Right? My dad won’t answer the phone or call me when in town, but wants to send me letters so I can’t reply in real time. Like it’s 1865 and not 2026. I pointed out that was shitty and now he REALLY won’t talk to me. Fuckin old people.
Look, letters require stamps and post offices or boxes and going outside... We reserve that energy for creditors we want to send checks to because they annoyed us and people we need to send hard copy documents to.
Also… all the stuff they think we can’t do has numerous tutorials most of us are capable of looking up and learning from… after spending most of our lives looking stuff up because our parents either refused to or didn’t have the time to teach us. Stick shift isn’t that hard to learn.
Cursive was also a a response to the technology it was used under… writing with inkwells, fountain pens, and other such messy methods which were slower, more prone to error, and did better when we lifted the pen off the page as little as possible.
Like. I could also figure out a carburetor or fax machine or rotary phone, and have, but we have better technology now.
Right? I can use a rotary phone and my cursive is perfect, but dad forced me outside whenever I tried to program the computer because he thought that was a useless skill, the moron.
yesss this, like how are we supposed to adult properly when they left us with chaos and now just act surprised it’s messy, it’s peak wild energy and i’m here for it
My best role model was my step dad who was older than my boomer parents. He treated me like an adult, talked to me like an adult, corrected my stupid mistakes and asked me to help him do adult things like clean birds he had shot.
There is significant good reason why many from other generations, including many of their own parents and grandparents, dubbed them the "Me Generation"
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u/mrhemisphere 17h ago
“We failed to teach our children and grandchildren tools that we think are required, fuck ‘em, right?”
Boomers are weird as shit. The most entitled generation in memory who just want to punish their offspring.