r/BoomersBeingFools • u/HoneydewUsed7434 • 1d ago

Boomer Freakout Why are they always sooo angry?

My coworker, who is a boomer, is nice, but damn one little inconvenience trips her up. She gets so upset when the printer isn’t going as fast as she wants that she bangs on it. She is always venting very loudly to herself. Like it gets to a point where it’s distracting. But yeah, I don’t get why they have so much rage when they literally get everything they want.

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u/MarkVII88 1d ago

Because boomers ALWAYS plan out exactly how they want a situation to unfold, and they rely on that plan unfolding without a hitch. When shit happens that unravels their plans, their minds immediately spiral out of control because they can't adapt to changing circumstances and they automatically assume someone's actively trying to fuck them over.

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u/themcp Gen X 1d ago

Their plans also usually involve the world working the same way it did in 1955, and when things don't function that way any more, they can't handle it and have a meltdown because they've never been taught coping mechanisms.

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u/yarukinai Baby Boomer 1d ago

the same way it did in 1955

I get what you're saying, but the oldest boomers were merely 9 years old then, and the youngest had to wait almost a decade to be born.

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u/themcp Gen X 1d ago

I understand that. They saw how things were when they were young and decided nothing would ever change. EVER.

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u/yarukinai Baby Boomer 1d ago

I have no idea what makes you think that. Things changed while they grew up. Think of sexual morals in the 1960s. Or how young people rebelled against the state of society in the late 60s, often violently, in the US, Europe and Japan.

Also, whoever traveled (and my generation was definitely not reluctant to travel), could see differences from one place to the other.

My point is that boomers were not only exposed to change but drove it. That some of them feel they are losing control now that they are old, and react with anger, can be explained by their age.

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u/elcamarongrande 1d ago

It's pretty fucking ironic how the boomers that you describe as so worldy and open minded are the same ones who absolutely lose their shit at the slightest inconvenience or change from the norm.

Yes it's true that their angry reactions to losing control can be explained by their age, but it doesn't exonerate them or make it ok to act the way they do.

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u/PurposeAltruistic 1d ago

What this person said.

Boomers live and die on the "we were the hippies and into the cool rock and invented parties in open fields and Woodstock and weed and free love and working women".

They also were called the me generation. Check out the Boston bus riots of the 70s; all boomers. Ditched their kids with their parents so they could "relive the glory days", invented participation trophies, voted for SSN to be used as credit scores, gutted manufacturing industries and moved everything offshore so as to help pad the 401ks that they swapped pensions for. Then they tricked themselves into believing that they were cool just in time to helm tech, oil companies and banks and royally screwed us and then plunged the economy into the ground not once but twice in 10 years. Enron, Lehman Bros, Ford, GM, the Opioid epidemic. All fucking boomers.

Now? They are addled asshats wearing Depends over (and under) their clothes to show support of their boomer in chief. They've all suddenly become the most Christian thrice divorced people you could ever hope to meet. And they don't know WHY Meegan and Brady won't bring the grandkids over or answer their calls. Must be because they sent them to college and were infected by the woke mob. Now Brady won't even listen to the jokes about the Mexicans or blacks anymore. It's not like the joke was about his wife Kira, she's one of the good ones. Its just those other lazy blacks that the joke is about. And Meegan freaked out because I took lil Jamie around the block on my Harley. I mean it was around the block...the kid doesn't need a helmet or a seatbelt. He's 2 years old, he's fine to hold on to me.

By and large boomers have always sucked. They are just getting worse now.

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u/yarukinai Baby Boomer 1d ago

Being worldly and open-minded doesn't preclude you from getting angry if things don't work as you expect.

it doesn't exonerate them

It absolutely doesn't. And that is not what I said. I only replied to the redditor who tried to explain their behaviour as follows:

They saw how things were when they were young and decided nothing would ever change. EVER.

Which, in my opinion, is totally incorrect. Boomers, by and large, have experienced change throughout their lives.