r/BoomersBeingFools

Very sincerely, I love the woman. Her intentions are generally positive, we get along fine, she adores the grandchildren and grand dog, all the good stuff.

But foolish describes her to a T.

The teen kids had a competition in her town yesterday, so I intentionally built in some time to pop by and visit a bit and help with a simple task she just couldn't figure out. Easy enough, that way I could have a cup of coffee and use a clean restroom before heading to the stadium, all good.

So we had a perfectly pleasant and inconsequential conversation, she has a new lift chair/recliner, random cousin has Alzheimer's (but "he's doing really well! Still drives to the grocery store and is an absolute wizard at backing up to put in his boat at the fish camp!" As though any of that is a good idea. Whatever.)

And then, with 10 minutes before my spare kid and I needed to head out? MIL tells me about her ER visit the previous week - dehydration due to COVID. And how she finally got her prescribed antiviral, probably too late to help much. And how she had decided to no longer take any of her prescription meds, including her cancer maintenance medication and blood pressure stuff and whatever other meds a 79yo two-time cancer survivor likely takes.

"Oh, I feel so much better now! I can get around better, and my head is so much clearer!" (I wasn't there for long, but trust me, I didn't notice much evidence for those claims.)

Okay Lady. It's gonna fall on me specifically when this backfires. One of your sons is disabled, one lives overseas, your spouse can no longer safely drive and is barely mobile, and your beloved daughter in law only has so much physical and mental capacity. (What with a disabled husband, teenagers, my own aging parent, and my own cancer diagnosis.)

Jesus is healing her. I'm wondering whether there's a new Hispanic pharmacist, and she's mispronouncing.

Ok first time I have had an interaction like this and I'm still irritated.

Me(33M) and son (3) go to Costco to get some items for the week this morning. We pass a mom pulling and pushing 2 carts with two kids with her, a baby like 9 months give or take sitting in the front cart and a 6? year old maybe helping push the back cart. Kid can't see over the cart to know where mom is leading him and their cart bump into boomers' cart. Dude loses it and yells at the kid "What the hell are you doing?" I am just like no way he just yelled at this kid. And I will give a single iota of grace to the man because his arm is in a sling and having had a broken foot, I know the feeling of having it bumped while it should be healing. But he doesn't apologize or anything. My son and I see this, so I yell, "It was an accident how about you don't cuss at a child." Boomer doesn't like that tells me that "He needs to not run into his cart." I say, "Cool, don't cuss it's a child". As he's trying to get louder, I proceed to get even louder, because I'll be damned if this old fuck is gunna think he's in the right leaving this store. I turn away as the person doing samples says that we need to all calm down.

Old people suck

I’m in my mid twenties and visiting my boomer grandma with my dad. She wanted me to make dinner for us last night so I decided to make a Korean tofu dish I like (I’m vegetarian so no meat if I’m cooking), and when I told her I was planning to make a tofu dish she looked at me like I was nuts. Thankfully my dad is the goat and is a huge lover of all kinds of food so he encouraged me to. I’ve noticed boomers think tofu is the worst choice of thing anything anyone could eat.

When it’s up to her the food is always something like meat as the main, maybe a few sides I can eat (yay me, the veggie!) like frozen Mac n cheese and plain, raw veg or something like that. It’s the same with literally every North American boomer I’ve met. Unseasoned food, usually some kind of meat cooked in lard/butter as the main star, and everything else as a back burner side. Usually it’s red meat too, which is literally a carcinogen. No seasoning, no creative cooking.

They also have a weird fixation with processed garbage. Like frozen dinners, processed cheese, that sort of thing. I love my grandma because she’s my family but holy cow bro. I’m super into fitness and proper nutrition (fresh/frozen veg, rice and beans, strict gym routine and all that) and every time I come for a visit I feel bloated and gross from all the processed food she wants to eat and I always feel like I’ve set myself back in my fitness goals because I’m adhering more to her lifestyle.

So like, genuinely what is up with boomers and their love of red meat, bland ass and infrequent veg and processed slop. Once in a while sure but every day? How are these people not dead at 60? They’re like vampires live forever despite their horrible lifestyles hoarding all the jobs and homes that us young people want.

So I, 18F, have a Wendy’s near my high school. I’m a senior and have my own car and like to go there before marching band. They have the best nuggets and no one can convince me otherwise.

So I go to Wendy’s and last time I was there, I was talking to the manager. The reason was I heard one of the machines in the back make a noise and I have echolalia and tend to mimic sounds. So I was asking what I was mimicking. (it was the deep fryer if anyone was curious). And that old lady was there. She looked way too old to be working there.

So this time I head there and I order my food. (10 piece nugget meal). And this old lady from last time is there. She looks at me and says. “You’re the girl with Autism, right?” I‘m surprised but kinda flattered she remembered so I say yes I am. Then this lady proceeds to tell me that my autism comes from the metal in vaccines. At this point I’m baffled. But she doubles down and says she can give me a referral to a doctor that can FIX me. I’m holding back laughter at this point and I politely decline. I take my food and head to a booth. I’ve never met an antivaxxer in public before so this was baffling.

i later told my parents about this and they laughed so hard. They said I should’ve trolled her and told her “Yeah my mom took a lot of Tylenol when she was pregnant with me.”

We also have a joke in my family that I am the autism deity. It’s because when we went on a family trip to New York and I did something stupid. I tried to say “Sorry I’m autistic.” And accidentally said “Sorry I am autism.” So now im just the autism deity. And whenever im upset my dad says “Quick! Someone read her a train schedule to appease her!”

So yeah, that was my experience with an antivaxxer woman at a Wendy’s.

6 hours into a 16 hour flight, I’m roused from that not-quite-sleep/not-quite-awake airplane trance by the boomer next to me. He’s got a movie playing on the seat back screen, plane headphones on, phone out at full brightness (in a dimmed cabin), & watching Instagram reels at full volume.

Fortunately, the airline had a little packet with an eye mask and earplugs, but I could still hear the audio until I sandwiched my head between the pillow & the blanket.

When meal service came around, he actually had AirPods in… so why wasn’t he using them in the first place??

Senator Tommy Tuberville ranted against furries and transgender people in the airline industry in the US Senate on September 23, 2026.

His rant against furries in the aviation industry makes me wonder if he hates Star Wars (Chewbacca is a furry pilot in that franchise) or Star Fox.

My parents are allergic to headphones, so I can hear everything they watch. (They have to watch everything on Max Volume/SpeakerPhone because no one else matters.)

Its always those AI generated voices talking about random stuff.

The content itself, although I dislike it, isn't that harmful.

What is harmful is the ads my parents watch. I've tried telling them time and time again that most of those are scams, but they won't believe me. I tried setting up ublock for them but they say the ads are how they get their news. They already bought fake "glasses" that are supposed to adjust to your eyes without needing to see an eye doctor. I tried telling them that glasses don't work like that.

I'm a CS major in college right now, and they won't listen to me in ANYTHING. I've tried showing scientific articles proving things, but they don't care.

An example: I tried telling one of my parents that their flashlight was on in their phone, and they blamed me for hacking into their phone and turning it on. Sometimes I'm too smart and I'm the one hacking into their accounts while other times I'm too stupid and they know better.

What can be done?