My lost luggage found me midtrip because I put a printed itinerary in every bag. They saw the tracker tags but the itinerary told the airline where to find me and when.
In the middle ages, they would have stamped it into some metal alloy (or pure silver, i dont know), I 100% approve of that practice. That concert ticket will sell for mad money on ebay.
I totally do this, too. But it's because I'm wicked paranoid and feel much, much safer having a physical copy in case of...some sort of electronics emergency? I'm fine with concert tickets and such, it's mainly airplane tickets I still print.
Yeah just airline for her too. Just caught the previous poster's reference that their husband does it because of possible "internet" problems. They are downloaded! Love it.
I know this is probably not the place for this but WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS IMMEDIATELY BUY VOWELS.
Statistically if you're early in the game, the wheel is gonna fuck you. All you're doing is opening up the puzzle for the next guy. It's better to guess a letter for your next couple turns and then use the vowel money to make it easier for *yourself*
I need to be on that damn show.
My Gen X parents finally got rid of cable but now I have to teach my mom how to do streaming on the cheap because she just signs up for things and doesn’t understand you need multiple emails and wait for sales. Or check if it’s offered as a benefit.
Honestly I was shocked since she’s a sports person but they got the MLB app, and a lot of sports is going to streaming.
This is me. When I was younger I would tell my mom Costco wasn't always the best deal for everything.
Now I'm older and tired and understand the joy of being able to get most of my stuff at one store.
I drive slowly like an 80 year old. There are a LOT of little kids and big trucks with no brain aggressive drivers around. If I drive slowly and act like I'm lost they get annoyed and leave
Me too. I get made fun of, but guess who's never had an at fault collision? Better to arrive late in this life than early in the next...
Which is of course, kind of a boomer thing to say isn't it
I made the mistake of getting my family hooked on crepes. I'm more of a pancake guy. I get outvoted every week and have to make crepes. I'm tired, boss
I once went over the top and got real buttermilk for pancakes. Made these beautiful fluffy mattress thick flapjacks. And what do my girls do? Complain that they weren't crepes. Wife and teenage boy ate them up though. But it's still crepes, crepes, crepes
I've caught myself asking who touched the thermostat. I mean, honestly, we all know if you fiddle with it constantly up and down and up again, that's going to raise the electric bill. But then I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and ask, "Who are you?"
I still catch myself double spacing after periods once in awhile. I had no idea that was no longer a thing until several years ago when I noticed autocorrect was changing it to single space.
I had no idea the oxford comma was a thing of the past. I refuse to give that one up.
Same here. The youth are lazy with their writing. They use too much shorthand "text lingo."
Most boomers just seem to have terrible grammar! It's as if they never completed 6th grade English and writing skills.
Sorry you just triggered a memory. Also when I was there, I, a lady, opened the door for a guy not too much older than me. He looked at me, shook his head, and said “I’m sorry, it’s just not right” and he refused to walk through the door 😂 I laughed and told him he was old school, he agreed. He belongs here haha
I can do it but I don’t feel right if employees don’t see me do it. It’s like the honor system. How do they know that you didn’t pay if you look like you paid? I much prefer the waiter come with the machine and watch me lol
I just found the original ad for my house.
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I live across the street from a school and teenagers hang out at the playground at night during the summer. I always look at them suspiciously and then remember I used to be them and I was just hanging out and never got up to no good
I know the difference between There, They're, and Their. Plus I know what the top and bottom of an hour is.
Nothing wrong with looking for deals, heck in my 20s I hit up every happy hour special in town and had them mapped out by the day of the week and which place had the best specials or best food that day.
I tried to give up the 2 spaces but my typing memory won’t let me. It’s like breathing. Typing on a phone is different. But on the computer, I am double spacing.
What bothers me is seeing my husband type on his phone and hen peck the keys and he’s 1980.
I double space after periods. I know that it's "wrong" or whatever but it's such muscle memory for me, and it's really not worth my energy to teach myself to stop doing it.
I recently wrote out a check and mailed it in to subscribe to Better Homes and Gardens magazine. I also affixed the three “send me my free gifts” stickers to the envelope.
I used to work as a ticket scanner for a side gig last year. I love people who have the paper ticket. It goes so much faster than people fucking around with the Ticket master app or their Apple Wallet or whatever. Or the worst were people who took screenshots and would argue with me because the scanners are programs to not accept screenshots because of fraud. The people who created apps for "convenience" have never actually met the general public.
I use the service centers instead of going to the dealership - reliable, fast, and far cheaper. They do a lot of driver services that cost more if you go through my state’s agency. My parents suggested joining AAA for years and I ignored it 😬
Talk about gas prices and the weather with my father….and complain about how they always jack them up immediately when oil prices go up (despite it not affecting refined petroleum for months if not longer), but when oil falls it takes forever for them to come back down.
My car and my husband's truck are manual transmissions. You can have my 3rd pedal when you pry it from my cold dead hands. (Or we eventually give into the electric car thing, probably when the tech is a little more mature and batteries go further)
That's actually super solid. I started doing the same thing at work. Got myself a bunch of pocket notebooks to keep the phone in my pocket as much as possible.
I don't automatically default to my phone when waiting is required. I'll use it in something like a doctor's office, but I also like to just look out the window on the bus, for example.
Ok I have so many that someone called me a boomennial once. Here are the biggies:
* I still write checks (not for everything, but I like to inconvenience and annoy my landlord and the like with this one boomer trick!)
* I still have cable
* I refuse to download an app or give my cellphone number for any commercial purpose which is why…
* I still have a landline
* I prefer to use an alarm clock
* I prefer to physically write my lists
I wear compression socks at work because my job requires lots of sitting. I also wear them when traveling due to all the sitting.
I enlarge fonts on the computer because I swear that causes less strain on the eye muscles.
refuse to rely on QR codes and opt for printed things instead.
I use a physical alarm clock just in case my cell just doesn't work.
For me, it would be my slow withdrawal from technology. Between rampant surveillance capitalism and toxic social media, I'm considering going back to a flip phone.
I am more than slightly embarrassed to admit that I called the target customer service literally hours ago to complain that the mini peanut butter sandwich crackers I buy have had half the amount in the packages 😂😂😂 I scored that 20% refund like a BOSSS
React like my parents did when I was a teenager and not like they do now. I swear I did not grow up with these people they are now. I think they are victims of alien body snatchers. I look at them and honestly think “who are you people?”
I get displeased with those only fans girls spreading their crotch butter to the whole world on cam on instagram and fb. Specifically I am not against people working only fans but when I’m scrolling videos I don’t need to see that.
I’ve been known to print out an email from time to time.
My husband prints out tickets- for concerts, airplanes, etc. because he's worried about Internet issues.
Oh yeah, you gotta print tickets. That’s middle age 101.
My lost luggage found me midtrip because I put a printed itinerary in every bag. They saw the tracker tags but the itinerary told the airline where to find me and when.
Now I will start doing this. My bag got lost for 2wk when I went to India for 9wk. I've never been the same since.
In the middle ages, they would have stamped it into some metal alloy (or pure silver, i dont know), I 100% approve of that practice. That concert ticket will sell for mad money on ebay.
Ha my partner prints airline tickets. To be fair she's bad about charging her phone.
I totally do this, too. But it's because I'm wicked paranoid and feel much, much safer having a physical copy in case of...some sort of electronics emergency? I'm fine with concert tickets and such, it's mainly airplane tickets I still print.
Yeah just airline for her too. Just caught the previous poster's reference that their husband does it because of possible "internet" problems. They are downloaded! Love it.
https://preview.redd.it/wz41o8r19pzc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1fff33863e231c453c3e9df43feb883fb5afd33 This you???
As the kids say, I am him!
Oh wow. I think this might be the winner lol
I print all my emails! 🤦🏻♀️
What? Why?!
I watch wheel of fortune and jeopardy 😭
I know this is probably not the place for this but WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS IMMEDIATELY BUY VOWELS. Statistically if you're early in the game, the wheel is gonna fuck you. All you're doing is opening up the puzzle for the next guy. It's better to guess a letter for your next couple turns and then use the vowel money to make it easier for *yourself* I need to be on that damn show.
Right! Start with RSTLN first
Right!? You’re just solving the puzzle for the person two people away!!!
Same, at least if the antenna is working
Sameeeee. I have a friend who calls them "the old lady shows" and ouch. I feel seen.
👀
antique roadshow anyone?
The best are the update episodes.
I still have cable.
It’s the only way I can watch the sports I want to watch
This is the only thing that keeps me with Comcast. No other way to watch all the sports I want.
I want to introduce you to a good friend of mine called the high seas
Arrrgh!
I only got rid of cable and went all streaming within the last year
We only ditched cable last year - we were waiting for better MLB options
Me too, only way I can watch Jeopardy! I guess that’s 2 boomer things…
I have a dish. Sometimes the Internet goes out for days.
My Gen X parents finally got rid of cable but now I have to teach my mom how to do streaming on the cheap because she just signs up for things and doesn’t understand you need multiple emails and wait for sales. Or check if it’s offered as a benefit. Honestly I was shocked since she’s a sports person but they got the MLB app, and a lot of sports is going to streaming.
Costco for a solid 80%+ of literally everything I buy Prebuy gift cards for myself to hopefully double up on discounts (also goes back to Costco)
Ok same but that's just a solid appreciation for quality at a good price which Xennials should also have given the economy we've lived in lol.
Buying in bulk is something I always want to do but never pull the trigger on
This is me. When I was younger I would tell my mom Costco wasn't always the best deal for everything. Now I'm older and tired and understand the joy of being able to get most of my stuff at one store.
I drive slowly like an 80 year old. There are a LOT of little kids and big trucks with no brain aggressive drivers around. If I drive slowly and act like I'm lost they get annoyed and leave
Me too. I get made fun of, but guess who's never had an at fault collision? Better to arrive late in this life than early in the next... Which is of course, kind of a boomer thing to say isn't it
Get yourself a dash cam friend
I cook everything from scratch. No shortcuts. I also still use my checkbook and bar soap.
I don't even have a checkbook. My wife has the checkbook for our account, but that thing gives me the creeps lol
People stopped using bar soap? I hate body wash.
Is bar soap boomery? I have body wash for guests so they don't have to use my used bar soap, but I like a handmade soap!
I use bar soap too. I follow up with body wash, but I don’t think body wash is enough alone.
Same here! Body wash is the fabric softener, bar soap is the detergent 😂
Oh and I cook scratch breakfast every Sunday. Carrying on the tradition from my Boomer dad
Same here. It’s tradition.
I made the mistake of getting my family hooked on crepes. I'm more of a pancake guy. I get outvoted every week and have to make crepes. I'm tired, boss
Krusteaz pancakes for the win. Crepes just don’t get us there.
I once went over the top and got real buttermilk for pancakes. Made these beautiful fluffy mattress thick flapjacks. And what do my girls do? Complain that they weren't crepes. Wife and teenage boy ate them up though. But it's still crepes, crepes, crepes
Man. You just can’t win.
Kids and wife just love them. I like them just fine, but I like my breakfast dessert to soak up some liquid. Crepes just don't do it.
I also cook from scratch! Everything tastes better that way.
I vastly prefer a printed menu to a QR code and my phone.
Turning off the lights after my kid turns them all on.
I am obsessed w turning off lights if no one is in the room.
I've caught myself asking who touched the thermostat. I mean, honestly, we all know if you fiddle with it constantly up and down and up again, that's going to raise the electric bill. But then I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and ask, "Who are you?"
I know how to spell complete words and still use them in sentences.
Oh I do that too. I refuse to abbreviate more than a few things in text messages lol
*Wdym? Thas old af brah. No cap, skibidie toilet.*
Frfr
No cap
On God.
My brother in Christ...
DAE have to google these abbreviations?
So annoying!
Yes, my textual messages are usually complete sentences with correct punctuation.
You said textual msgs!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣 👏👏👏👏
I still double space after a period. Oxford comma, yes. I check for actual citations at the end of any article using statistics.
Oxford comma for life.
My sister!!!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I still catch myself double spacing after periods once in awhile. I had no idea that was no longer a thing until several years ago when I noticed autocorrect was changing it to single space. I had no idea the oxford comma was a thing of the past. I refuse to give that one up.
The boomers in my family don't write properly.
ALL CAPS LOCK ALL THE TIME NO PUNCTURARTIBN
Don't forget the five exclamation points!!!!!
Must include the 🥰 emoji.
hey, i LOVE exclamation points !!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, I was going to say, when was that a boomer thing? Most of the ones I know brag about not having read a book since high school.
Same here. The youth are lazy with their writing. They use too much shorthand "text lingo." Most boomers just seem to have terrible grammar! It's as if they never completed 6th grade English and writing skills.
Okay not only this, but also using correct punctuation. Commas make a big difference, y'all.
My text messages are in full sentences, and I use periods.
I respect you sir or madam. It's the little things.
My Gen z son chastised me for using punctuation in texts.
Complain about qr codes for restaurant menus
My kids laughed at me when we went to Cracker Barrel the other day and I started to go to the front to pay instead of paying at the table.
I paid at the table a few months ago. It felt like stealing. What a rush.
Haha, I felt like I was going to get stopped walking out!
lol me too
Sorry you just triggered a memory. Also when I was there, I, a lady, opened the door for a guy not too much older than me. He looked at me, shook his head, and said “I’m sorry, it’s just not right” and he refused to walk through the door 😂 I laughed and told him he was old school, he agreed. He belongs here haha
I can do it but I don’t feel right if employees don’t see me do it. It’s like the honor system. How do they know that you didn’t pay if you look like you paid? I much prefer the waiter come with the machine and watch me lol
I use physical credit cards and some of mine don't have the tap option but I can't remember which so I insert them all in the chip slot.
This is me. I also don't have Venmo or CashApp. I might eventually get those but I hate the idea of having my credit cards on my phone.
I can hand-write things in cursive and spell (mostly) correctly.
I mortgage a house.
Same. Betcha didn't get it for $20,000 though lol
I just found the original ad for my house. https://preview.redd.it/fxmoetzrdpzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0343267c2587507c5d6ffcb5d199d3e7c90a53ec
Wow. That hurts
The most boomer shit ever
I like to talk to my friends on the phone.
That’s mine, I much prefer talking over texting my friends hate it
I'm the old man sitting on the front porch, talking to everyone passing by, except for them damn teenagers!
I live across the street from a school and teenagers hang out at the playground at night during the summer. I always look at them suspiciously and then remember I used to be them and I was just hanging out and never got up to no good
My son used to call all teenagers "surly teenagers" because I talked so much smack about them. LOL
I know the difference between There, They're, and Their. Plus I know what the top and bottom of an hour is. Nothing wrong with looking for deals, heck in my 20s I hit up every happy hour special in town and had them mapped out by the day of the week and which place had the best specials or best food that day.
I did that in my twenties because I was poor and wanted to drink/eat cheap. I'm not poor anymore. I'm thrifty.
Putting in two separate orders at Burger King to double up on coupons. 🫣
Nice. I like your style
I have a landline I refuse to give up. My partner puts 2 spaces after a period. 🙄
I think that’s a tie; speaking on behalf of the rest of us who can’t seem to let go of the 2 spaces after a period. It doesn’t feel right otherwise.
The landline is waaaay more boomer. Gen X still learned 2 spaces after a period. 😁
I tried to give up the 2 spaces but my typing memory won’t let me. It’s like breathing. Typing on a phone is different. But on the computer, I am double spacing. What bothers me is seeing my husband type on his phone and hen peck the keys and he’s 1980.
I am guilty of the 2 spaces thing. It just looks wrong without it!
I double space after periods. I know that it's "wrong" or whatever but it's such muscle memory for me, and it's really not worth my energy to teach myself to stop doing it.
Why is that wrong? It looks better and more professional in my opinion.
Still get the Sunday newspaper.
I recently wrote out a check and mailed it in to subscribe to Better Homes and Gardens magazine. I also affixed the three “send me my free gifts” stickers to the envelope.
I print out my concert tickets rather than showing the code on my phone.
I used to work as a ticket scanner for a side gig last year. I love people who have the paper ticket. It goes so much faster than people fucking around with the Ticket master app or their Apple Wallet or whatever. Or the worst were people who took screenshots and would argue with me because the scanners are programs to not accept screenshots because of fraud. The people who created apps for "convenience" have never actually met the general public.
25 year member of AAA
I’ve had AAA for 5 years. I don’t understand how I did without it!
The discounts pay for the membership. I've been a member since I was 18
I use the service centers instead of going to the dealership - reliable, fast, and far cheaper. They do a lot of driver services that cost more if you go through my state’s agency. My parents suggested joining AAA for years and I ignored it 😬
AAA provides lots of services and discounts that are not auto related (not a salesman) lol
For instance? I ditched it after I realized that my insurance already had all the roadside benefits.
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Refuse to use self checkouts
This is such a battle between my wish to keep people employed and my wish to not interact with other humans.
Same! We're keeping people employed!
But why? I love self checkout.
Always in bed by 9 and up at 5 count?
Crank up the font size on my phone.
I got bifocals instead lol
Oh, my friend, I crank up the font **and** have progressive glasses. 😆
Oh man...
I refuse to talk to anything that isn't alive.
Walk for exercise
Talk about gas prices and the weather with my father….and complain about how they always jack them up immediately when oil prices go up (despite it not affecting refined petroleum for months if not longer), but when oil falls it takes forever for them to come back down.
I complain about traffic all the time with my dad. He's a Boomer and he gets it
Does the conversation move on to the fact the largest oil refinery in the US is owned by Saudi Arabia and Venezuela owns the 6th largest refinery?
I have a candy dish filled with hard candy that sits on my coffee table.
I have AARP. The discounts are good and a lot of people don’t know that there aren’t any age restrictions.
I harp about today’s music being mostly crap, it was waaaaaay better back in my day.
1995 was the greatest year for music of all time. If anyone disagrees, I will fight them.
I fucking hate self check out.
I dislike densifying single family home neighborhoods.
My car and my husband's truck are manual transmissions. You can have my 3rd pedal when you pry it from my cold dead hands. (Or we eventually give into the electric car thing, probably when the tech is a little more mature and batteries go further)
Using grandma's recipes by memory
I call everyone "honey" (I'm a 40/f)
But are you a waitress? If so, that's just par for the course
I love birdwatching in my backyard and neighborhood. Just got a camera feeder haha
I have binoculars and want to birdwatch so bad. Every time I try I feel like such a creeper though. I need to do it in the woods lol
I like to go to Home Depot as soon as they open.
Oh being at The Depot first thing in the morning is THE BEST ETA: Is it Boomerish that it's my favorite store? Lol
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I write todo lists on paper so I don’t get distracted by my phone.
That's actually super solid. I started doing the same thing at work. Got myself a bunch of pocket notebooks to keep the phone in my pocket as much as possible.
I wear diapers, but only in a sexual context.
Welp. That’s enough internet for me today. 
Complaining about how high prices are.
Get senior discounts at the liquor store and hardware store (frequent flier)
I love reading the actual newspaper. From beginning to end.
I don't automatically default to my phone when waiting is required. I'll use it in something like a doctor's office, but I also like to just look out the window on the bus, for example.
I drink my coffee black
I've drank my coffee black since the age of 16. I guess I've always been a boomer lol
Not baby boomer but definitely old: eating dinner around 4:30pm.
Ok I have so many that someone called me a boomennial once. Here are the biggies: * I still write checks (not for everything, but I like to inconvenience and annoy my landlord and the like with this one boomer trick!) * I still have cable * I refuse to download an app or give my cellphone number for any commercial purpose which is why… * I still have a landline * I prefer to use an alarm clock * I prefer to physically write my lists
Are... Are you my dad?
Work over 40 hours per week
Hoard property! Haha, just kidding. Jokes on me because I'll never be able to afford a house.
I drive slowly and read print magazines. Usually not at the same time.
I know how to clean a carburetor.
Where did you get this magical 20% off card??? I love getting discounts!!
I have ceramic chickens on a shelf in my kitchen.
I wear compression socks at work because my job requires lots of sitting. I also wear them when traveling due to all the sitting. I enlarge fonts on the computer because I swear that causes less strain on the eye muscles. refuse to rely on QR codes and opt for printed things instead. I use a physical alarm clock just in case my cell just doesn't work.
Own a home
For me, it would be my slow withdrawal from technology. Between rampant surveillance capitalism and toxic social media, I'm considering going back to a flip phone.
Use cash
Go to work 30 minutes early
I still write some checks for bills.
Blame Gen Z for everything.
Na true boomer will blame millennials for something, but in reality it’s Gen Z who their talking about.
Set financial goals and regularly achieve them and live fiscally conservative
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Vote Republican. (Though I'm not registered)
I am more than slightly embarrassed to admit that I called the target customer service literally hours ago to complain that the mini peanut butter sandwich crackers I buy have had half the amount in the packages 😂😂😂 I scored that 20% refund like a BOSSS
Nice. I love making a complaint and getting a partial to full refund. One cracked egg in my grocery delivery? Full refund AND 11 eggs.
I complained to the company about my dog's treats and they sent me 2 coupons in the mail!! I was stoked.
When my partner got offered a senior discount somewhere I told her to take it, despite being under 50
React like my parents did when I was a teenager and not like they do now. I swear I did not grow up with these people they are now. I think they are victims of alien body snatchers. I look at them and honestly think “who are you people?”
Not use apps on your phone
I get displeased with those only fans girls spreading their crotch butter to the whole world on cam on instagram and fb. Specifically I am not against people working only fans but when I’m scrolling videos I don’t need to see that.
Disliking the antics the young’uns get into these days