Annoying shit old people do

[papie]

Ageist! I know

My ILs share a fucking cellphone. So you never know who has it. MIL is watching the girls and I just got to her house with Alex and they aren't here. So I call her cellphone and get FIL at work, all confused as to why I am calling him. Ugh. Get your own damn cell phone,people!

[smock]

Other annoying things old people do with cell phones: turn them off when they aren't making a call. Hey, MIL, your cell phone is completely useless to everyone except you when you keep it off 23.5 hours a day!

[sangria]

Old people seem to think it's totally appropriate to floss their teeth while sitting in the living room watching tv.

NO. STOP.

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My mom will tell me a story ( example. 2 of my cousins kids are getting married) & then recap the story & repeat the same information in 3 new ways.

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Edited because FUCKING KARMA

[jenny1223]

Aug 28, 2015 15:00:37 GMT -5 sangria said:

Old people seem to think it's totally appropriate to floss their teeth while sitting in the living room watching tv.

NO. STOP.

I do this. Only when I'm by myself though.

[cabbagecabbage]

Some like to wander around the zoo and give dirty looks to boisterous kids and mutter under their breath. I noticed that today.

[gummybear]

You know how in the 70s everyone had a slide projector and they'd invite people over to look at their vacation pics? Well, the 2000s version of that is, "Let me show you 500 pictures I took of basically the same thing, all on my iPhone". I will also hover over you closely and explain each one and periodically snatch the phone from your hands so I can enlarge a picture or swipe back to add something I forgot to say"

I bet in the 70s there was booze at the slide show parties.

[VeryViolet]

Aug 28, 2015 15:00:37 GMT -5 sangria said:

Old people seem to think it's totally appropriate to floss their teeth while sitting in the living room watching tv.

NO. STOP.

My MIL did this at the dinner table last Thanksgiving. I still have not recovered. 

[pantsparty]

I'm trying to figure out if that's better or worse than the shared Facebook account.

[Deleted]

When you have 2+ kids, old people LOVE to tell you how busy you are. Like I have no idea, lol. Every.Time I take the kids out, some old is like "boy, you're sure busy!! You have twins?!" Or "you can fit one more on your back you know!"

Every time.

[cupcake0214]

Ask me iPhone and iPad questions constantly. How do I change the ringer? How do I send a picture? It's all the time with my mom.

[Alyssa]

They get so stubborn and set in their ways. You cannot talk any sense into them.

[smock]

Aug 28, 2015 15:05:37 GMT -5 gummybear said:

You know how in the 70s everyone had a slide projector and they'd invite people over to look at their vacation pics? Well, the 2000s version of that is, "Let me show you 500 pictures I took of basically the same thing, all on my iPhone". I will also hover over you closely and explain each one and periodically snatch the phone from your hands so I can enlarge a picture or swipe back to add something I forgot to say"

I bet in the 70s there was booze at the slide show parties.

Speaking of, WHY DOES MY MOM KEEP SENDING ME PICTURES OF HER GARAGE?!? 

The GARAGE is not interesting. 

[ninjabridemom]

Aug 28, 2015 14:59:25 GMT -5 smock said:

Other annoying things old people do with cell phones: turn them off when they aren't making a call. Hey, MIL, your cell phone is completely useless to everyone except you when you keep it off 23.5 hours a day!

My mom does this AND never charges it. I picked her up from the airport one time and it was the most obnoxious thing. "I figured I'd just look for you" WHAT ABOUT ME?!

An annoying thing my dad does is he answers the phone when he isn't actually free. "Hi, is everyone okay? Okay I'm going to have to call you back tomorrow, okay bye." And I'm left there holding the phone like

[Champagne Supernova]

OMFG, my in-laws share a cellphone too.

MIL actually said she doesn't even know her ringtone. She said she'll hear something and go "Hmmm, what is that?" and then continue to ignore. UM HELLO, it's your damn phone. ANSWER IT.

[miso]

I use a floss pick at my desk at work.

I know it's gross.

But I don't care.

#old

[ninjabridemom]

Aug 28, 2015 15:09:33 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

When you have 2+ kidd, old people LOVE to tell you how busy you are. Like I have no idea, lol. Every.Time I take the kids out, some old is like "boy, you're sure busy!! You have twins?!" Or "you can fit one more on your back you know!"

Every time.

And yet! They think you are not so busy that you have enough time to stand there in the middle of the grocery surrounded by your busy children and trying to, y'know, actually fucking grocery shop and talk to them about how busy you are.

OMG it makes me stabby. It was the WORST in the 18m-3yr range. The boys are good grocery shopping again but that was when they didn't want to be in a cart but couldn't walk fast enough so it took seventy bajillion hours to grocery shop.

I'm getting rage flashbacks.

[lilafowler]

Aug 28, 2015 14:59:25 GMT -5 smock said:

Other annoying things old people do with cell phones: turn them off when they aren't making a call. Hey, MIL, your cell phone is completely useless to everyone except you when you keep it off 23.5 hours a day!

My mom does this and it's so obnoxious. Why have a phone if you're not going to have it on?!!!
Wait. H does this too and he's only 37.

[nannersp]

Forwarding stupid emails -- urban legends easily disproved by Snopes/Google, political nonsense, jokes about being old or how dumb young people are.

I had to start rules in my Gmail to automatically send emails from a couple of my best friends' parents to junk/trash because they were all of the above.

[gummybear]

Speaking of shared cells, my parents each have their own but my dad has it set up so the texts go to his phone and my moms (how this is possible I do not know).

So, I will send my DAD a text, "Where's Mom, she is not picking up her phone" and I will receive a text back from his number, "I'm at the office". Which is great DAD but where is MOM? "This is Mom". THEN ANSWER YOUR PHONE

It's so freaking annoying.

[Alyssa]

My MIL has called me more than once and the conversation goes like this:



(((Phone rings)))

Me: Hello?
MIL: Who is this?
Me: This is Alyssa...you called me...
MIL: Oh hi Alyssa, did you call me?
Me: No....(awkward pause)
MIL: Oh, okay, well bye!
ME: Bye.

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Aug 28, 2015 15:13:16 GMT -5 ninjabridemom said:

Aug 28, 2015 15:09:33 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

When you have 2+ kidd, old people LOVE to tell you how busy you are. Like I have no idea, lol. Every.Time I take the kids out, some old is like "boy, you're sure busy!! You have twins?!" Or "you can fit one more on your back you know!"

Every time.

And yet! They think you are not so busy that you have enough time to stand there in the middle of the grocery surrounded by your busy children and trying to, y'know, actually fucking grocery shop and talk to them about how busy you are.

OMG it makes me stabby. It was the WORST in the 18m-3yr range. The boys are good grocery shopping again but that was when they didn't want to be in a cart but couldn't walk fast enough so it took seventy bajillion hours to grocery shop.

I'm getting rage flashbacks.

Yes!! "Oh jeeze, you look busy. Here, let me ask you 800 questions and then tell you about all 4 of my children and 50 grandkids"

And they just linger. I try to creep away and then they start up again!

[emoflamingo]

Aug 28, 2015 15:00:37 GMT -5 sangria said:

Old people seem to think it's totally appropriate to floss their teeth while sitting in the living room watching tv.

NO. STOP.

My H constantly has a flosser in his mouth. I find them ev.ery.where. I found one under the bed when I was preparing to use the Roomba. It was far enough under that I actually gagged at the thought of how long it was under there.



I don't like it when my grandparents update me on health things in the middle of dinner. I'm good not knowing about your hospital stay that happened 3 weeks ago because of gout until I finish my food, thanks.

[rosiebear]

When my mom still used her computer, email was a constant barrage of gang initiation warnings, easily disproved urban legends, and "in my day, respect meant something" type diatribes. That was annoying.

My MIL regularly refuses to believe that a lunch out should cost more than $5.75 or a dinner out more than $8.75. She will audibly gasp when opening a menu.

But by far, the most annoying things old people do is develop amnesia over the tantrums, sass, and general misbehavior exhibited by their own children while they were growing up.

[Alyssa]

My mom also likes to yell into the phone. I think she has her volume down on her phone so she can't hear me very well....so her answer is to talk loudly and blow my eardrum out.


My dad on the phone.....he goes off on weird tangents about the government and you can't get out of those conversations once he dives into them. I was once on the phone with him and didn't get one word in for 25 minutes while he went on and on about government conspiracies. Apparently I made a HUGE mistake by getting my DNA tested through Ancestry.com because now the government has my DNA on file and that opens up some huge can of worms.  Oh FFS dad.

[shostakovich]

My mom has purse-dialed me so many times, and then I can hear her just chatting with someone or humming a little song or whatever.

One time she purse-dialed me and left a three minute voicemail of her humming an indecipherable song. I made an MP4 of it and sent it to my family, because that shit was hilarious. We played it over and over at Christmas that year.

[lilafowler]

Aug 28, 2015 15:21:53 GMT -5 rosiebear said:

But by far, the most annoying things old people do is develop amnesia over the tantrums, sass, and general misbehavior exhibited by their own children while they were growing up.

Omg yes-MIL is always saying "Well H NEVER did that when he was little..." The last time I visited them and she said that FIL said "YOU BLOCKED IT OUT BEV".
L O L

[shostakovich]

Aug 28, 2015 15:23:10 GMT -5 pandora89 said:

Aug 28, 2015 15:14:45 GMT -5 nannersp said:

Forwarding stupid emails -- urban legends easily disproved by Snopes/Google, political nonsense, jokes about being old or how dumb young people are.

I had to start rules in my Gmail to automatically send emails from a couple of my best friends' parents to junk/trash because they were all of the above.

You beat me to this, this is all MIL does with her day. She sends the dumbest emails, and a good portion of them are quite offensive one way or another.

Also over sharing about your bowels. MIL will always let us know after a big meal how she ate too much and now needs to poop, and will proceed to get over and go to the washroom.

OMG NOOOOOOOO

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Aug 28, 2015 15:25:00 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

Aug 28, 2015 15:21:53 GMT -5 rosiebear said:

But by far, the most annoying things old people do is develop amnesia over the tantrums, sass, and general misbehavior exhibited by their own children while they were growing up.

Omg yes-MIL is always saying "Well H NEVER did that when he was little..." The last time I visited them and she said that FIL said "YOU BLOCKED IT OUT BEV".
L O L

My mom is like this.

"They don't sleep through the night?! Well you guys slept through the night from birth!"

I'm pretty sure that didn't happen, mom.