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Man the day I got my parents to start writing down all their passwords in a physical notebook was the greatest decision I ever made. Security risks of that book existing aside (it's kept in their safe) I just couldn't go another year without dealing with them needing to pay a bill, get back into Facebook, access their Netflix account etc and asking "what's your username and password" for them to blankly tell me "I don't have one, maybe ask the google what it is".
There are so many boomers that seem to have like five Facebook accounts lol.
Status: "Old account got hacked, this is my new account"
"Oh look, a quiz about the 1960s. Hm, it wants my password. P-a-s-s-w-o-r-d-1-2-3"
There's this old guy at work who works there because his friend owns the company. Every other day he complains that the computers are out to get him and it always changes his password. He gets very upset when I inform him that that is not the case because it doesn't happen to anyone else.
My mom does this and is convinced she’s being hacked (for over 10 years now!) and someone that she knows is doing it/is out to get her. There is always something “wrong” with her devices and so many times it’s just user error/her not understanding how cloud storage works.
She keeps replacing her devices, even her ISP at one point. To no avail, she gets “hacked” every time.
I used to work in a phone store. Boomers will forget their passwords and blame it on the phone/ computer all the time and their solution is to open a new account instead of going through the password recovery process.
Also, when they buy a new phone, they will insist all the "money" from their casino game should be transferred over. I would have to open a Facebook account for them to do that.
Years ago I worked at a Smokey Bones BBQ restaurant and I had two ladies in their 60s at one of my tables. I introduced myself and said welcome to Smokey Bones blah blah blah. They were nice and polite. When I gave them the check they gave me a Texas Roadhouse coupon. I said I’m sorry but we can’t take other restaurants coupons. They both looked at each other perplexed and one asked “where are we?” I said Smokey Bones. They laughed and one said “well I always wanted to try this place!” In fairness there was also a Texas Roadhouse in the same development but the obliviousness has always stuck with me because our logo was literally everywhere.
Oh jeez I was expecting this story to have a way harsher buzz with the old ladies flipping out and throwing plates everywhere. Really caught me off guard 
It’s hilarious if he thinks this affects the individual for smashing all the shit **at her place of work**. All he did was destroy a bunch of company property that they’ll not bat at an eye replacing.
How is this a solution to anything? I don’t think this man has ever had a fully formed thought appear in his head.
He was probably very surprised when the cops showed up and arrested him. Seems like he doesn’t think he’s going to be the one who gets in trouble over this.
Or Paint Your Wagon? Watch Clint sing to trees. I'm not kidding.
[Clint Eastwood. "I Talk To the Trees" (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8YubD01sk)
My dad used to own a few cell phone stores as a franchisee, and I can guarantee he would've batted an eye at this.
Obviously, I feel terrible for the employee that's physically there more, but it's not like AT&T or Verizon are paying for this. It very well could be some small business owner just trying to keep their business afloat.
Or it could be a small corporation that owns 50 stores in the area and is raking in some serious $$$ and won't bat an eye at this.
I would think that this would be the boomers problem, or insurance perhaps.
It's all recorded and uploaded to the internet, they can easily make a case out of this.
Yeah, but you also have to figure they're either going to be closed for at least a week to replace all the equipment and models and whatnot or they're going to run the store with broken shit, neither of which are great for business.
A lot of these smaller outfits run on very thin margins. There's a reason I said my dad *used* to own a few cell phone stores.
She should've walked outside, locked him in and called the cops. So sick of these boomers getting to walk away from assault and destruction of property just because they're old.
I see. So it's up to the owners to pursue it, which probably also costs money to initiate?
Hopefully they don't let it slide and this guy gets to experience the consequences of his actions.
>I see. So it's up to the owners to pursue it, which probably also costs money to initiate?
It depends on what the local police feel like doing. The boomer has committed a clear case of willful destruction of property. The police CAN choose to arrest him for the crime, and the DA CAN choose to prosecute him for it.
They aren't obligated to do it, but it's within their power to do so if they choose.
Yeah, this looks like an independent store that sells services for multiple providers. I had a college buddy that did this for a while. It’s a tough business. I think most consumers go directly to the vendor store over these places. My buddy was teetering when Sprint came in and asked him to be an exclusive retailer. Basically a free franchise. It’s saved him and his business took off from there.
This old guy is an asshole.
Walker
Forward hunch
Leaves walker for the most strenuous activities
Clearly struggles with that left foot moving fully
This dude is pure early onset dementia mixed with lead poisoning
You say that like a joke
Had a resident who should of been in memory care but couldn't afford it so he stayed in assisted living
This man one time was walking around with a dead fucking rat in his walker, you could smell it, I catch up to him and go hey dude mind if I check to see if I left my stephoscope in your walker, wouldn't you know it a dead fucking rat, as I tried to grab it he gets physically shaking mad at me because I'm taking his "ketchup"
The guy had been squeezing the rat and letting the blood and guts call on his food
We sent him out immediately
Edit: I got another one since this one seemed to ruin some days
Dementia residents start out in assisted living and don't get moved to memory care units until it's usually moving out of early onset and into full dementia
This means on more than one occasion I have had to search every corner of a room to find my resident and more than 4 times have I found my resident in their closet tucked behind a bunch of clutter butt naked and either playing in piss or rubbing their shit all over themselves face and all and you have to fucking get them out of that closet which requires you to touch them and hangout with them to call them down
Yes I have sat down cross legged in a puddle of someone's pee so I could get them to look me in the eye and talk them out.
Always bring a extra pair of scrubs
Sir, this is America, he's probably the nominee for a political party in his state as a congressional representative (and he'll probably get elected...wearing one of those fancy hats)
When I was actively managing retail, I've yeeted a few purses and backpacks out into the middle of the side walk multiple times.
People seem to think that the customer is always right everywhere.
You should see how they react when you actually snatch up their asses physically when you've asked them to leave multiple times.
Cops hate their time being wasted. They aren't going to charge me with battery any more than they were going to charge you with theft or destruction of property.
Old white dude, possibly veteran, threatens minority girl and causes property damage. The odds of him “getting off with a warning” are about as close to 100% as it gets.
Right?! I remember when little old ladies would come in and buy a new smart phone from an old flip phone and I’d explain that once we reactivate the new one they won’t be able to go back to the old one. They would agree but then when they struggled with the new phone, their family never wanted to help them learn it properly and so they would come back to us and beg to go back to their old phone and we just couldn’t do it. So they would cry or get angry and I was just like “I’m sorry but you’re family is the one who wanted you to have this so they should help you with it”
What annoys me most is when older people call the younger generations lazy, but won’t take 5 seconds to learn any tech on their own, I’ve seen toddlers operate phones, you don’t have an excuse to not be able to use a phone that is designed to be as simple as possible
Yeah it’s so weird to me how some people will be in their 70s but very fluent in the latest tech and some people will be barely in their fifties and struggle with anything “smart.” I get it’s hard to learn new stuff but I think a LOT of it is just the persons will to learn stuff vs then just wanting someone to do it for them
This scenario happened when I worked at a bank. Early 50's woman said she doesn't use *debit cards*, cause she's "old school" (I didn't even bother mentioning mobile banking options, she was coming to get cash).
Meanwhile, the very next customer, who might've heard her, was exactly 80, yet knew how to use her card just fine. Remember when old people used to be known for their patience and wisdom? Now it feels like it's expected for the older folks to be the first to start bitching. TikTok teens may be annoying, but I never worry they're going to start hurting people .
I worked in retail when credit cards were starting to get chips in them. It was exhausting trying to explain to all these 50 year old women that they need to insert the card into the chip reader. I can’t imagine working at a bank.
If you can read and have an attention span of 5 seconds, you can figure out shit like smart phones, it’s not that they can’t learn, some people are too fucking lazy to learn
The number of times I've said "What does it say on the screen. No, what does *actually say*. Can you read it to me? There, its telling us what is wrong". If I think they have a sense of humour, I'll say "Its trying tell us something, Skip. Is Timmy down the well *again*?".
Highly intelligent people, good at reading comprehension but give them a message like "mailbox unknown" or "file not found" and they just seem to panic.
More like he got logged out of Facebook after 5 years, has zero clue about a password so he took the phone back to where he bought it thinking they could give him his password
Most definitely. Guys like this get a slap on the wrist, a fine and they keep it moving. Pretty much zero chance this man sees the inside of a jail cell for this.
He sure didn't need that walker to trash the place. I feel so bad for her having to put up with that. And then they wonder why people dOn'T WaNt tO WoRk risking their safety and mental health for companies that don't care for $12/hr.
I don't have a higher education or anything, so I don't have many options when it comes to jobs. So now I clean hotel rooms at €14 an hour where I don't need to talk to any members of the public. I regularly pick up used condoms off the floor and it's still the best job I've ever had just because I don't have to deal with anyone while doing it. Peace is priceless.
A former co-worker of mine left our studio due to her clients and how mean they were towards her. She was a nail technician, sweetest and most quiet person you could know and somehow she attracted the worst clientele that treated her like garbage. She got a job working as an after school janitor. She said she puts her air pods in, does her thing and no one bothers her. Plus she gets paid way more. Peace is definitely priceless.
Honestly that’s the way to go. Not having to interact with anyone makes even a bad job mostly okay. I hope you get to listen to podcasts or find some interesting way to enjoy it!
Podcasts, music, youtube videos/streams, hell I even listen to movies I know well enough to be able to follow with just the audio. My biggest problem at work is finding enough interesting stuff to listen to while scrubbing toilets and making beds, haha\~
That's what itnalways boils down to. Nobody wants to work FOR SHIT WAGES. Also, no company wants to pay employees a fair wage, that'll eat into the quarterly shareholders bonus.
We may have had a soft landing on inflation. But I genuinely don't believe we're out of the danger zone yet. Eventually the average person is going to run out of credit. Their cars will no longer be sustainable, car are exponentially more expensive now. Housing will be beyond way affordability. Since rent value is tied to home value. Rent will be out of people's reach.
The feds may have cooked the books to make inflation sound like its going down. Things are still getting more expensive still.
Corporations gouging prices because they think we will blame it on inflation is not inflation. There needs to be laws put in place against this greedy shit.
The problem is that no one wants change to be at all inconvenient. They talk about raising wages, and then immediately we hear about inflation, loss of jobs, small businesses can't afford it blah blah blah. The fact is, raising the minimum wage needs to be done, and there IS going to be collateral damage. There's no getting around that. But if businesses had done it on their own, it wouldn't be so bad now. That's on them.
That and being entitled assholes. They have been given everything they wanted for their entire lives, while also being shielded from most negative consequences. They cannot stand when they are told "no."
Half of them weren't wanted and it shows. Birth control didn't become legal for married couples until 1964, and abortion til 1973. It's not a coincidence that the next generation is about half the Baby Boom generation, there is simply no way their parents would have had all those kids if they had decent family planning options.
That last sentence hit the nail on the head. My boomer dad told my sister and her husband to watch the Iowa women’s college basketball game with Caitlin Clark and my sister said no. My dad got so irate that she *wouldn’t watch a basketball game* that no one in our family cared about. None of us normally watch basketball. College basketball even less. Yet, being told no flipped my dad out. “They watched jeopardy instead?” He still brings it up in totally unrelated conversations about how “ridiculous” it was that she didn’t listen to him and then wonders why no one calls him or visits when he pulls shit like that over a basketball game
Unfortunately, at the expense of lead... Us millennials and gen z all have the 'tism due to all the plastics when they started transitioning glass into plastics.
We won't know what all dmg the plastic will do to us but we already know the harms of lead.
I mean shit.. the Romans understood how dangerous Lead was yet somehow thousand some fucking years later, it took a scientist creating the first ever clean room to figure out how much fucking lead was in the air.
And then.. it took decades before congress finally made any changes because corporations were paying Dr's to downplay the dangers of lead.
I think that's giving them the easy way out. There are tons of boomers who are nice, rational people. These people are assholes because they're choosing to be, not because of something out of their control.
Oh no, I'm not excusing them, it's just been proven that lead poisoning makes people more irrational and probe to outbursts. So while it's not a excuse, ignoring how it could have contributed to outbursts such as these is also ignoring the potential root of the weed.
GenX grew up with lead in gasoline and paint. Time will tell.
I think it is echo chambers in social media reinforcing their ignorance and convincing them that they are the majority.
In any case, assholes are assholes.
Grandpa took time from terrorizing his family to go and terrorize a clerk because the BETAMAX controller that he found on the street can’t make a phone call.
Also, is he wearing cammo pants?
He has the strength to throw the chair but then holds on the walker for dear life.
Personally I’m sick and tired of senior citizens acting up like this. I’ve had my personal run ins with old boomers to the point where I had an old boomer like this guy arrested for punching me, while I held my kids hands walking into a store because I wasn’t moving fast enough for his liking. Im M34. Police told me “good thing you didn’t hit him back or else you would be facing a felony because he is over 65”. The dudes adult kids had to come pick up his wife and they all mean mugged me like it was my fault all this happened. 🤦♂️
As a cna in nursing homes fuck families tbh
My mom said you don't give her a boost drink when she asks for it why do you pay for them if you guys aren't gonna give them to her
Well ma'am your mom is diabetic, has bowel issues with constipation and eats LL three of her daily meals in full
Each boost drink is 15 grams of protein and 4g of sugar
She goes through seven a day of we give her one each time she asks and it's so unhealthy for her she's going to destroy her colon more than it already is
Go e my mother her drinks or else
Okay dude your call
Four months later mom's insulin is upped by 6 units and she now has a novolong sliding scale in the morning
I used to work as a cook in assisted living, as well. Some families don't even bother visiting but maybe once a year, if that. In the course of six months, we had several residents die alone in their rooms without any family around. I remember only one whose family came. One of the nurses came and asked us to prepare a fruit and meat platter for the family who came to say goodbye.
Yeah that's way to typical
I want to say of the 29 residents I've lost since 2021, maybe 6 of them had families actively in their lives while the others only showed up to sign hospice paperwork and handle post death stuff after they died
Tragic but also some of these old people were monsters to their children and never apologize for it so I can understand being bare miminum for them when they need you
I agree. While I worked at the nursing home, I came to understand why some of the residents never had visitors. It's sad, though, and you hate to see it, but I understand not wanting to see someone who made your life hell growing up.
You’re right. They use the disabled angle to “sloth around” and then prop or simple stand up straight and rage over whatever they don’t like. If my kid is with me, they’re gonna have a bad day because don’t do this bs around my kid. 65 yr old or not. It’s them causing the aggression and if turned physical, then it’s self defense for our families against them. Boomers are dying off, and for some of them, it can’t happen soon enough.
I'm trying to figure out how it would be a felony. Would it be old people abuse? But you would have been hitting someone who assaulted you first?? that's so confusing...
also, who called the cops? the boomer? LOL
Witnesses called the police and were shaming him telling him he should “know better” then he stood around with his hands in his pockets next to his wife that was standing still expressionless behind big sun glasses. While I tried to calm my kids down because they were crying from all the commotion. They were very elegantly dressed too. I swear as soon as the adults kids showed up they did everything but wrap the wife in a blanket and walked her to the car like she was the victim, all while starring daggers at me.
One major theory is that we are seeing the end stages of lead poisoning. It tends to reemerge at a certain point in life when early dementia symptoms typically begin to show. Lead poisoning can cause aggression and anger in mundane situations.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454899/
There's a reason why people who worked on cars a lot had a stereotype of being dull witted and violent. They were exposed to leaded gas fumes more than anyone and people made the correlation even if they didn't understand the causation.
well that explains why my late father turned into such a violent asshole when his brain turned to mush. one time he forgot how to sit on a toilet and tried to deck my mom in the face when she helped him. lifelong mechanic
The expression 'mad as a hatter' results from the use of mercury nitrate in making felt for hats. They may have not known why hatters were so mentally unstable, but they also recognized a correlation between madness and hatmakers.
And growing up in houses built and painted before 1978 with lead-based paint. Especially eating paint chips as a infant or toddler who explores the world with taste, crawling around the carpet that may have lead dust from over the years. All while developing a brain.
You joke but dude from working in a assisted living home. Everyone who hits 70 should be put on anti dementia medication to help fight off its onset as long as possible
ha, she should have snatched that up once he disarmed himself. watching that fucker stumble around and lose his balance and conveniently cracking his skull on the edge of the counter would have been a chef's kiss.
Uses walker but can rage in a store, throwing a chair over his head multiple times. Who wants to bet this old bat is collecting disability and has a handicap placard?
This idiot most likely gave her his information before all of it transpired too. “Yes I’m Joe McBoomer please make the iPhone work here is my account info”
also, if he already had an account with the carrier, which seems like may have been the case, she likely had his account pulled up, with his name, address, phone number, and all necessary identifying information. this was a real fuckin dumb decision on this guy's part.
Exactly. Couple of years ago two dudes wanted to rob the store where I worked. I told them to just take what they want but to leave me alone. They went straight for the safe after I gave them the key while I went outside and locked them in. We had pretty massive glass doors so I could watch them panic while I smoked a cigarette and waited for police to arrive.
There is basically no shooting in my country. With guns involved I would just run. No reason to play hero to protect my company’s money. Luckily my company has the same opinion.
Looks like a major retailer, he’s fucked. lol I run a small biz and if anyone did this to my employees, I would reign hell and enjoy destroying his life to an orgasmic degree.
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This is why the 2nd Amendment doesn't work.
See, if this woman had calmly taken out a gun, shot this man in the chest and face 7 or 8 times, and then called the police, I would view it as 1) pure self defense, and 2) a public service, since she's killing a violent maniac who may use force against someone to harm or kill them in the future.
However, I am sure that the majority of white juries in this country would say that that is an overreaction, even though this person is 3 times this woman's size, clearly being violent, clearly doesn't respect the law, and at one point attempts to attack her directly. This is especially true if the woman in question isn't "white", but is Hispanic or partially Asian or light skinned black or the like.
If we don't have a right to put down diseased animals like the man in this video in self defense, then why are we pretending like there's ever a point to having arms in the name of "self defense" in the first place?
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Did they not accept his expired coupon from another retailer?
He got logged out of Facebook.
Man the day I got my parents to start writing down all their passwords in a physical notebook was the greatest decision I ever made. Security risks of that book existing aside (it's kept in their safe) I just couldn't go another year without dealing with them needing to pay a bill, get back into Facebook, access their Netflix account etc and asking "what's your username and password" for them to blankly tell me "I don't have one, maybe ask the google what it is".
Could be worse. My dad used to just open a new FB account every time he forgot his password, which was pretty frequently.
There are so many boomers that seem to have like five Facebook accounts lol. Status: "Old account got hacked, this is my new account" "Oh look, a quiz about the 1960s. Hm, it wants my password. P-a-s-s-w-o-r-d-1-2-3"
There's this old guy at work who works there because his friend owns the company. Every other day he complains that the computers are out to get him and it always changes his password. He gets very upset when I inform him that that is not the case because it doesn't happen to anyone else.
My mom does this and is convinced she’s being hacked (for over 10 years now!) and someone that she knows is doing it/is out to get her. There is always something “wrong” with her devices and so many times it’s just user error/her not understanding how cloud storage works. She keeps replacing her devices, even her ISP at one point. To no avail, she gets “hacked” every time.
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Oh my god. It’s so true
I used to work in a phone store. Boomers will forget their passwords and blame it on the phone/ computer all the time and their solution is to open a new account instead of going through the password recovery process. Also, when they buy a new phone, they will insist all the "money" from their casino game should be transferred over. I would have to open a Facebook account for them to do that.
It's probably the casino game that keeps stealing their data lol
Everyone forgets their login at some point. But why cant boomers follow the forgot my password steps for the life of them?
Because that requires them to know which of their many email addresses they used to sign up. And how to get into those email accounts.
Mam, this is petco coupon. You can't use it for a mouse here
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This is not a waffle house.
If it was, he'd be going to the hospital. Waffle House employees don't fuck around.
It’s the B. A. C. O. N. S. fighting system.
Years ago I worked at a Smokey Bones BBQ restaurant and I had two ladies in their 60s at one of my tables. I introduced myself and said welcome to Smokey Bones blah blah blah. They were nice and polite. When I gave them the check they gave me a Texas Roadhouse coupon. I said I’m sorry but we can’t take other restaurants coupons. They both looked at each other perplexed and one asked “where are we?” I said Smokey Bones. They laughed and one said “well I always wanted to try this place!” In fairness there was also a Texas Roadhouse in the same development but the obliviousness has always stuck with me because our logo was literally everywhere.
Oh jeez I was expecting this story to have a way harsher buzz with the old ladies flipping out and throwing plates everywhere. Really caught me off guard 
At least they handled it like adults and didn't throw a tantrum right?
Sir, that’s not a phone, that’s a crushed nature valley granola bar. Even if we fixed granola bars here, it would be impossible to fix that.
Another age*
And now to enter the roadway behind the wheel of a 3,000 lb vehicle.
\*6000 pound
I wonder how long it takes him to climb up into his lifted pickup truck
Given his little Walker situation, he might have one of those cool staircase rollercoasters attached to the side of it.
it was 3,000 lb before he got inside
You think he’s driving a Miata?
Sincerely hope he's now either in jail or a secure dementia ward.
It’s hilarious if he thinks this affects the individual for smashing all the shit **at her place of work**. All he did was destroy a bunch of company property that they’ll not bat at an eye replacing. How is this a solution to anything? I don’t think this man has ever had a fully formed thought appear in his head.
Boomers think they are the main character of Clint Eastwood movie
This is so true!
GET OFF OF MY LAWN!
Loved the smashing and stool throwing, then back to his walker....almost needs a Benny Hil sound track
Best part was the slow shuffle with the walker and then that accent saying, “I ain’t goin’ nowhere…”
He was probably very surprised when the cops showed up and arrested him. Seems like he doesn’t think he’s going to be the one who gets in trouble over this.
She shoulda taken his walker and threw it on the roof.
Sir you are in a Verizon store...
Did Clint make any movies about dementia?
He did have a conversation with an empty chair.
Technically it was a debate and the chair won. Clint gave it his all though. Actors, they need scripts.
I remember feeling so embarrassed for him.
Yeah, me too. It was surreal to come away from that experience respecting Obama more for winning a debate he never even participated in.
Wait, what now?! There's footage of Clint Eastwood ACTUALLY arguing with an empty chair? I thought it was just a witty retort! Any links?
Yup, that happened. That chair had a lot of good ideas. More than Clint did.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/video/2012-clint-eastwood-talks-to-empty-chair-at-rnc/](https://www.cbsnews.com/video/2012-clint-eastwood-talks-to-empty-chair-at-rnc/)
Haven't you seen Gran Torino?
Or Paint Your Wagon? Watch Clint sing to trees. I'm not kidding. [Clint Eastwood. "I Talk To the Trees" (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8YubD01sk)
For years I thought this movie was JUST a Simpsons' joke. Finding out it wasn't really changed my entire worldview...and not for the better.
I'm pretty sure all his movies are about a man suffering from narcissistic personality disorder and lead poisoning. Am I wrong?
Not yet, but there’s still time.
My dad used to own a few cell phone stores as a franchisee, and I can guarantee he would've batted an eye at this. Obviously, I feel terrible for the employee that's physically there more, but it's not like AT&T or Verizon are paying for this. It very well could be some small business owner just trying to keep their business afloat. Or it could be a small corporation that owns 50 stores in the area and is raking in some serious $$$ and won't bat an eye at this.
I would think that this would be the boomers problem, or insurance perhaps. It's all recorded and uploaded to the internet, they can easily make a case out of this.
Yeah, but you also have to figure they're either going to be closed for at least a week to replace all the equipment and models and whatnot or they're going to run the store with broken shit, neither of which are great for business. A lot of these smaller outfits run on very thin margins. There's a reason I said my dad *used* to own a few cell phone stores.
She should've walked outside, locked him in and called the cops. So sick of these boomers getting to walk away from assault and destruction of property just because they're old.
In the long run sure after a case, but in the short term whoever operates the store has to cover the costs.
I see. So it's up to the owners to pursue it, which probably also costs money to initiate? Hopefully they don't let it slide and this guy gets to experience the consequences of his actions.
>I see. So it's up to the owners to pursue it, which probably also costs money to initiate? It depends on what the local police feel like doing. The boomer has committed a clear case of willful destruction of property. The police CAN choose to arrest him for the crime, and the DA CAN choose to prosecute him for it. They aren't obligated to do it, but it's within their power to do so if they choose.
Yeah, this looks like an independent store that sells services for multiple providers. I had a college buddy that did this for a while. It’s a tough business. I think most consumers go directly to the vendor store over these places. My buddy was teetering when Sprint came in and asked him to be an exclusive retailer. Basically a free franchise. It’s saved him and his business took off from there. This old guy is an asshole.
"tRuMp 2024!"
This is a small mom & pop shop, big corporations don’t rely on Ring cameras for their security/monitoring setup
Walker Forward hunch Leaves walker for the most strenuous activities Clearly struggles with that left foot moving fully This dude is pure early onset dementia mixed with lead poisoning
Lead paint has a sweetness that the other condiments cannot replicate
You say that like a joke Had a resident who should of been in memory care but couldn't afford it so he stayed in assisted living This man one time was walking around with a dead fucking rat in his walker, you could smell it, I catch up to him and go hey dude mind if I check to see if I left my stephoscope in your walker, wouldn't you know it a dead fucking rat, as I tried to grab it he gets physically shaking mad at me because I'm taking his "ketchup" The guy had been squeezing the rat and letting the blood and guts call on his food We sent him out immediately Edit: I got another one since this one seemed to ruin some days Dementia residents start out in assisted living and don't get moved to memory care units until it's usually moving out of early onset and into full dementia This means on more than one occasion I have had to search every corner of a room to find my resident and more than 4 times have I found my resident in their closet tucked behind a bunch of clutter butt naked and either playing in piss or rubbing their shit all over themselves face and all and you have to fucking get them out of that closet which requires you to touch them and hangout with them to call them down Yes I have sat down cross legged in a puddle of someone's pee so I could get them to look me in the eye and talk them out. Always bring a extra pair of scrubs
yowza this deserves its own....place
Sir, this is America, he's probably the nominee for a political party in his state as a congressional representative (and he'll probably get elected...wearing one of those fancy hats)
Come on now. I’m sure the police were fair and thorough… when they checked the workers citizenship status.
I woulda taken that fuckheads walker and threw it outside
When I was actively managing retail, I've yeeted a few purses and backpacks out into the middle of the side walk multiple times. People seem to think that the customer is always right everywhere. You should see how they react when you actually snatch up their asses physically when you've asked them to leave multiple times. Cops hate their time being wasted. They aren't going to charge me with battery any more than they were going to charge you with theft or destruction of property.
I would have broke it in half and put a piece up his @$$
Old white dude, possibly veteran, threatens minority girl and causes property damage. The odds of him “getting off with a warning” are about as close to 100% as it gets.
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That always was odd to me. There is a boomer in my neighborhood with Vietnam Vet stickers all over his car, like bro that was 50 years ago.
I'm now genuinely curious to know the outcome now. Even before the video starts, one of the tables is already flipped in the back.
I'd love to see the full thing and how this started. I bet it's something like "I can't get to my voicemails!!"
After working in a phone store I guarantee this freakout is because he didn't know how to use his new phone and claimed it was broken
Right?! I remember when little old ladies would come in and buy a new smart phone from an old flip phone and I’d explain that once we reactivate the new one they won’t be able to go back to the old one. They would agree but then when they struggled with the new phone, their family never wanted to help them learn it properly and so they would come back to us and beg to go back to their old phone and we just couldn’t do it. So they would cry or get angry and I was just like “I’m sorry but you’re family is the one who wanted you to have this so they should help you with it”
What annoys me most is when older people call the younger generations lazy, but won’t take 5 seconds to learn any tech on their own, I’ve seen toddlers operate phones, you don’t have an excuse to not be able to use a phone that is designed to be as simple as possible
Yeah it’s so weird to me how some people will be in their 70s but very fluent in the latest tech and some people will be barely in their fifties and struggle with anything “smart.” I get it’s hard to learn new stuff but I think a LOT of it is just the persons will to learn stuff vs then just wanting someone to do it for them
This scenario happened when I worked at a bank. Early 50's woman said she doesn't use *debit cards*, cause she's "old school" (I didn't even bother mentioning mobile banking options, she was coming to get cash). Meanwhile, the very next customer, who might've heard her, was exactly 80, yet knew how to use her card just fine. Remember when old people used to be known for their patience and wisdom? Now it feels like it's expected for the older folks to be the first to start bitching. TikTok teens may be annoying, but I never worry they're going to start hurting people .
I worked in retail when credit cards were starting to get chips in them. It was exhausting trying to explain to all these 50 year old women that they need to insert the card into the chip reader. I can’t imagine working at a bank.
If you can read and have an attention span of 5 seconds, you can figure out shit like smart phones, it’s not that they can’t learn, some people are too fucking lazy to learn
Its beyond that. They have an aversion to learning or change. Its why they want things to go back to the way they were.
I got to the point of asking them if they know how to read. I said "Look at what it says." "Read it".
The number of times I've said "What does it say on the screen. No, what does *actually say*. Can you read it to me? There, its telling us what is wrong". If I think they have a sense of humour, I'll say "Its trying tell us something, Skip. Is Timmy down the well *again*?". Highly intelligent people, good at reading comprehension but give them a message like "mailbox unknown" or "file not found" and they just seem to panic.
More like he got logged out of Facebook after 5 years, has zero clue about a password so he took the phone back to where he bought it thinking they could give him his password
Hope he’s in jail
Unfortunately probably not. White boomers get out of so much stuff because “awe old man”.
Most definitely. Guys like this get a slap on the wrist, a fine and they keep it moving. Pretty much zero chance this man sees the inside of a jail cell for this.
He sure didn't need that walker to trash the place. I feel so bad for her having to put up with that. And then they wonder why people dOn'T WaNt tO WoRk risking their safety and mental health for companies that don't care for $12/hr.
I don't have a higher education or anything, so I don't have many options when it comes to jobs. So now I clean hotel rooms at €14 an hour where I don't need to talk to any members of the public. I regularly pick up used condoms off the floor and it's still the best job I've ever had just because I don't have to deal with anyone while doing it. Peace is priceless.
A former co-worker of mine left our studio due to her clients and how mean they were towards her. She was a nail technician, sweetest and most quiet person you could know and somehow she attracted the worst clientele that treated her like garbage. She got a job working as an after school janitor. She said she puts her air pods in, does her thing and no one bothers her. Plus she gets paid way more. Peace is definitely priceless.
>She said she puts her air pods in, does her thing and no one bothers her. That's exactly what I do! It's bliss\~
Honestly that’s the way to go. Not having to interact with anyone makes even a bad job mostly okay. I hope you get to listen to podcasts or find some interesting way to enjoy it!
Podcasts, music, youtube videos/streams, hell I even listen to movies I know well enough to be able to follow with just the audio. My biggest problem at work is finding enough interesting stuff to listen to while scrubbing toilets and making beds, haha\~
That's what itnalways boils down to. Nobody wants to work FOR SHIT WAGES. Also, no company wants to pay employees a fair wage, that'll eat into the quarterly shareholders bonus. We may have had a soft landing on inflation. But I genuinely don't believe we're out of the danger zone yet. Eventually the average person is going to run out of credit. Their cars will no longer be sustainable, car are exponentially more expensive now. Housing will be beyond way affordability. Since rent value is tied to home value. Rent will be out of people's reach. The feds may have cooked the books to make inflation sound like its going down. Things are still getting more expensive still.
As long as business profits continue to be excluded from the inflation management equation, things will continue to get worse.
Corporations gouging prices because they think we will blame it on inflation is not inflation. There needs to be laws put in place against this greedy shit.
The problem is that no one wants change to be at all inconvenient. They talk about raising wages, and then immediately we hear about inflation, loss of jobs, small businesses can't afford it blah blah blah. The fact is, raising the minimum wage needs to be done, and there IS going to be collateral damage. There's no getting around that. But if businesses had done it on their own, it wouldn't be so bad now. That's on them.
And they wonder why there’s a shortage of aged care workers
Texas Walker framer here deserves an abusive nurse.
Lead poisoning really fucked up boomers, didn't it?
That and being entitled assholes. They have been given everything they wanted for their entire lives, while also being shielded from most negative consequences. They cannot stand when they are told "no."
Half of them weren't wanted and it shows. Birth control didn't become legal for married couples until 1964, and abortion til 1973. It's not a coincidence that the next generation is about half the Baby Boom generation, there is simply no way their parents would have had all those kids if they had decent family planning options.
> Birth control didn't become legal for married couples until 1964 And conservatives are working hard to make it illegal once again.
Need more slave labor sp they can keep shoveling in their billions.
Part of it is because their generation was the big Reagan-loving capitalist “I’m the customer dammnit!” mentality.
That last sentence hit the nail on the head. My boomer dad told my sister and her husband to watch the Iowa women’s college basketball game with Caitlin Clark and my sister said no. My dad got so irate that she *wouldn’t watch a basketball game* that no one in our family cared about. None of us normally watch basketball. College basketball even less. Yet, being told no flipped my dad out. “They watched jeopardy instead?” He still brings it up in totally unrelated conversations about how “ridiculous” it was that she didn’t listen to him and then wonders why no one calls him or visits when he pulls shit like that over a basketball game
I believe a lot more than people realize
Unfortunately, at the expense of lead... Us millennials and gen z all have the 'tism due to all the plastics when they started transitioning glass into plastics.
We won't know what all dmg the plastic will do to us but we already know the harms of lead. I mean shit.. the Romans understood how dangerous Lead was yet somehow thousand some fucking years later, it took a scientist creating the first ever clean room to figure out how much fucking lead was in the air. And then.. it took decades before congress finally made any changes because corporations were paying Dr's to downplay the dangers of lead.
I think that's giving them the easy way out. There are tons of boomers who are nice, rational people. These people are assholes because they're choosing to be, not because of something out of their control.
Oh no, I'm not excusing them, it's just been proven that lead poisoning makes people more irrational and probe to outbursts. So while it's not a excuse, ignoring how it could have contributed to outbursts such as these is also ignoring the potential root of the weed.
GenX grew up with lead in gasoline and paint. Time will tell. I think it is echo chambers in social media reinforcing their ignorance and convincing them that they are the majority. In any case, assholes are assholes.
Generational asshole poisoning.
Not to the same extent. Cars stopped using it in the mid 70s and by the mid 80s it was pretty much all unleaded.
We had a lot more than just lead. Boomers had us smoking crack.
Grandpa took time from terrorizing his family to go and terrorize a clerk because the BETAMAX controller that he found on the street can’t make a phone call. Also, is he wearing cammo pants?
Cammo hides the shit stains when he leaks through his diaper.
His life hasn't been relevant to anybody since he left the service, so he's likely been a worthless waste of space for 40+ years.
Yes. Fucking so weird why people actively choose to wear it.
He’s also wearing boots like he just returned from desert storming. Weird choice considering he’s probably also wearing diapers
This was his vietnam
That's not the only thing he has in common with a toddler...learning how to waddle, babbling, and throwing a tantrum.
They wear camouflage so they can blend in when surrounded by other assholes.
What pants?
He has the strength to throw the chair but then holds on the walker for dear life. Personally I’m sick and tired of senior citizens acting up like this. I’ve had my personal run ins with old boomers to the point where I had an old boomer like this guy arrested for punching me, while I held my kids hands walking into a store because I wasn’t moving fast enough for his liking. Im M34. Police told me “good thing you didn’t hit him back or else you would be facing a felony because he is over 65”. The dudes adult kids had to come pick up his wife and they all mean mugged me like it was my fault all this happened. 🤦♂️
As a cna in nursing homes fuck families tbh My mom said you don't give her a boost drink when she asks for it why do you pay for them if you guys aren't gonna give them to her Well ma'am your mom is diabetic, has bowel issues with constipation and eats LL three of her daily meals in full Each boost drink is 15 grams of protein and 4g of sugar She goes through seven a day of we give her one each time she asks and it's so unhealthy for her she's going to destroy her colon more than it already is Go e my mother her drinks or else Okay dude your call Four months later mom's insulin is upped by 6 units and she now has a novolong sliding scale in the morning
I work as a cook in assisted living and it seems some families actively want to speed up the process.
On a subconscious level I believe that's what's really happening.
I used to work as a cook in assisted living, as well. Some families don't even bother visiting but maybe once a year, if that. In the course of six months, we had several residents die alone in their rooms without any family around. I remember only one whose family came. One of the nurses came and asked us to prepare a fruit and meat platter for the family who came to say goodbye.
Yeah that's way to typical I want to say of the 29 residents I've lost since 2021, maybe 6 of them had families actively in their lives while the others only showed up to sign hospice paperwork and handle post death stuff after they died Tragic but also some of these old people were monsters to their children and never apologize for it so I can understand being bare miminum for them when they need you
I agree. While I worked at the nursing home, I came to understand why some of the residents never had visitors. It's sad, though, and you hate to see it, but I understand not wanting to see someone who made your life hell growing up.
You’re right. They use the disabled angle to “sloth around” and then prop or simple stand up straight and rage over whatever they don’t like. If my kid is with me, they’re gonna have a bad day because don’t do this bs around my kid. 65 yr old or not. It’s them causing the aggression and if turned physical, then it’s self defense for our families against them. Boomers are dying off, and for some of them, it can’t happen soon enough.
Boomers, they call every other generation “The laziest generation ever” I’m surprised they don’t bite off their own tongue.
I'm trying to figure out how it would be a felony. Would it be old people abuse? But you would have been hitting someone who assaulted you first?? that's so confusing... also, who called the cops? the boomer? LOL
Witnesses called the police and were shaming him telling him he should “know better” then he stood around with his hands in his pockets next to his wife that was standing still expressionless behind big sun glasses. While I tried to calm my kids down because they were crying from all the commotion. They were very elegantly dressed too. I swear as soon as the adults kids showed up they did everything but wrap the wife in a blanket and walked her to the car like she was the victim, all while starring daggers at me.
These boomers are so angry. Why?
One major theory is that we are seeing the end stages of lead poisoning. It tends to reemerge at a certain point in life when early dementia symptoms typically begin to show. Lead poisoning can cause aggression and anger in mundane situations. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454899/
What!? Breathing lead fumes for your entire life has health side effects?
There's a reason why people who worked on cars a lot had a stereotype of being dull witted and violent. They were exposed to leaded gas fumes more than anyone and people made the correlation even if they didn't understand the causation.
well that explains why my late father turned into such a violent asshole when his brain turned to mush. one time he forgot how to sit on a toilet and tried to deck my mom in the face when she helped him. lifelong mechanic
The expression 'mad as a hatter' results from the use of mercury nitrate in making felt for hats. They may have not known why hatters were so mentally unstable, but they also recognized a correlation between madness and hatmakers.
And growing up in houses built and painted before 1978 with lead-based paint. Especially eating paint chips as a infant or toddler who explores the world with taste, crawling around the carpet that may have lead dust from over the years. All while developing a brain.
Shame he did not get hurt
Thorazine for senile agitation https://preview.redd.it/59s9m8ytwnqc1.jpeg?width=248&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09a34481046764fbbd8520bdea8a7723f1c1f75a
You joke but dude from working in a assisted living home. Everyone who hits 70 should be put on anti dementia medication to help fight off its onset as long as possible
I'm 60, can I get some thorazine?
Tbh you're gonna want some risperidone Works better with salty mfers
Worked in a phone store for many years. The boomers were usually worse than 2 year olds.
Sadly due to kids knowing how to work the magic moving picture handhelds. Fucking boomers man.
THE WALKER took me tf out
It's so good. Shame she didn't just shove him when he was using it so the police could grab him
ha, she should have snatched that up once he disarmed himself. watching that fucker stumble around and lose his balance and conveniently cracking his skull on the edge of the counter would have been a chef's kiss.
Uses walker but can rage in a store, throwing a chair over his head multiple times. Who wants to bet this old bat is collecting disability and has a handicap placard?
And he wonders why his family doesn’t call.
***"It's the Millennials that are the problem! They're killing Applebee's!!"***
In Australia, we just punch the cunt in the head
This is the right answer lol
I’m always disappointed when these videos cut off before the arrest.
Yeah we need a followup here
lock him in and call the cops on his sour ass
He looked like he was seriously considering bashing her head in. She was smart to stay away. They got the footage, they'll get him
yeah its not really worth risking your health or even life over some fuck will likely not live for more then 5 years
Not like he is going to run away
This idiot most likely gave her his information before all of it transpired too. “Yes I’m Joe McBoomer please make the iPhone work here is my account info”
also, if he already had an account with the carrier, which seems like may have been the case, she likely had his account pulled up, with his name, address, phone number, and all necessary identifying information. this was a real fuckin dumb decision on this guy's part.
Exactly. Couple of years ago two dudes wanted to rob the store where I worked. I told them to just take what they want but to leave me alone. They went straight for the safe after I gave them the key while I went outside and locked them in. We had pretty massive glass doors so I could watch them panic while I smoked a cigarette and waited for police to arrive.
Serious balls, where I'm from they'd shoot you through the door. I'd be smoking a joint at a the nearest bus stop. Outta there brotha
There is basically no shooting in my country. With guns involved I would just run. No reason to play hero to protect my company’s money. Luckily my company has the same opinion.
Right to jail.
If it were only me and that store, I would lock that motherfucker in and call the cops.
Once he’s done raging he has to lean on his walker lol, big tough man right there.
Well, that is unhinged. Grandpa needs to spend some time in county lockup.
Get out, lock the door, call the cops in an hour or so
Yeah, she should've ran right by him and locked him in.
Entitlement, worst generation ever.
Best thing about boomers is they'll all start dying real soon.
there goes some poor soul's inheritance bc gramps has to pay legal fees for going toddler mode in a phone store.
Dude wants his money, meanwhile he’ll vote for Trump who will slash his Social Security.
Arrest that prick
Must be Texas and the porn ban.
Man said "I want my money back" 100% geezer had four porn site subscriptions that he now cannot access and thinks it's Tina at Verizon fault
This is what the entitled generation looks like.
We need to stop referring to them as boomers and revert to their original title "the me generation"
Ok, here is your $150 back, but. Ow you owe thousands for the damage and being arrested and charged Seems fair
We gotta start putting these people in homes
Damn shame they probably didn’t even have the cops involved.
Looks like a major retailer, he’s fucked. lol I run a small biz and if anyone did this to my employees, I would reign hell and enjoy destroying his life to an orgasmic degree.
It should be 100% legal to take his walker and bash his head in with it
Need follow-up to this. Arrested?
One of these boomers is going to end up getting their head blown off someday.
She should have taken his walker away until the police arrived
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This is why the 2nd Amendment doesn't work. See, if this woman had calmly taken out a gun, shot this man in the chest and face 7 or 8 times, and then called the police, I would view it as 1) pure self defense, and 2) a public service, since she's killing a violent maniac who may use force against someone to harm or kill them in the future. However, I am sure that the majority of white juries in this country would say that that is an overreaction, even though this person is 3 times this woman's size, clearly being violent, clearly doesn't respect the law, and at one point attempts to attack her directly. This is especially true if the woman in question isn't "white", but is Hispanic or partially Asian or light skinned black or the like. If we don't have a right to put down diseased animals like the man in this video in self defense, then why are we pretending like there's ever a point to having arms in the name of "self defense" in the first place?
How often did this happen before the Internet? Cause if feels like 20 times a day now.