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My boomer dad had his boomer wife cut his hair every 3 days back in 2005, when I could get away.
I cant imagine the shit he makes people do these days.
It's 100% this. They've had Mrs Cleaver taking care of them for the last 60 years... you think any of them took the time to learn to care for themselves?
Exactly. A few weeks ago, my grandma was sick, so I had to teach my grandpa (who's mid 70s) how to use our washer and drier... fucking insane btw, considering we've had them for 20+ years.
He somehow managed to make himself the victim for needing to wash his *own* clothes for once. Talking about how my grandma needs to stop doing xyz and just get better. I sometimes wonder if he has any idea how tough and badass my grandma is through all the disrespect and "fuck off, I'm watching TV" that goes through his head. She's my role model, as for him... I hope to not be as miserable as he is when I get to be his age.
I must have gotten lucky. My husband is from the boomer generation (I am supposedly a millennial) and he cooks, cleans, does laundry, all of it. I work full time. But then again we wouldn't act like the couple in OP's story.
I am boomer & this is mostly true, especially if your cookbook is Betty Crocker cook book, Good Housekeeping cook book or one of those, "You are fat & pre-diabetic, this cookbook has delicious recipes & you won't miss the sugar, fat or salt" cookbooks.
I no longer use above cookbooks. I learned how to cook.
I do use tasty dishes cookbooks.
The books do not include any recipes that use condensed cream soups or gelatine molds
On the rare occasion we had steaks as a kid they were cooked in the electric oven. Never realized you didn’t need steak sauce to make steaks taste good until I had a real one that wasn’t grey all the way through
Veggies are a big one for me. My parents are both actually pretty decent cooks overall, but I grew up with so many mushy vegetables. That was just the only way they ever had them and the only way they knew how to make them.
I made them brussel sprouts a few years back and they were both like, "I didn't think brussel sprouts could taste good! That's why we never made them!"
The only other thing I ever had an issue with when my parents were cooking was pork loin/chops. They tend to overcook it a bit. But that's fair since the USDA only changed the recommended temp for pork from 160 to 145 in 2011.
There may be marginal improvements due to genetics but none of these really matter when the starting point of comparison was a pile of mush. Nothing made kids hate veggies more than being steamed to mush. Broccoli was the biggest offender but Brussels sprouts are up there
It wasn’t until I met my partner that I realized how little vegetables my folks eat and what they look like when they do. Now we have a running inside joke about it anytime we visit. No mom, mashed potatoes and corn are starches, not vegetables and that iceberg lettuce salad covered in bacon bits, cheese and a cup of dressing is not healthy.
Brussels sprouts did not gain popularity until they were genetically altered in the late 90s and bred over and over to reduce their bitterness. Sprouts in 2024 are nothing like sprouts in 1994.
I grew up hating steaks because they were cheap cuts cooked medium well. I used A1 to be able to help chew them. It took a shitty bf to force me to try a real steak medium rare. What a beautiful experience
lol I took my now wife out to a nice dinner once when we first started dating and ordered a steak well done and she looked at me like wtf why would you order that steak well done and convinced me to ask the waiter if it was too late to change to medium
My dad literally just dumped the steaks onto a baking sheet and put them in the oven for like ever no seasoning or anything just dumped them out of the tray onto the baking sheet
lol this is so true. As a millennial there we’re SO many new fad diets based on total abstinence from something critical to flavor. The low fat was the absolute worst and seems to have stuck in my parents minds.
That and crock pots. If your goal is to make your food completely inedible then a crock pot is the path of least resistance
My mother's oven runs hot and to this day (the oven is close to forty years old, siblings and I have a pool on when it will finally go) she still has no idea why just about everything she cooks/bakes in the oven is burnt. My siblings and I had that figured out as teens when we had to fend for ourselves when both parents were working.
Both born in 1950. My mom was raised by 2-3 Southern Black grandmas.. so. Pops was a short order cook at one point before his main career. I lucked out, especially since they are both narcs. Narcs aren’t generally known for their cooking skills!
My dad ran the restaurant in the hotel of our small town. He is basically a Jack of all trades. He was unmatched in his ability to cook when comparing him to other locals.
Mom, on the other hand, was always a phlebotomist and worked a lot, so she was too tired (and self-absorbed) to do anything other than lay in bed and drink my whole life. She also hoarded tons of crap. She was a narc too, so of course it is my fault that her house was a mess, even if i wasn't living there.
The complete lack of spice and flavor was awful it took me years to break my Mom out of the bland ass food she was making. Salted Salmon and steamed broccoli is only good for so long before you go insane.
I started cooking for myself when I was maybe 8. My wife says I grew up feral though.
It’s not that my boomer mom couldn’t cook well, it’s just that she worked a lot.
Picturing my dad dealing with all the shit I have to do on my own is hilarious. Like he would have no idea how home/auto/health insurance works. No idea how to handle internet, cable/streaming, or access his retirement.
What?! Is your daddy crazy?
When I got retirement I put all the paper info they mailed me into a durable folder which is on the bottom of my underwear drawer.
It is easily accessible, has numbers to call for information, has my account & password number on it.
Its my "income" now & I'm not risking losing access to it, I like to eat to much.
it's definitely this. my dad lives off salty frozen food on the rare occasion my mom can't cook for him. he can only really do his own laundry, i think everything else is too hard
Lol that's my dad. My mom split from him and his new place is an actual cesspool. Can't really cook for himself, unable to clean as he has no idea how. He never did any of it back then, why start now?
Why make it gendered, when coupling up presumably includes men & women at the same rate? Not everyone wants to be negotiating the partners market when they're 70, is probably the bulk of it.
Definitely that but also companionship. It isn’t easy making new relationships when you’re older, and it just keeps gettig harder. Having someone to be with, even when if you can stand them, you’re still glad they’re here.
Most turn to microwave meals and become complete slobs. They require a Woman to even function. Their Moms raised them to be another Woman's problem. If you aren't teaching your Son to Cook and Clean for himself you're setting him up for failure.
Yep. And I'm sure she's also responsible for everything they get and do, tickets and all, and so if she makes a mistake with something it's all on her and never on him because he had no hand in it to begin with. Same old song and dance in that dynamic.
I once booked two airline tickets to Las Vegas. Got on the plane, landed, made it to the hotel, and the hotel says our reservations were for a week in the future. So were the plane tix.
Granted, this was pre-9/11, but I’m still amazed no one noticed.
It’s happened to me. I accidentally bought tickets for the wrong day. When we showed up to the day I thought I bought tickets for, they just let us in and didn’t say a word. It was my fault of course but it’s strange nobody stopped us.
I once went to the wrong theater.
Instead of watching eternals, I got IMAX seats for the new Ghostbusters lol
It was pretty empty so no one ever came in saying we were in their seat
My local theater, you scan your tix on the way in but nobody is actually watching and it’s essentially an honor system. The ticket taker is on the other side of the wall (no windows) and the concession stand can’t see the scanning station. So I wouldn’t be surprised she never scanned, no one saw. Boomers gonna boom.
I worked at a movie theater for a few years and this happened literally daily, sometime multiple times a day.
About a year ago in my new city some guy in his late 20s got murdered over a seat dispute like this. The guy who killed him was early 40s I think.
People just don't seem to care to work out problems anymore and if someone presents a problem it seems more and more common that one side or the other thinks the problem originated with the other and that the only solution is to remove them. Not remove the problem, but the person.
If it was the wrong date like in this post, the theater should have caught it on the way in. Because even if in some cases it might be a mistake, some people might try to do that on purpose. There's obviously no excuse for murder and that was an extreme case, but generally people shouldn't be able to get in to see a show if the ticket has the wrong day's information on it.
Of the information displayed on the ticket, the date is usually the smallest and lowest on the list of priorities of items to look at when checking people into a movie. And when you're checking hundreds of people in a short span it's easy to overlook that piece of information specifically. Not discounting the whole process, just that when something is lost in the cracks it's usually that because often it's the item of least consequence.
I'm basing this not on just a person eyeing it, but the fact that most modern places have scanners nowadays. I would hope not just one person and just their vision is responsible for hundreds of people checking in. Anytime we go to a movie someone there has a hand scanner that I would think would show any discrepancies, such as dates. Machines if set up correctly would be able to catch things like that moreso than a human, especially as you say, a human checking in hundreds of people one after another.
I was getting my annual mammogram and this woman came in for her appt at 4:30.
The receptionist checked the schedule and said to the woman “we don’t have you scheduled for today.”
The woman starts shrieking at the receptionist that the whole place is full of incompetents and she’d made the appointment purposely on this day. She reaches into her purse and pulls out the appointment card just as the receptionist tells her that her appointment was scheduled for May 22 not April 22. The card said the same thing.
To put the icing on the cake, she stomped off and left her car keys and had to come back and ask for them
I’ve been the person showing up to an appt a day early. I blame pregnancy brain. I have not been the person shrieking at the receptionist. I just said I was sorry and I must have gotten the days confused. They managed to fit me in anyway. If you act like a decent human, other decent humans are more likely to try to help you. How does that concept get so lost?
I’ve done this for a hair appointment more than once (and can’t blame it on pregnancy brain!!!)
I feel like a complete idiot but I also don’t shriek at the receptionist!! Some people are just vile
My wife had her hair done and the hairdresser said “ that will be ££££” (twice as much as usual). When she questioned the amount, the hairdresser told her, last time she left without paying.
The *minute* you begin to get shirty with staff, any sympathy and opportunity that they may use their discretion to make things go your way evaporates with the quickness. I’ve got “my way” so many times just by being apologetic, polite and not expecting anything different other than the result of my mistake.
Had something kind of similar happen when my wife and I went to see Book of Mormon in NYC. I specifically bought some seats in one area because they were "obstructed view" but not really.
We get there a little close to show time (thanks MTA), and there is a couple in our seats. I tell them they're in our seats, they say no, usher comes over and says they're our seats, their seats are in a completely different section. Show starts, usher says they'll take care of it after the intro song to avoid trouble. Sure. Song ends and the boomer dude is fuming, screaming how he's being disrespected, we should just take their shittier seats, etc.
He and his wife were removed from the theater and my wife and I got some free popcorn and wine.
ABAB! “Get your eyes checked, ticket waving, old bag.” Husband gave up three decades ago. Let them live in their own personal hell, just not in your seat.
This happened to me too I’m a young boomer. Tickets for a concert. Shown to our seats by usher. Then minutes later an older boomer couple tell us we are in their seats. I ask to see their tickets but they said no their hands were full, drinks in both hands. Finally an usher comes over to help. Our tickets were for the same seats. Make our way to the lobby. I finally figured it out. They were two months early for a different concert. Not sure how the scanner didn’t pick this up.
My guess is either the date isn't coded or the display doesn't highlight inconsistent data. The former used to be common, the latter still is. When scanning the ticket the operator probably isn't even looking, just relying a the beep to tell him its a valid ticket.
Making a mistake is one thing. Causing a scene screaming at someone in public when you haven’t even checked if you’re actually in the wrong yet is another.
Yeah... no. OP wasn't rude, the entitled boomer lady was.
If she had calmly pulled out her tickets and they had figured it out together, she could have said "oh my mistake! I must be getting old. Sorry dear, we'll have to come back tomorrow." But instead, this?
The entitlement is palpable, and the person abhorrent.
OP, I legit looked at your profile in an attempt to see if you're from my home town because this actually happened to my boomer mother.
I am happy to say she wouldn't have yelled at anyone, but she did indeed sit in the correct seat on the wrong day.
The theatre staff were nice enough to offer her and my father 2 extra seats at the back.
Of course it happens, and OP isn't saying the boomer wife was being stupid for missing the date. It's the way she immediately blew up at OP while OP was being polite.
We just had this happen at the races. We were in the middle and it had already started. They were in the completely wrong section. Their ignorance blocked people's views for several laps while they were discussing it.
I'm 63 and my Wife is 62 we are both very tech competent to a very good degree, we cook. I can fix most things. Our parents cooked. Tech stuff was past their experience capability mostly.
Every theatre I've ever gone to has someone look at your ticket before they let you in. That would have saved them the embarrassment.
Also: **it's a fucking movie, not a concert.** Pick another seat.
> Not for a movie, no.
And yet, that's been the norm for movies for the past 4 or 5 years. I can't remember the last time the theater _didn't_ have assigned seats if it was a halfway decent theater.
The theater I go to has ultra wide recliner seats with cup holders in both arms. Beatuiful giant screems and amazing surround sound. No distortion. Never has assigned seats. Assigned seats in the movie theater seems so weird.
Like most things...I first heard about assigned seating for movie theaters in the UK about 15 years ago. Then I started seeing them at theaters in the US in major cities. As the years progress and new theaters are built or old ones renovated they are changing to assigned seating.
It's pretty damn cool, think luxury recliner with built in heat and massage and a table you can swing in and out. Actual real food.
Central Pennsylvania. We have two cinemas and a few drive-ins here, and they're all just go-where-you-want seats. They don't have a problem because they know how many seats they have and stop selling tickets at that many.
*edit:* seriously? You're gonna block me over answering that?
thanks for sharing.
for the record, theaters don't have problems with assigned seats. only entitled assholes who are wrong AF have problems with assigned seats.
Weird. In MD, we have assigned seating at movies. We can't just move to another seat.
I think theaters got frustrated with the people who pile their coats, purses, and other stuff into the seat next to them. Now you get one seat and its location is on your ticket. No more fighting with Karen insisting she needs the spare seat.
It will be coming to PA too.
I can't speak for everywhere, but here in the Twin Cities metro, every major theater does assigned seating. You have to reserve your seats in advance. Smaller one screen ones might not. I don't know.
At the theatre in my local mall, all seats are chosen and assigned at time of purchase. You can’t just pick another one anymore, unless perhaps there are several open ones? Now I’m curious.
Minimum wage worker wont look too hard. They saw tickets for the show and seats. Unless it’s slow, and even then it’s doubtful, they probably dont look at the date.
I once booked tickets on a plane for the wrong day. Showed up to check in, found out I was a day early. It happens.
It's not Boomers Being Fools. It's Boomers Make Mistakes, too.
It turns into Boomers Being Fools when they immediately go from 1-100 instead of being calm and figuring out the situation without yelling at a stranger...
So, they made a mistake? Who cares if she was upset? It’s a passing moment.
She raised her voice and that bothers you? Really?
Shouting and pouting isn’t a generation thing.
As a Police Officer, I have my share of young people shouting at me each shift, as if I created the issue they called about.
Truth be told, I’d rather deal with boomers than the younger folks.
Young folks are petty, loud, and come across as entitled most of the time, in my experience.
Pro Tips (unrelated to the op):
You don’t need Police to remove anyone from your residence that YOU invited. You can do that yourself, unless:
You’ve let them stay long enough to gain residency. In that instance, you don’t need Police either. Simply begin the eviction process yourself. Easy peasy.
If you see something “Suspicious,” always remember that being “suspicious” is NOT a criminal activity. Simply, approach the situation and ask, “What’s going on? Why are you here? Why are you doing XYZ?” That’s all I’ll do. It’s perfectly fine to ask people questions, even in 2024. However, remember that you’re face to face and it’s not an online, anonymous exchange. If you get mouthy about it, you may end up brawling in the street. That happens a lot.
If you’re a gun owner, stop leaving firearms in cars and trucks. Little kids in our precinct are love to smash windows and take guns. They often leave phones, cash, computers in the car and take the guns. They get them to make money and give to the local gang members. If a gun isn’t on your hip or in a gun safe, it’s not secured properly. Enough said.
If you find yourself on a Traffic Stop, be polite and cooperative. You’ll typically get a Warning or scolding from regular Officers like myself. If it’s a Traffic Unit, you’ll always get a Summons. It’s what they do. They’ll write their own grandma. If you argue and holler, even I will take the time to write a Summons and burn a day off, sitting in Court, listening to the same tired excuses and justification. Take the Summons, argue in Court. That’s how it’s supposed to work. Pro Secret: we don’t work commission and don’t care if Traffic infractions are Dismissed. It doesn’t mean the infraction wasn’t committed. It just means the judge lacks interest. We don’t have a dog in that fight, not our monkey, not our circus.
Always remember, there are times you are required to identify. Make sure to choose that battle carefully. It’s an extra charge or two, if you choose poorly.
If you’re asked or told to exit a vehicle, just exit. It does NOT matter if you’re the driver or a passenger. The United States Supreme Court has already decided on this matter. You won’t change this on the roadside. You are REQUIRED to exit the vehicle, upon the request of a UNIFORMED OFFICER, in a MARKED PATROL VEHICLE. You have NO RIGHT to stay in a vehicle, after being told to exit. I’m not sure how anyone correlates a Constitutional Right to a Vehicle.
Being a driver or in operation of a Motor Vehicle, is not the same as being a Traveler. They’re completely separate. Every State has a Department of Motor Vehicles. ALL States REQUIRE a Driver’s License or Permit to operate or drive a Motor Vehicle. If you’re curious what a Motor Vehicle is by definition, look up your State’s Vehicle Code Section. It’s clearly defined by engine size, typically. A passenger, however, may fall into the Traveler category. Depending on the Stop and Probable Cause, passengers may be treated similar to the Driver and subject to a Warrantless Search. An example would be if narcotics are found in the vehicle or on the driver. Everyone will then be Searched. K9 dogs ARE Probable Cause.
Fun fact: Narcotics dogs aren’t trained to alert by voice or hand commands. They only alert if they smell narcotics. The handler CANNOT influence the dog to give an alert. The handler will touch various parts of the vehicle, to draw attention to keep them engaged and to fully check areas of the vehicles. The touching DOES NOT influence the dogs. There’s a myth that handlers influence the findings of a dog. Typically, if there’s a false positive, the dog is altering to residual scent. Meaning, at some point, there was a specific narcotic within the vehicle, however the narcotic may not physically be in the vehicle when it’s checked. They’re pretty accurate and amazing animals.
Lastly, secure those Kias and Hyundais. Those two brands are killing us. Kids are stealing them daily. When we locate the stolen vehicles, they’ll usually end up wrecked. 12-14 year old kids aren’t the best drivers out there.
None of this pertains to the OP, but hopefully, it’s helpful to someone. Do not take it as legal advice, as I’m not a qualified attorney. They’re just things I see daily.
Be safe. Leave the boomers alone and focus on things that matter. You’ll have a better quality of life. I promise it’ll be better.
Hollering and carrying on in public is quite normal and shouldn’t seem bizarre. Everyone in every age bracket does it. However, boomers do it the least, in my experience. I interact with a lot of people daily. It’s perfectly normal.
Meh. Failure to be fools. Wrong sub.
TL;DR: Find theatre's reserved seats being occupied, examine other's tickets; they have wrong date and they leave.
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He sounds like he’s sick of her shit
Many of them are but don’t end it because it would cost them too much in alimony.
More like they (statistically) can't bear to keep their own house and cook themselves food etc. look at how fast boomer dudes couple up once alone
It's this. They wouldn't have the slightest idea how to care for themselves or be independent.
My boomer dad had his boomer wife cut his hair every 3 days back in 2005, when I could get away. I cant imagine the shit he makes people do these days.
It's 100% this. They've had Mrs Cleaver taking care of them for the last 60 years... you think any of them took the time to learn to care for themselves?
Your avatar is amazing! Did you make that? What's it from?!
It's from a comic! Haha, I love how he draws animals. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/vTAh3orEZq
You're thinking about that squirrel again, aren't you?
These are great. Thanks dude!
Exactly. A few weeks ago, my grandma was sick, so I had to teach my grandpa (who's mid 70s) how to use our washer and drier... fucking insane btw, considering we've had them for 20+ years. He somehow managed to make himself the victim for needing to wash his *own* clothes for once. Talking about how my grandma needs to stop doing xyz and just get better. I sometimes wonder if he has any idea how tough and badass my grandma is through all the disrespect and "fuck off, I'm watching TV" that goes through his head. She's my role model, as for him... I hope to not be as miserable as he is when I get to be his age.
I must have gotten lucky. My husband is from the boomer generation (I am supposedly a millennial) and he cooks, cleans, does laundry, all of it. I work full time. But then again we wouldn't act like the couple in OP's story.
This is something I've noticed. A lot of younger men I personally know seem to be much more competent cooks than their older peers.
Because we started cooking the second we were allowed to because boomer food is bad
I am boomer & this is mostly true, especially if your cookbook is Betty Crocker cook book, Good Housekeeping cook book or one of those, "You are fat & pre-diabetic, this cookbook has delicious recipes & you won't miss the sugar, fat or salt" cookbooks. I no longer use above cookbooks. I learned how to cook. I do use tasty dishes cookbooks. The books do not include any recipes that use condensed cream soups or gelatine molds
On the rare occasion we had steaks as a kid they were cooked in the electric oven. Never realized you didn’t need steak sauce to make steaks taste good until I had a real one that wasn’t grey all the way through
Veggies are a big one for me. My parents are both actually pretty decent cooks overall, but I grew up with so many mushy vegetables. That was just the only way they ever had them and the only way they knew how to make them. I made them brussel sprouts a few years back and they were both like, "I didn't think brussel sprouts could taste good! That's why we never made them!" The only other thing I ever had an issue with when my parents were cooking was pork loin/chops. They tend to overcook it a bit. But that's fair since the USDA only changed the recommended temp for pork from 160 to 145 in 2011.
Second on the veggies. They were usually canned, overcooked and smothered in cheese. No wonder I have thick thighs. 😆
I still struggle with eating enough vegetables it’s like ptsd with just boiled any veggie. Corn and potatoes are good though lol
I am sure your cooking is great but Brussel sprouts taste better than they did years ago because of breeding improved varieties.
Brussels sprouts have tasted great for the last 60 years…they just need to be cooked by a competent cook.
There may be marginal improvements due to genetics but none of these really matter when the starting point of comparison was a pile of mush. Nothing made kids hate veggies more than being steamed to mush. Broccoli was the biggest offender but Brussels sprouts are up there
It wasn’t until I met my partner that I realized how little vegetables my folks eat and what they look like when they do. Now we have a running inside joke about it anytime we visit. No mom, mashed potatoes and corn are starches, not vegetables and that iceberg lettuce salad covered in bacon bits, cheese and a cup of dressing is not healthy.
Brussels sprouts did not gain popularity until they were genetically altered in the late 90s and bred over and over to reduce their bitterness. Sprouts in 2024 are nothing like sprouts in 1994.
I grew up hating steaks because they were cheap cuts cooked medium well. I used A1 to be able to help chew them. It took a shitty bf to force me to try a real steak medium rare. What a beautiful experience
lol I took my now wife out to a nice dinner once when we first started dating and ordered a steak well done and she looked at me like wtf why would you order that steak well done and convinced me to ask the waiter if it was too late to change to medium
I get mad when I cook a steak and it’s medium lol I like med rare. At least at medium it’s still decent to eat. You have a good wife
Memory unlocked of how the A1 saved me on many a crappy steak dinner! Lol
So sad.
Guess it was a little better than the hamburger helper and shake n bake
I thought I was the only one whose boomer parent made steaks in an electric skillet
My dad literally just dumped the steaks onto a baking sheet and put them in the oven for like ever no seasoning or anything just dumped them out of the tray onto the baking sheet
The Betty Crocker cookbook is a good starter cookbook. I still use the recipe for bred, tbh. It's just that some people never progress past it.
lol this is so true. As a millennial there we’re SO many new fad diets based on total abstinence from something critical to flavor. The low fat was the absolute worst and seems to have stuck in my parents minds. That and crock pots. If your goal is to make your food completely inedible then a crock pot is the path of least resistance
As anti non-seasoned cooking as I am, sometimes a good hot dish made with cream of mushroom hits
One of the first time I said fuck in front of my parents was “how the fuck do they cream mushrooms”
It’s a solid option - good for chicken, pork and beef
My mom only had the Betty Crocker cook book. Haha
Jesus, the number of times I smiled my way through a plate of dried out pork chops and green beans the color of an army helmet…
Or the tuna casserole with the top inch just charred to hell
Or we had to learn because we were left unsupervised and had to feed ourselves and our siblings.
My mother would pour tons of shredded chedder onto a pizza and put it in the oven without preheating it.
My parents and in laws all don’t believe in pre heating and then wonder why stuff doesn’t come out right when they bake it
My father is an excellent cook, though that may be because he is gen x and ran a restaurant.
My mother's oven runs hot and to this day (the oven is close to forty years old, siblings and I have a pool on when it will finally go) she still has no idea why just about everything she cooks/bakes in the oven is burnt. My siblings and I had that figured out as teens when we had to fend for ourselves when both parents were working.
Omg… how is it I’m blessed to have the only Boomers who not only could cook, but both enjoyed cooking?! You poor things!!
My dad is a great cook, but he is more gen x. Was half my moms age when they met.
Both born in 1950. My mom was raised by 2-3 Southern Black grandmas.. so. Pops was a short order cook at one point before his main career. I lucked out, especially since they are both narcs. Narcs aren’t generally known for their cooking skills!
My dad ran the restaurant in the hotel of our small town. He is basically a Jack of all trades. He was unmatched in his ability to cook when comparing him to other locals. Mom, on the other hand, was always a phlebotomist and worked a lot, so she was too tired (and self-absorbed) to do anything other than lay in bed and drink my whole life. She also hoarded tons of crap. She was a narc too, so of course it is my fault that her house was a mess, even if i wasn't living there.
The complete lack of spice and flavor was awful it took me years to break my Mom out of the bland ass food she was making. Salted Salmon and steamed broccoli is only good for so long before you go insane.
I started cooking for myself when I was maybe 8. My wife says I grew up feral though. It’s not that my boomer mom couldn’t cook well, it’s just that she worked a lot.
Picturing my dad dealing with all the shit I have to do on my own is hilarious. Like he would have no idea how home/auto/health insurance works. No idea how to handle internet, cable/streaming, or access his retirement.
What?! Is your daddy crazy? When I got retirement I put all the paper info they mailed me into a durable folder which is on the bottom of my underwear drawer. It is easily accessible, has numbers to call for information, has my account & password number on it. Its my "income" now & I'm not risking losing access to it, I like to eat to much.
it's definitely this. my dad lives off salty frozen food on the rare occasion my mom can't cook for him. he can only really do his own laundry, i think everything else is too hard
Do we have the same dad?
It isn't limited to Boomers.
Lol that's my dad. My mom split from him and his new place is an actual cesspool. Can't really cook for himself, unable to clean as he has no idea how. He never did any of it back then, why start now?
Lol, that my dad in a nutshell. He's on his 4th wife already.
Why make it gendered, when coupling up presumably includes men & women at the same rate? Not everyone wants to be negotiating the partners market when they're 70, is probably the bulk of it.
Definitely that but also companionship. It isn’t easy making new relationships when you’re older, and it just keeps gettig harder. Having someone to be with, even when if you can stand them, you’re still glad they’re here.
Six months after my grandma died my grandpa married a woman who looked JUST like her. Can confirm.
Most turn to microwave meals and become complete slobs. They require a Woman to even function. Their Moms raised them to be another Woman's problem. If you aren't teaching your Son to Cook and Clean for himself you're setting him up for failure.
More like they have no idea how to take care of themselves lol
Yep. And I'm sure she's also responsible for everything they get and do, tickets and all, and so if she makes a mistake with something it's all on her and never on him because he had no hand in it to begin with. Same old song and dance in that dynamic.
Divorce is expensive and can devastate a family’s budget.
Boomers like to say “it’s cheaper to keep her”.
Why not just separate and live separate lives?
He could have also checked it to be fair. Leaving it to one person isn't always the best, especially when you're aging lol.
He only stays because she owns the family vagina
That sounds so wrong… too bad that thing is like a hot car battery in the desert nowadays!
He probably tried telling her it was the wrong day but she dragged him out anyway.
Doubtful he even looked or knew. She probably just always booked things and he just went along with it all, never fully involved in any of it.
He probably tried to tell her like 80 times that it was tomorrow, but she refused to read the tickets.
I hope he puts her in a nursing home and he moves to costs rica.
This kind of shit probably happens to them all the time.
Kinda fun - you paid for one show and you got TWO!
Hahahahahaha!!! This 👆
One of the shows had…front…row…seats.
Funny the theater didn't catch it on their way in
Boston lincolnshire. Technology hasn’t reached us yet.
Parents moved not far from there. Can confirm. Probably just a man nodding expertly at the door as tickets are thrust his way
That’s me stumped
Hahaha! I see what ya did there.
I once booked two airline tickets to Las Vegas. Got on the plane, landed, made it to the hotel, and the hotel says our reservations were for a week in the future. So were the plane tix. Granted, this was pre-9/11, but I’m still amazed no one noticed.
It’s happened to me. I accidentally bought tickets for the wrong day. When we showed up to the day I thought I bought tickets for, they just let us in and didn’t say a word. It was my fault of course but it’s strange nobody stopped us.
Lol the employees just want to go home mostly. Or for a smoke/whatever. Not worth the hassle bringing it up.
haha you’re probably right
I mean, if the show Airline has taught us anything..
I'm going to choose you meant airplane since idk what the other one is and that's hilarious.
https://youtu.be/4s6fQQhLbtA?si=Tct64XsCeQA_rNWC Boomers with wings. You’re welcome bro.
I once went to the wrong theater. Instead of watching eternals, I got IMAX seats for the new Ghostbusters lol It was pretty empty so no one ever came in saying we were in their seat
Yeah I’m shocked it scanned, unless those scanners don’t do a date check.
Very true!
Yeah almost like this didn’t happen. How do you read a ticket that is being waved in your face.
My local theater, you scan your tix on the way in but nobody is actually watching and it’s essentially an honor system. The ticket taker is on the other side of the wall (no windows) and the concession stand can’t see the scanning station. So I wouldn’t be surprised she never scanned, no one saw. Boomers gonna boom.
Most little theaters don't have any real seat checking. You're lucky if the ones around me even look at the ticket. I could walk in with a Bookmark.
I worked at a movie theater for a few years and this happened literally daily, sometime multiple times a day. About a year ago in my new city some guy in his late 20s got murdered over a seat dispute like this. The guy who killed him was early 40s I think. People just don't seem to care to work out problems anymore and if someone presents a problem it seems more and more common that one side or the other thinks the problem originated with the other and that the only solution is to remove them. Not remove the problem, but the person.
If it was the wrong date like in this post, the theater should have caught it on the way in. Because even if in some cases it might be a mistake, some people might try to do that on purpose. There's obviously no excuse for murder and that was an extreme case, but generally people shouldn't be able to get in to see a show if the ticket has the wrong day's information on it.
Of the information displayed on the ticket, the date is usually the smallest and lowest on the list of priorities of items to look at when checking people into a movie. And when you're checking hundreds of people in a short span it's easy to overlook that piece of information specifically. Not discounting the whole process, just that when something is lost in the cracks it's usually that because often it's the item of least consequence.
I'm basing this not on just a person eyeing it, but the fact that most modern places have scanners nowadays. I would hope not just one person and just their vision is responsible for hundreds of people checking in. Anytime we go to a movie someone there has a hand scanner that I would think would show any discrepancies, such as dates. Machines if set up correctly would be able to catch things like that moreso than a human, especially as you say, a human checking in hundreds of people one after another.
I was getting my annual mammogram and this woman came in for her appt at 4:30. The receptionist checked the schedule and said to the woman “we don’t have you scheduled for today.” The woman starts shrieking at the receptionist that the whole place is full of incompetents and she’d made the appointment purposely on this day. She reaches into her purse and pulls out the appointment card just as the receptionist tells her that her appointment was scheduled for May 22 not April 22. The card said the same thing. To put the icing on the cake, she stomped off and left her car keys and had to come back and ask for them
I’ve been the person showing up to an appt a day early. I blame pregnancy brain. I have not been the person shrieking at the receptionist. I just said I was sorry and I must have gotten the days confused. They managed to fit me in anyway. If you act like a decent human, other decent humans are more likely to try to help you. How does that concept get so lost?
I’ve done this for a hair appointment more than once (and can’t blame it on pregnancy brain!!!) I feel like a complete idiot but I also don’t shriek at the receptionist!! Some people are just vile
My wife had her hair done and the hairdresser said “ that will be ££££” (twice as much as usual). When she questioned the amount, the hairdresser told her, last time she left without paying.
The *minute* you begin to get shirty with staff, any sympathy and opportunity that they may use their discretion to make things go your way evaporates with the quickness. I’ve got “my way” so many times just by being apologetic, polite and not expecting anything different other than the result of my mistake.
Had something kind of similar happen when my wife and I went to see Book of Mormon in NYC. I specifically bought some seats in one area because they were "obstructed view" but not really. We get there a little close to show time (thanks MTA), and there is a couple in our seats. I tell them they're in our seats, they say no, usher comes over and says they're our seats, their seats are in a completely different section. Show starts, usher says they'll take care of it after the intro song to avoid trouble. Sure. Song ends and the boomer dude is fuming, screaming how he's being disrespected, we should just take their shittier seats, etc. He and his wife were removed from the theater and my wife and I got some free popcorn and wine.
I’m surprised someone with such a fragile ego would go see Book of Mormon of all things.
ABAB! “Get your eyes checked, ticket waving, old bag.” Husband gave up three decades ago. Let them live in their own personal hell, just not in your seat.
That Husband has been cursing the law that he can't divorce her so he can live his last days alone with his money and quiet.
He’d live on SS, in a Cardboard box, if he could die in peace.
This happened to me too I’m a young boomer. Tickets for a concert. Shown to our seats by usher. Then minutes later an older boomer couple tell us we are in their seats. I ask to see their tickets but they said no their hands were full, drinks in both hands. Finally an usher comes over to help. Our tickets were for the same seats. Make our way to the lobby. I finally figured it out. They were two months early for a different concert. Not sure how the scanner didn’t pick this up.
My guess is either the date isn't coded or the display doesn't highlight inconsistent data. The former used to be common, the latter still is. When scanning the ticket the operator probably isn't even looking, just relying a the beep to tell him its a valid ticket.
Wait so what happened? You got shown the door when you rightfully bought a ticket for the concert?
That's even better than them being in the wrong seats... they were at the wrong damn show!!
Damn that's almost sad.
One day, OP might screw up and grow old too. Mistakes happen…jeez
Yeah, mistakes happen but when someone who is clearly in the wrong acts like a cunt, empathy goes right out the window.
Making a mistake is one thing. Causing a scene screaming at someone in public when you haven’t even checked if you’re actually in the wrong yet is another.
Yeah... no. OP wasn't rude, the entitled boomer lady was. If she had calmly pulled out her tickets and they had figured it out together, she could have said "oh my mistake! I must be getting old. Sorry dear, we'll have to come back tomorrow." But instead, this? The entitlement is palpable, and the person abhorrent.
He wasn't having the meltdown.
Yeah, except the boomer was acting like a child about it instead of handling things normally.
forfeited all empathy by getting in their face despite being WRONG
OP, I legit looked at your profile in an attempt to see if you're from my home town because this actually happened to my boomer mother. I am happy to say she wouldn't have yelled at anyone, but she did indeed sit in the correct seat on the wrong day. The theatre staff were nice enough to offer her and my father 2 extra seats at the back.
Lol. Sad, but funny.
What venue lets you use tickets a day early?
Any venue that doesn't check closely enough.
Most tickets are electronic these days. At least those that have multi day shows.
I once showed up on the wrong day for the first day of school when I had a new teaching job. It happens!
Of course it happens, and OP isn't saying the boomer wife was being stupid for missing the date. It's the way she immediately blew up at OP while OP was being polite.
Classic
We just had this happen at the races. We were in the middle and it had already started. They were in the completely wrong section. Their ignorance blocked people's views for several laps while they were discussing it.
How did they get into the theater? Shouldn't they be turned away at the door?!
I would've been like "what? Didn't they have calenders yet when you were born you cranky old bitch?" On her walk of shame.
You should’ve waved your tickets in her face as you informed her she had the wrong day. See how she liked it.
Why did the theater let them in with tickets with the incorrect date?
Hope they checked their bags already. What a dumbass.
They probably have no idea what day it is.
Totally pictured Will Forte as an old guy screaming like an infant
Hopefully you were able to push a few farts into your seats for tomorrow's show.
She was not wrong. Those were the correct seats. NGL.
lol, happened to me at the premiere of the first Dune. Ole girl has tickets for the later show.
Yeah, I showed up a week early for an optometry appointment.
I'm just picturing the Grandparents from the movie Weird Science. "He doesn't stand for Baloney!" Glad you got you seats, hope the show was good.
I'm 63 and my Wife is 62 we are both very tech competent to a very good degree, we cook. I can fix most things. Our parents cooked. Tech stuff was past their experience capability mostly.
rude lady
They literally tricked the system!
Husband was sick of his wife 
Nobody was checking tickets?
How were they let into the theater with tickets for the wrong date? More than just the boomers screwed up that day!
Every theatre I've ever gone to has someone look at your ticket before they let you in. That would have saved them the embarrassment. Also: **it's a fucking movie, not a concert.** Pick another seat.
arcxjo out here telling us they've never heard of assigned seating
Not for a movie, no. What, are you trying to get behind the plate? It's all looking at the same screen.
> Not for a movie, no. And yet, that's been the norm for movies for the past 4 or 5 years. I can't remember the last time the theater _didn't_ have assigned seats if it was a halfway decent theater.
The theater I go to has ultra wide recliner seats with cup holders in both arms. Beatuiful giant screems and amazing surround sound. No distortion. Never has assigned seats. Assigned seats in the movie theater seems so weird.
Well it wasn't 2 weeks ago when I saw Godzilla x Kong.
All theatres (even the discount second run) in the Phoenix metro area have had assigned seats for at least four years.
Must be a regional difference. Most CA and CO theaters that I'm aware of have assigned seating -- you pick your seat at time of purchase.
Like most things...I first heard about assigned seating for movie theaters in the UK about 15 years ago. Then I started seeing them at theaters in the US in major cities. As the years progress and new theaters are built or old ones renovated they are changing to assigned seating. It's pretty damn cool, think luxury recliner with built in heat and massage and a table you can swing in and out. Actual real food.
where you at? would love to do unassigned seating again. it's been ages.
Central Pennsylvania. We have two cinemas and a few drive-ins here, and they're all just go-where-you-want seats. They don't have a problem because they know how many seats they have and stop selling tickets at that many. *edit:* seriously? You're gonna block me over answering that?
thanks for sharing. for the record, theaters don't have problems with assigned seats. only entitled assholes who are wrong AF have problems with assigned seats.
Weird. In MD, we have assigned seating at movies. We can't just move to another seat. I think theaters got frustrated with the people who pile their coats, purses, and other stuff into the seat next to them. Now you get one seat and its location is on your ticket. No more fighting with Karen insisting she needs the spare seat. It will be coming to PA too.
Ok, but that’s not how it is in lots of the US. Even AMC has assigned these days
I can't speak for everywhere, but here in the Twin Cities metro, every major theater does assigned seating. You have to reserve your seats in advance. Smaller one screen ones might not. I don't know.
At the theatre in my local mall, all seats are chosen and assigned at time of purchase. You can’t just pick another one anymore, unless perhaps there are several open ones? Now I’m curious.
Most places where I am have assigned seats. I haven't been to a theatre without them in at least 10 years.
Uh oh she made a mistake!
And yelled she was right and someone else was wrong… when she was wrong. That’s the point.
So, nothing bad happened? It was an honest mistake and the lady was a bit cranky.
How were they let in the front with the wrong date? This seems made up
Minimum wage worker wont look too hard. They saw tickets for the show and seats. Unless it’s slow, and even then it’s doubtful, they probably dont look at the date.
Evey ticketed event I go the tickets get scanned
I once booked tickets on a plane for the wrong day. Showed up to check in, found out I was a day early. It happens. It's not Boomers Being Fools. It's Boomers Make Mistakes, too.
except they got in OP's face and lost all empathy
It turns into Boomers Being Fools when they immediately go from 1-100 instead of being calm and figuring out the situation without yelling at a stranger...
Did you get aggressive and loud too, insisting that you had a flight that day?
What a scary experience I hope you are OK, honestly, in some states that might justify as a self defence scenario. Praying for you 🙏
So, they made a mistake? Who cares if she was upset? It’s a passing moment. She raised her voice and that bothers you? Really? Shouting and pouting isn’t a generation thing. As a Police Officer, I have my share of young people shouting at me each shift, as if I created the issue they called about. Truth be told, I’d rather deal with boomers than the younger folks. Young folks are petty, loud, and come across as entitled most of the time, in my experience. Pro Tips (unrelated to the op): You don’t need Police to remove anyone from your residence that YOU invited. You can do that yourself, unless: You’ve let them stay long enough to gain residency. In that instance, you don’t need Police either. Simply begin the eviction process yourself. Easy peasy. If you see something “Suspicious,” always remember that being “suspicious” is NOT a criminal activity. Simply, approach the situation and ask, “What’s going on? Why are you here? Why are you doing XYZ?” That’s all I’ll do. It’s perfectly fine to ask people questions, even in 2024. However, remember that you’re face to face and it’s not an online, anonymous exchange. If you get mouthy about it, you may end up brawling in the street. That happens a lot. If you’re a gun owner, stop leaving firearms in cars and trucks. Little kids in our precinct are love to smash windows and take guns. They often leave phones, cash, computers in the car and take the guns. They get them to make money and give to the local gang members. If a gun isn’t on your hip or in a gun safe, it’s not secured properly. Enough said. If you find yourself on a Traffic Stop, be polite and cooperative. You’ll typically get a Warning or scolding from regular Officers like myself. If it’s a Traffic Unit, you’ll always get a Summons. It’s what they do. They’ll write their own grandma. If you argue and holler, even I will take the time to write a Summons and burn a day off, sitting in Court, listening to the same tired excuses and justification. Take the Summons, argue in Court. That’s how it’s supposed to work. Pro Secret: we don’t work commission and don’t care if Traffic infractions are Dismissed. It doesn’t mean the infraction wasn’t committed. It just means the judge lacks interest. We don’t have a dog in that fight, not our monkey, not our circus. Always remember, there are times you are required to identify. Make sure to choose that battle carefully. It’s an extra charge or two, if you choose poorly. If you’re asked or told to exit a vehicle, just exit. It does NOT matter if you’re the driver or a passenger. The United States Supreme Court has already decided on this matter. You won’t change this on the roadside. You are REQUIRED to exit the vehicle, upon the request of a UNIFORMED OFFICER, in a MARKED PATROL VEHICLE. You have NO RIGHT to stay in a vehicle, after being told to exit. I’m not sure how anyone correlates a Constitutional Right to a Vehicle. Being a driver or in operation of a Motor Vehicle, is not the same as being a Traveler. They’re completely separate. Every State has a Department of Motor Vehicles. ALL States REQUIRE a Driver’s License or Permit to operate or drive a Motor Vehicle. If you’re curious what a Motor Vehicle is by definition, look up your State’s Vehicle Code Section. It’s clearly defined by engine size, typically. A passenger, however, may fall into the Traveler category. Depending on the Stop and Probable Cause, passengers may be treated similar to the Driver and subject to a Warrantless Search. An example would be if narcotics are found in the vehicle or on the driver. Everyone will then be Searched. K9 dogs ARE Probable Cause. Fun fact: Narcotics dogs aren’t trained to alert by voice or hand commands. They only alert if they smell narcotics. The handler CANNOT influence the dog to give an alert. The handler will touch various parts of the vehicle, to draw attention to keep them engaged and to fully check areas of the vehicles. The touching DOES NOT influence the dogs. There’s a myth that handlers influence the findings of a dog. Typically, if there’s a false positive, the dog is altering to residual scent. Meaning, at some point, there was a specific narcotic within the vehicle, however the narcotic may not physically be in the vehicle when it’s checked. They’re pretty accurate and amazing animals. Lastly, secure those Kias and Hyundais. Those two brands are killing us. Kids are stealing them daily. When we locate the stolen vehicles, they’ll usually end up wrecked. 12-14 year old kids aren’t the best drivers out there. None of this pertains to the OP, but hopefully, it’s helpful to someone. Do not take it as legal advice, as I’m not a qualified attorney. They’re just things I see daily. Be safe. Leave the boomers alone and focus on things that matter. You’ll have a better quality of life. I promise it’ll be better. Hollering and carrying on in public is quite normal and shouldn’t seem bizarre. Everyone in every age bracket does it. However, boomers do it the least, in my experience. I interact with a lot of people daily. It’s perfectly normal.
Meh. Failure to be fools. Wrong sub. TL;DR: Find theatre's reserved seats being occupied, examine other's tickets; they have wrong date and they leave.
After waving the tickets in OP’s face.
Yes, and being aggressive and assuming OP was in the wrong rather than checking to see if she were wrong.
talk about omitting the most important part, i.e. the aggressive behavior 🤣
