Men turn grumpy at age 70?

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.
 
Model520Fan said:
*****, *****, *****! 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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Apparently you have no sense of humor, which means you are grumpy.:)

PS What's up with all those asterisks?:)
 
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Coincidently, I've been thinking about this subject lately.

My wife says I'm grouchy.

Part of it is caused by physical pain. Something is always hurting. That grimace is caused by arthritis and physical handicaps, not because I disagree with what you're saying.

I don't care about impressing people or being nice when it's not deserved.

When I look at my tax bills I get angry. They keep increasing for fewer services.

I can no longer stand people, regardless of age, who lack patience.

I won't tolerate rude, mean people

I'm fed up with stupid people who continually keep asking the same stupid questions.

People who ask for explainations of rules, laws or procedures and want to argue because they don't get the answer they want. They think that by arguing the answer will change.

I get angry with myself when I can't remember the simplest of things.

Everything I touch or grab, ends up falling on the floor

When I can't remember what comes next

When you get old, the second thing to go is your memory, and I can't remember what the first thing is.
 
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I just turned 60. I've been grumpy for at least the last ten years. So I guess that puts me well out front.
Does that mean I'm winning the grumpiness race? :confused:
 
I will hit the big 7 0 exactly 2 months from today. According to all reports my sparkling personality is still in tact. I am the very essence patience, kindness, thoughtfulness and forbearance they all say.

But no one sees me when I'm driving down the freeway with my windows up screaming my lungs out and turning the air blue with cuss words (and I know a bunch of cuss words).

Seriously though it has been reported that as men age they sometimes undergo a chemical change in their brains (yeah yeah tell me all about it) which results in an increased grouchiness). I don't know it it's true or not but I really don't care. You get to see a lot of stuff that's wrong in 70 years and I believe we have a right to complain. :p :D I find it to be a mixture of relief and alarm that the older I get the less I care about what others think about me or what I look like. At 70 it's more about how it feels than how it looks, don'tcha know?!

I try to strike a happy medium. I try to be easy going and fun to be around but I complain enough to keep those around me on their toes......so far so good. ;)
 
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I have a grey beard, I drive with a silbelly on the dash of my pickup, I prefer revolvers, and my khakis didn't come from a designer...
People expect me to be grumpy.


Being a man with a history...I can be grumpy:)


But when they expect grumpy, and you turn on the charm, them waitresses and gals behind the counter generally melt.;)

It ain't all bad, considering the alternative.
 
I'm gonna try and not turn grumpy, my father did and it wasn't pretty...
 
I am not there yet but getting closer daily. My take on grouchy is that I can't suffer stupid,lazy,slothful,lying un-patriotic,cry babies,careless,politics,anti-gun,I think you can see where I am going here! Don't worry,be happy!
 
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