Are you a curmudgeon?

[Scott Douglas]

My wife has been calling me a curmudgeon for at LEAST the last 30 years if not longer.

Now don't turn around in my driveway or park in front of my house and STAY OFF THE LAWN!

[stevej37]

I try not to be. I learned years back that stress is not a healthy thing...and shortens a life.
If something bothers me, I try to just smile and laugh about it.

[A930Rocket]

I have my moments. And they’re occurring more frequently as I age…..

[monoflo]

Probably

[rfuerst911sc]

I try not to be and I think for the most part am successful . Having cancer diagnosis twice and the treatments that go along with it firmly changed my attitude to not sweat the small stuff .

[stealthn]

My wife would say yes immediately, but I prefer: overly jaded

When you work in security and every nation is trying to hack you, it makes you overly jaded

[rwest]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I try not to be. I learned years back that stress is not a healthy thing...and shortens a life.
If something bothers me, I try to just smile and laugh about it.

Not to mention that at a certain point no one wants to be around you and you end living the rest of your life as a lonely bitter old man.

I do my best to control the inner curmudgeon.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by rwest

Not to mention that at a certain point no one wants to be around you and you end living the rest of your life as a lonely bitter old man.

I do my best to control the inner curmudgeon.

Ha! You are the nicest guy on this board Rutager, I don't think you have anything to worry about living a robust an happy life with those around you!

[Googam]

The threads I respond to are far & few between, as noted by my Post #'s. But I couldn't help it. When I moved down here I made my Dr. prepare my records so I would have current info to pass onto whomever. He gave them to me. He wrote a cover letter for the new Doc. Intro...."Mr. Smith is a curmudgeonly patient. He is difficult, obstinate & impatient" I've been officially diagnosed.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Googam

The threads I respond to are far & few between, as noted by my Post #'s. But I couldn't help it. When I moved down here I made my Dr. prepare my records so I would have current info to pass onto whomever. He gave them to me. He wrote a cover letter for the new Doc. Intro...."Mr. Smith is a curmudgeonly patient. He is difficult, obstinate & impatient" I've been officially diagnosed.

LOL ...you post too much

[MAS956]

Guilty as charged. Add in a little paranoia and... WHO WANTS TO KNOW?

I find it to be somewhat self-perpetuating - at times, I play the role because it's expected that I will. Not always, though - gotta keep 'em guessing!

[MAS956]

Duplicate post deleted. DAMMIT!

[rwest]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

Ha! You are the nicest guy on this board Rutager, I don't think you have anything to worry about living a robust an happy life with those around you!

Thanks Shaun,

I’ll get your check in the mail tomorrow!

Seriously, as we get older and have seen and experienced so much, it’s easy to “write off” others opinions because we have lived it over and over. It’s like when you get a new boss at work who has all these “great” ideas, but all the long term employees have seen them tried and failed a few times in the past.

[Por_sha911]

My wife and I have an expression:
"I've met all the people I'm gonna like".
so, yes by default I am one but I have to fight the urge.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Sometimes when I feel curmudgeon(ly), I like (as an antidote) to go to youtube and watch videos of British people hydrolocking engines by driving through standing water.

By trying to predict which cars/engines/full sends will hydrolock, I find that distracts me from all the random people that wrong me in the checkout line or the gas station tv thingee. After reading the thread about the jeep that sells ads when stopped, I was so pissed, I had to watch these vids for several hours to decompress :



Strangely relaxing and entertaining

[Brian 162]

Yes, Yes I am
My wife calls me grumpy stumpy

[The Synergizer]

When you’re young you are just an a$$ hole and everyone knows it. Once over 60 then you’ve earned curmudgeon status and it’s accepted.

[Danimal16]

Yes, why? Who the hell is asking?

[look 171]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I guess so. At the grocery store I shop at, the internet was down, so no credit cards, cash only. The clerks were using a calculator to figure the prices. I had several items and she used the calculator, figured in the sales tax, and said that is $2.95. I laughed and said the bananas alone are that much. She added them up again and could not figure it out. She finally said the prices and I added them up on a piece of paper, and she could figure the tax. I handed her a $20 and she started trying to calculate the change. Once again I had to do my arithmetic magic, and gave her the amount of change. She had a tough time counting the amount out.

Just the other day my wife was at Physical Therapy for her shoulder surgery. One of the mid 20 year old therapists asked another employee what time it was. They have a huge analog cock on the wall. The reply is can't you see that huge clock? He admitted he had no idea how to tell time.

In another 20 years they will be running the country. A bunch of dummies.

I am with you on this, but remember back in the old days, did a typical young men know how to attend the horses or even fix a wagon wheel in the 50s? That was just 50 or so years ago that those were common knowledge just like fixing simple things around the house. Can you or most of us here hang with a kid on computer related stuff? I sure can't.

[HobieMarty]

Meh...

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