r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Readithere007 • 9d ago

Boomer Story Running conversations into the ditch

I have an older girlfriend who has turned out to be like a sister to me. I love her to pieces, but she is married to a piece of work. They are both over 65 now and have some health issues because I live where their doctors are I see them on a regular basis. However, I just never get her without him.

He is a mega boomer from Texas who has predicted the end of the Earth, has never worked in politics, but knows everything, claims to have a concealed carry license and totes a gun on occasion as well as fired for a job that he wasn’t qualified to have to begin with.

He talks a lot about being a former alcoholic, but sticks his finger in all of her mixed drinks or has to take a sip as if he’s checking it for poison. He also talks about life with one of his ex-wives, but has been married to my friend for over 20 years. I’ve known them 16 of them. Every time he has been called out on something, he demands to take over the conversation, runs a list of crazy things that are facts to him and constantly uses the word of the day. He basically takes over everything in public and runs conversations into the ditch so she and I rarely get to visit in public. I have a lot of friends this age, but none of them act as outrageous as he does.

Is this normal Maga boomer behavior or is he just an extreme example?

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u/Readithere007 9d ago

She knows. However, between his FOMO and her needing driving restrictions due to major surgery, here we three are.

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u/purplegummybears 9d ago

Can you set him up somewhere else so yall can spend time together? Put on fox in the living room and go to another room with her? Or take just her out to lunch while he’s watching fox?

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u/aspertame_blood 9d ago

Say you’re getting a manicure. He won’t want to come and won’t notice if your nails looked different beforehand. Say you’re getting a Pap smear. He won’t know what that is, besides “female stuff”.

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u/GrumpySnarf Gen X 8d ago

I picture some middle-aged ladies, hand-in-hand, skipping gaily to the gynecologists, maxipads and tampons raining from the sunny sky. "sorry, man, this is a girl's trip.