Go to the local marijuana dispensary two days ago. Long line, no biggie, just wait. In comes a boomer couple, they see the line look at it, and simply walk around everyone to the register. I call them out and they pretend not to notice. They are told they have to wait in line and say "well someone should have told us." So ok they get in line to wait. The husband has an "oldies" station playing on his phone at FULL BLAST (while I like The Who, I don't need to have it blasting in my ear). Another customer asks him to turn it down, to which he replies "It's a free country!". Everyone in the dispensary (Staff and customers) all looked at them and he just stood there smugly while his wife pretended not to hear any of it.
Staff should have told them to leave.
One of the joys of working an indy record shop in the late 80s was being able to tell problem customers to "get the fuck out" and see the owner in back with a smirk supporting me. lulz
I worked in an indie bookstore and the owner used to tell us we did Not have to acknowledge people who came to the register talking on the phone and ignoring us. She said, just ignore them back. Lol. It was too much fun.
I worked between classes in a small independently owned grocery store on a college campus. The amount of times we asked people to leave just because they were being dicks was awesome.
I lived for when someone said “I want your corporate number” or “I’m calling corporate” and the look on their face when we told them.
Ah yes, that always cued me to blast something like Minor Threat or Scratch Acid in response. heh.
Now every asshole with too much time on their hands who feels slighted takes to social media to whine like the shallow little toddlers they are.
"Jesus entering from the rear" by Feederz is a particularly good one to play at full volume when Boomers do shit like this. I've only done it twice, but was very effective both times.
That is the best song ever! I've used it on annoying neighbors who liked to blast their music at 3 am. Nina Hagen's Antiworld works well for this too.
I worked at a small <not indy> record store in the late 90s and I still had ban hammer privileges... told more than one fuckface to fuck off .... good times
Wasn’t that part of the premise with Empire Records? 😁
My husband once worked for a company like this. Then they’d ask to see a manager who would tell them the same thing lol
F’real!
The shop by me has a big sign that says "If you want your weed don't be a dick" next to the "Management reserves the right to refuse service to anyone."
Seems like a good policy
It really is that simple. Saves a lot of headache for customers and staff.
I had an old man threaten to piss in our aisles and the co owner of the pharmacy I work at made me bring him to the non public use toilets. And he took 35 minutes and I didn't get any help at cash. I'm curious if I'll be spoken to in the new year because I yelled at a lot of problematic people that day 😆
I've heard wild stories from people who work in retail pharmacies
I've got some. We're also close to a mental institution, so some patients are allowed out unsupervised. There was a lady who had frequent picnics in the middle of our store. I've had people lose their minds over not being able to return things. We're also by a bar, so I got front row seats to watch someone throw up all over our windows. McDonald's just had rude and entitled people. I'm just a cashier, not even dealing with meds and these people are animals.
I heard about a customer who walked in covered in bugs. The bugs were crawling all over and they brushed some onto the floor. Idk if they were mentally ill, homeless, etc but that one genuinely shocked me
This is the way.
It really is that simple.
It really is.
Free country; private establishment. They can be refused service, so presumably the dispensary prioritizes getting the cash in. Which is reasonable.
Why are they like this ?
My personal opinion, it is about entitlement and control. The rules don't apply to them.
Stolen from another redditor, but:
Once you realize that conservatives see :status = ignoring rules then everything makes sense. It’s why they don’t care about being hypocrites: being able to get away with it is proof of their status.
damn i never seen it put that simply but you are exactly right
Maggots are the only people who show up at the dispensary and tell me they don't have their ID on them and still expect me to let them in. I love meeting that with a flat, calm "No".
Even more entertaining is what happens when I don't respond positively or at all to their theatrics and just make them leave. You nailed it with your observation.
It's the same with bars. They don't give a crap that the business could lose their license for not checking ID
I could get a $10K PERSONAL fine; the business gets a &150K fine if I let anyone in without id and get caught.
The essence of conservatism: “rules for thee, not for me”
They are always, without fail, conservative white magats.
Yep. It’s bullying. Plain and simple.
Bingo. They are like people who blast their car music so loud it hurts. They want to take up as much space as possible and grin while other people have to just put up with it, because it makes them feel powerful. Also why they get so damn defensive if you ask them to stop. You are challenging their "power". It's pretty sad, really.
I'm going to start asking if it (the little power trip) means that much to them
It's a free country, sure. But only out in the sidewalk. You come into a place of business then it's not so free.
Spot on, and if you needed any more proof, just look at the masking oUtRaGe during COVID.
Every country that had decent masking compliance during COVID had a better outcome than the US. That includes absolutely jam-packed metropolises like Tokyo and Singapore.
These bitter old assholes couldn't stand people who are more educated and more intelligent telling them what to do. It fundamentally broke some spring in their wind-up MAGAt pea brains.
Masks are not uncomfortable. Doctors have worn them for hours in surgery, for decades. They really just didn't like having a new rule imposed on them. I think some also took offense at the idea that they could spread something, like their hygiene was being questioned (being clean and presentable was drilled into boomer heads), when the reality is that covid-19 is an airborne virus.
Yeah, during COVID-19 I was a hospital greeter. You know, take a temp and give them a mask. When the worst of it was over, I had one dimwit walk up to my desk at at an entrance and yell, "END THE MASQUERADE!!!' He then ignored me and went into his doctor's office. What a tool.
Oh, and here's my suggestion for a tune to blast back at them; Jerry Dale McFadden - Country Beats The Hell Outa Me
Tools are useful. That guy sounds like a drain.
I have a theory. They spent their whole young lives having to just trust the word of anyone older than them with no ability to fact check. They weren't allowed to question their elders, so they've been waiting to be the older ones so that everyone just has to listen to them without question. Unfortunately for them the Internet happened, so now young people don't depend on the word of old people for answers because we have the ability to fact check. They didn't get listened to as children, and they aren't being taken seriously as adults (for good reason, obviously). This upsets them so they compensate by acting like small children and seeking negative attention.
Also, lead.
I am a boomer, it is religion.
I am surrounded by these assholes and their self entitled always right (pun intended), fucked up right wing religious (christian), I can do anything I want, any time to any one, because I am virtuous and my way is the right way. Fuck it is exhausting, one of two things will cure it, either I croak before them, or for the sake of future generations, they do.
This! It’s religion. They believe it gives them rights over everyone else.
I actually see this a lot in certain elders from more traditional/ conservative leaning cultures. Very much a sense of "it's my turn to be the one in charge and throwing my weight around"
Like underclassmen waiting for their senior trip except they're like 70 and this is getting embarrassing
My dad fact checked me all the time growing up, first with encyclopedias, then the internet. I learned not to just take someone's word for it, which is good, but it's also kind of an a-hole move to check what your kids just learned at school when they're excited to share it
Because no one is telling them to stop.
This. So many people just ignore the behavior rather than calling it out. Publicly shame them enough times and maybe they’ll get a clue. They won’t agree but “well I guess I can’t play my music in public anymore because people are too sensitive” is better than them getting away with it every time annoying everyone around them.
They'll never get it but maybe we can curb the behavior
lead paint
Don't forget leaded gas
I always forget about all the lead 😂 it really does explain a lot
But it doesn't. Studies show Gen X has had far more exposure to lead than Boomers, and we're not acting the fool in mass quantities. They're called the "Me Generation" for a reason.
The "Me Generation" is so spot on. Everything revolves around them and their expectations of your servitude towards them. You are obligated to please them. It's awful 😂
That's what their parents and grandparents called them. They named themselves boomers lol
Lead ( and asbestos) are both pretty prevalent in older buildings. I don’t care what generation you are from, please wear a mask whenever you are cutting, sanding, or scraping.
Get a professional to test for asbestos, too
That's depressing. I'm late Gen X and just assumed my aunt's and uncle's were assholes for a chemical reason. Instead... they were just assholes.
I'm told we will as we get older.
I'm going to second this - grew up in the shadow of the Shell Refinery which tended to blow up once a year and rain petroleum by products. I "think" I'm fairly normal. At least in public.
What studies?
Leaded gasoline started being phased out in the 70s; starting in 1975 vehicles were built with catalytic converters that precluded the use of leaded gasoline. Given the comparatively shorter average lifespan of cars back then, it was only about eight years before unleaded gasoline was outselling leaded, about the time the oldest of Gen X were just hitting adulthood.
I'd assume boomers would've been exposed to far more lead than Gen X, given that they had an average of twenty years' longer existence by the time leaded gas was phased out.
And I have a feeling this is going to get worse before it gets better.
Because no one calls them on their shit. Why should they stop when everyone let's them trample all over them. The staff should have kicked them out.
In this case, they were called out, both for the line cutting and the noise generation. As a customer, I would have tried playing my own music as the next level of escalation, this being a free country.
They are assholes.
That’s simply it.
They’re assholes.
Remember when boomers were in their 30s and 40s? Yep, entitled assholes then too.
It's the only way they feel "seen" anymore since they're getting to the latter point of their lives.
Because they are emotionally stunted, entitled, energy vampires
Main character syndrome where they feel like main characters in a movie who can, “charm,” everyone into letting them take small advantages over the rest of us side characters.
Because everyone makes excuses for them
They are trying to be like Trump. My boss was a chill dude then slowly his mannerisms changed.
It's cultural.
Old people grew up in a world where being a condescending dick was how you got what you wanted.
For a plausible theory, consider why they’re called the Boomers - because there was a baby boom and they are, by far, the largest demographic. Always have been.
So for their entire lives they’ve had corporations trying to get them (or, when they were young, their parents) to spend money. As soon as they were old enough to vote they had politicians trying to court their vote. This is why, for example, so many financial policies (such as those around home owning) have always favoured them. They’ve driven social trends since they were teenagers.
Basically, right from the moment they were born, the whole of society has treated them as if they’re the most important people on the planet. So it’s not unexpected that they believe themselves to be the most important people on the planet. The whole world really has revolved around them for the last 70-odd years.
This also means that now that they’re starting to die off and are therefore becoming less important, it’s much harder for them than it is for generations who have traditionally been neglected.
If you look at the leaded vs unleaded gasoline trend it starts making sense. They all grew up sucking in lead poised air and are expecting it to not have an effect on their brains as they age
The lead paint and generational narcissism.
They've never been held accountable. Not in their youth, and not now. Rules just don't apply to them. And now it's just taboo bc if you try, they'll throw tantrums like a toddler.
They're essentially children. They never grew up because everyone catered to them. It's insane.
The dispensaries around me don't even allow phones to be taken in. They don't check your pockets obviously but if you pull it out they ask you to put it away or take it outside.
We traveled from WA to AZ and were shocked at the difference in dispensaries. My husband spent a good while talking about how ours are more like a jewelry store (customers on one side of a glass display case/counter, sales people on the other) and theirs are like...visiting prison. 😂
All the ones where I am are the same, big sign saying “no phones, we’ll refuse service”.
My state is medical only so the dispensaries are polite but make damn sure everyone plays by the laws!
The armed security guard would’ve been all over that d-bag.
Why?
Because Cannabis remains illegal at the federal level
Normalize making these people regret their choices. Ok its a free country, let me beat box in your face in a very spitty way, how's that? God I'm so over it with people like that
Yep. Start blasting gangster rap. Or KPop.
The pandemic really did it for me. We ALL had this crazy time and life was upside down. Miracle of miracles we expedited a vaccine. I teared up a bit when I got my first dose. I was like "God it's fucking over". Then watching a bunch of self centered idiots throw tantrums around vaccines was too much. I hate these people. They're sub human. I'll never even waste my time pretending to treat them as my equal
Or hop on tiktok and search up “boomers being jerks” and play every tok on max volume
Ugly Kid Joe “I hate everything about you”
I would be tempted to pull out my phone and play some really old, high pitched Bollywood at them. It's hard on the ears, but it would be worth it.
dont serve him ... he is only there to get 5 pre-rolls cause he is too lazy to do it himself... tell him to take his $35 and go elsewhere....
Oh no no no no. He definitely rolls his own, while sneering at people who don't. It's part of the cursive/stick shift superiority complex.
cursive/stick shift superiority complex. hahahah LOVE IT
Yea silliest nonsense ever.
I'm 61. Yea, I can do cursive, so what? Tying is faster and easier to read.
Stick shifts aren't the flex they think they are, get over it.
And while they're bragging about their mad skills on those few things, they're crashing out on multiple basic life skills, and then shouting at clouds when everything doesn't magically fall into place.
Same! I am 40 and know cursive. I can use a typewriter, a paper map, a phone book, rotary phone, etc. Amd you know what? IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER LOL no one uses that stuff anymore, move on people. I like to ask of they know how to use a telegraph or a flash box camera. Of course not, because no one needs to use that shit anymore. Move the fuck on 🤣
Exactly! Vintage is fun to know, but that's not really relevant for taking care of business now.
Build a time machine or get with the program!
It's far more important to know how to drive stick than rotate a .pdf. /s
I mean, I can do both.
🤣
Millennial here, forced to learn cursive right before it was phased out and high school teachers required printing or typed essays. I can do it, and I took a summer calligraphy course so mine looks nice. The boomers who brag about cursive, ime, have terrible penmanship and need to print neatly to be legible. It's not a flex anymore.
That's what blows me away. Their handwriting sucks, they're a menace on the road, and those are the skills that they're proud of? Dear god!
They're clinging to those skills because they can't adapt. I still think about the lady who threw a fit at checkout because she'd printed her coupon without the barcode. My grocery store puts all of their coupons on the app now and you have to scan QR codes to "clip" them. I wonder if she's figured it out.
These people don't even know how to use their own bank cards when it's time to pay for their groceries half the time.
Man. I learned to drive stick in an evening... literally bought my first car, had Dad drive it out of the city for me, switched seats and practiced for a bit, and took it on a 600 km road trip the next day. And I'm provably the least coordinated person I know... I trip over my own feet, I accidentally smack one or both of my balls at least once a week, and I regularly cover myself coughing fits by inhaling my own saliva. It's not a difficult skill to pick up by any means, but some people treat it like earning a PhD...
Should have been booted out the store and banned from coming back. More establishments need to take such steps. I think it would go a long way towards making society more civil. My local convenience store does this. Thise Indian brothers don't take any shit. There are a few young ladies that work there that are high school and college students. They will run out anybody that come in harassing them and making them uncomfortable. I heard one of the Indian bros tell a guy trying to hit on one of the young ladies, "She has to give you your change back, not her phone number! Get the fuck out of my store!"
Hell yeah go brothers!
I work at a dispensary and you won't believe how often Boomers just ignore the line and wander around my sales floor or decide they are making their own line somewhere else
At the place I go to, there’s always boomers insisting that they need to pay with a card, even though practically every American dispensary is cash only for obvious reasons.
They also throw a shit fit because the dispensary has a separate line for people with medical cards (such as myself). Boomers love to make weird comments about how I’m faking it and I shouldn’t get to skip the line. A lot of them seem to be under the impression that medical cards are only for people with cancer. Even though most people that use medical cards have it for invisible disorders like anxiety, insomnia, epilepsy, etc.
Even if you truly didn’t need the card it makes the product tax free so it just makes good financial sense to get a med card if you are a regular smoker like I am.
THIS!
They make their own lines at fedex and ups, too
Whenever someone tries to cut in line it's almost always a Boomer. I am not usually a confrontational person, but I do not abide by people cutting the line, especially boomers.
The shuffling to the front and looking around like "will anyone notice?" gets an automatic call-out from me. If they try to ignore me, I get louder. I've sent plenty of Boomers to the back of the line. "We all learned to stand in line and wait our turn, did you not learn that in life?".
I accidentally cut in front of a boomer in the self checkout line, she said something, and I apologized profusely and got in line. I didn't see her waiting and meant no offense. She ranted about it until she completed her transaction and left the store. You'd think that I ran over her dog by how aggrieved she was. In her place, a quick apology would've been enough for me.
I see boomers jump queues often and "hey, there's a line" is the extent of my involvement.
And, after all that, I'm assuming they spent a half hour of the staff's time to walk out with an eighth of weed.
They want 5 star celebrity treatment wherever they go
One would think lining up and waiting one's turn is a new thing by the way they act. I think it may be time for that obnoxious man to get his hearing tested. That some people are so stubborn about it is just silliness. Then again, his hearing could be fine and he's just an asshat who can't be bothered with earbuds. Staff should have told him to turn it down or leave.
I always make a point to pre-order at my dispensary, tip the budtender, and take a few moments to compliment a pin or the service or something. I'm a Millennial, and I will be a beacon of how to act in a store, or I'll die trying.
Hell, in America it might be both. :p
This dispensary does Pre Order, they had separate lines for preorder and regular retail. They had to make it one line because wait for it..... an older customer complained it was discriminatory.....
Mine it's usually one line as well, and they call people to the counter when the pre order orders are ready to be rung up (already pulled, just not sitting out). I'm sure there are plenty of people who have complained about that system as well, even though I've never waited more than 10-15 minutes, even on super busy days. Some people just love to bitch.
🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
A customer at the pharmacy complained that I got to "skip the line" when I was there for a vaccine, not a prescription, and I had an appointment... people are ridiculous
People like that were never ready to be given any actual freedom.
Boomers! At the Dispo
Free country means you can put your own song on
“ were you born an asshole or did you work on it your whole life? Either way you’re an asshole tonight.”
It’s a great sing-along
I understand the sentiment, but if anyone needs weed, its them.
It's probably for the wife. She needs it to be able to stand her husband.
🤣🤣🤣
I would have gladly them shared my music blasted aimed at him
Reply with: Yes, Everyone’s free to be an asshole.
If you run into a problem, its most likely you. It's the Dispensary. Why are some folks just intent on being a gapping asshole everywhere they go. And the blast from cellphones, CALL IT Out. Then match their energy. They are exhausting.
I'd be tempted to sing along. Though I think I sound pretty good in the car, I think it would be enough to make anyone turn their damned phone down.
Boomers at the Dispensary! This will be my new band name.
All retail establishments have the legal right to refuse service to anyone, I believe, but am old. Why don’t they? Instead of putting up with their crap. Is their money more important than the ones they are disturbing? Maybe we as customers should just leave when people go off. Maybe these places losing customers instead of likes.
If the dispo didnt throw them out I would have some Tupac on full blast, they get offended quickly and would have left.
You need to be stoned to deal with these EXHAUSTING people.
Ahhh the dispensary boomers. Hundreds of questions about something that they're not going to buy. Wanting full eye contact. Throwing money on the counter and being upset when it's returned that way in kind as change....
Taking foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and ever
to get out their ID and being mAd ThEy HaVE To😭😭😭
I had to get a glass block tip jar that I could barely slip my fingers into because they can't keep their hands out of it
This dispensary has senior day on Tuesday, I won't go in on Tuesdays.
Tuesday would be my day off then LOL.
That’s when I stand behind him and blast some slipknot on my phone full blast
Thats on staff. They should have been told to turn the music off or even to get out.
How not very marijuana dispensary of him.
I like the part where they pretend they don't see, hear, understand anything. Like I will just cut in front of you. I didn't notice or see the huge line!!!!
An old couple tried this while waiting to board a flight. The line of about 140 people had a slight bend about halfway down; Anyone with 1 eye can see it's not the back of the line. They thought it was the ideal place to slip in,and being Canada,figured everyone is too polite to speak up. Nope,I'm about 20 back ,at the end of a long day and I'm done with cowpokes and their bullshit. " BACK OF THE LINE IS OVER THERE!!!!!" " Ohhhhh ,well we thought.." " You thought you'd cut the line and nobody would say anything. Nice try!" The old hag with him told me " Don't get smart" 🤣🤣🤣
I would have held my phone up and blasted I’m Shipping Up to Boston by Drop Kick Murphys 🎵😂
As a customer in line I would be harassing these two fucks. I am a 70 year old woman that would not stand by "allowing" them be obnoxious. Bring it!
Hmmm.
Phone out at a dispensary in my state = instaban.
That same asshole was probably a D.A.R.E. instructor back in the day
Their parents were entitled dicks to them, so they’re just acting like they’ve been taught.
Please help break the cycle.
I’m 68 and it’s shocking to see old geezers acting so childish! I don’t understand if they were always difficult, or do they think they’re old now and deserve to be demanding?
Ugh!
I had a great mom and she taught us well. I would never act out like that. My dad is 92 and sometimes I cringe at his behavior. He is so impatient and can make snarky, ridiculous comments. I love him but he’s a tear. His filter has collapsed
Uhhhhh they've always been this way 😂
After being alive all this time you’d think they’d learn some manners. I have trouble with them too and I am older than most of them.
100% boomer to equate "free country" with license to be an asshole.
That's when you just start blasting porn and when they say something just turn around and say " it's a free country, and you're free to listen, or we can both turn off our shit".
Should have sold Them some Oregano
When boomers play music full blast around me I just do the same but songs like Eat It by Megan Thee. Did this in a movie theater recently and they turned their phone off. If anyone else had been there I would have gotten a slow clap for sure.
Dennis Leary Asshole works REALLY well too.
And that's when I begin a rousing round of Row, row, row your boat.
Manager should have asked them to leave.
i'da played some LOUD thug rap in return.
Moments like this always remind me of this scene from Snatch:
https://youtu.be/6xfbW6hcqKo?si=O87GJMnYCmMfqRqm
I came on here to say this!
Good old Doug the Head.
Let them cut if they can program a vcr without calling their wizkid great nephew 😵
Thats why he needs to chill with some pot
After being alive all this time you’d think they’d learn some manners. I have trouble with them too and I am older than most of them.
sounds like a good time to blast death metal at max volume on your phone, bc it is a free country after all
Open up Pandora or Spotify and blast some gangsta rap. That should annoy them enough to make them understand. It’s a free country.
Start booing like in the Princess Bride. "Boo, no one likes you. Boo. go away"
This cracks me up…. People don’t believe me when I tell them 35-45% of my medical costumers are boomers. Also the boomers are always the costumers that want the flower that is like 50% THC or higher, like sorry old dude we need to sprinkle some hashish on that bud first before we hit that potency level.
"It's a free country -- but you're still an asshole. Hey, I can say that, it's a free country."
Start loudly discussing with other people in line "which car out there belongs to these assholes, do you think? That shiny unscratched <car>, right?".
Blast music back at them. Try death metal
Level up. A lot of these folks are racists. Blast some gangster rap. 🤣🤣🤣
Well it isn't a free store, ain't it. Now fuck off.
Damn, in my experience dispensaries are places where you see cool boomers lol
A turn on the nasty ass funk that you can imagine and apologized to those in front and behind of you while you blast it back at him. B) go to him and LOUDLY say sorry but where’s your keeper? The nurse who takes care of you? I’m sure you’re not allowed out alone. Can we find them and get them to handle you?
My Lil bro is a budtender and would have told them to get out. Lol. I've actually been in his shop when someone got told to leave for being obnoxious like that. Some people don't realize they are not the main character most of the time, especially boomers.
Dude, a boomer did the same near me. Was not happy to have to listen to my EDM in response to "it sure is a free country"
Oh my gosh, Ive been waiting for this one! Dispensaries are the most chill place, the only store I like to go in and the one time there was an issue in one, the only time I've ever seen an issue, it was a boomer causing it. They seriously can ruin any event or any place merely with their presence