to think 40 years old is too young to become a miserable old git?!

[MrDobalina]

I'm so irritable. With strangers

1. was at event at the weekend with kids area-small kids area, really good and popular with lots of kids. Some nit-wit parked their buggy in the small space (completely filling it) between the toddlers playmat/toy cars n trucks and the face painting stall!!! grrr....it was piled high with coats and bags and stuff...more bags stacked behind it and balloons hanging off the side! I manoeuvred the balloons so I could sit with my 2 year old because she is going through a snatchy/grabby/pushy stage.

Not only that but 2 women sat on the adjacent side of play mat with legs stretched out in front of them...completely blocking access to that side of mat!

Owner of pushchair comes along, fiddlers a bit, releasing balloons from where i had positioned them, leaving no space for my head!! I got up and removed dc...I couldnt bring myself to say anything because it was so fucking obvious they were being difficult IMO, i couldnt have been polite

2. pedestrians WALKING IN THE CYCLE LANE with headphones in!!! I fucking hate headphones..i could rip them all out and toss them into the road! YOU CANT HEAR ANYTHING YOU IDIOTS!

3. Ill be back with more...just warming up!

AIU so far?

I'm 21 and have been a grumpy old woman for at least five years.

I'm nice and it does me no good at all...
I'm even nice when I run after people and hand them back their dropped litter.
And when I thank people when I hold the door open for them...

Oh bugger. Have I just done the MN equivalent of painting a glittery target on my head and shouting "Come and GETTTTTTT me"?!

Spotted - yes, that is definitely in the Rules.

Other Pedestrian Rules include:-

• no need to talk on your phone "hands free" when your hands are actually free. You just like an idiot.

• learn the pedestrian dance so you can swiftly side-step somebody coming in the opposite direction.

• don't push your pram into the road to stop the traffic

• if you get food "to go", then get your food and go. The pavement is not a picnic area.

• do not walk 4 abreast like you are on Masterchef.

I'm sure I can think of some more.

I have been a grumpy caaah for YEARS. The only difference since hitting 40 is now I am a grumpy old caaah.

I am now perfecting my embittered spinster :)

Wait wait, what about those arsehole cyclists who don't stop at the red lights at a crossing and zip past you when you're trying to cross with a 4 year old and a fucking pushchair. I've never tutted and glared so loudly in my life, the way I did today. Utter utter arseholes.

That's me fucked, then

Fakebook, I have been known to shout "Red lights are for bikes too, moron!" before

YABU - miserableness and gittishness are not age-dependent.

I agree, you need to embrace the grump!

I'm 38 and I've been a grumpy old woman since I was about 30. DH and I regularly spend far too much time complaining about 'idiots'

Actually I suspect it started a lot earlier. My parents used to tell me that I "don't suffer fools gladly". That started when I was about 10. I have a very low tolerance level for stupid people.

I quite like being grumpy. I'm perfecting my gimlet eye stare.
I am turning into my Mum.
My Mum has already turned into her Mum and has changed from being a gimlet eyed harridan into a quite sweet old(ish) lady. She still has her moments though..
There's hope for me yet.

SirGold, I'm psyching myself up for tomorrow morning. If it happens again, I will shout too. Ive been practising in my head all day .

When I'm at work I do shout at challenge litter louts.

If you see a middle aged woman leaning out of an ambulance window bellowing 'pick that up' please say hello. I'm not grumpy with nice people.

I don't know, I think it's boring to be moaning all the time about stuff. My parents do it, especially my dad, he is so negative. We can all get grumpy but I like people who more often see the humour in life and who try to see the good side of people.

I think this thread is all about seeing the humour in life, we're all laughing at ourselves.

40 is not old. The DM says that 'most people' consider 55 to be 'middle-aged' now so don't worry MrDobalina - you are safe from old-git-dom for another 15 years....

You are just a grumpy young git

I think middle aged is always at least 5 years older than me...so now it's about 42 :) But then 42 is half average life expectancy (I think) so it is somewhere in the middle...

No, middle age is 5 years older than me... So 52. And yes, I am planning to live to 104

Is it too late to join in?

I'm Calabria. I am 50. I have been a grumpy old woman for a looooong time.

Inconsiderate cyclists are my bugbear. And as the new influx of students are trickling into town I am shouting (while driving) and muttering (while walking) a lot just now.

no, it is never too late calabria

grr...i am a cyclist (although a considerate one), so we are probably scowling at each other

42 is also the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" of course (Douglas Adams)

Well I can't stand miserable old buggers, though I fully endorse using age as an excuse to not put up with crap behaviour from others and say it how it is. That doesn't necessarily mean being grumpy though, just direct.

"People who stop at the top of escalators and look around gormlessly deciding where to go next while people pile up in a heap behind them are my current bugbear."

beta thank you for making me snort with laughter at that line. So sooo true!