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Re: OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2025, 10:04:50 AM »
I drove down. 

I’ll use it as another teachable moment. 
You can fly home and let them drive back. I have a lot of good ideas, you know.
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Re: OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2025, 10:09:11 AM »
good luck
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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2025, 10:12:13 AM »
You can fly home and let them drive back. I have a lot of good ideas, you know.

I’ll run your plan by the wife.  I’ll report back. 😂

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« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2025, 10:17:04 AM »
Speaking of driving, a thing I often see is a person on a freeway slowing down well before an exit.  There generally is a bit of a deceleration lane anyway, but the driver slows down without needing to make any kind of real turn.

A fairly common thing here is driver's trying to beat a left turn signal, it goes red, or they rush to turn right on red, and pedestrians are lawfully about to walk into the crosswalk.  I have to really watch for that one.
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« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2025, 10:49:28 AM »
Young people constantly on their cell phones annoy me.  Seems a lot of age demographics are afflicted with this, but young people are hit the hardest.  When I walk around campus the college students are all walking around, isolated, face buried in their phones.  I've seen more than one of them trip as they either approach or step off of a curb.  Does it phase them?  No, they just recover, and go right back to walking with their screen in front of them.  I wonder if I robbed them, would they even notice? 

Life is short.  You should have friends, especially at school.  I usually made a friend or two in whatever class I was in and after a while you know other people are going where you're going at the same time, and we walked the campus having conversations.  I hate all the social isolation I see with phones. 

Doesn't even seem safe to me.  Besides running into things, women are safer to walk in groups rather than alone, and looking around being aware of your surroundings is a deterrent to bad things happening to you. 

It seems a lot of these girls mitigate their risk of being attractive to predators by being in their pajamas 100% of the time.  We used to at least put on jeans and a t-shirt to go out in public, especially to class.  But I guess that's another rant. 

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Re: OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread
« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2025, 10:54:08 AM »
You wrote that on your phone?

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« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2025, 10:59:11 AM »
Cell phones are great for antisocial introverted misanthropes like me. 

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Re: OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread
« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2025, 11:56:11 AM »
Had my eyes dilated, can barely see.  Grump.

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« Reply #22 on: May 20, 2025, 12:00:04 PM »
Had my eyes dilated, can barely see.  Grump.
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Re: OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread
« Reply #23 on: May 20, 2025, 12:02:17 PM »
7.  They dilate your pupils of course and then the doc scans your eyes with a bright as heck Jewish laser ...

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« Reply #24 on: May 20, 2025, 12:13:22 PM »
never noticed that from my eye exams - of course I can't see well to begin with
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Re: OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread
« Reply #25 on: May 20, 2025, 12:18:53 PM »
I had worse than 20-200 vision, couldn't see the big E, even if it was an aircraft carrier.  It's now 20-20, but I can't see up close now, even if it's an aircraft carrier.


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Re: OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread
« Reply #26 on: May 20, 2025, 12:21:27 PM »
7.  They dilate your pupils of course and then the doc scans your eyes with a bright as heck Jewish laser ...

Ugh, that's really annoying, especially if you have to leave out in the bright sunlight.  Nothing to do but shield your eyes, have somebody else guide you along and drive you home, and try not to trip on anything while walking with your eyes covered.  

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Re: OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread
« Reply #27 on: May 20, 2025, 12:22:04 PM »
Young people constantly on their cell phones annoy me.  Seems a lot of age demographics are afflicted with this, but young people are hit the hardest.  When I walk around campus the college students are all walking around, isolated, face buried in their phones.  I've seen more than one of them trip as they either approach or step off of a curb.  Does it phase them?  No, they just recover, and go right back to walking with their screen in front of them.  I wonder if I robbed them, would they even notice? 

Life is short.  You should have friends, especially at school.  I usually made a friend or two in whatever class I was in and after a while you know other people are going where you're going at the same time, and we walked the campus having conversations.  I hate all the social isolation I see with phones. 

Doesn't even seem safe to me.  Besides running into things, women are safer to walk in groups rather than alone, and looking around being aware of your surroundings is a deterrent to bad things happening to you. 

It seems a lot of these girls mitigate their risk of being attractive to predators by being in their pajamas 100% of the time.  We used to at least put on jeans and a t-shirt to go out in public, especially to class.  But I guess that's another rant. 

/old fart rant
First of all, thank you Utee for starting this thread. I have been looking around more than normal lately and thinking to not let myself turn into a grumpy old man lol. And it starts with this thread just above me that MDT POSTED.

everywhere you go all you see is people, and especially children, with their face buried in their phones. To me this is where it’s killing us as a society. Children should be active or playing, and people no longer have the ability to actually talk to each other. This is where the polarization begins and ends 
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