Men turn grumpy at age 70?

Just this morning when I was getting out of bed my wife said something from the kitchen. I am getting a little hard of hearing and she dont talk loud and much of the time I cant distinguish what she is trying to say. On top of that I have a very deep scratchy voice and when I say something she thinks I am being sassy or grouchy. It almost started a fight this morning. I will be 73 in a week. I do find myself with the same mannerisms my dad had. He wouldnt answer my mother all the time as she always was talking. She complained a lot about it. Seems I have the same situation now.
 
Does it mean anything when the dogs move to the side when you come into the room?

All the phone calls are now, all for the wife......?

I would be a lot worse if I did not have a mute button on the tv remote !!
Thank the Lord for small favors..............
 
Still in my 60's but I can see the difference. Cynical would be a better word to describe me. People accuse me of "telling like it is" and that seems to be a bad thing to many, they expect you to tell them what they want to hear. I am just as critical and realistic about myself. Nobody gets a break.
 
Grumpy at 70? Some are. Personally, I'll just let someone else tote that rock. I figured out a long long time ago that life was more fun hanging around with folks who didn't have to tuck their bottom lip into their back pocket to keep it from dragging on the ground. Children like to hang around with pleasant people. My wife likes pleasant people. So, I'll just focus on doing the kind and gentle routine. It has a much brighter potential than anything that can be found living as a perpetual grump? :-).
 
I started Grumpy at 50. Well into my 60's and getting Grumpier by the minute.:mad:
 
My wife is always saying your so grumpy, stop hollering at me, I say put your damm hearing aids back in and I wont have to.:D
 
It's part of life. Folks get old, and think the country's going to hell, and the young people aren't worth a dime, and don't know squat, and the country was so much better when they were young. Yadayadayada. Your father thought it, your grandfather thought it and his father thought it. They were all wrong. The world isn't better or worse, it's really just the same. The old generations just can't deal with their own insignificance. Don't that sound ugly.
 
In my 40s I've found conventional wisdom to be usually wrong...others' opinions more often than not contradict what I see and hear...for example: in my 20s, about 90% of the time was BAD; Boredom, Aggravation and Disappointment...
 
I'm 76, and just what the homogenized hell did you mean by starting this thread? :D

I'm basically fairly happy and content. But I think we're overlooking something obvious here. At my age I can get away with speaking my mind more. People expect me to be irascible and blunt, so I don't get slapped down as often as I did years ago. I don't have to answer to bosses or a spouse anymore, and other folks usually know (or learn) the standard operating procedure if they can't take a joke...:D

There are advantages to old age.
 
OK, so Im grumpy. Im 65 and have been in the business since I was 14 yrs. old. What really makes me grumpy , is people at club meetings or gun shows that dont have prices on their items that are for sale. Put a darn price on it or leave it at home. Dont leave it up to me to say what Im willing to pay. Thanks for letting me vent. Mike
 
Perhaps one downside is becoming anachronistic, that is "chronologically misplaced" in time. We grew up in simple times, off/on switches, easy to tune-up a car engine, telephones, etc. Now even the dash of your truck looks like a 747 control panel. Type on a cell phone the size of a pack of smokes? Forget it. Lack of courtesy? The norm. Even the TV remote can be confusing. And the phrase "multi-task", who invented that? People tell me I don't like to do it. They are right. I prefer to do one thing right then screw several things up at once. Remember at a restaurant, or service station, or grocery store when you visited with others? We've become the "gray hairs" with less and less relevance to society each day. But we shouldn't personalize our comments or insult people (unless it's deserved). Speak the trust as we see it, be patient with others but, at the same time, we need not suffer fools lightly. To quote a famous philosopher, "We're all in this together, I'm pulling for you".
 
labworm said:
When people open doors for you, the young girls call you sir and AARP is consistently flooding your mailbox, you forget why you went into the kitchen.

How can you not be Grumpy?
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*****, *****, *****! You'd ***** if they hung you with a new rope.

I don't mind if people open doors for me, even if it's not necessary. Getting anyone to say sir these days is a miracle. You have young girls saying it and you're complaining? AARP is not exactly flooding my mail box, but until recently, the junk they did send had a handy postage-paid envelope in which I was pleased to return said junk, torn into a more or less appropriate number of parts. And although I seldom forget why I went into the kitchen, I can almost always figure out something to do once I find myself there.

You should certainly feel free to be grumpy, particularly if you enjoy it, but there are alternatives.
 
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