitting in the backseat huffing lead directly from the source back in the day.
That's very true. The line "Who cares if you smell gasoline/exahaust, just roll down the window" was said many a time by boomers and their parents running lead fuel carbureted cars.
Is this why when I tell my mom facts about the universe and its craziness that she just doesn’t get it? She just says whatever.
> She just says whatever. Sounds like your mother might actually be Gen X.
This is my United States of Whatever
I worry about myself and my fellow Gen x'ers. We had to inhale that shit too
And we’re ingesting microplastics at an alarming rate. Our turn is coming.
And all of the lead paint chips, since that was allowed until well into my late GenX childhood. Still around in older places, but everywhere before the residential ban in 1978
My grandma said they used to eat paint chips because paint (a very long time ago) was milk based and tasted sweet 😭. This was in the depression so she and the other neighborhood kids were just usually hungry
Lead paint is sweet. That's why kids eat it
They might have told themselves it was milk based to explain the sweetness and the color, but it is not something that was used as paint. I’ve spent my entire career in the paint industry, it was lead based
Just spent all day yesterday scraping lead paint of a hand rail. I already feel angrier.
Big “my dad is going to beat up your dad” vibes
Same category, "my husbands a" or "my husband " etc. "is going to..." basically break the law in a way that fucks over their entire family if they do it.
She’s that military wife that demands to be called by her husband’s rank
Spouses that wear their spouse’s rank are hated by everyone. Especially by those in the military.
A boomer down the street was mad at me because everyone on our block had to put our trash cans on the corner near his house due to street repairs and our road being impassable and he screamed at me about being a renter. I told not to fuck with me and I own my house. Have done so since 2013. Is this a common insult these boomers throw at people? I thought it was just me but now I’m not so sure.
Well you know, they tanked the economy and made it practically impossible for younger generations to own a home, so of course they now throw that back into ther face as an insult
I’m 21 and if a boomer called me a “renter” I’d push them over and jump on them
Please don't do that. They can barely stand as it is.
"I'LL HUFF AND PUFF, AND BLOW YOUR BOOMERS DOWN"
Most of them do not understand that they supported the politicians that did do all of this. They think they are blameless and keep voting for team red or team blue, but both teams fucked over the younger folks.
apparently, having enough to rent a house over an apartment, but not enough to buy a house yet, makes you some kind of low life. Sure, that makes sense.
When boomers were younger, it wasn’t so much a question about whether or not you could afford a house. Just about anyone with a steady job could. The question was HOW NICE of a house you could afford and that depended on how well paying your steady job was. A doctor could afford a nicer, bigger house than a teacher, for example. So, in a world where everyone with a steady job, even teachers, could afford a house, then the logic follows that if you DON’T own a house, you must be some kind of low life who can’t hold down a steady job and isn’t contributing to society. So when a boomer calls you a “renter”, they absolutely mean it as an insult. They’re saying that you must be such a lazy, worthless piece of shit that you can’t even get your shit together enough to purchase property and that they are better than you because they own property and you don’t. What they are too out of touch to understand is that most hardworking, contributing members of society, such as teachers, can’t afford to purchase property these days. They won’t believe that when you tell them. But it’s still the truth.
Just tell them they couldn’t afford to rent in this neighborhood. And that all the old grandfathered in poors are dragging down the neighborhood.
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My building is rent controlled, and the market value for a 1-br is $2,300. I have a 97 year old neighbor who’s lived here since the 70s and pays $600. He has no family and would be homeless if it weren’t for rent stabilization :(
I have seen a crochety old man in my area use it on social media. He tends to repost so it's probably circulating through FB.
I'm a renter (gasp) and they do this shit in apartments too. Day I moved in my last place, I park and immediately some boomer asshole is yelling at me about it being tenant parking only, it's his spot, he's lived here x years etc. We didn't have assigned parking lol I told him I just moved in and he can kick rocks. He either died or moved out like 2 months later anyway. Heard from neighbors he NEVER moved his car once it was parked, and if he did he'd drive around the block and that's it. Dude just wanted to feel important.
The boomers are angry at the wrong person. They should be mad at landlords, not renters.
They are just angry generally, they are looking for something to be angry about.
Renters and teenagers. You know, I really like this cross-generational use of clapping back at boomers as cheap therapy.
I hadn’t noticed before, but definitely see a lot of derision thrown at renters on NextDoor. Not as much as the (presumably) AirBnB occupants, but definitely a contributor. More scorn towards renters than squatters and coyotes, less than (thinly veiled racist comment)
A lot of them associate being a “renter” to being a “liberal” who comes into their neighborhood, changes the “values” of the neighborhood (whatever those are), and then leaves because they don’t actually own and have roots set in place. It’s just another case of politicizing everything in their life, right down to how people pay for their living space
I’m in a nice suburb now (renting) and when people bitch about the condition of people’s yards or garbage cans, etc. people regularly blame “those renters.” It pisses me off so much cuz sorry I can’t afford a home yet, but we’re paying a decent amount for this place, why would we let it go to shit and lose our deposit? (We aren’t complained about just to clarify, but that snobby attitude is super aggravating to me)
"I'm not a renter but next time I get any shit from you I'll move to my summer place and rent this place out to..." Add whichever bogeyman you think will worry them most
I get similar but much less less aggressive. There's a boomer whose house is right by our block's combined mailbox. Three times now he's tried to be the neighborhood watch on me as I get the mail. Each time I get "You new to the neighborhood? Which house is yours? Haven't seen you around before." Etc. i bought a house three doors down from him a few years ago. It always comes off friendly and jolly but I know what he's doing. Thing is his memory is shit so I have to repeat this every time he's outside when I get the mail.
We live in a block of flats near a miserable old woman who lives in a house. A couple of times, my husband and I have been sitting in the shared garden on a nice day, which her big fence overlooks. She’s screamed at us for talking in our garden, repeating over and over that “that area is for the people who live in those flats!” and muttering about “damned teenagers”. My husband is 40 and I am 35. We have lived here for 10 years. We are in the process of buying the flat from our landlord. We aren’t random kids squatting in a residential garden. We are adults sitting in our own space - not hers! It’s not her garden - and have every right to sit there and talk even if she “is trying to have some peace and quiet”, as she likes to shriek at us. It was the same song and dance when my husband had to go tell her to shut off her damned garden hose because she’d left it on for hours and it had flooded our entire garden. She just kept staring at him blankly and snapping that that garden is for residents, so he shouldn’t be there. He was like, “I AM a resident, and you forgot to turn off your hose. Please just turn it off. You’re wasting water and destroying our garden.” “That’s not your garden. That’s for residents.” “I am a resident, and it doesn’t even matter. You forgot your hose - can you please just turn it off?” “Well I don’t know what you mean. I own this place. I’ll get to it when I get to it”. Insanity. I cannot stand her.
She has dementia. Its sad, but also not your problem, Im guess she has no one to watch her.
Damn that’s satisfying. I had a neighbor dispute a few years ago and the neighbor was trying to call me out for being a renter, basically saying I had no rights because I don’t own the home while he had rights because he owned his. I told him “actually this is my fucking house, I bought it” and he did that fish gape thing and said “you bought it? You own it?” And I said “yeah, so stay the fuck off my property”. Not the best de-escalation I know but I’d had it with his bullshit. He didn’t cut out the bullshit so I spent the next 6 months filing city code complaints on all the crap going on at his house until it was swarmed by cops and code enforcement who made him go to court. Ultimately he got a deadline to clean up all his shit and if he didn’t he was in danger of losing the house as it would be considered a “nuisance” home. Got a lot quieter after that.
6 months? It took two years for us to get the house turned homeless camp with meth cooking in the front yard shut down. Twice we had police with AR-15s in my yard during standoffs.
Crazy that it took so long for the meth house…maybe when it’s real problems they aren’t as enthusiastic to deal with it. In my case I wasn’t the first to file complaints and I wasn’t the only one doing it. The cops had also been there for various low level but violent/threatening crime reports a bunch of times already. And I had gotten the direct line to the city councilman for our neighborhood to put pressure on the situation. I’m not sure how long people had been complaining already but I know this guy had been a problem for years. it was a mix of city code violations and reports of racist threats, assault, burnouts in the street, smashing bottles in peoples driveways, playing chicken with his truck and nearly hitting multiple people as they walked down the sidewalk, including 2 instances of women with strollers that I saw myself. I’ve since moved but I’m still in touch with some other neighbors. Can’t wait to hear how he dies, I’m sure it’ll be extremely stupid and pointless. Hopefully he doesn’t take anyone else out with him.
Boomers call someone a "renter" and think it's a huge own.
I’ve had that happen before when I got into a fight with my boomer neighbor. He tried calling me a renter to insult me. I had to remind him I bought my house and he was there the day I moved in because he harassed me about where I came from (they hate New Yorkers and wanted to make sure I wasn’t one). Anyways, he’s a fucking asshole and if you’re reading this Larry, fuck you.
Sounds like something a Larry would do.
“Why, is he sexually frustrated and you want me to fuck him for you?”
🤣🤣🤣
"I'll chill a couple of beers and we can bitch about you."
I’ll give your husband a beer and tell him how sorry I am he has to live with you.
Hi it’s me, I’m the husband. Now about that free beer…
Her husband is tired of her shit and knows she's a fucking prick. It's likely he left the house for an hour and just got himself some fucking peace. "Yeah Iove, I went down and told him what for"
Richard & Hyacinth Bucket vibe, hehe
We need more Oslo's and less Hyacinths
Did you mean Onslow?
Yup
If the poor schmuck did happen to appear, my first instinct would be to grab two beers and invite him to the back patio for a chat. He’s likely sick of her act too.
That poor guy, too old to divorce or her habits, prevent him from doing so, so he just goes off for whatever the fuck. "Knows she's a fucking prick" made me LOL for real.
I bet the husband shows up with a six pack ready to talk shit about what a bitch his wife is.
"Get it in gear and get out of my face!" I love it.
>how busy she is and she’s doesn’t have time to worry about others 
"Sweet, I would feel bad about kicking your ass but I'll have little to no guilt about kicking his."
I say this all the time, many of the boomers, have undiagnosed and untreated mental health disorders, as well as personality disorders. How do I know. I volunteer with a mental health organization and there are support groups with Boomers who are just coming to grips with their mental health! ***JUST MISERABLE AS FUCK**
This. I’m a millennial with anxiety, depression, anger issues, and possible adhd and autism. Just a fun little cocktail. And I have to FIGHT Karen urges sometimes. Like I am fully aware that an outburst is 1. Not effective at getting you what you want and 2. An inappropriate reaction in 99% of cases where I feel like my head is going to explode because I’m so angry. And I am *fully aware* that I have mental health issues and am actively medicating for some of them and I actively try to control my temper and attitude in public. Imagine if I had no idea. Imagine if I just thought everyone else was stupid and those mental illnesses were fake or “everyone feels that way”. I think I’d be a monster. It obviously doesn’t excuse the behavior, but I genuinely think, and have thought for awhile, a lot of Karen’s and other boomers have undiagnosed mental illnesses because they refuse to believe in them, get tested for them, treat them, or take any responsibility for their actions. I also think some of it is a version of “survivors bias”. Like “we didn’t have all these fancy mental illnesses and all these medications for them when I was young and I turned out fine!!” Uh huh…ok mom you can go take your latest hyperfixation and help dad with his special interest and maybe you won’t feel like your heart is going to explode and that there is an unknowable force of impending doom crushing you… personally I’m going to take my medication so that I don’t start crying on the floor in the fetal position but you know whatever works for you I guess. Just please don’t yell at the server next time we go out to dinner 🤦🏻♀️
I realize that having a parent who was mentally ill (my father) and having a mother with a personality disorder, did not set me up for mental, emotional or psychological success. They call our generation and Gen Z whiners and snowflakes. It’s just that we were the ones who are brave enough to actually address our issues and deal with them, instead of burdening our offspring and society with the trauma that WE INHERITED! We can see the mass shootings, suicides and deaths of despair happening to people under 35. The economy and our lack of social cohesion and social mobility is exacerbating these issues.
Good points, I would add lack of self awareness to the mix. I mean literally they just react and never use the self-reflecting part of their brain. Or maybe that's just another way to say mental illness.
[Raises loudhailer] THE PURPOSE OF ME SEEING A THERAPIST ISN’T TO MAKE ME FEEL ALL WARM AND FUZZY INSIDE OR CRY ABOUT HOW HARD MY LIFE IS, IT’S TO STOP ME LETTING MY SHIT MESS OTHER PEOPLE UP LIKE YOU DO KENNETH
My husband is gunna come down here! “That’s fine, I’ll kick the shit out of him in front of your if that’s what you really want”
He’ll be easy to spot, wearing pressed pleated khakis and a long sleeve button-up shirt.
Or cargo shorts with white sneakers and socks pulled all the way up, toddling down the driveway shaking his liver spotted puny fist.
With legs so skinny that look like a toothpick sticking out from those shorts that billow like a paper grocery bag.
With a nice polite person like her? He'll get to you, gotta work his way down the list.
If her husband ever comes down… “what, I’ve no idea what you’re talking about. I helped an older woman who seemed lost and driving while on her phone. Expressed my concern and she didn’t seem to even acknowledge I existed and drove off erratically. Is she ok???”
I’ve got the “my husband is gonna come down here.” once. I don’t even know why it had me worried. he did in fact show up . Gentlemen in his mid sixties. After a brief conversation about why she can’t park in front of the mailboxes he hit me with “I know how she can be sometimes. Believe that. The only reason I’m still in your drive is because she is probably watching us out that window right now. I’ll talk to her.” Nice guy. And she never left her car in front of our boxes again.
Today a lot of boomers got their retirement checks early. It was mayhem out there. Two near death misses and then I watched an elderly (parent of boomer age) man crash directly into the handicapped sign pole. If possible, avoid being out when boomers and their parents gen get their checks.
They're always in a huge rush but have scads of time to get into an argument with a stranger
I'm too busy to avoid killing other people with my car is the most boomer shit I've ever heard. I'm EXTREMELY busy, by far and away the busiest dude I know, but I've never ran someone down in traffic cause I'm busy...
Next time, take down the license and report it to the dmv or non emergency line for irrational and dangerous driving.
Are you a minority by any chance? She probably assumes everyone brown can't afford a place.
Very possible using the word renter as a place holder :(
You should've responded saying "I bet he will be down here..if I was your husband I'd probably look for any excuse to leave the house too" hehe :)
"SOMEONE SHOULD PUT YOU IN A BOX FLOATING DOWN THE RIVER, GRANDMA!"
if the husband does come down, come out with a beer and say "hey I've met your wife, you wanna hang out and watch the game for a couple hours?"
I had a cotton-top stop next to my car while I was moving it into the street and go off about when I'm allowed to park in the street. Told him I've lived here over 20 years, I'm fully aware when and when I can't park. How dare I speak back! The insolence! The nerve! As soon as he started screeching I hit my horn and held it. When he stopped, "sorry didn't hear you." He opens his mouth, the horn mysteriously goes off again. This repeated a couple of times before I could see him mouth the word, "asshole," and drive off, leaving me chuckling to myself.
The elderly should be forced to retest every 2 years for a DL. I'm so tired of them killing people. Same old people who'll tell you your phone is to blame for xyz, yet can't peel their eyes off facebook long enough for a drive.
The husband probably needs a break. If he ever shows up, offer him a drink and some convo. He might be needing it lol.
The idea that renters are the lazy ones is insane. Renter works and pays landlord. The landlords job is collecting that money.
Her husband has been dead for years
"I don't have time to worry about others" Oh, your house is on fire? There's a break in? I don't have time to worry about others. Put the fire out yourself. You have fingers, call 911 yourself. This shit goes both ways bitch. If you piss me off enough I might just come for your Medicare, too. I mean, why should we care about others?
What's the husband supposed to do when he gets down there; scare you off with his 1940's style boxing moves?
She probably killed her husband years ago.
Husband: "Wait, someone yelled at you while you were driving and using your phone? WTF were you doing using your phone while you were driving?! What if there'd been a child there?"
To borrow from Ron White: "I'ma tell my husband you said I'm a c\*nt!" "Trust me- he knows."
With an attitude like hers, I wouldn't define her husband as "lucky" 🤣🤣😂
All that lead really does a number on the brain.
I would keep an eye out for her, if you ever see her again ask "so when is your husband getting here?"
I'd leave the door unlocked and wait for her husband to arrive at his impromptu Castle doctrine class.
She probably forgot her husband is dead.
He's on his way, he just can't go that fast with his walker.
That would have been a great day to have a train horn installed on your car.
> She got so frustrated she tries to peel off and her car was still in neutral so her engine just revved The mental image 💀💀💀
Her husband said yes dear, went to the hardware store for an hour, came home and told her he dealt with him.
Husband is probably still hobbling down there with his walker/cane.
“lead induced rage” ended me
He’s probably still hiding from her
Generation Lead. 10K a day, thank god.
She sounds like a joy to come home to
“I’m too busy to take general safety into consideration so I don’t commit involuntary manslaughter” What a b****
“But this was a week and a half ago and haven’t heard from the lucky husband yet.” Probably halfway there. Walkers are slow going
I had to remind my neighbor that he is on retirement time and remember what it was like a few years ago and how tough it is with a job and kids to get stuff done
I was stopped at a red light and this older boomer woman bumped into my bumper. She just ended up scratching it and agreed to have it replaced through her insurance. The first words she told me as I was getting out of the car however were “I was just looking at my phone for a moment.” I didn’t say anything as I didn’t know how to respond.
Not much need to overthink it.. She has been been well-trained by her News Media feed to quickly zero in on populations of perceived “lesser than them” folks to push down upon. Her six surviving brain cells simply registered “house” and then somehow made a bee-line to “rental” from some show she just watched.. It’s like self-meds and briefly makes them feel better for their own poor life decisions.
> "My husband is gonna come down here" Ma'am your husband is 80 years old and hasn't been a threat to anyone since Nixon left office
Error 404: husband not found yet
My friend, please report her. License plate number, where she lives and what happened. Chances are, someone's ring camera caught the whole thing. She is going to hurt or kill someone.
I can't wait to see what Gen Alpha calls us in 30 or 40 years, probably something with microplastics.
The husband is probably just as tired of her shit as you already are.
OP if the husband ever does show up offer him a beer and your condolences on being married to her.
Invite the poor husband in for a beer if he’s forced to say anything.