" Every clock time a boomer says it , I want to unhorse myself on fire . "
Recently, we discussed themany things young people saythat are, well, just extremely out of touch. And those were pretty shocking. But as it turns out, older people can be equally as insensitive — and people have tons of examples to prove it.
So without further ado, here are some of the most popular stories Reddit users shared in response to the question, “What’s the mostout of touchthing an old person said to you?”
Note : Due to some of these being * really * out of touch , please carry on with caution .
1.“I was homeless a while ago and my great-grandfather found out. He gave me $50 and said to rent a motel for a week. My heart completely broke.”
— Shayducta
2."‘You don’t know what it’s like to lose a parent’ –my father, who lost his mom when he was 61. I was 18 when my mom died."
" Like you were there , motherfucker . "
— AmatuerCultist
" My coworker once told me it was easy for me when my dada become flat when I was 13 , compared to her dada fail when she was in her fifties . "
— MHG73
3."‘Just walk up to her, grab her, and kiss her.’ ‘That’s assault now, grandpa.'"
— Alert - Lawfulness2232
" It was violation back then , too , but charwoman were n’t allowed to have opinions about it . "
— Wrong - Grade-8800
4.“My grandpa had similar advice: ‘Your grandma probably said no to me 20 times before we went on a date. I made sure I was on her porch everyday knocking to she if she had changed her mind!'”
Yeah , pop , I ’m jolly sure I ’m getting catch on day two for that . "
— what_the_shart
5.“An elderly lady once told me, ‘Just walk into a company with your resume, shake the boss’s hand, and you’ll get the job!'”
" Ma’am … they wo n’t even let me past the front desk . 😂 "
— SugarSummerbliss
6.“That my generation is easily offended. I mean, come on, your generation was offended if a Black person drank out of the same water fountain as you.”
— EatPumpkinPie
" We ’re not offended , we ’re angry at the human race you created . "
— Piratesmom
7.“My elderly professor told me I shouldn’t worry about student loans because ‘back in her day’ she paid for college by working summers as a waitress. Yeah, that $80K in debt will definitely be covered by my summer job at Denny’s.”
— Naughty00Nbusty
8.“I was on my honeymoon back in 2009, and this guy sitting next to us on the plane started chatting me up and asked what I do for work. He told me I should go out and start buying houses to flip them or rent them out for extra income.”
" Buddy , I ’m 24 and making $ 40 thousand , how the hell am I conjecture to just buy a house , let alone multiple houses ? "
— csonny2
9.“About a year ago, I was being stalked by an ex-boyfriend. When I told my mom about it, she told me that back in the day his refusal to give up would’ve been seen as endearing. Like, no mom, that’s harassment.”
— noiness420
" read-only storage - com film are part of this . If he keeps trying finally she ’ll say yes and this has been normalize . It ’s just really messed up . "
— eddyathome
10.“In Southern California, my aunt, who heard we still rent, was like, ‘You don’t have to buy a new home. Just get yourself a $200K starter home and fix it up.'”
I was like , ' Starter place that need fixing up in LA start at , like , $ 1.2M. ' "
— Stella_AzureGlow
11."‘Why are you renting? Why don’t you just buy a house?'"
— k00lkat666
12.“Them: ‘Congrats on your $500 scholarship! That should cover one of your two classes this semester!’ Me: ‘I appreciate it! But…that won’t even cover a credit, which is $900. Each class is three credits.'”
" Them : ' Are you serious ! ? ! ? ' * surprised Pikachu look * "
— impromptu_dissection
13.“Had dinner with my grandmother last week, and she genuinely asked why I don’t just marry a doctor to solve my student loan problems.”
— Naughty - Sweetheart
" expect ' til she hear about the doctor ’s student loan . "
— Afraid - Somewhere8304
14.“My grandpa told my dad to tell me not to ever bring my Chinese boyfriend over to his house for holidays, dinners, or anything like that. He said something about my great-uncle (his brother) being a POW in Japan during World War II as his reason for hating Asians.”
" My dad informed him that the boyfriend was Formosan , not Japanese .
He said , ' Same matter . All the Asians came from China ; that ’s where they all follow from to start with . ' "
— will_write_for_tacos
15."‘How bad can rent really be for a nice one-bedroom? Like $800?'"
— Luddite_Literature
16.“When I was a teenager, my parents kept pressuring me to get a summer job. My dad claimed that it was as easy as going door-to-door and applying.”
When I was in grade 11 , my dada mislay his line and find no one want to hire him — in spite of his decades of study experience .
He shut up about that presently afterwards . "
— sheikhyerbouti
17.“I work six days a week, and seven days a week November–Christmas Eve, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and I do overtime. But apparently I don’t work hard enough, and that’s why I can’t afford to buy a home.”
— Fun - Membership-9795
18."‘Just because he cheats, doesn’t mean you should go ruin your entire family over it. Do better and he’ll be better."
" Thanks dad . Glad you ’re deadened . "
— ninjabunnay
19.“My grandma (mid-80s) called me greedy and irresponsible for spending $250K on a house in 2024 (‘affordable’ in my area) when she only spent $10K on her first house and raised 3 children in it. 🙄”
— msbeesechurger
20.“I was a young, single gal when I used to take care of my brother in law’s elderly great aunt, and she apparently figured I could use some adventure and advice. She told me that I should travel the world and see as much of it as I can, but that there was no sense in paying for it because that type of thing can be had for free. How? Her advice was to start a relationship with a married man — the wealthier, the better, she said, because they would go out of their way to make sure that nobody they knew would see them stepping out on their wife with a mistress, which meant TRAVEL.”
" ' That ’s how I got to call the Vatican with Pete the Greek ! ' she show out proudly . plainly , ' Pete ' was a wealthy married guy cable she hooked up with when she was 19 years old , and in their small town , he was a big member of the Greek Russian Orthodox church , so people in township called him ' Pete the Greek . ' "
— Edelweiss827
21."‘At your age, I was already in command of 100 people.'"
" Well , expert on you for taking over the family business . "
— st0pmakings3ns3
22."‘You’ll change your mind,’ about me not wanting kids. Still no desire!"
— AgentJ691
23.“I’m six months pregnant. Prior to getting pregnant, I had some blood pressure issues, so I’m being closely monitored for preeclampsia, but no problems so far. My mom said maybe I shouldn’t be working.”
" Sure , mammy . Are you going to give me thousands of dollars so I can open not to ? I ’m a nurse and she was too , and she quit when she started birth kids , but that was in 1976 and their spread on 300 acres was pay for in cash … "
— HotSauceSwagBag
24."‘If you think a CEO isn’t a good fit for your agency’s culture, it’s your responsibility to tell them that.'"
— subject matter - Strength-275
25.“Our baby had been born with a tongue tie, and nobody could figure out why he was losing so much weight despite frequent attempts to breastfeed him. He couldn’t latch on. By the time we figured it out, my wife’s breast milk was no longer coming in. So it was either formula or lose him. A few weeks later in the checkout line, where we were buying two cans of baby formula, a rando elderly rando man said, ‘Breast milk is best.'”
— flimsy - Rip-3686
26.“My grandma used to ask me if I got a pension every time my job came up in conversation. She could not grasp that pensions basically don’t exist anymore except for unionized positions and the military.”
— Noteworthy - notice
27.““Pull up your bootstraps, stop buying a coffee every day, and save money. You’ll have a house in no time.’ –Boomers, not having the simplest clue that houses aren’t $1,500 anymore, and the cost of living is 3000% higher than when they bought their house.”
— Sarge1387
28.“My grandfather told me I was wasting time learning how to use computers, as they’re hardly used in the workplace.”
— ThatLid
29.“Every time the topic of transgender young people comes up and a boomer says something about how they’re ‘putting litter boxes in schools now because kids are identifying as cats,’ I want to light myself on fire.”
— highly_uncertain
30.“Back in 2016, when I had a Friday off, an older woman in an elevator told me, ‘Maybe if Donald Trump gets elected everyone will have Fridays off!'”
— vaca232
31.“My dad doesn’t believe that there is even one woman out there that works 10 hours a day AND comes back home to take care of their kids. According to him, that’s ‘impossible.'”
— Sure - Setting-8256
32.“To my father in my presence (somewhere in Asia): ‘You let your daughters study abroad? I would never. They’ll just marry foreigners and never come home.'”
— nogardleirie
33."‘If you’re ill, then you’re ill. Work will understand. You can’t go in and teach when you’re ill.'”
" LOL , OK HUN . "
— TopAd7154
34.“I was buying a pregnancy test. She told me she hopes I learned my lesson. Mind you, I was 23, and had been in a relationship for almost two years with the person who is my now-husband of 12 years.”
— Jbrock1233
35.“When I was 22, I was working the cash register at Hallmark. his one old woman I was ringing up was digging in her purse and some loose Tylenol fell onto the counter. She was like, ‘Oh, sorry that happens all the time,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I suffer from chronic migraines and I’m always losing Excedrine in my purse.’ She looked me dead in the eyes and said, ‘Young people don’t get migraines, though.'”
" We just stood there staring at each other for a second , because I was sort of too baffled to respond . I ’ve had them since I was in elementary school — they had to guide a lot of tests of me as a kid — so I was like , what ? ! What satellite do you live on ? ? ? "
— gingergray
36.“They said the ADHD that my grandchild has is something that they will outgrow someday.”
— Proud - Blood3238
37.“This one is mild and more funny, but sometimes when my grandparents tell me a secret or something not everyone should know, they say, ‘Don’t go sharing this on Facebook!'”
" Ma’am , I have n’t post on Facebook the last decade , and I doubt my comeback will be about a removed relative ’s divorcement . "
— daisybih
38.“My step-mom recently asked me why I haven’t paid my mortgage off yet. I’ve owned my house for seven years.”
— cestlahaley
39.“This is kind of mild compared to some…but my grandma used to always be like, ‘Oh, you should date him, he has a car.’ That was her standard if he was an OK level of human to date: if he had a car. It didn’t matter if he was a trash human. Or if he had a job. But if he had a car…woohoo.”
" I always thought that was weird . What her living must have been like growing up that she think that made someone worthy of go out . "
— No - Fishing5325
40."‘I thought you were from a third world country with all that body mutilation!'"
" While I was working and assisting his wife . I have the Kanto Pokémon badges tattooed under my collarbones . LOL . "
— cthulhuuuuuuuu
41.“My old male finance professor in an all-woman’s college told us that if we’re looking into a buying a new house, take a hairdryer out if our purse and plug it in every outlet to make sure they work. We were confused, because…why a hairdryer? Why not a phone charger? And when he noticed our confusion, he said that women always worry about their hair, and that they bring their hairdryers with them everywhere.”
" He said the only things women hold in our purses were makeup and girly stuff . It was … quite baffling . "
— averyshortgirl
42.“My in-laws say this a lot, especially when talking politics: ‘You’ll understand when you’re older.'”
" Motherfucker , we ’re in this mess because of you dunderhead . For being extremely educated , they are sort of dumb . "
— on_the_edgeofbarstow
43."‘If you want health insurance, you just need to get a job.’ Bitch, I work 45 hours a week."
" I ’m a pastry chef . The multi - millionaire , older - money menage who owns the restaurant offer zero benefits of any kind . "
— 69schrutebucks
44.“My dad said going through active shooter drills at schools wasn’t that bad compared to the duck-and-cover drills he went through during the Cold War.”
— HASthisEVERhappened
45.“When I was having problems conceiving, I was constantly told to ‘relax,’ which isn’t a thing. An older friend at work also told me to just take a month-long vacation in Hawaii and I’ll get pregnant in no time. Like, who is that even an option for?!”
– MoreSeaweed6204
46."‘Working in retail is for people who didn’t apply themselves in school and want to do absolutely nothing and get paid for it, so it looks like they are productive members of society. They shouldn’t complain about the wages being so low because they made these choices.'"
" A few age ago client differentiate this to me when we were severely understaffed during a in use cut-rate sale Clarence Day . "
— SeanSweetMuzik
47."‘A young lady like you shouldn’t be drinking black coffee. That’s a man’s drink. You should have something sweet.'"
— wonderlandresident13
48."‘Sorry honey, I don’t believe in global warming’ –my old Boomer coworker during the hottest summer on record."
– Petty_Paw_Printz
49.“I have an ethnic name. An elderly guy asked me what my name was. I told him, and he said, ‘What happened to the normal names, like Sandra or Nancy?'”
– atomickitty11
50."‘The hunting is great on that mountain — plenty of deer up there.’ ‘When is the last time you were up there?’ ‘1956…'"
– KatanaF2190
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notice : Some response have been edited for length and/or clarity .
