I find myself becoming less tolerant of others. How about you?

[Nova]

Bad waiters and waitresses try my patience. Not near as nice or patient as I used to be. People in the drive thru that take forever to decide what they want. Come on people, Mcdonalds hasnt changed their menu in 25 years. People that place more than one order thru a drive thru. Seriously? cant you call that in. I am a real estate appraiser and go into peoples houses all the time. I dont know your dog and your dog doesnt know me. I know they are nice and all and would never bite. But I have gotten bit three times by dogs that were nice and would never bite. I dont think I ever walk into Lowes or Home Depot and find a worker willing to help me find something, if I can find the worker. I live on a corner in a subdv. I dont want your dogs poop in my yard. And if you pick it up I dont want it in my garbage can.

This is true. For 10 years I've campaigned for them to add McSpaghetti to no avail.

 

[percyhoward]

Over the last couple years I've found myself being less tolerant of others– especially when I'm out & about. I have found myself fighting the urge to say things to others that wouldn't be typical for me.

I think it's age. It must be, because the only thing I'm sure about anymore is that I'm getting older.

 

[jobberone]

It's your reaction to the culture plus aging. There is no purge or pressure of the stupid anymore as we take care of all regardless.

 

[FloridaRob]

People with coupons. I always find the line. I understand people cut coupons. But know what you are gettign when you get in the line and if the coupon works or not. But so many times, I get behind the loaded down shopping cart and the lady has about 10,000 coupons to match every one of her 10,000 items in teh cart. . (that's right, a lady. No man gets in line with 10,000 coupons. he may have one) Then they have to scan the item, see if it qualifies, see if the coupon qualifies and if it doesnt she had to dig through her humongous purse or back pack hoping to find one. And this is repeated for every damn item in the shopping cart. Of course every other line in the store is backed up to the back or not open so I just patiently wait it out. After 30 minutes the lady looks and sees steam coming out my ears. She says something sarcastic about me waiting, and I tell her "I am not mad at you lady, I am mad at me for always finding THIS line."

 

[Reverend Conehead]

In my age, I find myself becoming more tolerant of some things and less tolerant of other things. For example, styles that are supposed to be hip and cool … I often think they're just silly. Sorry, but baggy pants look just plain dumb to me. On the other hand, stuff that would have bothered me in my youth don't bug me at all now. For example, I was a big Judas Priest fan as a teenager. If I had known back then that lead singer Rob Halford was gay, I would have been really upset and would have quit buying their records or going to their concerts. Today, I know he's gay and it doesn't bother me one bit. Nowadays I'm not worried about other people's sexuality. I figure just let people be who they are and don't worry about it.

 

[LocimusPrime]

What I see more than anything else is the total lack of respect for authority. I had to stop by my grandsons high school the other day and witnessed a 15 year girl screaming at a counselor to xXxX off and when another school person tried to intervene, she said the same thing. I could only imagine if I did that in school to my principal. There is no fear for any consequences. My principal would have told me to grab my knees, my coach would have had be grab my knees and my dad would have beat 5he crap out of me when I got home. Kids today have no fear. If any teacher were to get in their face som9eone would post it in the internet as a video and the school would be sued. And these little twits are going to be leading the country in 20 years. God help us.

 

[LocimusPrime]

I'm tired of bad drivers and bad parkers. If there are fifteen spots open, why park right next to me? Why?

 

[Them]

...actually I can tolerate people and things better than in the past....but I do find "Trusting" in people or things somewhat harder...especially in the "Virtual World!"

 

[Section446]

Over the last couple years I've found myself being less tolerant of others– especially when I'm out & about. I have found myself fighting the urge to say things to others that wouldn't be typical for me.

I dunno... Is it old-age? Is it because over the last 15 years I've worked by myself?

I don't like the look. I don't want the urge.


Anyone else experience anything like that?

I have found myself caring less and less about about everyone else's problems. All the stuff in the media, I just try to ignore it.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Every generation as they get older says this type of same thing. You saw the silent generation say the same thing about boomers. WW2 to X. Now we have boomers saying it about millennials.

Kids are always seen as disrespectful and the descent of man is always nigh. That much like luddism and xenophobia that comes with age, I reject with all my being.

 

[Reality]

Every generation as they get older says this type of same thing. You saw the silent generation say the same thing about boomers. WW2 to X. Now we have boomers saying it about millennials.

Kids are always seen as disrespectful and the descent of man is always nigh. That much like luddism and xenophobia that comes with age, I reject with all my being.

You do realize this thread was not directed at kids or millennials, right? The OP even gave an example of a 50ish old man. The purpose of this thread was a genuine attempt to discuss something the OP was assessing about himself that he was not happy with.

You might want to get off your high-horse every so often and stop stereotyping people .. you know .. what you go on and on about other people doing .. and maybe read what people are saying.

If you really want to present yourself as this noble and righteous person you so proudly brag about being, you might want to take the time to listen every so often, rather than just attack, insult, label, rinse and repeat.

This thread was a mature discussion about people growing older and how it affects one's tolerance of society in general, and you wade in spewing hate and insults. Hatred and hatefulness are ugly byproducts of those who think they are better than others, not just those who disagree with them.

As I said earlier in this thread ..

"For me personally, it's the lack of respect and consideration people show for one another these days that bothers me the most. I don't care if people are nice to me as my expectations are lower, but it bothers me when I see people being mean to others, especially when there's no reason for it."

 

[Maximum7]

Most people are jerks. I don't let it bother me.

 

[paladin]

I'm tired of bad drivers and bad parkers. If there are fifteen spots open, why park right next to me? Why?

Sorry
I shouldn't have put that "If you can catch me, you can do me" sticker on your back bumper
My Bad
Regerts

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I find myself less tolerant of many things as I get older.

However on the flip side there are some things I am more tolerant of, or maybe I should say they just don't bother as much as they used to when I was younger.

 

[Reality]

I find myself less tolerant of many things as I get older.

However on the flip side there are some things I am more tolerant of, or maybe I should say they just don't bother as much as they used to when I was younger.

Like Commanders fans?

 

[Nightman]

I heard a quote I try, quite unsuccessfully, to follow

If you run into a jerk in the morning you had a bad breakfast
If you run into another jerk in the afternoon you had a bad lunch
If you run into another jerk at night.....YOU might just be the jerk

 

[LocimusPrime]

Sorry
I shouldn't have put that "If you can catch me, you can do me" sticker on your back bumper
My Bad
Regerts

 

[TheCount]

I'm having the opposite experience.

Still not much patience for BS, but I find it way easier to blow off stuff that's ultimately inconsequential these days.

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

I meet one person a day that I would like nothing better than to curb stomp them and add a little depth to the gene pool. Today i subcontractors tech get permanently black listed from a military base because he felt that since he was a "sovereign citizen" he did not need to show base security his drivers license.

This recalls something that happened years ago at an office type situation where we dealt with the public all day long. At the end of the day, we were all standing around griping about a jackhole of a customer we had dealt with that day. Our boss heard us and said "You are all complaining about the one a-hole you had to deal with, and completely forget about all the other people that came in who were polite, kind and friendly." He had us there.

 

[Rockport]

Over the last couple years I've found myself being less tolerant of others– especially when I'm out & about. I have found myself fighting the urge to say things to others that wouldn't be typical for me.

I dunno... Is it old-age? Is it because over the last 15 years I've worked by myself?

I don't like the look. I don't want the urge.


Anyone else experience anything like that?

Comes with age and wisdom.