This alert may sound more like a rant – OK, it is more like a rant – but it is an alert, too, because what I’m about to share is really annoying behavior that is either exhibited far too often by my fellow Boomers (so we’re setting a poor example), or impacts us more than younger generations.
Here is my list of the top 5 most annoying things people do:
Here is my list of the top 5 most annoying things people do:
- Drivers in the left lane going 40 mph in a 55 zone...while chatting away on their cell phone... you know, if you want to save all your catching up with the out of town family for when you’re driving, why do you plop yourself in the left lane – formerly known as “the passing lane”… I find that plenty of fellow Boomers are guilty of this, and, yes, I expect us to demonstrate safe driving habits by example as the older and supposedly wiser folks out on the road. Hey, I guess I’ll count blessings…at least they’re not texting…
- Speaking of lanes…People in the express lane of the supermarket with a cart full of groceries that don’t even come close to 15 items or less…..oh, and how about the ones, mostly Boomer ladies, who insist on writing a check….may I introduce you to a nifty new invention called “the debit card” – comes right out of your account like a check!
- Boomer celebrities who use their notoriety to harm rather than help: case in point, Chef Paula Deen, who, rather than change her unhealthy diet now that she’s been diagnosed with diabetes (sorry, Paula…eliminating just sweet tea isn’t gonna do it as you continue to eat tubs of butter and deep fry everything); she will instead pop a diabetes pill, plus get a lucrative spokesperson contract while she’s at it…This is not the example we need to be setting, for each other or our children…
- Professionals who print the contact information on their business cards in such a small font one would need to carry around a microscope to read it
- And the number one most annoying thing is summed up in one small phrase: the medical profession; really important to us as we care for our elderly parents, and as we age and need increasing amounts of medical care; from doctors’ very poor listening skills, and ever decreasing patient care via less office hours and use of a new form of reduced care called “hospitalists” which means doctors don’t do their own hospital admitting, forcing patients to “admit themselves” through the ER, to staff making you repeat yourself from one person to the next when you call with a question for the doctor...
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