You know you're turning into the exhausting boomer everyone avoids when your small talk always includes these 7 topics...
The transformation isn't about age; it's about calcification. You've worn conversational grooves so deep you can't climb out, verbal loops that announce generational membership like a car alarm. These aren't topics—they're manifestos disguised as small talk, making millennials suddenly need bathroom breaks and Gen Z workers invent dead grandmothers. You're not conversing anymore - you're broadcasting from Radio Yesterday Was Better.
Here's the list - and they're all true:
1. Your various medical procedures and upcoming appointments
2. How nobody wants to work anymore
3. Detailed comparisons of current prices versus 1965
4. Young people's phone addiction (shared from your phone)5. The customer service tragedy you're currently battling
6. Why your specific decade was humanity's peak
7. Kids today and their weakness/entitlement/sensitivity
The one they left out?
8. When I was younger, the music didn't suck...
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it's true! I remember when MaeD's were 15 cents;
ReplyDeletey' wanna talk about inflation - 'cause that's what it is - just like the Weimar republic 'n lookee how that ended
About the music - watched a lot of reaction videos to 60's and 70's music. Whole lotta young people gobsmacked at the talent on display.
ReplyDeleteThose seven topics may well be true but if you about anything more current including how today’s music sucks you risk, no assure, that you will be called a racist, homophobe, sexist anti-lgbtqwerty devil.
ReplyDelete#8 is just a subset of #6. I am guilty of at least 3 of those on a regular basis. I also give directions or meal recommendations based on businesses that used to be there.
ReplyDeleteKeep it in context - Remember this time right now is destined to become "The Good Old Days" for millions of kids.
ReplyDelete2050: "That's nuthin' son, I can remember when Whoppers and Big Macs were only five dollars each and a gallon of gasoline was only three dollars!"
...because when we were younger a lot of the music did stink. We've let a lot of it decompose in peace, as it deserved. And aren't you glad, you glad, so glad, Baby?
ReplyDeleteNew music hasn't had a chance to have the chaff sifted out of the wheat, so the proportion of bad songs is always higher than it is in people's careful selections of the best songs of some previous year.
Thank you for reminding me to post about the need to keep listening to younger musicians.
PK
I would have to say #8 is the premier one. There IS some great stuff nowadays, but most of it is drivel. Maybe because I don't remember the drivel "back in the day", perhaps??
ReplyDeleteHomeless lunatics used to be in hospitals, provided meals and shelter, not crapping on the street corners and living in refrigerator boxes.
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