To start another grumpy old lady. thread

[user1485342611]

I just feel like starting a grumpy thread for other people who sometimes find modern life a bit off kilter

I don't want to go to weddings abroad that cost a bloody fortune, use up loads of annual leave, and are often for a couple that have been living together for ten years and have 3 kids, a mortgage and a dog.

I want to see young and healthy people giving up their seats on public transport for elderly, or even late middle age people. You're young, you've more energy, I did it when I was your age.

Any other grumpy old lady views posters would like to share.

[araiwa]

Its so boring listening to grumpy old men or women go on about how they were so much better than people today.

Foreign wedding are cheaper and easier than they were 40 years ago- thats why more people have them

[LimboLuna]

I’ve just had an argument with two shops self service check outs. They had no manned check outs open so I had no choice.
I genuinely think I was born too late for this world.

[Sexykitten2005]

I don’t like old people looking at me and judging me to be young and healthy when you have no idea if I actually am

[ToadOfSadness]

I want to be able to walk along a street in daytime or at night without wondering if I will be mugged.

I want to be able to walk on pavements or shops without being run over by buggies and bashed into by children because no-one looks where they are going.

Add to that, people engrossed in their phones that walk into you as you try to walk round them.

Horrendous noise blasted out in shops, copies of original music in particular, that make me walk out without buying what I went in for.

Beeping of horns outside my bedroom because people are too lazy to get out and ring a doorbell, this used to be mini cab drivers but is now any lazy bastard that turns up.

[sunshinesupermum]

ToadofSadness are you me?

[ToadOfSadness]

I will also add that I don't like being run over by people on mobility scooters that think they own the pavement although I do understand why they need the scooters, but some of them do need to pass a test to see if they should be let loose on them.

[ToadOfSadness]

sunshinesupermum ToadofSadness are you me?


possibly there is a connection somewhere in the ether

[user1485342611]

I would like to be able to sit in a restaurant and enjoy a meal and some chat without loud music blaring, and crap acoustics meaning I can hear every fork being dropped, while every child's wails or other customer's shrilly laugh is magnified tenfold.

[BlankTimes]

Foreign weddings aren't cheaper for guests.

[ToadOfSadness]

Agree about the noise in restaurants, we have a new one recently opened and the food is great, however the noise level is horrendous, impossible to have a conversation, because people are raising their voices to be heard over other voices which in turn are struggling with the acoustics and music. Sadly will not be going back.

And gardeners that use equipment designed for large areas in poxy little gardens and deafen anyone trying to relax on one of the few pleasant days where it isn't humid or pissing down with rain. Equipment so loud that they wear ear defenders and can be heard several streets away. They also blitz anything that dares to grow.

[Bombaybunty]

I'm fed up with my DS's loud music.
I can cope with loud music, but I don't want to hear expletives, references to drugs/sex or derogatory terms for women.
Is that too much to ask? Bring back the Sex Pistols, good old fashioned angst.

[Queenofthedrivensnow]

I'm very grumpy. I want a human at the till to gas about the weather with and coo over dd2.

I'm sick of the shit show that is the school playground. Shove your wanky argh leisure.

Teenagers swearing in ear shot of my dds get a right telling off

[Fumingrage]

'I want to see young and healthy people giving up their seats on public transport for elderly, or even late middle age people. You're young, you've more energy, I did it when I was your age'

I would like people not to see my young and healthy looking teen on a bus /disabled toilets etc etc and give her a bollocking for not giving up her seat or using her radar key for the toilets.
Just because she doesn't 'look' disabled!

[OhTheRoses]

Please and thank you are becoming rare

Over familiarity is becoming too frequent, no I don't want my Dr or a nurse to use my first name or call me mum or dear especially when the Dr uses their title

Everything else above and from my mum "they shouldn't be allowed to play for England if they don't know the words to the National Anthem"

[ToadOfSadness]

Bellowing into phones right outside my house and doing that stupid backwards and forwards wander all over the pavement. Bad enough they can be heard in the back garden when they are at the front but they get in the way too.

Leaf blowers, blowing the leaves into the road, just sweep them up from your property and dispose of them.

Cars dumped on a quiet corner until bits are stripped off them and someone has to put them on fixmystreet to get them removed by the council before some arsehole sets them on fire. Ditto old fridges and toilets left by streetlights. If you can get them that far why not take them to the dump?

[user1485342611]

I would like people to be less 'tolerant' and more 'involved' sometimes.

Increasingly it seems to be left to the same few people to sort out/complain about anti social behaviour while all the 'tolerant' people look the other way and hope someone else will take on the hassle of sorting it out.

They can then pride themselves on being 'easy going sorts' who 'get on with everyone'.

[Slartybartfast]

i dont want to meet grumpy people when i walk my dog

[user1485342611]

fuming

I didn't say 'young and healthy . I am well aware that some young people are not capable of standing on public transport. I am equally well aware that many young people are too busy staring at their phones or just can't be bothered to offer an older person their seat including children of some of my friends. I wish young people would give up their seat.

[The80sweregreat]

Music blaring out everywhere - i asked the lady in the phone shop to turn it down as i really can't hear anyone speaking when its loud. she did this for me, no problem, but the minute i was out of there it was back up to ear splitting levels.
i hate the lack of manners, thank you and please cost nothing to say.
people not looking where they are walking glued to their phones.

having to try and explain my dad's dementia and how it affects us all as family - its so hard to do and i know people dont understand it ( common problem with other diseases too as well)
AI and self service tills everywhere- hate them at train stations as they confuse me when i am not sure which 'zone' i am in or going to and there isn't anyone to ask anything anymore. same when i ring up anyone , put me through to a human being! I hate the modern world and its getting worse.

[user1485342611]

Yes, I hate the dehumanising of everything. Libraries with no staff around to keep order, local branches of banks closing as more and more services are available on line, more and more people shopping on line or in huge impersonal supermarkets where no one knows you.

Soon no one will have to go outside at all, everyone will just spend their days sitting in front of a screen. Can we just put a stop to anymore advances in technology (apart from life saving ones) before we all turn into robots?

[FlyingElbows]

I'm very glad that being an old lady means I'm not living my life obsessing over insta-everything. In my day (pmsl, I'm 41!) we only had Pamela Anderson and Jet from Gladiators to worry about. I really really feel for young people today. So much pressure.

[scaryteacher]

I don't feel the need for a contactless debit card (in fact, I sent mine back to the bank and demanded, and got, a non contactless one).

I use cash, a lot. I don't want to swipe anything to pay for a pepper or a bunch of spring onions.

I do not have, and am not planning to have, a smartphone. I hate the damn things. Dh got one from work, and now sits glued to the fucking thing. It is so rude. I am now considering instituting a no smartphone rule at my table = for friends and dh, or changing the wifi password, so only I have it.

I don't see the need to be contactable 24/7, so my mobile is often not charged, and when it is, I've put it down somewhere and can't find it. It's often switched off.

I get very annoyed that people seem to see tech as an end in itself as opposed to a tool. We should rule it, not it rule us.

[OhTheRoses]

PC'ism everywhere. Gay and Lesbian book selection at the library. No heterosexual display. Black writing was good though - DS piped up with, age 6, "daft, all the writing in the books is black".

Difference and equality are essential and diversity to be repected but sometimesbit seems that all of the rest of us and our collective needs for choice and dignity have got lost.

[Benandhollysmum]

Reminds me of that joke men tell

2 women sittin on a bench, minding their own business....

That reminds me of grumpy women lol

[MsJinglyJones]

I don't mind automated things and self checkouts if they would bloody work. What happened to decent systems design and engineering?

I am sick of people (and it's not just young people either) strolling out in front of my moving car and not even looking. I'm sure that wasn't so common 20 years ago.

I don't understand people walking around with a smartphone which they hold up in their palm about a foot away front of their face and shout into. What's that about?

I am grumpy that in my professional field I'm expected to have a social media presence and selfie my grumpy face all over twitter. Can't be arsed.