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Are you a Grumpy older person?

TheCatWoman

I remember that tv program years ago called Grumpy Old Men, they did a Grumpy Old Women one too, it was so funny.

I'm definately grumpy and I'm getting grumpier the older I get, things make less sense, they keep bringing out "new and improved" things when the old ones were perfectly good. 

Why can't you just plug things in and have them work anymore? Everythings such a faff and no I don't want a relationship with my fridge, toaster, other household appliance, I just want it to work and do as it's told, I don't need my fridge trying to comunicate with my mobile phone to make a shopping list to send to tesco for me! I want my toast well done on both sides and a knob to twiddle so as everyne can have toast the way they like it.

I'm grumpy about socks too, I mean why are the ankles so tight, even ones that are meant to be for diabetic people, has the nations ankles got narrower in the last 50 years?

Are you grumpy and what about?

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  • I have to admit that I find the whole grumpy old woman / old man thing really tiresome and I rail against it in myself as much as I can. I see it really as someone losing touch with the new and failing to catch back up so taking out their frustration with that on younger people. It's similar to the rose tinted, everything was better in my day thing and I can't bear that. Some things are definitely shitter now and some things are better. I am middle aged, and interacting with grumpy older people only strengthens my determination that I will not end up like that -  tediously whingeing that not everything is how I want it to be.

    Sorry if that sounds really harsh Catwoman, it's not aimed at you! My mil is like this - just constantly moaning about everything and it drives me nuts!

  • in reply to McFrost

    We have an new updated tesco and it's horrible, they seem to have more fridges and freezers but appear to be selling a smaller range, naturally veggie stuff is crammed into one corner and isn't restocked as often. Stock levels are a problem with all our supermarkets, partly because whenever the ferries enter or depart people go through our supermarkets like a plague of locusts.

    Speaking of supermarkets, does it seem to others that we're being made to settle buying things we don't really want or have to use alternative suppliers? My Mum has sensitive skin and finds the Simple range really suits her, but there's only one place that sells it now, our new and improved tesco no longer seems to do any products for those of us with sensitive skin, not just in the body care ailse either but in the laundry and washing up aisles too. I don't believe theres been a sudden drop in the numbers of people wanting sensitive skin products, I think it's more a case of won't sell it rather than no enough people want it.

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