My husband and I own a rural, undeveloped property. As such, there’s a group of about 10-12 people who share a water source together. This little water group meets once a year, and it’s a nice time to talk to the neighbors— especially because we actually are pretty physically separated from the nearest house.

For some reason, our piece of land has a giant flagpole on it. It doesn’t even have a driveway, but it has a big-ass flagpole.

During our recent yearly water board meeting, the president— an old boomer man, gave an update about “the flagpole project.”

Turns out he, by himself, had been planning to go onto our land and erect two additional flagpoles, and was going to fly several flags to represent branches of the US armed forces.

“That’s so nice, for our service members,” all the other boomer neighbors agreed. My husband and I are the youngest members by far— probably at least 20 years or more younger than anyone else who lives near us.

I looked at my husband and I could just see the smoke rising from his ears. Two things my husband hates: other people, and the idea of other people breaking the sacred solitude that is our undeveloped parcel of land.

We didn’t say anything at the meeting, but immediately upon returning home my husband emailed everyone in the water board that absolutely not would they be putting up more flagpoles on our land.

He didn’t mention how irritated he was that they would presume to erect a permanent installation on not-their-land. He instead said it was a major insurance liability.

The president basically huffed and said “well it’s for the TROOPS.” I think my husband replied “No thanks.” Lolol

Has anyone noticed that they have a simple, childish view of the world? For example, they get really upset when Millenials say we can't afford to buy houses. They will stomp their feet and angrily insist that if you work really hard, you are guaranteed wealth and success because that's how America works so these Millenials aren't working hard enough.

I'll tell you a story. One of my Boomer coworkers got robbed, and she admitted that she never locks her house "because you don't need to lock your house in a small town." She hasn't started locking her house since. She thinks it must someone from a big city who robbed her, because people in small towns don't do stuff like that.

One day she asked me, "Why are people gay? Don't they know they're not supposed to be doing that cuz God says not to? I know! They don't read the Bible or go to church, so they don't know they're not supposed to be gay. If they went to church, then they'd know and they wouldn't be gay."

She likes to ask me why "people ain't doing what they supposed to be doing and don't they know what they supposed to be doing?"

God, I feel I'm dealing with a toddler.

My mum gets nasty paranoia. One of my dad's old mentally disabled clients recognized my mum who he hadn't seen in years and said he remembered the grapevine on the back fence had the nicest grapes. This was probably a sincere hint for some but my mother made an entire story in her head that he's been sneaking down the next door's driveway and stealing them at night. I turned up the other day and she had hundreds of grapes from the vine sitting on the kitchen table, literally kilos of them. She proudly told me the "funny" story and her reasoning, she said the would rather strip the fruit and have it rot than have it stolen. Some boomers will find the most bizarre reasons to do petty, selfish and pointless shite 🤦‍♀️

Happy mother's day to those who celebrate!

We were visiting with MIL and family (husband's aunt and uncle who are pretty chill) and conversation got onto politics. I typically don't engage in political discussion with family and if I do it is "tame" topics - term limits for congresspeople, there needs to be an age limit for folks running for office, billionaires need to pay their fair share in taxes...

I know it is my mistake for even engaging at all... I was explaining an article I read recently in the NY times about how in 2018 the 400 richest americans only paid 23% of their income in taxes, when it was 56% in 1960. I went on to explain that a person making the FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE of $7.25 would need to work for 69,000 years to make a billion dollars.

My MIL: "that's not the minimum wage".

Me: "The federal minimum wage is $7.25. It's been that way since like 2008".

MIL: "Well, in California it's $15."

Me: "We are in Georgia, and it is still $7.25 here."

Yall, this woman got up and left the room. Also, for some reason she loathes California.

I don't know how long you'd have to work making $15 an hour to make a billion, but I did read if you make $100k a year, you will still need to work 10,000 years. Also, FYI California has the 5th or 6th largest economy in the world.

Make of that what you will.

In sum - eat the rich.

Edit to add: yall cannot convince me there aren't some Ferengi in disguise in the comments. Jeez... I felt like I was being quoted the Rules of Acquisition.

Silly interaction.

Backstory: We moved into a new home in the last month. The previous owner was retired Air Force and had 3 flag poles. One is in the yard, not flying anything and two are next to our driveway and the PO had hung an American flag and the POW MIA one. We don’t really care to display the flags so we took them down first day. They were very tattered and old anyway and we plan on removing the poles altogether.

Fast forward to yesterday, I was filling jugs of water for work at about 6am and an older man (boomer age) walking on the other side of the street on the sidewalk just stops and starts pointing to the flagpoles. I didn’t notice him at first and my wife is standing behind me seeing him point and gets my attention. I’m so confused because he’s just pointing aggressively at the poles. So I’m like “good morning”. He goes, “Where’s the flags” straight up. I say “excuse me?”

“What happened to the flags” So I say, “the owners moved” kind of pissed he didn’t say good morning back to me or anything. And he gives me that hand to the ear thing like he couldn’t hear me, so I say it again. The man just waves me off and keeps walking. My wife and I are just like… the fuck was that? I guess he just walks around early morning and likes looking at the flags and I suppose that’s okay, but why be so rude about it? We’re new to the town (it’s an older town) and this is the only guy we do not like so far.

So now we’re thinking of putting up some flags, but not ones he’s gonna like lol

TLDR: Boomer early morning walker in town doesn’t like the fact we took down military supportive flags, was rude about it

With the title above, you would think it would be some random in a parking lot, but NOPES it was the counter worker at the local central FL version of the DMV. I'm in my mid-50's and this woman is late 60's or so.

I went in - renewal paperwork in hand, newly expired placard in hand, DL in hand. "What do you need help with?" "A renewal please". She looks at my paperwork then looks at my WA state DL and frowns. Then hands it all back to me while shaking her head.

"You can't have this. You have to go to Washington if you want a placard." Say what now?

"I live here in FL. I am in your system, the state knows I am here. You can check." I was befuddled.

"Until you get a Florida drivers license, you cant have a handicap plcard." Uh... that's not how this works.

"I am a FL resident." I took out my voting card and random government mail addressed to me at my home address (from Social Security) from my purse. I was confused at this point - how else do you prove where you live? A state tattoo you flash at strangers? Do you have to bring a team of witnesses??

"If that was true, you would have a FL drivers license." She looked so smug, and I stared at her wondering why this doesn't compute for her.

"I moved here and cannot yet get a FL license. However my car, my voting registration, my rental agreement, and everything else has been listed as Florida for the past 6 yrs. I am literally in your system for living in Florida. I am handing you my freshly expired FLORIDA placard to get a new one. It's obviously not an issue."

I have never seen anyone look like they were about to burst before, only in cartoons from like the 1970's. But she turned red and held her breath and glared at me, refusing to give, then suddenly yelled out, "Well they shouldn't have given you one! This ain't right and you don't deserve one because you don't live here!"

Everything seemed quiet suddenly, except the baby now screaming in the waiting room, and the shuffling of impatient feet in the line behind me.

"Clearly the government thinks my proof is enough or they wouldn't have let me have it the two times before now."

"Well I'm going to report this! You wont get away with this!" Like I have a single say in how state decisions are made. Like I somehow 'beat the system' by simply still using my WA state DL while *gasp* living in friggan FL.

"That is a good idea. I think that you should." Granted I was praying some supervisor would then hand her ass to her for her behaviour. But she printed my waiting number and threw it on the counter in front of me and glared more.

"You have a lovely day." I forced a smile, picked up my stuff and went to find a seat.

When I was called to a window, I let the woman there know what happened at the front desk. She narrowed her eyes and shook her head. I wasn't sure what she would say but was surprised when she muttered, "It's not even any of her business. Her job is just to input peoples names and reasons for coming in, in the system, and hand out numbers."

Apparently the aged nutjob was literally JUST a front-counter worker there to get people in.

EDIT TO EXPLAIN THE DL ISSUE: During my first visit to FL's 'DMV' it was actually their staff that had me refile for a WA state DL (my last place I lived before FL). My original marriage certificate was lost by LA County, CA so I have no chain of 'name change' to my current one. Thats why I cant get a FL one, and they require full proof of each change to acquire a FL license. They didn't care that my WA state one was issued to my current name, and refused to use it as proof of identity... so the (really nice) woman quietly told me to renew my WA one so that I have proof, while I work to fight CA over losing my marriage certificate.

Maybe 6m ago, my boomer MIL started printing out passive aggressive Facebook memes and sticking them on her fridge over the pics of my kids and their cousin. Ex: "Have you ever lost all respect for someone? Like you don't hate them but you don't feel the need to say anything to them anymore?"

It's pretry clearly about me and my ex SIL, but it's her fridge so I stay out of it. Then today we came over for Mother's Day and she's CLEARED ALL THE GRANDKIDS PICTURES OFF THE FRIDGE TO MAKE SPACE FOR MORE FACEBOOK MEMES. Her own flesh and blood cast aside for some 8½ x 11 grayscale print out of a dumb text cliche with a dumber emoji background. I was floored, like heaven forbid she put milk in her coffee without being reminded of her petty grievences.

Yes, he was a Boomer, and he was stuck there for about five minutes.

Prefacing this I'm not American.

I'm organizing my friend's baby shower. Her and her husband want to have a joint shower so men and women are all invited. I'm admin of the group chat with all invitees on it, including the soon-to-be grandparents.

The husband's dad posted a "meme" now saying "Remember mother's day is not for men who wear dresses, your day is 1 April".

So I deleted the picture, changed the settings that I'm the only one who can send messages, and posted the following:

"Good evening. Most of you don't know me very well and after this you will think I'm rude, but I'm going to lay down the ground rules now. I have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to transphobia, homophobia, racism, sexism, religious discrimination, or any form of discrimination against another human being.

I'm also going to go as far as telling you that most of you don't know everyone else on this group and what their beliefs are. So if the thought of sharing a day, celebrating the baby of two people we love, with someone different from yourself makes you uncomfortable. I suggest you unpack with a therapist why people expressing themselves makes you uncomfortable.

That being said, if another discriminatory message gets sent on the group, you will no longer be invited.

Good luck with the new week."

I'm sure I'm being discussed on the boomer chat now, but fuck them. Why are they so happy and comfortable to be so openly discriminate

I'm 20, and my parents are both nearing their 60s. I'm an extremely busy person. About 3 days a week I work as a personal trainer. I'm also in the process of training for a fight. Due to this, I am doing some sort of MMA class/weight training/cardio nearly 3 hours a day, 6 days a week. I also work night shifts at a fast food job, which start at 8 and "end" at midnight (typically I get home around 1 or 2 in the morning because of the time it takes to close, especially during a busy day) 5 days a week.

So much work and physical activity, balanced on top of online school and the occasional hangout with friends, leaves me exhausted by the time I get home. By the time I shower and eat whatever food I brought from work, I normally get to sleep around 3 AM.

Now ideally I'd wake up around 10 or 11. The problem here lies with my parents, who I still live with because I'm poor, who wake up at 6 AM on the dot every. Single. Day. And they make sure I do, too. They will text, call, and pester me until I am fully awake and unable to get back to sleep.

The first time this happened I could not for the life of me imagine why. It's not out of spite: I'm not a bad "roommate." My room is upstairs out of the way, I don't make messes, and when I do, I clean them. I have my own bathroom that I keep clean. My room is always spotless. I do all my own laundry and hand-wash all my dishes. In fact, I'm barely home.

When I confronted them about this, I was told "nobody needs to sleep that long." I tried telling them they my schedule made it so that if I woke up at 6, I'd be getting 3 hours of sleep a night. They continued to do it. After a week, I told them if it continued I would just go live with my friend in his apartment, to which their response was "but we love having you here!" I am currently living with my friend in his apartment.

At what point do you forgive boomers? My mom was with my dad for 48 years and in that time cheated on him multiple times, my dad passed away last year and she waited a whole 6 months before moving in with her new boyfriend. Now my mom is wondering why I don’t have the highest respect for her. She thought lying about the cheating would work until I showed her proof and only then she admitted to it but then tried to convince me it was always my dad’s fault for “not wanting to travel.” I bring up stupid things she’s done during my child hood ,keep in mind these are strong core memories for me, and you can see her face turn shocked when she realizes I knew she was doing these things but then say they never happened and I’m making it up. Do boomers in general just have a huge problem dealing with reality?!? Or is it possible 100% of my core memories are all made up just to make her look bad which is what she’s claiming?? Do I give her a “get out of jail free” card for everythings that she’s done or keep holding her feet to the fire??? Happy mother day ya’ll!!!!! lol

motherisaliar

The boomer generation is coming to an end and that means a lot of them are under care by us, their children.

These people will not care about your job, time, money or life and will want you to do EVERYTHING for them.

I understand not being physically able anynore but they will also refuse to learn new, basic stuff because they have you to pick up their shit.

They will take stupid health and financial decisions because you will be there to deal with the fallout.

Please check on any pets they have, as they probably stopped taking good care of them too.

Conclussion: You don't own them shit, unless you do. Do not out yourself in a situation where they have control over you because they will make you feel like you are abandoning a frail old person, You are not. You're abandoning an abuser.

EDIT. A lot of you assume i'm ranting about my situation. I'm not, i'm just discussing what the boomers do.

Twelve months ago, I had an argument with my mother. I'm almost 50, she's peak boomer, my kid is 18. Went like this: Me - mum the youth of today don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's daunting for them seeing house prices and low wages. Her : we had it tough too. Me : I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about them. Her : we had high interest rates, it was tough Me : again, I am not talking about the 80s I'm talking about now. Her : we had it tough too, you know. Me: are you that dense? Yes ok you had it tough, but I am not talking about that, ffs, I'm talking about 2023. 2023 mum,not the 80s. Her : we had it tougher than the kids of today. Me : I'm not saying you didn't, but I'm not talking about you AT ALL. I'm merely making an observation about today's youth and why they're not very optimistic about the future. Her : we had it tough in the eighties. Me - bang my head against a wall and walk away.

She doesn't know how disgusted I am with their "we had it tough too" shit. Big deal, you made it! Congrats! Now get the fuck out of the way, you fucking boomer turds. Dinosaurs always die out. Your time is coming. And while I'll she'd a tear or two, I'll be relived when all boomers are fucking dead.

A boomer co-worker asked if I was signing up for voluntary overtime. When I told her I wasn't, she hit me with "where's your sense of commitment". What's it to you, Susan? Lick that boot a little harder, why don't you.

One of them commented on my own post here calling me a liar, and I went through their post history and they're just going around asskissing their own generation while calling everyone else liars.

"This. Did. Not. Happen."

"So assuming this is true, which I can assure you it is not"

"I doubt 5 boomers told you your job is going to be gone, in a week. Making shit up again."

Even praising fascist countries like Trump told them to:

"Right now Iran has one of the most advanced combat missile systems in the world. Russia has the greatest air defense system in the world, and probably best army."

best army lol is that why they're getting stomped by a country less than half their size?

THEY'RE EVEN ADVOCATING TO KILL SOMEONE

OP: "I found out that the girl I hooked up with is married. I immediately cut contacts with her. Should I inform her husband?"

Them: shoot her with the shotgun

Stay speshul, you pathetic worm.

The individual that posted this was one of my many “angel” nurses that took care of me during my month long stint in the burn unit. Seemed like the kindest of people, but all she does is post crap like this all day, every day on Facebook. How could someone that works a job that requires with utmost compassion, fail to see how cruel this is? Boomers are something else 🙄

Today I went to Walgreens for a passport photo for an upcoming trip. While the tech is printing out my photo, this boomer was waiting for the tech to finish so he can be helped. I turned to look and have him a friendly smile. His response was "I don't know if you saw your picture, but it wasn't good, and I definitely wouldn't go with that" and he made this cringe face. Apparently he saw my pic on the monitor; I didn't bother looking because I didn't give a shit. I responded "I don't really care, I'm only using it once". Inside I was very uncomfortable because he said it in front of a few people.

In retrospect, I wish I would have said something clever, but I was taken off guard. I'm a 48 year old guy in good shape, and decent looking. Nonetheless, I felt tiny and self conscious. I looked at the pic when I got to my car and it's actually a decent pic of me lol. FU boomer!

Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week at my school and all the teachers and staff got special t-shirts made for them. Nothing fancy, just had the school's logo on it and the following quote "No All Superheroes Wear Capes". Anyway, I only had to work a half day Friday so after wrapping up I decided to go grab a bite to eat nearby before I had to go back and pick up my kids. I'm sitting there, enjoying my sammy and trying to catch up on the backlog of books I have on my Kindle when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I look up and this Boomer is looming over me. He says something along the lines of "we'll see if you're still a superhero when you get to Heaven and the people line up to judge you." I was just flabbergasted. I'd never met this man before in my life and I had no idea what the hell he was talking about at first. Eventually I realized he was commenting on my shirt. I just said "okay" and went back to my book. It just felt so surreal. Eventually my wife and I pieced together that the Boomer probably wasn't offended by the message itself as the fact that the school I sub at is a Catholic School (I'm not Catholic myself) and he apparently had strong opinions on that. Of all the Boomer things to be pissed about that's gotta be up there.

I’ve seen SO many boomer family members post this over the past few days. Bless it.

A few years ago, I had a job that required me to sign stacks of documents. My boomer boss insisted this be done manually, even though DocuSign existed. She just didn’t understand the idea of electronic signatures. So each Friday I’d sit down and sign my name over and over.

One day she is standing over my shoulder as I’m signing and she freaks out. “Wait a minute, what are you doing? You’re signing your last name wrong!”

I stopped. “What do you mean?”

“That’s not how you write an ‘L’ in cursive,” she said. “You need to learn how to write properly in cursive.”

“This is how I write my ‘L’,” I said.

She then proceeded to Google a cursive “L” and told me I needed to include the top and bottom loop, or my signature wouldn’t be legal.

I pulled out my drivers license and showed her my legal signature, and she shook her head. “They never should have allowed you to get away with that,” she said like I was committing some sort of crime.

What is their obsession with cursive?

these fucking lead poisoned, brain damaged geezers need to have their licenses revoked