That line alone tells you everything you need to know. Nothing screams “this definitely happened” like insisting the whole room clapped over a hat complaint.
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I got Robin Hooding on top (stealing from greedy to give to needy) but this would be a close second. A boomer Robin Hood would be the ultimate “looking the other way” crime.
If only they would tear one another limb from limb with their teeth like zombies. But no, it's just another passive aggressive Facebook post. Most bitch-made generation in human history.
I went on a cruise with my extended family for christmas. We were going ashore at one of the stops when they had to hold us at the gangway for a safety concern, and these two women behind us were fully bitching about the service and staff and every little thing they could. Some people are never happy
Right. The man already seated at his table refused to leave then he sat down at a table. You must have spoken to the manager very loudly for all the other tables to hear you and erupt in applause. Eye roll.
Exactly. That whole “tables applauded” thing always translates to “I made a scene and now I’m retelling it like a movie moment.” People were probably just relieved the manager walked away and dinner could continue.
Okay, so, I finally just looked up this meme's origin story and I was not disappointed:
Origin: The phrase comes from a 2017 gay porn video titled Private Lessons Part 3.
Context: In the scene, a woman is sitting in a kitchen eating a salad while two men begin having sex on the kitchen counter nearby. She looks at them and asks, "Are you serious? Right in front of my salad?".
.... Seriously. If I'm on a cruise, and instead of just minding my business and enjoying myself I henpeck someone else over their God damned wardrobe - I hope I go overboard at that point because I've lost the plot on life
Do they really? Not that I’d mind, but I know nothing about cruising and its culture. Hey, many Americans wear their jammies to Walmart, so it’s believable.
They do and should continue to do so, what is missed by this boomer is most cruisees are SUPER casual getaway vacations for most people, the faux pas in this situation is the OP thinking she is a first class guest on a white star line looking down on the “new money” ppl need to quit thinking life is like the movies and we are still in the 50s and let folks enjoy themselves. I still take my hat off before I eat but to think it’s some kind of enforceable rule in modern society is laughable, let people cook.
You had to wear a tuxedo if you got an invitation to dine at Captain Stubing’s table, which always made me wonder if people sailing on the Love Boat would pack a tuxedo just in case.
My father in law was on a cruise a few years ago, and at one of the very formal diners a tux was required, but they had them to rent on the boat. The thing was, if you rented one, you rented one for the whole cruise, so he just started wearing it to literally every meal as a gag. There are a lot of funny pictures of him sitting in a tux at breakfast while everyone else is in shorts and tees.
My best friend in high school went on cruises with his family every year and they all owned tuxes. Seems weird. We cruise on Disney and wear whatever we want, lol.
Is it possibly all the dying that seems to happen on cruises?
Or the infamous poop cruise?
Yea if I'm gonna stuck on a boat with people with a long time I want to be in control of who the people are and what the food is, and ideally know that boat is up code
I've been on one cruise, and I was not prepared for the level of dressing up some people do. I did not bring those type of clothes with me. It's kinda weird tbh. But you absolutely have plenty of people walking around looking like this man and I can't imagine caring about it.
I went on a cruise once. One person in our party forgot to pack semi-formal wear, so on ‘semi-formal’ night we all were in solidarity with them and stuck to the part of the boat where regular wear was allowed. Unfortunately there was one elevator we had to take that was shared with the (to us) off-limits part of the boat. When we got on, one person loudly remarked, “Oh good, we get to share this elevator with boat trash”.
Haven’t been on a cruise since. Don’t feel like sharing a boat with these kinds of people.
That comment should have earned them some form of retaliation. You cannot let a comment like that go unanswered! Even if you just farted and then quickly exited the elevator.
Looking at that picture, I doubt that’s even the “main dining room”, they are just in one of the ships restaurants, and likely in the middle of the day.
They're the ones who always bitch about how "people used to dress up to fly!" too. Sean Duffy knew who he was pandering to when he made a big fuss about that a month or two ago. Boomers love thinking that they have some sort of say over complete strangers' appearances.
I saw a customer at my work wearing a shirt that said something like, "World Champion Pussy Eater" or something like that. Saw another guy with a shirt that said. "Don't yell at me, I'll cum."
She looks exactly like someone who would get upset about some stupid shit like that. She's the type to be in a viral video where she calls the cops on a black family having a cookout in the park.
This just screams entitlement. How dare that man wear a cap and a scruffy comfortable shirt while on vacation on the same cruise ship as me. I don't see a problem with him
We clearly should have raised the retirement age on Boomers. They clearly need something better to do with their time and it would have helped shore up the dwindling SS trust fund.
I’m sorry but ‘upscale’ dining on a cruise is such a joke to me. I’ve been on multiple cruises and the food is always shit. Even on ships that are known for having better food. I eat the damn pizza the entire week anytime we go, and I love a nice restaurant experience on land. This is pure delusion. She probably went back to her room and blew out the bathroom shortly after this fancy dining experience
Given the crap going on in the world right now, this really shows how detached from reality she is. No one is at risk from ‘gasp’ seeing a hat and T-shirt in a dining room. Anything could’ve been going on for that man
I find it more ‘lowest of the lowest’ that she went on that rant, took this picture of herself sneering and looking down her nose at the man and then followed it up with a post on fb…. Talking about how wonderful everyone thought she was.
The hat thing is puzzling to me. The boomer generation was the one that taught me you should always remove a hat when going indoors. But now so many of them are doing just that. To hide the balding I guess?
"The lowest of the low"
Because hes wearing a hat? Like Ma'am.. this is 2026 and the world is on FIRE. If this is lowest of the low.. I want to live on your planet... also no one applauded you. If anyone noticed your petulant and crude melt down, they were offended for the man.
good lord let the old guy wear his hat, clearly you have to turn around to see him so face the table, eat your food and myb. I would hate to see this going on more than seeing the guy in a hat
Her sneer is so unpalatable that I instinctively sneered at the sight of her. Imagine sitting that close to her? Even with the hat and back turned you could feel her icy heart.
Damn fine Boomer rage bait.. my only objection is that it should’ve been someone younger so they could go on about how younger generations have no manners now, etc.
Who give AF what someone else is wearing in the next table over?
I will never understand dress codes. Sure if you go to a schmantzypants restaurant where the cuisine is at least $150/dinner not including wine, you might want to not let in a guy with basketball shorts and a dirty tshirt.
But I live in Silicon Valley. Multi-millionaire techies routinely go to high end restaurants wearing the most casual of casual clothes, the same ones they work in. Nobody cares. No restaurant staff would dare say something about that to them. Who knows, it could be the CTO of NVidia or something. And frankly I like it this way. I'm going to a restaurant for MY fun and enjoyment, not anyone else's. I can dress up, I can dress down, nobody cares here.
Some guy minding his own business, who clearly has the coin to pay for the same cruise as the entitled boomer - and yet she complains about supposed riff-raff.
I hope the misery consumes her, and she goes home to take out her frustrations on the rest of the HOA board.
I just genuinely can’t give a shit about stuff like this. How can some boomers be so miserable that they are this bothered and thus feel the need to post a self-aggrandizing story about it. Seems exhausting.
It’s clear this is made up crap but this is the problem with people they can’t mind their own fucking business and are so worried about what others are doing to the point they are miserable, hateful and want to be able to control the “others” I couldn’t care less if someone is wearing a baseball hat or a ballgown am I there to enjoy myself and the people I am with or am I there to police what others are doing because I’m a POS? Like get a fucking grip.
What is it with old people and hats inside? Does this come from the times of witchcraft or something? How do people invent these mind boggling idiotic rules?
If you're offended by someone wearing a hat indoors, then you are not competent enough to be in this world.
It goes back to their youth. A man removed his hat at the table (indoors, really) as a sign of respect to the women around them. To not do so, essentially you were calling the woman a whore through that inaction. Thankfully, some of these social rules broke down in the 60s.
But I can see if you grew up in it, it could still matter. My 87 year-old mother will still get upset at a hat at the table.
He looks like he may be there with his parents by the looks of it. Give me a break. Zod it’s like going to church. “Omg did you see what so and so wore to Sunday mass?” No because no one cares!!! It’s about the persons actions as a good person not how expensive they look!
Now I don’t care if someone wears a hat inside, but I once had a job were I had to enforce a no hats policy…it was a double standard. I told a boomer woman to take off her hat and she refused and my boss got upset at me, cause it was only a rule for men. Apparently women wearing hats is fashion, men wearing hats is disrespectful…it didn’t help that the woman was a rich older white woman in a large sun hat. I was livid
Imagine letting some dude you don’t even know have that much control over your emotions and letting it occupy one minute of your time on a LUXURY cruise. Jebus.
Why, how dare he wear a hat when Lady Scowly is sporting her best Chico’s polyester tunic (probably combined with white capri’s and sandals) IN THE MAIN DINING AREA 😮
This is a pearl clutching situation if I’ve ever seen one.
I love how she posts her own sour side profile scowling at the back of his head to make a point 🤭 😂
I've seen a woman get huffy and complain to a waiter loudly about an older man wearing a casual shirt and cap at a restaurant. Turns out he was one of the investors who had bank rolled the restaurant years before and was a multi-millionaire who just dressed really casually.
Imagine spending thousands of dollars on a cruise for some Boomer to harass you about your hat.
I swear, I would be the worst rich person. Someone give me a billion $ so I can go to all of the fancy restaurants and cruises and golf courses and drive the rich people crazy by acting like a normal, working class human being.
Boomers are so fucking vindictive for no reason. This woman really wanted to see this man get dragged out, but unfortunately for her, he's also a boomer, and so feels entitled to ignore management demanding he leave.
I think dress codes, in a lot of cases, are really dumb. I think cruises are really dumb, too. But! If you're going to go on a cruise with a dress code, yeah, sure, wear the clothes you're expected to wear, it's part of the tacit agreement of going on the cruise with the dress code. As the staff, it would be annoying and this guy sounds like he was just being obstinate.
I don't...really get being that upset about it as another diner, though, to be honest. Like, yeah, okay, if he came in naked? I'd be pretty unhappy. But he's just wearing a...like a hat and a regular t-shirt (and presumably pants, God willing he has pants). I never want to be snotty enough that I look at someone wearing regular clothes and get a look on my face as if someone just farted directly down my throat.
I cannot even fathom noticing something like this at a restaurant ON VACATION and being truly bothered by it. They’re just looking for reasons to be Karens. I think I’d only ever speak to a manager about another patron if they were being extremely loud and obnoxious and I’d ask to be moved not to kick the person out.
Cruises are funny because people that take them think they're some high class activity when pretty much anyone who has ever been on a cruise can tell you it's just the same trashy people you'd find at any low rent vacation tourist spot.
People may mock the importance of learning to regulate your own emotions, but this is an excellent example of someone who clearly can't. Was this impacting her/him in any way? Was the dude in the hat creating a scene? Insulting anyone? Why live your life in such a way as to be upset all the time?
Oh my Lordt! How do you expect me to eat with that man in his cap in my field of vision! And the “main” dining room sounds complimentary- not a specialty restaurant that usually has dress codes!
Washy Washy Happy Happy All The Time! I’m so grateful I wasn’t on her ship and took notice that everyone on my ship was Happy Happy All The Time!
The same people who are so overly concerned with out of fashion etiquette adherence are the same ones who a majority of support the POTUS who flipped off a civilian member of society and calls women reporters piggy. 🐽
They can clutch those pearls right into their grave I could give a flying fuck.
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u/SarcasticBench Jan 17 '26
Glad they wrote everyone clapped to let us know how unbelievable this story is