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.

I am in denial

policy desultory blowjob.

I tut at people who drive their cars like I used to

I pfff at young women laughing loudly

I'm with you on that one fortyplus, lol

Ooh... laughing loudly... especially those ones that throw their heads back and screech!

I growl at arrogant twonks and hide my displeasure with unhelpful shop workers badly, very badly....

i say ' i DO hope your feeling VERY proud of yourself? Having just nearly killed my small children?
to young people who haven't stepped aside to allow me to pass through.

Sometimes I think I am turning into Victor Meldrew.
Oh, and another thing that comes with advancing years - I am developing a keen eye for a bargain. (Or is that because I frequent moneysavingexpert.com?)

DH says I am turning into my mother.

Actually the more I reflect on this, I realise that I have grown hugely intolerant.

I have a habit of beeping other car drivers who have not thanked me effusively for giving way to them

I am definitely more tolerant of other people now - used to be very black and white and judgy (can't now I'm a counsellor )

but I am much less tolerant of giving my time away, I say NO frequently, and don't make lots of extra friends.

Yesterday I was out for a walk with 2 other 46yo friends. We 'popped' (that's a word that 20yos don't use!) into a little cafe to get a sandwich. The owner was walking across to serve someone with a scowl. I smiled and said hello but no reaction. His apron was filthy. I turned to my friends and said 'I don't think we should stay here if he can't even wipe the grimace off his face!'... and we turned and walked out. Would've been far too embarrassed to do that when I was young!

PMSL at this thread- it'a "Noddy" thread ...

the sort where you find yourself nodding in agreement & howling with laughter as some other far quicker MN-er says exactly what you wanted to say but FAR more eloquently!

What are your favouritew GOW put-downs then?

One of mine (learnt from my Mum) is to interrupt 2 scowling pubescent shop- assistants doing their nails & discussing their love lives with a smile & say very sweetly " SO sorry to interrupt your conversation, I can see you are busy but could I just ask for some help?"

I was in the curtain fabric section of John Lewis in Bluewater yesterday, I asked a young male assistant if I could have a few samples. (HAVE a sample??? You can buy 10cms if you require, madam)

As I walked off a young woman walked up and said to him, "What did SHE want?" So I turned and said loudly "SHE wanted some samples."

It was worth embarrasing my children for the look of horror on her face - she didn't know of my bat like radar hearing!

And I had very poor service on the customer service line of Blacks to which I quipped "Do you know, this would have been a far more pleasant experience if you had, just once, said 'I'm sorry we didn't deliver the correct goods'. Instead of just saying 'I can't help you until monday at 10 when the warehouse opens'"

Far less tolerant and far more likely to do something about it.

A fave GOW quote is to say 'Underwhelmed' eg, 'I am underwhelmed by your ability to get my tax code corrected in 2.5 years/fill in my tax forms correctly etc' (to my husbands accountant who had me down as a single person who recieved a fuel allowance - hence the huge tax bill)

i've definietely got more chilled out as i get older, can't be arsed getting wound up by lots of stuff that used to wind me up when i was younger. usually when someone is rude i just see it as a reflection on them, not me.i save my volcanic tirades for special occassions