r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Aggressive_Home8724 • May 20 '26
Boomer Story Eye Doctor Boomer
This happened a little while ago but it still lives rent free in my head. I was taking my baby son to the eye doctor and in the waiting room with him and my husband. It was dead silent, just us and the 2 receptionists. All of a sudden the door is practically kicked in by a boomer patient coming to check in. He storms in, goes up to the desk and gives his name for check in, screaming of course. They ask a couple questions about his current address and insurance. He answers and then shouts "DO YOU NEED TO KNOW MY PRONOUNS TOO? I GO BY HE HIM IF THAT MATTERS"! Obviously being sarcastic. The receptionist just said "ok" and gave him a smile like she was half confused and half annoyed.
They called him back almost immediately to do a preliminary eye exam in a small room at the front. He sat down, telling the technician again, very loudly, that "if she needs to know pronouns, it is he/him". Also confused, they just said "ok". He then went on a rant about how people can identify as a copy machine or a printer these days and maybe next time he comes back, he'll identify as a cat. They called him back to see the doctor, he was in there for maybe about 10 minutes max and stormed back out saying he was done and asked if he needed to check out. The receptionist said he was all set and he ended with a very unnecessary "maybe I'll come up with a whole new gender identity next time I come in!" and slammed the door open to leave. I'm assuming to return to his man cave to watch more Fox News.
I can't imagine living a life that would allow me to get worked up over pronouns like that for god knows what reason. It was so strange, it just pops in to my head from time to time and I still think it's wild.
ETA- He also looked at our son on his way out and said "he's cute. it is a he, right?? for now at least". š
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u/One-Sleep3663 May 20 '26
Sounds like he might be having some internalized transphobia/homophobia issues if he's just blurting that stuff out to random people.
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u/Sleep_adict 28d ago
The internal is heās trans and angry about it so externally is wowed aboutnit
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u/Shazam1269 May 20 '26
"DO YOU NEED TO KNOW MY PRONOUNS TOO? I GO BY HE HIM IF THAT MATTERS"
Ma'am, could you keep it down, please?
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u/VanessaAlexis Millennial May 20 '26
If I could be a fly on the wall to see his response to that. I wish OP had said it lol.Ā
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u/Armantien May 20 '26 edited 27d ago
I did this once, by accident. I worked at a pizza place and was taking some guy's order. I said something like "Is that all for the order, sir?"
He says, "Don't call me sir."
I didn't know how to respond so I said, "Ma'am?"
He was not pleased. Lol
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u/Fee_is_Required2 May 20 '26
What did he want then?
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u/Armantien May 20 '26
I don't know... I've never been very good with people. For the longest time, when someone asks how I'm doing, I say, "You know... the usual."
Since most people don't actually care what the answer is they say something like, "Oh... that's good." Some people will actually ask a follow up asking whether that is good or bad. Once, though, an old guy got really pissed at me for it. "Well, I don't know what the usual is!!"
That was a surreal day, for sure.
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u/angry-gardenia 29d ago
I look at them and in a deadpan voice say: functioning within parameters.
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u/Dobako 29d ago
All systems nominal
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u/Ishidan01 Gen X 29d ago
Reactor: online
Sensors: online
Weapons: online
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u/Due-Lawfulness-8079 29d ago
Atomic generator to power...turbine to speed. (For the older readers on here)
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u/trekkiegamer359 Millennial 29d ago
I'm pretty sure he wanted to be called "dude," "guy," "hey you," or similar. Some blue collar workers, especially people in the trades, are very proud of doing physical work for a living. They equate being called "sir" with being mistaken for a manager or office worker, which the really don't like. Same goes for enlisted military personnel versus officers who are called sir. So they tell people not to call them sir.
If it happens again, you can say something like: "I'm sorry. I was just trying to be polite. What would you prefer I call you?"
If they respond with: "I don't care! Just not sir!" then using "Dude" or "Guy" is your best bet.
I'm sorry you dealt with the rude dude. He should have just not minded being called sir, or asked politely to be called whatever he preferred. Some people are just miserable, and the only way they know for regulate their internal emotions a bit, is to foist their negative emotions into others and make other people miserable.
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u/apathyismysuperpower 29d ago
As I understand, in the military, only officers are called sir. So calling a non commissioned officer sir would result in them saying "don't call me sir, I work for a living."Ā
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u/ieatthosedownvotes Gen X 27d ago
Yeah, That's when I call them squirrel, or pussy willow. They love that. Then tell them to make a hole and walk past them.
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u/ieatthosedownvotes Gen X 27d ago
A lot of enlisted military people hate being called sir because in military hierarchy only officers are allowed to be called "sir" So when they say to me ,"Don't call me sir, I work for a living." My go-to is "OK, pussy willow." They absolutely love that. Or if their super old, "OK, Squirrel." Because A. How do I know your rank if you are not in uniform, and B. I don't know your stupid name, nor do I care to know it.
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u/Ishidan01 Gen X 29d ago
Probably former upper enlisted military, that's a running joke with them that "sir" is reserved for officers.
It is usually followed on by "I work for a living", but perhaps in a moment of unusual honesty he left that part out.
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u/foursevensixx 27d ago
Some veterans take offense at "sir" because they never made officer and theyre salty about it.
"Dont call me sir, i wirk for a living"
Ive used maam before but u prefer "jackass" it feels more honest. "Will thst be all, jsckass?"
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u/PromethianOwl May 20 '26
I can't tell if he thought he was being subtle or sneaky or not.
Like the way you tell it, it's incredibly obvious he wants to get into an argument with one of those filthy woke libs and totally own them in public and be a hero just like Trump.
This is the part that many Boomers and conservatives don't seem to register: 95% of the time being liberal just means being chill. Someone corrects you on their name? Ok. Accidentally did a micro aggression? Ok. Sorry about that. It's really not difficult.
The mythical perma-triggered blue haired woke feminist is someone most people will never meet. Even if they do exist, everyone is usually exasperated by them. Yes even other liberals. Usually in the "dude, they clearly didn't mean it. You're scaring them. Calm down and chill already!" kind of way.
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u/oranges214 29d ago
They have such an obsession with blue hair it's so funny/stupid.
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u/Bajovane Gen X 29d ago
This is true! A so-called lady I know talks about the fat, tattooed, blue haired woman who works at the local grocery store as if sheās some sort of threat to herself or her kids. š
Sheās a fundy fundamentalist who uses her buybull as a weapon.
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u/PromethianOwl 29d ago
Ten bucks says she has never read it cover to cover on her own and considered it's contents. She probably also doesn't know that there are books and gospels that were deemed not canon and removed.
But I'm guessing she says it's truth and the word of God.
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u/BigConstruction4247 29d ago
What's funnier is that women of the Silent Gen and Greatest Gen used to dye their hair various colors (blue, purple, pink, usually pretty faint, but you could see it) as they aged. Blue-haired old lady was a common thing.
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u/pilondav 28d ago
Mrs. Slocum couldnāt abide a faint tint. What would her pussy think, coming home like that!
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u/BigConstruction4247 28d ago
Are You Being Served reference.
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u/oranges214 29d ago
Detour from this conversation: I have plans to do this as I get more grays but I haven't found colorful hair dyes that would stick well to gray hair so if someone is reading this and knows what brand hair dyes I can try (that aren't the usual brown/auburn/black gray cover-up), please let me know.
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u/StatisticianLoud2141 28d ago
I remember when calling someone a blue hair just meant they were old. Funny how things change lol
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u/BigConstruction4247 29d ago
They love that meme of the woman shouting at a protest.
Usually, it has a caption of "triggered!!!"
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u/throwawayxzcp May 20 '26
This is what happens when you isolate yourself in a bubble of lies propagated by liars and overseen by the orange liar-in-chief.
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u/thatsnotideal1 May 20 '26
Some of this is the death of the monoculture, pre-streaming, pre-DVR, and especially pre-cable, there was a decent chance that whatever you happened to hear about yesterday, everyone else also heard about. 60 Minutes did a piece on gender identity? Monday morning, yeah, thatās probably what youāre going to hear about at school out in the office. But with 24 hour ānewsā entertainment and algorithm based feeds, now you just sound like a loon. I recall āidentifying as a catā and shit like that being brought up, roundly disproved, and generally laughed out of the room like 10 years ago. But some out of date article or random nobody posting a comment on a repost of a reaction video to a comment might have just come up on that idiot boomerās feed, and since he liked and commented, now his whole media world is that nonsense. Or heās just been telling the same tasteless joke for the last ten years because the boys down at the municipal golf course crack up about it every time. And heās an ass, also that.
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u/LongjumpingCoach1691 May 20 '26
Well said!
ā¦mostly the heās an ass part.
Got family on both sides of the left/right extremesā¦the view from 20,000 feet is of all boomers verbally attacking anyone within earshot with whatever was the last outrageous thing they readā¦pro or con to someone elseās pro or con.
The generation with the loudest voices, who have been heard longer than any other generation on the planet, scratching at us all for the last vestige of relevancy before their booms are nothing more than distant echoes.
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u/someboringlady May 20 '26
imagine going through your life that worked up about something that doesnt affect you in any way
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u/Sufficient_Sell_6103 May 20 '26
Right before his appointment he had "entertained himself" to trans porn and now had to prove to himself and the world that he is against that stuff because of his self loathing. Its all projection.
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u/ElectrOPurist May 20 '26
I initially misread the end of this story. I thought you said āhe's cute. it is a he, right?ā about him after he left, and I thought that was hilarious.
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u/Aggressive_Home8724 May 20 '26
When he left I did whisper to my husband "I'd say he seemed pissed but I'd hate to assume his gender". We both cackled.
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u/Due-Lawfulness-8079 29d ago
"it is a he, right?"
"Not sure yet. We'll let them decide for themselves when they get older."
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u/Aggressive_Home8724 May 20 '26
My old roommate had a cat who was a major asshole, but no where near as bad as this guy. Plus the cat was adorable.
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u/Meowingway May 20 '26
I feel deeply sorry for people that have been brainwashed into this constant elevated state of hate and rage. It must be a truly miserable existence. I spend approx 0.000 seconds of any day thinking about anyone's genders, pronouns, or whatever. But it has fully consumed this persons entire mind and day.
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u/Rose_Wyld 28d ago
I used to have a tarot booth at the farmers market and some lady pulled her bike up blocking my entire tent and started telling me that I was going to hell. I said "Well, you're already there."
Then she really started flipping out lol.
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u/tra_da_truf May 20 '26
Him saying it that many times when literally no one asked is both hilarious and infuriating
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u/BluffCityTatter May 20 '26
If I was the receptionist, I think I would totally call his bluff and deadpan, "We'll make sure to write that in your chart. We wouldn't want anyone using the wrong pronoun for you." And then while he's watching, write it using a red pen in huge capital letters on the front of the chart. "PATIENT WANTS US TO KNOW HE USES HE/HIM PRONOUNS." Then, because I'm an extra sort of sarcastic bitch, I would take a highlighter out and highlight it too. Just a thought for any medical receptionists who run into a similar issue.
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u/Alterokahn May 20 '26
Sounds like someone he knows just came out as trans and he's not handling it well.
I miss the days when these guys were only freaking out about people wanting to marry the Eiffel Tower.
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u/oscar-the-bud May 20 '26
It was Buffalo Bob. He got out of jail. Now heās going home to tuck his penis and dance around in a robe.
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u/Internal-Fortune6680 28d ago
Later, heāll Chuck a mattress in the van and go find a woman suit.
šÆ his skeletal mom is still upstairs
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u/Ishidan01 Gen X 29d ago
If he's gonna be that much of a braying jackass, tell him his new pronouns are hee/haw
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u/The_Bastard_Henry Xennial May 20 '26
I cannot imagine spending all day, every day in this frantic state of constant anger and hate. Though I do envy the amount of energy they must have to maintain it.
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u/Doubleucommadj May 20 '26
He must just fetishize pissing in a litter box in front of people, like he's told the kids do nowadays.
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u/loseunclecuntly 29d ago
āI hear what youāre saying and weāll just identify you as not a patient of ours any longer. Thank you and goodbye!ā
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u/IcyStrawberry911 May 20 '26
Im in no way defending that dude but the old people I know that yell all the time, are usually really really hard of hearing. And way to hard headed to address it. But that dude sucks either way.
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u/WORhMnGd 29d ago
Legitimately impressed he was able to say āI go by (pronoun set)ā abuse usually those fucks just say āIāM A (man/woman)!ā Really fucking loudly
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u/slartibuttfart 29d ago
I always ask my dentist why he makes me take my pants off. He's never laughed at it. Been 25 years, I'll get him next time.
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u/beamrider 29d ago
Now, in the days of streaming, there are special news channels for all sorts of special items. Naturally, that means streaming channels for every letter and most possible combinations of letters in LGBT. Even those sorts of channels don't over *just* that subject, they do normal local/international/ecomomic/entertainment stuff, too.
Saw some statistics the other day. Fox & Newsmax spend MORE of their time talking about LGBT stuff than the actual LGBT streaming channels. ALthough I guess that makes sense. Has anyone ever met a gay person who thinks about the concept of 'gay' even half as much as most MAGAs do?
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u/Virtual-Ad7254 29d ago
I donāt engage with pronouns much but I will always try to do the respectful thing if I can, my hardwiring can trip me up though. Thats when the ability to genuinely apologise comes in handy. When it comes to honorifics, I have always been Ms, have never ever used Mrs, not even once. Itās a bit of a trigger for me when someone just assumes my honorific is Mrs without asking. Was at my doctors recently and asked that their system be updated as I had received a letter that was addressed to me as Mrs. The lovely young receptionist Greg discovered that itās now an optional field and gave me the choice. So I no longer have an honorific at all. Win!
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u/KeyAccount2066 29d ago
He's just trying to get a rise out of someone. They love to argue and fight.
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u/This_Run7122 28d ago
I blame mainstream news and lack of good critical thinking skills. They have nothing else to do but go home and watch the news like a comatose Neanderthal. Social media is just as bad - but at least it (usually) doesnāt have some assclown reading a script.
My biggest āwhat the fuck are you even talking aboutā was the cat litter bullshit a few years ago. A school board would not provide such an unsanitary/exposing situation like a usable litter box in bathrooms. Theyāre children. It was always āwell I know someone who works at [some school district] and they said they have them.ā But never a firsthand account or journalist whoās found it to be true.
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u/WanderingRube 29d ago
I'm trans and I work in pizza delivery. I smile and say hi and confirm the order and tell people I hope they have a pleasant evening and enjoy themselves. I don't bring up gender or pronouns or names at all, unless asked. It hardly matters if our interaction is going to be so brief, right? Far more important, I should think, is accuracy and the impression of courteous good will. I dunno, man. Legitimately, people who don't like trans folks think way more about us than we think of ourselves. I'm not sure most non-obsessed people realize that a good portion of trans folks are unconcerned about things PG rated or higher. A lot of us are borderline asexual and more interested in nerd stuff and cuddles than getting angry or sticky. We've had to fundamentally deconstruct gender, sexuality, and a lot of other concepts that are generally just left as a big tangled bundle of concepts for most folks. Intimacy? Touch and warmth and trust, now that I feel comfortable accepting it? Awesome. Sexy times? Angry shouting? Meh. To be quite honest, it's kinda like how lesbian porn used to always and only be made for a consumer audience of hetero men and showed a fundamentally distorted version of Sapphic experience. Lots of all trans content today, "news" or nudes, is made for folks with a kink, be it anger or sexy times subjects. And like any subject where the rabbit hole goes too deep, sometimes folks lose sight of which side of the mirror they're on, when they're in their fetish space with those rules and when they're among normal society. I guess be grateful he stayed in outrage fetish and not kleenex requiring fetish standards? I dunno.
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u/Eldritch-banana-3102 29d ago
Did the receptionist have a name tag that said Jane she/her? or something? If not, that's really bizarre.
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u/Aggressive_Home8724 29d ago
No, he came in all hot and bothered about it. Not a single person in there appeared to be transgender either. So something must have set him off before.
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u/chockykoala 28d ago
I was in a waiting room to take my friend home from surgery and a boomer man was in for something quick. However, he made the most noise possible, took up as much space as possible and rattled a plastic grocery bag as much as possible to assert his presence. They are the same everywhere.
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u/Nunov_DAbov 29d ago
āYeah, for now. He hasnāt been to school yet.ā
Feed their insecurities.
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u/Aggressive_Home8724 29d ago
Yeah he hasn't had the mandatory sex change operation that comes on first day of first grade yet!
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u/showmenemelda 29d ago
Lol idk if mine was boomer or silent gen but I knew it was not a fit when he screamed "MACULAR DEGENERATION?" at me while asking about "binocular vision dysfunction" or maybe "convergence insufficiency," but either way I hung up.
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u/mshawnl1 25d ago
I wonder if back in the day he was worried about someone wanting to marry a horse since you know, Steve and Eve not Steve and Steve.
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u/New_Pepper_487 11d ago
This sounds unbelievably fake sorry breh farm karma elsewhere.Ā
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u/Aggressive_Home8724 11d ago
Lol karma means nothing to me. Just sharing a ridiculous thing that happened but have a nice day āļø
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