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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Park on the end row opposite any garden entrance. Not only will you get a spot faster, you'll be in the store before the gaggle of boomers anxiously staring each other down over the spot immediately next to the handicap spot even get out of their cars. So park on the opposite side from the garden entrance and you're golden. It's a wasteland of employee cars over there and they probably park farther away to keep the weed smell from being too obvious. I'll never understand people who spend so much time circling the parking lot either to get the absolute closest spot to the door or just waiting for someone else to leave. Just loving park where a spot is open. It's such a tedious waste of time.
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the idea of driving multiple lanes in a parking lot to find the closest spot is baffling. if your legs work fine then just walk the extra 50 feet.
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Nov 30, 2019 01:12
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:the idea of driving multiple lanes in a parking lot to find the closest spot is baffling. if your legs work fine then just walk the extra 50 feet. BUT ITS COLD/ RAINING/ HOT what have you
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Nov 30, 2019 01:15
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CPL593H posted:I'll never understand people who spend so much time circling the parking lot either to get the absolute closest spot to the door or just waiting for someone else to leave. Just loving park where a spot is open. It's such a tedious waste of time. It's just more stupid unnecessary competition. The nicer car in the better space. First in, first out. Some old boomer with a parking spot at the front walked away from his cart after filling his trunk with groceries and I happened to be walking by and said, "Hey, let me put that cart away for you. I wouldn't want you to bother taking the extra time walking ten feet to put it in the cart return. Have a pleasant day." This old man said, "no no no son I'm leaving it out in the front for the other old timers like me. These make for excellent walkers for us with bad backs." I said, "It won't be there when the wind catches it and it rolls down the hill into somebodies car."
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Nov 30, 2019 01:41
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To add insult to injury, one of the entrances to a local walmart has a traffic circle. loving boomers don't understand traffic circles. I loving hate that walmart.
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Nov 30, 2019 02:15
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Yesterday my mom regaled the entire family with the medical issues plaguing a 95 year old woman two streets over who none of us have met. I asked her if she was friends with this woman (thinking if it's her friend and she's worried, I get it and will be empathetic) and she was like, "no, *other neighbor* talked to her daughter in law about it at church and told me when i saw her at tom thumb." Then she explained how she remembers birthdays of like.. 20 extended family members including two separate cousin's ex-husbands, which was incredible mental gymnastics. After that, I asked her how old each of my siblings and I are and she got two out of five of our ages wrong (mine by two whole years).
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Nov 30, 2019 02:19
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For a lot of people the only thing worse than being stuck in your car all the time is having to get out and become a pedestrian.
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Nov 30, 2019 03:08
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CPL593H posted:I'll never understand people who spend so much time circling the parking lot either to get the absolute closest spot to the door or just waiting for someone else to leave. Just loving park where a spot is open. It's such a tedious waste of time. Yeah I'll sometimes get stuck behind someone waiting for a spot to open because the person is putting their groceries in their car, when there are open spots where it's clearly less time to just park. Also there's been some issues because stores around me have new spots only for the drivers for the delivery service, but older people keep parking in them and it's a mess.
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Nov 30, 2019 03:16
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I'm gonna say something controversial Boomers love backing into parking spaces instead of driving straight in
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Nov 30, 2019 03:21
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Live Free posted:I'm gonna say something controversial And yet they are so bad at it.
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Nov 30, 2019 03:22
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Live Free posted:I'm gonna say something controversial Why  Why do they do this? It makes no sense. Have you trunk facing outward so you can easily load your groceries. At least some of the soccer moms in their Honda Odysseys at Costco get it.
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Nov 30, 2019 03:40
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I love parking in senior citizen spots.
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Nov 30, 2019 03:49
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I prefer to pull through to a spot I can immediately drive out. I almost never have poo poo to put in bed or buy more than I can carry out and still open my car door to throw poo poo in. Also why parking out in a far flung part of the lot rules. I do back into my parking spot at work though, because I'm good at it.
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Nov 30, 2019 04:31
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Live Free posted:I'm gonna say something controversial I think I posted it earlier in this thread, but I saw a boomer in an empty parking lot pull 2/3 of the way into a spot only to back up into the spot across the lane behind them. All this despite the fact that the spot bordering the spot they pulled forward into was open, so they just could've pulled through into that spot and been in the same position. Here I found my diagram in imgur: 
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Nov 30, 2019 04:35
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boar guy posted:bommers looooooove to stand in the middle of the aisle motionless while you wait for them to move until you make a move instead and then love to move directly in to your path I never saw this until I moved to my current town. There's three separate retirement communities hidden behind regular neighborhoods and strip malls here. The local grocery store is like Night of the Living Dead. So many elderly and they do exactly this - just stop in the dead center middle of the aisle and just... shut down? It's like a micro-seizure or a K-hole. Once when my sister-in-law was visiting, she needed something and I took her there. I warned her on the drive over what it was like and she thought I was joking around, but then she loving saw it. She was walking up an aisle and there was a random old guy walking in front of her pushing a cart and he just stopped. He wasn't looking at the shelves, he wasn't checking his phone, no one was in front of him - just no activity. It's like he was a wind up toy that ran out of juice. I've started driving 20 minutes to the town over just to get groceries 'cuz I hate dealing with it so much.
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Nov 30, 2019 04:39
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Panfilo posted:Why They can escape faster when they escalate a road rage incident to gunplay
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Nov 30, 2019 05:01
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CPL593H posted:I'll never understand people who spend so much time circling the parking lot either to get the absolute closest spot to the door or just waiting for someone else to leave. Just loving park where a spot is open. It's such a tedious waste of time. Parking near the front of the lot helps ensure their overtaxed rascal scooter has enough charge for the whole walmart trip.
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Nov 30, 2019 05:03
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I prefer to pull through to a spot I can immediately drive out. I almost never have poo poo to put in bed or buy more than I can carry out and still open my car door to throw poo poo in. Also why parking out in a far flung part of the lot rules. pulling through an empty spot to another empty spot is one thing, but actually backing into a parking spot is spiritually unsafe
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Nov 30, 2019 05:30
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gently caress all generations that back into parking spots.
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Nov 30, 2019 05:55
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lunch in a crate posted:This old man said, "no no no son I'm leaving it out in the front for the other old timers like me. These make for excellent walkers for us with bad backs." I said, "It won't be there when the wind catches it and it rolls down the hill into somebodies car."
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Nov 30, 2019 06:22
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boar guy posted:bommers looooooove to stand in the middle of the aisle motionless while you wait for them to move until you make a move instead and then love to move directly in to your path Ughh. I see this all the time though I wouldn't say that this is specific to boomers. More of a suburbia thing IME. Sometimes I think using citylegs in the burbs is like stepping into a torture chamber. Especially if I'm working, when I'm on a mission and trying to complete jobs bang bang. Some other things I've observed that make me want to scream until I'm vomiting blood: -Randomly start walking backwards without looking (usually happens during a conversation, especially towards the end of one.) -Randomly throwing an arm or two out without looking (ditto.) A true baffoon maneuver--I hate this so much. -Seeing someone moving equipment but not getting out the way until the last possible second. These things are so common. Why? Over the years I've learned to see it coming from a hallway away. Other people are walking. Situational awareness you stupid loving fucks.
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Nov 30, 2019 06:55
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ProperCoochie posted:Other people are walking. Situational awareness you stupid loving fucks. this guy, probably about 65, walks up to the dude running the 6 self checkout lanes with a full cart of groceries like 'im done with this i decided i dont want it' and left it in the middle of all 6 lanes and 20+ people and walked away the grocery store guy and i looked at each other and silently mouthed 'ok boomer' like what the gently caress; i'll never understand the entitlement mentality of 'i spend money here some times and therefore my poo poo don't stink'- you still have to be actively not an rear end in a top hat, even if you are spending money the customer is always right is up there with if theres time to lean theres time to clean in terms of boomerisms ill be glad to see go
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Nov 30, 2019 08:34
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CPL593H posted:I'll never understand people who spend so much time circling the parking lot either to get the absolute closest spot to the door or just waiting for someone else to leave. Just loving park where a spot is open. It's such a tedious waste of time. I regularly see cars parked on the sidewalk without any indication that the driver is disabled or has reduced mobility in any way, or that they're transporting anything, and often there will be free parking spots a bit further down the same street. It's just more convenient than having to walk a tiny bit more, and gently caress pedestrians. For me as an able-bodied person, it's not too difficult to go around (although it's sometimes dangerous), but imagine being in a wheelchair and some rear end in a top hat is parked right in the middle of the sidewalk. It's a little thing, but it always pisses me off due to how nakedly selfish it is. Just loving walk if you're able to, it's easy, it's good for you, it helps with stress, and you won't die of a heart attack at age 45
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Nov 30, 2019 09:17
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to any boomers who are reading this thread silently and weeping for intergenerational empathy self-development purposes. firstly, thank you. secondly, the reason we hated the "just pound the pavements and ask for interviews until you get a job!" thing was that back in 2008, when we were all teenagers-young 20s looking for our first jobs, if we showed up in person to places asking for interviews, local small business owners who were already insanely stressed and on the verge of a nervous breakdown from the financial crisis would scream at us for wasting their valuable time and banish us from the premises. i'm delightful irl and this happened to me several times, you can imagine what it was like for a less socially blessed goon, and as financial-crises-trauma tends to, this behaviour continued for many years, well into the 10s. you can imagine the psychological impact this had upon my generation, and how difficult it was for our parents and grandparents to understand the very specific circumstances of our distress and despair. we would say "no they literally yell at you for wasting their time if you demand to talk to the owner" and they would think we were exaggerating, but no, they could be quite aggressive, depending on how many resumes from greenhorn teens they had personally fielded that week. the older millennials endured more intergenerational scorn and shame, but the younger ones were more vulnerable and malleable, so we were all scarred in our own way.
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Nov 30, 2019 11:13
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it was really horrible. we'd been told we were going to graduate high school and then work until we could afford to go to the big city for university and a real career. instead we graduated and either went straight to university out of necessity (which turned out to be its own whole pile of bullshit) or tried to find work. we couldn't find work. none of us could find work. everybody who could legally be laid off had been laid off and the market was glutted with desperate people. and even though there was a massive global financial crash happening at the exact same time and everybody knew the economic situation was dire, our families could not and would not understand why we couldn't just get a full-time job and be happy, like they had been when they left high school. we could get a full-time job and be happy if we would just follow their advice and do exactly what they had done, which was.......
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Nov 30, 2019 11:21
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and finally, please consider that for most of us, working conditions have barely improved since 2009. the only reason anyone's talking about them now is that more boomers are being forced to go back to jobs that they thought they had advanced or retired from, and realised that living while working those jobs was ok in the past and is now suddenly poo poo. boomers own the media, and so that generation personally directs what attention will be paid to where. hence, our frustration.
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Nov 30, 2019 11:24
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Boomers just don't understand that things are significantly different in 2019 than they were like a million years ago and walking into a business demanding a job can actually get you escorted out by security or worse, hope you like being blacklisted by that business owner and the businesses of all his drinking buddies with no legal recourse
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Nov 30, 2019 12:29
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My dad wasn't dumb enough to suggest I physically walk into places and demand a job, but he did say I should 'spontaneously' apply for jobs regardless of whether or not there was an opening. I just laughed and ignored his advice.
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Nov 30, 2019 12:35
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Lmao my dad was cut off way before the 2008 crash. It did out a friend of mine from high school as a "bootstraps" rear end in a top hat though
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Nov 30, 2019 12:51
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The marginally more up to date take on job hunting is to not trust those crazy online applications. Better be safe and give 'em a follow up phone call or pop in real quick and just make sure it went through and let them know you're really looking forward to an interview!
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Nov 30, 2019 13:12
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You Are A Elf posted:If your Boomer relative insists on listening to Alice’s Restaurant, then you should just put on Isaac Hayes’ Hot Buttered Soul. Four songs only, and By the Time I Get to Phoenix is almost 19 minutes long, but those four songs loving OWN. It also sates the Boomer’s appetite for period music of their youth. Great suggestion. One of my favorite albums
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Nov 30, 2019 13:16
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Phlegmish posted:My dad wasn't dumb enough to suggest I physically walk into places and demand a job, but he did say I should 'spontaneously' apply for jobs regardless of whether or not there was an opening. I just laughed and ignored his advice. I had all this nonsense from my Mum when I moved back in with her after university (2009 - a great time to look for jobs as a fresh zero-experience graduate!) Having all the "just apply to everywhere you fancy, even if they're not advertising!" and "Go in, find the manager and ask for a job!" was all the more galling because she literally hasn't applied for a job on the open market since the mid-70s: One she applied for before graduating and went straight into. Even when I explained that it was all done online now, she suggested I go in person to the places I'd applied for and follow up my application "to show my drive and enthusiasm". I'm sure this sort of thing wouldn't fly even in the 60s and 70s - it's just some weird creed that the Boomers have conjured up to mythologise themselves.
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Nov 30, 2019 13:19
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Dragonforce for thanksgiving music next year. Holy poo poo I haven't listened to them in ages.
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Nov 30, 2019 13:22
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:To add insult to injury, one of the entrances to a local walmart has a traffic circle. loving boomers don't understand traffic circles. jesus christ, a walmart with a traffic circle? do you live in hell? boomers do love walmart
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Nov 30, 2019 13:29
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Schlong Connery posted:Great suggestion. One of my favorite albums  Walk On By might just be the finest cover in the history of recorded music.
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Nov 30, 2019 14:05
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Colorado Springs. It's boomer hell. So many retired military. Even the younger retirees are boomer mind here, because they were trained by boomers and the military is very, very goddamn boomer. Four years of it was enough for me, but I don't mind living in a military town. Besides, it's mostly air force and army here. That said, I hope that focus on the family place in town burns to the ground with the Dobsons inside. gently caress those people with barrel cacti.
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Nov 30, 2019 14:09
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Gumdrop Larry posted:The marginally more up to date take on job hunting is to not trust those crazy online applications. Better be safe and give 'em a follow up phone call or pop in real quick and just make sure it went through and let them know you're really looking forward to an interview! This was my parents after I graduated in the middle of the economy dying in a pool of its own poo poo and vomit in 2011 with over $120,000 in student debt they signed me up for. Make sure you call and speak with the hiring person at *insert giant corporation* you’re applying at to show you’re really interested in the job! This was after I had to explain places don’t have paper applications and you can’t just walk into a corporate building asking to apply for a job at the security desk for the hundredth time. Now I’m underemployed and drowning under my student loans with no hope in sight. Hail Satan
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Nov 30, 2019 14:28
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The best is people who actually own businesses and refuse to acknowledge people who walk in the door for a job but still give that advice
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Nov 30, 2019 14:35
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looking for a job is still insanely terrible, I switched jobs last year and it took me at least four months of mass applying. I'm talking like 400+ jobs a day, and you open yourself up to so many scams and telemarketers and recruiters that jerk you around for seemingly no reason. And I live in a city that's supposed to have a "thriving" job market. In the end I ended up finally getting a new job only because of some lucky personal connections lol
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Panfilo posted:Why Yeah, Costco may not be the worst for this, but when it does finally happen, it's hilarious. Especially if someone decided to do this with an F-150 or something (and yes, I've seen this).
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