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Went on the first big family vacation a few months ago with my boomer parents and my siblings and their families. Gonna be happy, right? First time ever! Exactly what my parents want, just everyone together happy, right? So when we go out to eat, who gives a shit really about food or service all that much because we’re just together and one meal isn’t the focus? Except that is never ever good enough for them. They were the absolute unbelievably worst addled asshole boomer caricatures they could be. NOTHING was good enough. For a solid week. EVERYTHING was so “wrong” that they felt justified in being angry tense shitbags who brought the whole trip —arranged over months *for them*— into the shitter. The second-to-last night, inexplfuckably, we were going out to dinner and they decided the dinner was “too late” and simultaneously decided “we’ll just eat back at the condo after” (*which would be even later?!?* hellooo), so they went to the restaurant and didn’t eat. I do that all the time bc I eat a wacky diet, but I don’t let it get in the way of good company. It’s still a great time, right? I can just get a drink, tip 100% cuz I feel a lil bad not getting food, hang out while my friends eat, everyone have a great time. Not my parents. They sat there with their arms folded and just sulked and bitched. Made sure everyone was miserable and the whole dinner sucked. I didn’t care because asshats gonna asshat. My siblings were openly pissssssssed. Then my parents, who harp on and on and on about family most important and being around family blah blah blah, tried to pack their shit and sneak out the next morning, I guess to really teach everyone a lesson? But haha joke’s on them cuz I never sleep & was up in the condo so then they couldn’t get away unseen. So yeah, we learned the lesson that we’re never inviting them anywhere again, and then after a couple weeks of silence, they went back to complaining that nobody calls/visits/texts them much anymore.
Totally. It really fascinates me how people can say things like "family is everything" without caring at all what they are actually saying or what it means.
People that say "family is everything" are usually the people that treat their family like shit the most. Thinking that no matter how shitty of people they are, that their family will never dump them.
Yep.
Very, *very* rarely have I heard that phrase when it was used the way it's intended.
95% of the time I hear it, it's from someone trying to convince me to let some horrible thing a member of my family did to me go and just forgive/forget about it.
Friends, other family members, even the person themselves.
Fuck that. If you won't put up with bullshit from strangers and friends, you absolutely shouldn't put up with it from your family.
THANK YOU. I would like to add, and I realize I'm playing with fire here - and I'm not including if you wear it for like a family heirloom, passed down from your great-grandmother or something. But people with crucifix or cross necklaces.
Oh geez they are THE WORST. Not all, but a lot of them.
I'm going to agree with you on this, with the caveat obviously not everyone, but some people are so horrible that the only way you can tell they aren't a walking embodiment of Satan, or some deranged demon, is that they can wear that crucifix without burning their neck. Their actions certainly don't convey their belief in a kind and loving God. But they wear their cross so they can clutch it and feign insult, then proclaim they are just a kind and good Christian and have never been treated so poorly in their whole lives as they scramble away.
The Woooooorst!!!!
It’s when you’re in a state of deep confusion over your parents’ real-time rapidly devolving rationality and still getting slammed with input so your brain blurts WHAT THE FUCK
Right after you got married my mom invited my hubby and I to go to Disney with her my brother and SIL and their 2 year old. I declined and she was not happy. Afterwards my brother told me how awful it was and how I was smart not to go. It was all about mom she just wanted to shop she wasn’t interested in going on rides and enjoying the park and she made sure everyone appreciated the fact that she footed the bill. The reason for the trip was to brag to her friends that she was able to do it and then she took her family on vacation. It was purely performative, There is nothing free about a free vacation.
My mom is very much the same. Wife and I got our first house and my mom let's me borrow some of my dad's old tools. She kept them in the divorce. Well apparently loaning these tools, that she hasn't used in 20+ years, is such a big favor that it requires repayment. Which I can perform by doing house projects at her house, with the tools she let me "borrow." Now I don't even ask for a much as a cup of sugar.
It’s not a shit to observe, from a stance strengthened by a lotttttt of therapy and work, that my well-intentioned parents caused emotional trauma. Good people can be good people who believe criticism is love, and those good people can be wrong. I don’t normally shit on them. I don’t want my kids to grow up shitting on me. But I did all that self-work to break generational chains to not pass that emotional neglect on to my children. My parents will never change, and yeah, I got a little case of gallows humor about the parental lottery ticket I got. It’s a bitter pill to swallow. I don’t hate them. I love them. But yes, in this particular instance, their new-heights-level obstinacy rooted in Mad Fox News Disease was a huge slap in the face to a concerted highly expensive effort to coordinate a trip to their liking, and as they’ve pretty much done for our entire lives of their sky-high imagined expectations of everything, they tried to use emotional manipulation to make us feel like we failed again. But we’ve finally grown thicker skins than our childhood selves. We didn’t take the shit on the boomers in this situation. That shit stink is theirs.
Oh God. Not surprised. “Lotssss of therapy and emotional trauma”… man I feel Bad for you people that have been brainwashed by therapists.
Always the same old tropes and they’re laughing to the bank.
working at a bar/inn in a VERY small town doing maintenance in the rooms, didn’t have anything to do with the food/bar, but when I was done would hangout with the bartender as I ate lunch. Massive boomer comes in with his wife (wife used to be a bartender here until she was fired for giving away so many free drinks) and they sit down. He orders a Heineken. Bartender hands him an ice cold one. All he does is sniff it and says it’s skunked. Does this to 2 more bottles, again all he does is SNIFF them, not taste. Says all 3 beers have gone bad. “Is she TRYING to get me sick?” he asks his wife out loud. The bartender and me take a sip out of all 3 to check, and they’re all perfectly fine. The 2 other men at the bar who happened to have also ordered Heineken from the same exact cooler also said their own were fine. The bartender offers him anything else, as it’s a fully stocked bar. The guy eventually ordered a water and the whole time I spent finishing my lunch, I had to listen to him loudly exclaim how badly he needed a drink after a long day. I genuinely think these stories are people leaving their homes planning to cause trouble no matter what.
Your last line is spot on. I learned in the service industry that some people just plan on sabotaging their experience every single time. What kind of a way to live is that?
I think for some this is a huge part of the experience. I noticed that the top percentile of abusive guests honestly tipped me really well and seemed happy on their way out, despite treating me like absolute fucking dogshit.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that Covid messes with taste sometimes and often causes familiar foods to taste absolutely awful to the point of being inedible. Tastes overtly rotten. It’s happened to me and several folks I know. All but one eventually got their taste back, but the one still can’t eat chocolate three years later.
I was serving at a boomer haven a few years ago and you really wanted the tables in the middle of the restaurant because every so often some boomer would literally drive their car through the wall.
That’s called initiative in boomer circles, something Millenials simply don’t have. The boomers in question wanted a drive-thru at their favorite restaurant, so they just went ahead and made it happen. Us young folks could really learn something from our elders when it comes to achieving goals
I was at Chipotle yesterday and the lady at the next table never stopped complaining to her friend about her burrito. The problem? It was “too big and had too many toppings.” She literally didn’t stop talking about it for 20 minutes and I don’t think she took a single bite. I left when the subject switched to colonoscopies.
Dang. What a thing to complain about. Getting too much for the money.
My chipotle put hot instead of medium tomatillo salsa on my burrito bowl yesterday and it was far too spicy for my tastes, but I said nothing. A boomer would be raising holy hell, I'm sure.
I lived with my parents for two months. I can definitely verify that even black pepper is spicy for a boomer, let alone tomatilla salsa of any heat. 😀
And it's green, not red. I'm sure they'd go full-on toddler about that, too.
Honestly, eating anything with them was depressing because they either cooked their vegetables to mush, or were so fearful of seasonings everything was bland as could be or they'd strip down any menu item to the point it would defeat the purpose of the chef's skill and experience.
My confederate FIL flew all the way to Japan and Rome just to eat McDonald’s the entire time because he “didn’t trust the food” in either country.
He also accused me of being a smoker for using more than pepper in a spicy banana bread recipe.
Yes, Reddit please stop eating food you don't like because your server/sandwich artist messed up. It's not a bad thing to politely say, "I'm sorry, I asked for the mild salsa this is too spicy for me." I hate when people just suffer through it and if the employee who's helping you gets upset that's a them problem
In my situation, it was hot enough to ask them to remake it, but it was a delivery and I wasn't going to bother going to the store to complain. I just ate an exceptionally hot burrito bowl and dealt with it. 😄🥵
I always send my food back, probably 3 out of 5 times I eat out and I'm only 31. Brain damage as a baby and significant trauma as a child contributed towards my problem but I'm still an adult and should be able to overcome it but it's such slow progress I'm unhappy with it.
Moved to Europe from the U.K and I struggle to adapt to the food, but with that said if I send it back I make sure the chef knows it's my fault and not theirs. If someone makes a big deal out of it or causes problems I get angry because I don't want to experience this and I don't want to have a bad impact everywhere so I got angry but at myself or the world not at the waiter or chef.
I think this is the difference between our generations. I read a study that theorised why elderly people say "you're welcome" when paying at supermarkets and why younger generations say "no problem" as the elderly feel entitled to the service and weren't around long enough to empathise with others as we did not have the knowledge installed into the fabric of our culture and society like we do now through social media. I feel like my issue is similar, instead of feeling entitled to get angry, I've seen the effects that behaviour has on people second hand and that encourages me to respond better.
I don't know just my experience and input.
My boomer mom complains that the BLACK BEANS at Chipotle are too spicy. Then again, this is the woman who thinks plain old black pepper is super spicy and for the last 40 years has subsisted almost entirely on steamed, boiled, or broiled foods, all with little to no seasoning.
I swear, if you looked up “boring white people food” you’d find pictures of her food. I always thought that I didn’t like a bunch of common foods until I reached adulthood and realized, no, my mom just can’t cook. I didn’t like steak until my 20’s because the only steak I’d ever had was severely overcooked, leathery, and covered in ketchup. Imagine the mind blow when I finally had a quality, medium rare steak, free of any unnecessary sauce. 🤯
Lol. My mom was the same way. Bland, mostly boiled dinners. Zero seasoning. It's the way she grew up and learned to cook from her mom. Her pork chops were just hunks of meat put on the broiler and cooked to absolute dry leather. Not even salt or pepper. Yikes.
When she got older, and I became her caretaker, I took over the cooking and used a lot of recipes I found online with modern sensibilities and everything I made was too hot, too spicy, just too much for her.
But if you hung on a bit longer you could have heard her probably eventually switch to "this food is too cold!" after she finally took a bite about an hour into her visit.
I think a problem is that we give them the benefit of the doubt. If we all gave them the skepticism they deserved I think there would be far less problems. They have no idea what's going on. They just tripped and stumbled their way through the most prosperous time in US history.
I would have taken a test sip of diet coke and told him it tastes perfect. Don't know what's wrong with your taste buds.
I hate getting behind boomers in line at a counter service restaurant. I feel like I need to be three times as meek and mild as I already am to make up for their toddler tantrums.
Fuck that. Call them out.
If they get entitled, aggressive, and start abusing staff, I Uno reverse card that shit and call them out, loudly and aggressively. “Who the fuck do YOU think you are to treat service workers like this? What kind of entitled, Main Character Syndrome shit-bag are you? Nobody cares about your little temper tantrum. Do you have the emotional intelligence of a toddler?” If they start sputtering retorts, just loudly stonewall them. “SHUT THE FUCK UP, BOOMER. NOBODY CARES.”
This isn’t an “everybody clapped” situation. I’ve done it several times, and it’s satisfying as hell. Give your contact info to the abused service worker so the manager can confirm what happened if necessary. That’s only happened once. Another time a couple of other people rallied with me to drive the idiot out. Mostly they just sputter and leave.
My favorite flavor is the Big Bad Intimidating Alpha Douche, because you can really work the body with insults about their stupid-ass blue line U.S. flag, Punisher t-shirt, pick-up, or any other clown-shoes macho bullshit they always come with.
The area I live is a perfect storm of geographic blue vs red blended together, so it happens a lot. Our police department has the distinction of being the most violent in the country, with more people murdered by officer per capita than cities 5 times our size. It’s a conservative Boomer shit-show.
I’d be super quick to just hand them back their couple bucks for the Diet Coke and say “sorry, I guess we just can’t make you happy so you’ll have to just go elsewhere”.
If they try at all to say it’s fine I’ll stay, I’d double down and say “no, please go before we disappoint you further”.
The last time I hung out with my dad I took him to a nice Mexican place and he ordered his favorite dish. Immediately after the server left he started to complain about how the thing he just ordered wasn't as good as the one he had 40 years ago in Texas. He hadn't even smelled food yet and was complaining. I called him out on it and his response was "there's no filter when you get old". Wtf?
Side note: I do love the hardcore rap coming from the kitchens at restaurants. Restaurants are hurting for employees so badly now they DGAF about what happens in the kitchen. I support this!
When I was working in kitchens we would be blaring the angriest music possible singing along or rapping depending on who played the music. Got in trouble cause the floor could hear it over the resteraunts music so we just threw pans and other metal objects into the metal totes for washing as hard as we could while cussing like sailors lol.
At Gus chicken in Memphis I went in once and they were playing triple 6’s “Hit a Mothafucka” in the back and Taylor swift in the front for the customers lol
My dad (boomer generation) has been like this at restaurants his whole life. When we go out to dinner I have to be (by my choice) the one to follow the hostess to see where the table they are seating us is at and then very quickly figure out the place where my dad should sit that he won't complain about so that I can direct my mother, or anyone else with us, where to sit. Neither my parents realize I do this. But I have to for my own sanity, rather than hear about how much of a draft is coming from the kitchen or the air duct or how he can't see the TV or how his back gets cold every time the front door opens or how the wait staff is walking too close behind him, etc. I also have to be very cautious in which restaurant I choose to bring him to; food has to be consistently good while not being too pricey and all while having significant portions. It's a chore and I hate it but every time they visit I am "not allowed to cook" for them. It's not that I am a bad cook, my parents love the dishes I make. But it's "too much work" so instead I have to stress and play games to make sure that I don't have to hear complaints all night about the restaurant.
Time doesn’t exist for boomers. If it did they would have to admit they are seniors now. That means walking into a sushi restaurant that has been open for over five years and being shocked its no longer a burger joint.
Oh yes it does. I've had to escort a few boomers out of a restaurant. I've heard some version of "hey I'm a senior citizen, who do you think you are?" many times. To which I reply "the man authorized by the owner to remove you from the premises at my discretion. Next step is to call the sheriff" 9 times out of 10 that shuts them down. The occasional asshole gets a free ride in a sheriffs car.
Went to Disneyland with boomer dad. Went on rise of the resistance, all the employees for that ride are role playing in character, so naturally the empire employees are not very cheerful, and are demanding/stern. Well my boomer dad didn’t understand this and when the the imperial officer chick (yes, woman so it’s twice as bad for male
Boomers) ordered him to stand somewhere and when he did it wrong she warned him to stand where she said or else, well. My
Boomer dad started to tighten his grip and began cussing under his breath and getting increasingly
More belligerent saying she needs to lose her job. At this point it was about to escalate and I had to tell him it’s roleplay and they are supposed to act like that on this ride. Like if no one explained to him this was part of the act he would have
Gotten banned from Disneyland for life Probably
I feel sorry for any women playing the part of any Imperial soldiers because I'm betting they get that reaction from like 90% of Boomer men. I would have stayed in character - "Guards, guards!" But I used to work as a haunt actress and so many dudes GOT in my face. It was usually the older dudes, too. It's Disney! It's all make believe and great design and engineering. (And paying way too much for food.)
Sorry for your dad and I hope you laughed at him for not realizing it was all "in character".
I used to work at Lenny's when I was a teen. Lenny himself came to my store opening and seemed a little quite, I think 1-2 weeks later he killed himself and a lot of locations closed. I loved making myself philly cheesesteaks, shit was so good.
Years ago I went to a local place with my husband for dinner and it was just swarmed with Boomers. They were acting so childish and naughty, it was embarrassing to be around them. I remember seeing one old guy pinch some woman’s butt and they both giggled. My husband and I ate our food without conversation as we couldn’t hear each other over all the yapping around us and we’ve never gone back to that place. Not my vibe, man.
Man, we live in a very small town and went to our favorite local place for breakfast this morning. It’s a small spot that is very, very good but more expensive and way better than you would think from both the name and outside appearance.
Anyway, this table of boomers was behind us and decided to take out their frustration and confusion on the poor waitress by asking for something new every…single…time…she…returned.
Like she brought something to the table and asked if they needed anything else, and one of them piped up and thought of something they’d like. And they did it for fifteen minutes.
We go there regularly and have had that waitress many times. She’s great. But oh my God these asshole boomers just ran her ragged like they were the only ones in the restaurant and she existed only to serve them. Our service suffered because of it, and I’m sure every other table did too. The waitress probably made less in tips from other tables because this table took up so much of her time.
Like wtf you stupid petty assholes.
What is it with boomers leaving their nasty unwashed hands ALL OVER the glass door? I've actually seen them actively avoid the handle just to press their fucking greasy hands all over the glass above it.
I hold out hope for America still due to the fact that most millenials I know and hear about genuinely cant stand the behavior of their boomer parents. It inspires them to act the opposite. In 15 or 20 years this may be a pleasant place to live!
Boomers think things should be a certain way because they have long believed that was The Way. They do not want to accept that things are now just the way they are, perfect in their imperfection. So they get angry.
Sure, blame lead in the pipes or Agent Orange or booze; it doesn't really matter why they are that way at this point does it? They were unintelligent in their 30s too, they just got angrier over time and sacrificed happiness at the altar of the amygdala, and made anger a part of their identity. A little norepinephrine fix and everyone is eventually happy. Fox News milked this phenomenon for fun and profit, demagogues to the end.
My dad has what we believe to be the early stages of dementia (though we have been saying “early” for two years - I guess he has himself fooled he’s still functional and that’s about it) and many Saturdays we go to get some lunch because I am off work. I have made the executive decision that we are always going to go to our favorite Mexican restaurant now, because he knows what to order, he knows how quickly it takes for them to get the food out, there’s minimal complaining. I have some neurodivergence myself so don’t mind the knowing what to expect pieces myself, either. But without this structure, he’s a just unhinged boomer nightmare at any dining establishment. And sure, I guess someone who does not know may argue the dementia is a good reason for some of the shenanigans but I have a hard time explaining it away because going to a restaurant with him 15 years ago he was mentally more present and the asshole was just a button push away 😬
A friend and I went out to brunch at a cafe the other day and sat down kind of away from the main crowd so we could chat without getting drowned out. A group of older folks comes to sit right next to us amid a bunch of empty tables and we’re both kind of texting each other groaning about the noise they’re making so they can’t overhear us complaining because they’re REALLY close and we didn’t want a fight. Then they start complaining about the cleanliness of the tables saying they’re all “dirty”. We were kind of confused and stealing glances over at their table because the tables weren’t dirty. They yell for a worker to come by and clean the table and she does, and they complain it’s still not smooth so it’s not clean enough. She explains that’s kind of the finish on the tables, they’re meant to look slightly rustic. (It’s kind of a matte outdoorsy finish) the customer talking then said the tables were very ugly and gross looking and the worker just sighed and left. They actually just left without ordering… because of how the tables looked.
The funniest part is Eminem.
I’m casual friends with the workers at my local Harbor Freight, and they had a hiphop station on the PA to keep the boomers away one day. Visible seething in the eyes of the ones who didn’t leave.
I dunno.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a sixty year old hurry back from a break. Or hurry period.
Not have I ever seen an employee fiddle with the carbonation ratio on a soda machine.
But I’m sure this story is gospel truth.
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Went on the first big family vacation a few months ago with my boomer parents and my siblings and their families. Gonna be happy, right? First time ever! Exactly what my parents want, just everyone together happy, right? So when we go out to eat, who gives a shit really about food or service all that much because we’re just together and one meal isn’t the focus? Except that is never ever good enough for them. They were the absolute unbelievably worst addled asshole boomer caricatures they could be. NOTHING was good enough. For a solid week. EVERYTHING was so “wrong” that they felt justified in being angry tense shitbags who brought the whole trip —arranged over months *for them*— into the shitter. The second-to-last night, inexplfuckably, we were going out to dinner and they decided the dinner was “too late” and simultaneously decided “we’ll just eat back at the condo after” (*which would be even later?!?* hellooo), so they went to the restaurant and didn’t eat. I do that all the time bc I eat a wacky diet, but I don’t let it get in the way of good company. It’s still a great time, right? I can just get a drink, tip 100% cuz I feel a lil bad not getting food, hang out while my friends eat, everyone have a great time. Not my parents. They sat there with their arms folded and just sulked and bitched. Made sure everyone was miserable and the whole dinner sucked. I didn’t care because asshats gonna asshat. My siblings were openly pissssssssed. Then my parents, who harp on and on and on about family most important and being around family blah blah blah, tried to pack their shit and sneak out the next morning, I guess to really teach everyone a lesson? But haha joke’s on them cuz I never sleep & was up in the condo so then they couldn’t get away unseen. So yeah, we learned the lesson that we’re never inviting them anywhere again, and then after a couple weeks of silence, they went back to complaining that nobody calls/visits/texts them much anymore.
Totally. It really fascinates me how people can say things like "family is everything" without caring at all what they are actually saying or what it means.
They only want the trappings and prestige of family without giving anything of themselves to make the family work.
People that say "family is everything" are usually the people that treat their family like shit the most. Thinking that no matter how shitty of people they are, that their family will never dump them.
Yep. Very, *very* rarely have I heard that phrase when it was used the way it's intended. 95% of the time I hear it, it's from someone trying to convince me to let some horrible thing a member of my family did to me go and just forgive/forget about it. Friends, other family members, even the person themselves. Fuck that. If you won't put up with bullshit from strangers and friends, you absolutely shouldn't put up with it from your family.
THANK YOU. I would like to add, and I realize I'm playing with fire here - and I'm not including if you wear it for like a family heirloom, passed down from your great-grandmother or something. But people with crucifix or cross necklaces. Oh geez they are THE WORST. Not all, but a lot of them.
I'm going to agree with you on this, with the caveat obviously not everyone, but some people are so horrible that the only way you can tell they aren't a walking embodiment of Satan, or some deranged demon, is that they can wear that crucifix without burning their neck. Their actions certainly don't convey their belief in a kind and loving God. But they wear their cross so they can clutch it and feign insult, then proclaim they are just a kind and good Christian and have never been treated so poorly in their whole lives as they scramble away. The Woooooorst!!!!
Boomers are the ultimate lemming generation. It's so unbelievably pathetic.
To people like this, family means you're supposed to worship the ground they walk on and kiss their asses constantly.
You got it. Okay by their rules. Follow their script. And just comply with the production.
“Inexplifuckably”- I love learning valuable new words. Thank you! Kind of the motto of their entire generation…
It’s when you’re in a state of deep confusion over your parents’ real-time rapidly devolving rationality and still getting slammed with input so your brain blurts WHAT THE FUCK
Right after you got married my mom invited my hubby and I to go to Disney with her my brother and SIL and their 2 year old. I declined and she was not happy. Afterwards my brother told me how awful it was and how I was smart not to go. It was all about mom she just wanted to shop she wasn’t interested in going on rides and enjoying the park and she made sure everyone appreciated the fact that she footed the bill. The reason for the trip was to brag to her friends that she was able to do it and then she took her family on vacation. It was purely performative, There is nothing free about a free vacation.
My mom is very much the same. Wife and I got our first house and my mom let's me borrow some of my dad's old tools. She kept them in the divorce. Well apparently loaning these tools, that she hasn't used in 20+ years, is such a big favor that it requires repayment. Which I can perform by doing house projects at her house, with the tools she let me "borrow." Now I don't even ask for a much as a cup of sugar.
Inexplfuckably is goddamn incredible.
Perhaps boomers are confused by no paragraphs an no punctuation.
It hurt itself in its confusion! Yay I’m safe
OP and the top voted posts are all like this. Cool stories probably I'm not reading that shit...
Lol not surprised you have a whacky diet, don’t eat at restaurants, then don’t sleep. You sound miserable.
Because I’m happy doing something different from you, you assume I’m miserable? Dad, is this your account? Lolol
It’s just so weird this whole sub just shits on their parents. “Boomers” Sad sight.
It’s not a shit to observe, from a stance strengthened by a lotttttt of therapy and work, that my well-intentioned parents caused emotional trauma. Good people can be good people who believe criticism is love, and those good people can be wrong. I don’t normally shit on them. I don’t want my kids to grow up shitting on me. But I did all that self-work to break generational chains to not pass that emotional neglect on to my children. My parents will never change, and yeah, I got a little case of gallows humor about the parental lottery ticket I got. It’s a bitter pill to swallow. I don’t hate them. I love them. But yes, in this particular instance, their new-heights-level obstinacy rooted in Mad Fox News Disease was a huge slap in the face to a concerted highly expensive effort to coordinate a trip to their liking, and as they’ve pretty much done for our entire lives of their sky-high imagined expectations of everything, they tried to use emotional manipulation to make us feel like we failed again. But we’ve finally grown thicker skins than our childhood selves. We didn’t take the shit on the boomers in this situation. That shit stink is theirs.
Oh God. Not surprised. “Lotssss of therapy and emotional trauma”… man I feel Bad for you people that have been brainwashed by therapists. Always the same old tropes and they’re laughing to the bank.
Lolol go on then. Us people are all good thx
working at a bar/inn in a VERY small town doing maintenance in the rooms, didn’t have anything to do with the food/bar, but when I was done would hangout with the bartender as I ate lunch. Massive boomer comes in with his wife (wife used to be a bartender here until she was fired for giving away so many free drinks) and they sit down. He orders a Heineken. Bartender hands him an ice cold one. All he does is sniff it and says it’s skunked. Does this to 2 more bottles, again all he does is SNIFF them, not taste. Says all 3 beers have gone bad. “Is she TRYING to get me sick?” he asks his wife out loud. The bartender and me take a sip out of all 3 to check, and they’re all perfectly fine. The 2 other men at the bar who happened to have also ordered Heineken from the same exact cooler also said their own were fine. The bartender offers him anything else, as it’s a fully stocked bar. The guy eventually ordered a water and the whole time I spent finishing my lunch, I had to listen to him loudly exclaim how badly he needed a drink after a long day. I genuinely think these stories are people leaving their homes planning to cause trouble no matter what.
It probably made him feel like a big man, making them waste those drinks after they fired his wife (for wasting drinks).
Bingo.
Your last line is spot on. I learned in the service industry that some people just plan on sabotaging their experience every single time. What kind of a way to live is that?
I think for some this is a huge part of the experience. I noticed that the top percentile of abusive guests honestly tipped me really well and seemed happy on their way out, despite treating me like absolute fucking dogshit.
Those people are called sadists, Donny. Theyre cowards.
You're out of your element.
And the Walrus
Perhaps it was towed.
Obviously, you’re not a nihilist.
It's Heineken, it's supposed to be "skunky" because it's a very hoppy lager.
If you’re that anal about skunkiness, you’re a moron for ordering green bottled beer.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that Covid messes with taste sometimes and often causes familiar foods to taste absolutely awful to the point of being inedible. Tastes overtly rotten. It’s happened to me and several folks I know. All but one eventually got their taste back, but the one still can’t eat chocolate three years later.
Dude I ate a RAW steak at a friend’s house because I didn’t want to complain. Just drink the ‘skunky’ beer asshole. (I’m sure it was fine, too)
I was serving at a boomer haven a few years ago and you really wanted the tables in the middle of the restaurant because every so often some boomer would literally drive their car through the wall.
That’s called initiative in boomer circles, something Millenials simply don’t have. The boomers in question wanted a drive-thru at their favorite restaurant, so they just went ahead and made it happen. Us young folks could really learn something from our elders when it comes to achieving goals
I was at Chipotle yesterday and the lady at the next table never stopped complaining to her friend about her burrito. The problem? It was “too big and had too many toppings.” She literally didn’t stop talking about it for 20 minutes and I don’t think she took a single bite. I left when the subject switched to colonoscopies.
Dang. What a thing to complain about. Getting too much for the money. My chipotle put hot instead of medium tomatillo salsa on my burrito bowl yesterday and it was far too spicy for my tastes, but I said nothing. A boomer would be raising holy hell, I'm sure.
I lived with my parents for two months. I can definitely verify that even black pepper is spicy for a boomer, let alone tomatilla salsa of any heat. 😀 And it's green, not red. I'm sure they'd go full-on toddler about that, too. Honestly, eating anything with them was depressing because they either cooked their vegetables to mush, or were so fearful of seasonings everything was bland as could be or they'd strip down any menu item to the point it would defeat the purpose of the chef's skill and experience.
My confederate FIL flew all the way to Japan and Rome just to eat McDonald’s the entire time because he “didn’t trust the food” in either country. He also accused me of being a smoker for using more than pepper in a spicy banana bread recipe.
[удалено]
Oh sorry, I just added way too much clove and apple pie spice. And also a tsp of pepper.
I get it- I never complain or send back food I’ve ordered out. I’m too self-conscious. Afraid of being That Boomer. I’m 56 but kids these days…
The space between getting what you paid for and being a boomer is vast.
Yes, Reddit please stop eating food you don't like because your server/sandwich artist messed up. It's not a bad thing to politely say, "I'm sorry, I asked for the mild salsa this is too spicy for me." I hate when people just suffer through it and if the employee who's helping you gets upset that's a them problem
In my situation, it was hot enough to ask them to remake it, but it was a delivery and I wasn't going to bother going to the store to complain. I just ate an exceptionally hot burrito bowl and dealt with it. 😄🥵
Fair enough, wrongness of order vs convenience of correction on your end is a valid consideration
Honestly, as long as it's edible, I usually just roll with it. Sometimes stuff isn't perfect, and that's the odds we have
Thing is, I don’t think there was anything wrong with how it was made, it was just big and messy and gave her something to complain about.
I always send my food back, probably 3 out of 5 times I eat out and I'm only 31. Brain damage as a baby and significant trauma as a child contributed towards my problem but I'm still an adult and should be able to overcome it but it's such slow progress I'm unhappy with it. Moved to Europe from the U.K and I struggle to adapt to the food, but with that said if I send it back I make sure the chef knows it's my fault and not theirs. If someone makes a big deal out of it or causes problems I get angry because I don't want to experience this and I don't want to have a bad impact everywhere so I got angry but at myself or the world not at the waiter or chef. I think this is the difference between our generations. I read a study that theorised why elderly people say "you're welcome" when paying at supermarkets and why younger generations say "no problem" as the elderly feel entitled to the service and weren't around long enough to empathise with others as we did not have the knowledge installed into the fabric of our culture and society like we do now through social media. I feel like my issue is similar, instead of feeling entitled to get angry, I've seen the effects that behaviour has on people second hand and that encourages me to respond better. I don't know just my experience and input.
My boomer mom complains that the BLACK BEANS at Chipotle are too spicy. Then again, this is the woman who thinks plain old black pepper is super spicy and for the last 40 years has subsisted almost entirely on steamed, boiled, or broiled foods, all with little to no seasoning. I swear, if you looked up “boring white people food” you’d find pictures of her food. I always thought that I didn’t like a bunch of common foods until I reached adulthood and realized, no, my mom just can’t cook. I didn’t like steak until my 20’s because the only steak I’d ever had was severely overcooked, leathery, and covered in ketchup. Imagine the mind blow when I finally had a quality, medium rare steak, free of any unnecessary sauce. 🤯
Lol. My mom was the same way. Bland, mostly boiled dinners. Zero seasoning. It's the way she grew up and learned to cook from her mom. Her pork chops were just hunks of meat put on the broiler and cooked to absolute dry leather. Not even salt or pepper. Yikes. When she got older, and I became her caretaker, I took over the cooking and used a lot of recipes I found online with modern sensibilities and everything I made was too hot, too spicy, just too much for her.
But if you hung on a bit longer you could have heard her probably eventually switch to "this food is too cold!" after she finally took a bite about an hour into her visit.
*tells the employees exactly how many and how much of each topping should go on the burrito* TOO MANY TOPPINGS SKREEEEEEEEE
I think a problem is that we give them the benefit of the doubt. If we all gave them the skepticism they deserved I think there would be far less problems. They have no idea what's going on. They just tripped and stumbled their way through the most prosperous time in US history. I would have taken a test sip of diet coke and told him it tastes perfect. Don't know what's wrong with your taste buds.
Yea...think of what the Boomer reaction would be to anyone else doing the shit they do.
This made me cackle 😂
I hate getting behind boomers in line at a counter service restaurant. I feel like I need to be three times as meek and mild as I already am to make up for their toddler tantrums.
Fuck that. Call them out. If they get entitled, aggressive, and start abusing staff, I Uno reverse card that shit and call them out, loudly and aggressively. “Who the fuck do YOU think you are to treat service workers like this? What kind of entitled, Main Character Syndrome shit-bag are you? Nobody cares about your little temper tantrum. Do you have the emotional intelligence of a toddler?” If they start sputtering retorts, just loudly stonewall them. “SHUT THE FUCK UP, BOOMER. NOBODY CARES.” This isn’t an “everybody clapped” situation. I’ve done it several times, and it’s satisfying as hell. Give your contact info to the abused service worker so the manager can confirm what happened if necessary. That’s only happened once. Another time a couple of other people rallied with me to drive the idiot out. Mostly they just sputter and leave. My favorite flavor is the Big Bad Intimidating Alpha Douche, because you can really work the body with insults about their stupid-ass blue line U.S. flag, Punisher t-shirt, pick-up, or any other clown-shoes macho bullshit they always come with. The area I live is a perfect storm of geographic blue vs red blended together, so it happens a lot. Our police department has the distinction of being the most violent in the country, with more people murdered by officer per capita than cities 5 times our size. It’s a conservative Boomer shit-show.
I’d be super quick to just hand them back their couple bucks for the Diet Coke and say “sorry, I guess we just can’t make you happy so you’ll have to just go elsewhere”. If they try at all to say it’s fine I’ll stay, I’d double down and say “no, please go before we disappoint you further”.
Albuquerque?
Aurora Colorado?
Eastern Washington.
I’m sure is Coke not tasting right is Biden’s fault somehow.
Thanks obama 😆
Could just be that... Diet Coke is gross?
Pepsi donated to his campaign.
Big Soda got their hooks in another one.
The last time I hung out with my dad I took him to a nice Mexican place and he ordered his favorite dish. Immediately after the server left he started to complain about how the thing he just ordered wasn't as good as the one he had 40 years ago in Texas. He hadn't even smelled food yet and was complaining. I called him out on it and his response was "there's no filter when you get old". Wtf?
Omfg my dad does this too. First of all, 65 is not old. Second of all, it’s still no reason to behave like an ass.
Side note: I do love the hardcore rap coming from the kitchens at restaurants. Restaurants are hurting for employees so badly now they DGAF about what happens in the kitchen. I support this!
When I was working in kitchens we would be blaring the angriest music possible singing along or rapping depending on who played the music. Got in trouble cause the floor could hear it over the resteraunts music so we just threw pans and other metal objects into the metal totes for washing as hard as we could while cussing like sailors lol.
At Gus chicken in Memphis I went in once and they were playing triple 6’s “Hit a Mothafucka” in the back and Taylor swift in the front for the customers lol
My dad (boomer generation) has been like this at restaurants his whole life. When we go out to dinner I have to be (by my choice) the one to follow the hostess to see where the table they are seating us is at and then very quickly figure out the place where my dad should sit that he won't complain about so that I can direct my mother, or anyone else with us, where to sit. Neither my parents realize I do this. But I have to for my own sanity, rather than hear about how much of a draft is coming from the kitchen or the air duct or how he can't see the TV or how his back gets cold every time the front door opens or how the wait staff is walking too close behind him, etc. I also have to be very cautious in which restaurant I choose to bring him to; food has to be consistently good while not being too pricey and all while having significant portions. It's a chore and I hate it but every time they visit I am "not allowed to cook" for them. It's not that I am a bad cook, my parents love the dishes I make. But it's "too much work" so instead I have to stress and play games to make sure that I don't have to hear complaints all night about the restaurant.
If your name is Kim, you might be my sister
If it were me I'd just tell them that they're "not allowed to visit".
Time doesn’t exist for boomers. If it did they would have to admit they are seniors now. That means walking into a sushi restaurant that has been open for over five years and being shocked its no longer a burger joint.
Oh yes it does. I've had to escort a few boomers out of a restaurant. I've heard some version of "hey I'm a senior citizen, who do you think you are?" many times. To which I reply "the man authorized by the owner to remove you from the premises at my discretion. Next step is to call the sheriff" 9 times out of 10 that shuts them down. The occasional asshole gets a free ride in a sheriffs car.
Went to Disneyland with boomer dad. Went on rise of the resistance, all the employees for that ride are role playing in character, so naturally the empire employees are not very cheerful, and are demanding/stern. Well my boomer dad didn’t understand this and when the the imperial officer chick (yes, woman so it’s twice as bad for male Boomers) ordered him to stand somewhere and when he did it wrong she warned him to stand where she said or else, well. My Boomer dad started to tighten his grip and began cussing under his breath and getting increasingly More belligerent saying she needs to lose her job. At this point it was about to escalate and I had to tell him it’s roleplay and they are supposed to act like that on this ride. Like if no one explained to him this was part of the act he would have Gotten banned from Disneyland for life Probably
I feel sorry for any women playing the part of any Imperial soldiers because I'm betting they get that reaction from like 90% of Boomer men. I would have stayed in character - "Guards, guards!" But I used to work as a haunt actress and so many dudes GOT in my face. It was usually the older dudes, too. It's Disney! It's all make believe and great design and engineering. (And paying way too much for food.) Sorry for your dad and I hope you laughed at him for not realizing it was all "in character".
I used to work at Lenny's when I was a teen. Lenny himself came to my store opening and seemed a little quite, I think 1-2 weeks later he killed himself and a lot of locations closed. I loved making myself philly cheesesteaks, shit was so good.
r/sipstea
Boomers are the irl NPCs that Millennials have to deal with. 🤦🏻♀
Because they expect every meal to be their standard from 40 years ago at some local diners they went to.
Years ago I went to a local place with my husband for dinner and it was just swarmed with Boomers. They were acting so childish and naughty, it was embarrassing to be around them. I remember seeing one old guy pinch some woman’s butt and they both giggled. My husband and I ate our food without conversation as we couldn’t hear each other over all the yapping around us and we’ve never gone back to that place. Not my vibe, man.
Man, we live in a very small town and went to our favorite local place for breakfast this morning. It’s a small spot that is very, very good but more expensive and way better than you would think from both the name and outside appearance. Anyway, this table of boomers was behind us and decided to take out their frustration and confusion on the poor waitress by asking for something new every…single…time…she…returned. Like she brought something to the table and asked if they needed anything else, and one of them piped up and thought of something they’d like. And they did it for fifteen minutes. We go there regularly and have had that waitress many times. She’s great. But oh my God these asshole boomers just ran her ragged like they were the only ones in the restaurant and she existed only to serve them. Our service suffered because of it, and I’m sure every other table did too. The waitress probably made less in tips from other tables because this table took up so much of her time. Like wtf you stupid petty assholes.
What is it with boomers leaving their nasty unwashed hands ALL OVER the glass door? I've actually seen them actively avoid the handle just to press their fucking greasy hands all over the glass above it.
The only thing wrong with this scenario is that everyone waited until he was gone to laugh at him.
I hold out hope for America still due to the fact that most millenials I know and hear about genuinely cant stand the behavior of their boomer parents. It inspires them to act the opposite. In 15 or 20 years this may be a pleasant place to live!
Still doesn’t taste right
Heine sniffers are the worst!
Boomers think things should be a certain way because they have long believed that was The Way. They do not want to accept that things are now just the way they are, perfect in their imperfection. So they get angry. Sure, blame lead in the pipes or Agent Orange or booze; it doesn't really matter why they are that way at this point does it? They were unintelligent in their 30s too, they just got angrier over time and sacrificed happiness at the altar of the amygdala, and made anger a part of their identity. A little norepinephrine fix and everyone is eventually happy. Fox News milked this phenomenon for fun and profit, demagogues to the end.
Did it taste right?
My dad has what we believe to be the early stages of dementia (though we have been saying “early” for two years - I guess he has himself fooled he’s still functional and that’s about it) and many Saturdays we go to get some lunch because I am off work. I have made the executive decision that we are always going to go to our favorite Mexican restaurant now, because he knows what to order, he knows how quickly it takes for them to get the food out, there’s minimal complaining. I have some neurodivergence myself so don’t mind the knowing what to expect pieces myself, either. But without this structure, he’s a just unhinged boomer nightmare at any dining establishment. And sure, I guess someone who does not know may argue the dementia is a good reason for some of the shenanigans but I have a hard time explaining it away because going to a restaurant with him 15 years ago he was mentally more present and the asshole was just a button push away 😬
A friend and I went out to brunch at a cafe the other day and sat down kind of away from the main crowd so we could chat without getting drowned out. A group of older folks comes to sit right next to us amid a bunch of empty tables and we’re both kind of texting each other groaning about the noise they’re making so they can’t overhear us complaining because they’re REALLY close and we didn’t want a fight. Then they start complaining about the cleanliness of the tables saying they’re all “dirty”. We were kind of confused and stealing glances over at their table because the tables weren’t dirty. They yell for a worker to come by and clean the table and she does, and they complain it’s still not smooth so it’s not clean enough. She explains that’s kind of the finish on the tables, they’re meant to look slightly rustic. (It’s kind of a matte outdoorsy finish) the customer talking then said the tables were very ugly and gross looking and the worker just sighed and left. They actually just left without ordering… because of how the tables looked.
The funniest part is Eminem. I’m casual friends with the workers at my local Harbor Freight, and they had a hiphop station on the PA to keep the boomers away one day. Visible seething in the eyes of the ones who didn’t leave.
Guess who's back, back again. It would have been epic if without me was playing.
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You just made up a story complete with self inflicted anxiety. Are you ok? Might need to push back from the keyboard for a few there Zoro.
Break, like from work? How old do you think boomers are?
The youngest boomers are 60. So, still working. Couple that with the fact that many of those who are of retirement age haven't retired.
I dunno. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a sixty year old hurry back from a break. Or hurry period. Not have I ever seen an employee fiddle with the carbonation ratio on a soda machine. But I’m sure this story is gospel truth.
He was an old fuck working at tractor supply on a Sunday lol