or is it my advancing years?

[rosybud]

Do you get more intolerant as you get older?

I feel as though i am getting more unreasonable and cantankerous. sigh.

Help me be more patient/tolerant/socially acceptable.

re bedtime story
with my vocal range and ease with the upper decibels, it can, as long as they live in same postcode.

lol onebatmother.

am fearful of how i will be in another 20 years

alone is the word that springs to mind

ny feeling is am faaar more soppy, faar more intolerant, because faaar more busy.

Also, on an objective, empirical level, younger peope are fucking stupid aren't they really? It's no wonder we get annoyed.

Also, am so much more intolerant. Other day I was about to remind some young uns to remember take their litter from beach- how presumptious of me. Bit my lip, smiled. Am just turing into my mother. (which isn't such a bad thing after all!)

lol lol lol onebatmother

oh rosybud i v v much doubt it.

Now come on, women. No one shall be alone! We shall open a network of old people's homes specifically for MNers and their spouses.

Within ten years, they'll be dotted all over the country ....

The MTV generation, that's what they are.

Wotz, a very good post.

Desi I'll sign up if I can bring my favourite chair.

And pets! Do you allow pets? Because i hate thenm.

old people's homes for cantankerous MNers! what a great idea!

but would we have to talk/put up with each other in RL?

or would we communicate by pc from room to room?

onebatmother you are so wise. young people are fucking stupid and we are not as we have attended the university of life.

sometimes i dream of never having to make small talk again...

i think confined to room with daily 1/2 hour socials.
For the more robust, daily 1/2 hour bare-knuckle session in the padded room to settle the difficult questions.

Since having kids I am more tired and much less tolerant of bullshit, I cannot be arsed faffing about with too many social nicieties if I'm feeling pissed off - I think the difference is if I'm tired and the kids are grumpy I'm more likely to show that I'm pissed off when I used to hide it so well

But I am much more understanding and kinder to of all sorts of people and ages because having kids forced me to less self-absorbed, not that I was overly before

I'm a nicer, calmer person as I've become older - less immedietely judgemental or hot-headed. I think before I speak these days. I had 2 kids in my early 20s and then 2 kids in my late 30s, and am definately (sadly) a better mother to my younger 2 than I was to the older ones. And now I see the older ones (young adults) being judgemental and hot-headed. When you're young you see everything as black or white, and it's taken me a long time to realise things are all different shades of grey.
So while I do more than my fair share of sighing and tutting, on balance I disagree with the OP - I think old age has made me nicer. I would hate to be back in my early 20s.
Can I come to the MN Old Folks Home? I'm even prepared to learn to play bridge!

I find im becoming more mellow with age and far more tolerant to things that used to make my blood boil. Life is just to short to be cantankerous....

on the plus side i definitely do not care nearly so much about what people might think of me or my family etc

but i feel life is too short to be spent with people i don't really like or who have very different values to me

am aware that i am starting to sound very pompous and miserable

is the home open yet? i want a single room...

In the old mumsnetters home will Tenalady be the matron? or pelvicfloornomore?

Hassled - exactly how i feel, but you put it so much better than i could have, also i have found my parents have mellowed so much as they have got older, my dad used to be a nightmare about cleanliness and my mum used to beat my older brother with the dish cloth when he was naughty and now they let the grandkids get away with all kinds!

I see a thread coming on ... the MN residential home for retired ladies.

Tomorrow my friends, tomorrow

Desiderata, just looked at your profile so Bono will not have his own room at the Home.
what did you do to deserve the 'grow up ffs'?

maybe we could be sponsored by tenalady?

retired Ladies. And Gentlemen? Will there be Gentlemen Desi?

For heaven's sake, don't we spend most of our time being utterly reasonable and patient with our kids (or at least feeling horribly guilt-tripped if we're not: Oh dear, darling, it's not a good idea to smear a whole jar of nappy cream on the brand new curtains, etc).

Isn't becoming more intolerant etc one of the compensations of becoming old? Enjoy it. I am sometimes so utterly intolerant that it becomes hilarious; I recently accused dh of making my tea with a spoon with "drops of sugar" on it. We still convulse over it (you had to be there).

I am looking forward to being cantankerous