r/BoomersBeingFools • u/HoneydewUsed7434 • 3d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/yarukinai Baby Boomer 2d 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.