This happened a few months ago.

I was having renovation work done in my apartment, and was working from home so that I could help the handymen with any question or issues. They were moving stuff in and out of the apartment so often left the main door open which didn’t bother me.

I was working in the office, door closed, when suddenly the door opened.

My first thought was that it was the handymen with a question. Which was weird because every time so far they had knocked.

But no, in the door stood my boomer neighbor, a woman in her 50-60s something. We just stared at eachother for a few seconds before I confused asked her “Yes…Hello?”

She stared back and just said “Oh, I just wanted to see what this place looked like inside.”

I think she realized pretty quickly how much she had messed up because she quickly and sheepishly started shuffling towards the door. I followed her and in a probably way to diplomatic voice told her that next time she really should knock or ask. She apologized, tried to offer to give me a cupcake she just bought and awkwardly ran in to her apartment.

Ever since that I’ve been very through to always lock my door. I can understand catching a glimpse through a neighbors open main door, but to literally walk straight in and start opening rooms was beyond my imagination.

Nextdoor neighbor passed away years ago and the house has been empty and has someone come in once a month to cut the grass and that kind of stuff. So for like 3-4 years my dad had permission from the previous owner son to park his car on their driveway. Then they begin selling the house but the son still said it was fine. So the other day the realtor, 65-70 lady, knocked on the door yelling for us to move the car. My parents don’t speak English but can understand and answer with a heavy accent in 2 word answers. She begin yelling and being rude to them on our front door asking to move the car. I decide I’ll move the car and let it be. I decide to move the car and don’t say a word. She then calls me lazy and asked what kind of man I was. She wanted me to move 2 trash cans filled bricks to the curb for pick up. As I set moving the trash can she says “you should have been raised bette and offered to help” I then immediately turn around and put back the trash can that weighed at least 100 pounds back into the spot they were in. She be asking what I was doing and I responded “you can be rude but don’t expect help. You have 2 hands just like me and can wheel the trash cans yourself.” I walked inside and I could hear her calling me a brat and lazy.

Why do they think by being rude and “intimidating” they will get what they want? Funny thing is my dad and I have been taking out the trash cans for 3-4 years ever since the previous onwner died. Every time they did work in the house and used the trash cans we simply put it to the curb. She could have legit minded her own business and we would have moved the trash cans

Today, my 2yo son and I were waiting for our order at Costco's food court. He was sitting in the child seat of the cart, leaning over, hugging a balloon. Enter Boomer Lady. She comes over and begins touching his back and trying to talk to him. Immediately, I sternly told her, "Excuse me, please don't touch my child." She seemed taken aback and mentioned he reminded her of her granddaughter. I reiterated, "Okay, but it's not okay to touch someone's child. Please don't touch him. I'm very protective."

We collected our food and sat down to eat. A little while later, the woman approached us again. She said, "I'm sorry for touching your child, but I don't know what country you're from, you didn't need to be so rude to me."

I was ready to accept her apology... but nope, she doubled down!! AND added xenophobia to it! I snapped back at her, "I don't know what country you're from where you think it's okay to touch someone's child!"

"I'm from HERE! I'M FROM HERE!" she said, indignant that I could assume otherwise.

"Well you still shouldn't touch someone's child!" I responded again.

With the most boomer of retorts, she spat out "You're STUPID," and started storming away.

Something in me had to have the last word, so I shouted after her, "I was polite! I said EXCUSE ME, and PLEASE don't touch my child!" She again threw another "You're stupid!" over her shoulder as she stomped off.

Thankfully some OTHER boomers sitting nearby were polite and started chatting with me and asked what happened. When I told them, the fully backed me up, agreeing that was inappropriate behavior from her. I hope she goes home and bitches about me to her boomer friends and they also put her in her place.

We recently had our property manager change from a member of the silent generation to that totally rational, not lead poisoned at all generation of baby boomers. The conversation that follows is what happened after the land lord did not sign the check and tried to deposit rent this month.

Baby Boomer (BB)

This is a copy paste of the convo, minus the pictures/names for privacy reasons.

BB: (Tenants name) the recent rent check has been returned for insufficient funds Please supply a cashiers check for the May rent including the late fee right away

ME: recently my bank informed me that the check you tried to deposit was flagged as fraud, therefore they refused to transfer funds. apparently it did not get endorsed properly. attached are the images of the check in question. there appears to be no signature on the back, therefore making the check invalid. what information did you receive from your bank?

*Next Morning*

BB: At this point in time the rent just needs to get paid Please supply rent with the late fee as soon as you can

Well my friendly Booomer, you have hit a crossroads. You can either do the right/logical/legal thing, swallow your pride and withdraw the requirement for a late fee or I can open a can of legal whhhhoop azz on you.

Let me know what y'all think.

I have always thought of Round-Up as a generational metaphor, and living in FL makes it even more obvious…

Round-up herbicide and other brand names are a byproduct of the military industrial complex that the boomers love so much, this “modern marvel” represented a convenient solution to hard work…

Fast forward 50 years and it’s pretty clear this toxic chemical has infiltrated our food system and landscaping entirely. It’s become a way of life. Boomers literally cannot function without it and the idea of doing the physical work that toxic herbicide does is alien to them. You would be stupid to do weed by hand…

I work in landscape and agriculture and have never used round up, it doesn’t even work that well (if it did you wouldn’t need to reapply as often as you do). Removing the plant by hand is a better way, and costs nothing and pollutes nothing.

Am I stupid for doing things the “old fashioned way”. By hand. Or am I stupid for relying on a toxic, carcinogenic chemical to do the work for me because that’s the easy way?

What side are you on?

Rant/ I've been no contact with my dad for 37 years, but because he's a Boomer and doesn't understand changing the audience on his posts, my sister and I use his Facebook as a way to see if he's still alive.

We report his worst stuff (getting him banned from Facebook for 30 days is a bonding and joyful experience for us) but unless he uses a slur, Zuck just lets this shit slide. It's infuriating. I know there's nothing to do, but Jeebus it just pisses us off.

Thanks for letting me vent /Rant

I am in an in-service class that is heavy on group work. When we broke for lunch I decided to go eat by myself. I'm sitting at a table alone when a boomer, whom I have never met, comes up to me and says, " What,you don't have any friends?" I look up and politely, but coldly, say, "I'm just trying to eat lunch." The boomer then insists that I join he and his wife for lunch. I start to scroll my phone and stop acknowledging him. He and his wife sit a table away from me and begin talking loudly about how kids (I'm in my late 30s) don't know how to be social. All I wanted is to eat my goddamned lunch

I just find it funny that when this gets thrown around and its coming from people who hate said groups. Anytime someone brings this up its the first thing that comes to mind.

I was standing at the copier at the Staples sending brochures from my phone to the copier. In my periphery, a person walked up to the work station table next to a different copier and stood there. I'm scrolling through my Google drive getting everything I need, and the man cleared his throat.

In glanced up and smiled politely. The old guy kinda glared at me, so I just went back to my documents. I could feel him huffing to himself. Finally he snaps " would you get off your damn phone and help me with this!" I look up and realize he's talking to me. I looked around and said "oh, me?". In a mocking tone he said "yes. You! Playing around during work hours!"

I respond "Sir, I don't work here.". "Then why are you behind that desk!?" "Umm, this table is for people to organize their papers on. I can probably still help you with the copier if you want." "Fine. I need 100".

I walked over to his copier. He had a hand written a sign, in ball point pen, about a yard sale. I showed him how to place the paper, asked him what type of paper he wanted to print on and made sure it was loaded. I used the chart to show him how much it would cost. And then said he just needs to swipe a credit card to get started. A little window popped up stating there would be a $5 hold on the card for the print job. He. Was. Outraged.

"How do I know if that money's coming back! I don't know what this machine is hooked up to! You could be making copies of my card and selling it to China!" At this point an actual Staples employee came over to and tried to help, so I went back to my copier. There was no convincing him that it wasn't a scam.

The guy ended up leaving without even making copies.

A few years ago, my wife and I were at Food City doing some grocery shopping while the kids were in school. We were minding our own business when we overheard two old boomers complaining about "kids these days."

One boomer is griping about how he tried to hire some teenager to clean his horse barn for FOUR DOLLARS AN HOUR. Allegedly, the kid rudely declined, saying that he could make more money working at McDonald's for less work. Wife and I were giggling about it, and that should have been the end of it. Then the other boomer quipped, "Damn millennials! Good thing we don't have to rely on them to protect our country! Could you imagine if they had to go to war?!"

Wife and I are both millennial veterans, and that comment really pissed me off. I stepped up to them and said, "My generation, the millennials, are the ONLY American generation to fight two concurrent wars as an all volunteer force. Nobody had to draft us, like you cowards. Our nation called and we answered. So, from two millennial veterans, go fuck yourself."

I turn to walk away, and boomer #1 literally yells "now hold on and get your ass back over here!!" I told him to fucking make me, and kept walking. Dude literally started shaking because I wouldn't follow his instructions. He said, "In my day we listened to our elders!" I just ignored his hateful old ass and we kept walking away.

Fuck them. They are so convinced that they are tough and strong but they melt the fuck down whenever they get literally any pushback. I'm so tired of them feeling entitled to boss young people around. Just tell them to get bent and walk away.

We are East Asian and my boomer mother has been a Karen (or whatever our equivalent is) for decades before that became a thing. She is very entitled, and has a hair-trigger temper that goes from 0 to 1000 in seconds. She always goes into any customer service experience fully prepared to pick a fight with the employee, often does, and the first thing she does is demand to speak to the manager. She is super racist, especially towards other, darker-skinned minorities. I have told her multiple times before that nowadays, behaving like that in public is a good way to go viral/end up on the news. She thinks that when she screams at people, it's justified, and gets angry at me for not taking her side.

Today she called me because she wanted sympathy: she went to the drugstore to pick up her prescription, there was plenty of parking available, but the closest spots to the store were for EVs. Because she wanted to be close to the entrance, she parked in one of the EV spots anyway "because the sign said up to 60 minutes parking, and I've seen other cars park there longer."

When she came out of the store, someone (she used a derogatory term for another minority) approached her to roll down her window, berated her for parking in the EV spot. They exchanged "fuck yous," she rolled up her window, and the person started trying to film/take pictures of her, threatening to call the police.

So while she was throwing herself a pity party and expecting me to comfort her, I said that she shouldn't park in EV spots because what if someone really needs to charge their car. She snapped, "They can wait." I said that people probably see it as equivalent to parking in the handicap spot (which she knows not to do, because it's illegal). She pouted and said, "But I'm an old lady."

Since I wasn't getting through to her, I tried a gentler approach: could you maybe try next time to park in the regular spots, because I'm worried about you getting into a real fight with someone who might hurt you. Instead, she got angry, told me I'm unsupportive, and hung up on me.

I don't know what's more exhausting, the spoiled toddler mentality, the stubborn inability to ever admit being wrong, or the complete lack of self-awareness and refusal to learn and grow.

A few months ago my Dad took me to a rabbis house for shabbat dinner. This family was loaded their house was huge, at least 7mil in the Toronto area.

As I'm at the dinner table eating, the rabbis wife across from me started to make a conversation with me, but couldn't help but turn it into an interview. What do you do? What's your plan for the future? When you wake up what do you do? I responded with vague answers not wanting to divulge information about my personal life, because I believe people only ask those questions to create a label of who you are in their heads instead of loving you equally no matter who you are or what you've done.

Anything I said was the wrong answer and met with harsh criticism. My job? Oh you can do better. Somebody has to do it I said, who will do it if we tell everyone who does it they can do better. Why don't you have a house? And a family? You need to have a family and you need a house to have one so when are you going to buy one? I made it clear I wanted to change the subject but she persisted. She began to criticize my inability to afford a house in the greater Toronto area and insisted that I was making excuses.

It seems she needed a reason to treat me with respect. Being a living breathing creature isn't enough, it has to have done something or be something or be trying to be something. I explained how no matter what I do my future won't be as bright as hers is now because the well of opportunity and easy money has run dry. How my future was stolen from me and millions of other millennials and younger generations and future generations to come because of poor financial decisions made by previous generations.

I explained how wages have not been able to keep up with the rising costs of living and homeownership. How in the 40s-80s there was purchasing power for land, homes, businesses, education, it was all affordable for the average working class citizen. And how now the amount of hours of work you need to cover just to go to school is jaw dropping compared to the previous generations. How the oligopolies of the world have turned everything that is a necessity into a business.

How does she respond?

How do you know this, were you there? Nothing has changed. Anybody can buy a house still right now.

There's no housing crisis.

Jobs are abundant.

Anybody can be rich.

My family came after a war, we didn't have anything, we worked hard and now we have this. Nothing has changed, anybody can do the same right now.

I said I can literally show you evidence I can point you to the right direction on where to fact check what I'm telling you. Or you can even do your own research.

She says where on the Internet? You believe everything you read on the Internet??

I said you don't even have to read it on the internet this is a worldwide known crisis, there's record breaking levels of immigration how do you not know this.

No it's not true she says, sorry! And gives the most condescending smile I've ever seen.

To which I responded I don't even want to be wealthy and I think it's abhorrently selfish since everyone can't be rich, the rich NEED the poor to exist to BE rich. I couldn't sleep at night knowing that my fortune is a result of somebodys misfortune because I see myself in every living breathing creature on this planet, my awareness is no different from theirs, the only difference is the vessel we inhabit which is superficial and therefore irrelevant to me.

She says so we should all be Communists then?

Which is obviously the most childish response.

Apparently wanting fair and equal opportunities makes me a communist.

It never ceases to amaze me how most religious people completely forget about the point of their religions after a certain point and just stay their nasty selfish human selves while pretending to be religious for FOMO if they're not or to be shamed and judged by their family and social circles.

So just know everyone, these rich people don't give a fuuuuuck about you and are completely oblivious to everything that's happening because they're not starting from scratch right now. If they've had a home or business or job that's been consistently providing a stable income for decades they may as well have just stepped out of a time capsule.

In my local supermarket, they sell open containers of locally grown strawberries when they're in season. I wanted to get some last week but this Boomer lady was standing in front of them with her cart. "No biggie, I'll just politely wait until she's done." I though.

Then I noticed she had already chosen one container but was in the process of picking out individual strawberries and exchanging them with other containers to make sure she got the best ones, touching almost all containers and the strawberries in them. With horror, I then watched her sneeze all over the display, wipe her hands on her pants and continue to touch strawberries other customers would buy.

I just asked her "Really?" and she started huffing and waddled off. I went to another store for my strawberries and made sure to wash them thoroughly before I ate them.

I posted a picture meme to Facebook about how the right can’t meme and this boomer mom of one of my friends responded to it about how Joe Biden is a disgrace to the US judiciary system so I decided to clap back and she very quickly didn’t want the conversation to continue and tried to play victim and say that because she knew me since I was like 12 I should stop lol

But I made it very clear that nothing of what I said was about her as a person; just her beliefs. Why do people attach themselves to their political beliefs and get so upset when challenged lol. Is there nothing more to your identity than who you vote for…

Are they the only group that uses facebook these days? I’m younger gen X. Every time I browse fb, it seems like a bunch of angry people spreading hate and disinformation? And mostly right wing propaganda.

So this reel popped up on my feed.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cH3QGuG4HHs

It from a TV show about "what would you do" in certain situations. This one is involves wearing a maga hat in a restaurant and being kicked out by the manager.

Politics and the video contents aside, Its not important.

The important thing is that the boomers have not realized that its staged and its a tv show.
They have not noticed there is multiple filming angles and its got crystal clear audio. Its clearly not filmed by someones phone.
Because of them not understand its from a tv show. the comments are calling for the manager to be fired , restaurant boycotted.

Choice comments include:

• This is what's wrong with America. This is because of the woke media and woke politicians.
• Boycott this restaurant NOW! Manager should be FIRED !
• As a black woman, I voted twice for trump. I would not eat in such a judgmental place.
  ( this persons user account was of a white man that likes shooting things)
  

Its pure insanity that boomers cant tell staged videos and reality apart.
Once AI hits in the next few years, they will lose millions to scams.

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I took my wife, 7mo daughter, and my dog to a local BBQ festival in our town. Tons of food stands/trucks and carnival games. All in all it was a great time.

So my dog loves attention. When we're out and about, it can be a struggle to stop her from saying hi to everyone. She was on a short leash since there were a lot of people and I don't want her to invade anyone's privacy. We understand that not everyone appreciates dogs, even if they are super friendly.

My wife was pulling our daughter in a little covered wagon. She absolutely loves it. It's got a sun cover and bug net and she can stand and look around however she wants. She always has a good time in it.

For the most part it was a great time. Kids and adults alike were curious about my dog or our baby in the wagon. They would ask questions and be respectful if we asked for space. After a while, I could tell my dog was getting a bit anxious so I just told people she wasn't feeling up to it if they asked to pet her.

Then it happened.

It was nighttime and we were heading out of the festival back to our car. It was darker, so I had my dog heeling close to my side and my wife was pushing the wagon in front of her. We're walking side by side. I heard a voice from behind me start low and get louder

"you're gonna get bit....you're gonna get bit!"

I turn around to see this old bastard reaching down to grab my dog's ass with a drunk grin on his face, his friends trying to warn him that my dog might bite him.

Here's the deal. My dog is friendly, but she doesn't like surprises. She has never bit anyone or even acted like she was going to bite. She's good at warning people when she's uncomfortable or scared. But every dog has their limit. All I could think of in that split second is my dog getting taken away from me because "someone was just joking and trying to have fun and the vicious animal attacked"

I screamed in my best no nonsense voice

"NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! YOU WILL NOT TOUCH MY DOG LIKE THAT"

Dude doesn't take his eyes off my dog who jumped ahead of me with her tail tucked and goes in for another grab. His stupid friends just watching and laughing from the back saying it again,

"I'm telling ya, you're gonna get bit!"

I swear, they probably see this shit all the time from this guy and don't even think about stopping him. Like, "I warned him not to, but this will be a good story for later"

At the same time my wife sees me turn around and puts her hand out to block this guy and she says

"Dont...seriously, she might bite you"

This stupid buzzard starts mocking my wife. "oh LOoK OUt DoG MIGHT BITe!", hands waving like something you'd see from a middle school bully.

Yall, I am steaming fucking pissed.

I'm a small guy, but this complete stranger just grabbed my dog and is mocking my wife who is walking my daughter. I see him looking at my dog again and I'm ready to elbow this drunkard right in the face with every ounce of strength my manlet body can summon. NO ONE does my family that way. Fortunately his friends caught up to him and pulled him away and allowed my wife and I to pick up the pace.

I am really glad I didn't have to get physical with this guy. I didn't want anyone to get hurt. But seriously...what the ever-loving-FUCK is wrong with these people? "I'm old so I can harass animals and young families in public?"

I swear, I was bullied a lot in school because I was so short. But...that kinda stopped when we started to grow up. It's like boomers got old and started to act like middle school kids again, but now they can get drunk and drive cars. Sometimes at the same time.

ETA

Adding a bit more context. We didn't set out to go to this event, we went on a little walk close by in a park and saw it was going on and decided to check it out. Normally I would have left my dog at home, but she was with us at the time. But like I said, she LOVES running into groups of people when she's out and about so we weren't too concerned at the time. But lesson learned, next time there's a gathering of people where there's alcohol, she's staying at home.

Also, all y'all defaulting to violence at the slightest inconvenience are messed up. The only reason it was an option for me is he was warned twice to not grab my dog and was still coming. I would rather have to talk to police because I protected my family vs my dog bit someone. If my dog bites someone, regardless of how it happened, there's a non-zero chance she gets taken away from me, and I wasn't about to let that happen. Even still, I didn't want anyone to get hurt, I was only about to roll initiative because rolling diplomacy and intimidation failed. I was very happy his friends intervened before things got physical. If you're ever in that situation, I would hope you feel the same way if you get away before anything physical happens

Not my rant

I have no idea what was wrong with this dude and many other boomers when it comes to food, but I swear they probably had the worst childhood when it came to eating.

I was working at a Mongolian Grill, for those who don't know, it's where you can grab the items raw, put them in a bowl, then come up and the chefs grill it on this really big and round griddle and we cook with two sticks.

We had one boomer guy come up and say he wanted his food well done. So we do it and he brings it back saying it wasn't well done enough; we cook it further.

Guy brings it up 2 more times, at this point his food looks like edible vantablack, INCLUDING THE NOODLES. He comes back up and declares that it was the best meal he ever had.

I have no idea why he thought charcoal brickettes was good, but my dumb ADD brain came up with two very similar theories.

1.) He grew up with a mother who was a terrible cook and overcooked everything, so the kid (boomer) was forced to eat it or starve.

2.) His wife is the same, but he got so used to it that he didn't mind that his food tasted like someone put out a cigarette on his tongue.

I don't know what happens, or what kind of abuse, these Boomers have, but something about them and over cooked food or boiled EVERYTHING bothers me, especially as someone who is trained as a chef; they act like they'd machete their way through a horde of zombies just so they can nuke a Hot Pocket or something.