Grumpy Ol' Man
Senior Member
- Location
- Kansas, U.S.
"Crotchety"?? Nah! Non-patronizing... Impatient... Biased... Yes!!! I am known as a very positive person. The Good Lord has blessed my wife and I with excellent health, with three fantastic kids, and eight super grandkids. We have been blessed to live in the very best Country on God's Green Earth and enjoy the freedoms and liberties afforded us here. I try to be upbeat in my conversations.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Try to suggest your opinion overrules mine due to your intelligence, your religious views, your political views, etc. and you will witness my "negative" side. I'm almost 70 years old. We have made some errors in judgment over the years and hope to have learned from them. I will make my OWN decisions, thank you, as to how I live my life. Don't try to tell me what I need to buy, where I need to buy it, what I need to eat, are any other suggestion that I should well be able to figure out myself!!!
One of my best friends is extremely "church oriented". They go to mass 6 days/week. Their son is a priest. He has learned, however, to not attempt to convince me of his religious based political opinions for I will argue back until he is so frustrated he gets mad. It's not that I may disagree with him. It's that I resent being told his "way" is the only way. So, I'll argue just to agitate him!!!
I also get dismayed when folks who have been healthy all their lives retire and begin listening to those who always have something wrong with them. Pretty soon, the healthy one thinks every sneeze is pneumonia... every cough is lung cancer... every ache is diabetes, etc., etc. Again, a good friend was healthy as a horse. Once she retired, she is the doctor's best customer. She thought she had lung cancer. Nope! Well, it's got to be allergies. After dozens more tests... Nope! Still, she now wears a mask everywhere she goes and uses and inhaler and tells everyone she has COPD... even though none of the doctors she has seen know so. She now has to have a totally bland diet. Why? Checked by a doctor for everything from gluten intolerance to acid reflux and nothing found. Still, she will tell everyone she has all kinds of digestive issues. She spends more time at the doctor than she does at home, trying to find something she can "tag" herself with at the morning coffee club.
Hmmm.... maybe I am "crotchety"..............
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Try to suggest your opinion overrules mine due to your intelligence, your religious views, your political views, etc. and you will witness my "negative" side. I'm almost 70 years old. We have made some errors in judgment over the years and hope to have learned from them. I will make my OWN decisions, thank you, as to how I live my life. Don't try to tell me what I need to buy, where I need to buy it, what I need to eat, are any other suggestion that I should well be able to figure out myself!!!
One of my best friends is extremely "church oriented". They go to mass 6 days/week. Their son is a priest. He has learned, however, to not attempt to convince me of his religious based political opinions for I will argue back until he is so frustrated he gets mad. It's not that I may disagree with him. It's that I resent being told his "way" is the only way. So, I'll argue just to agitate him!!!
I also get dismayed when folks who have been healthy all their lives retire and begin listening to those who always have something wrong with them. Pretty soon, the healthy one thinks every sneeze is pneumonia... every cough is lung cancer... every ache is diabetes, etc., etc. Again, a good friend was healthy as a horse. Once she retired, she is the doctor's best customer. She thought she had lung cancer. Nope! Well, it's got to be allergies. After dozens more tests... Nope! Still, she now wears a mask everywhere she goes and uses and inhaler and tells everyone she has COPD... even though none of the doctors she has seen know so. She now has to have a totally bland diet. Why? Checked by a doctor for everything from gluten intolerance to acid reflux and nothing found. Still, she will tell everyone she has all kinds of digestive issues. She spends more time at the doctor than she does at home, trying to find something she can "tag" herself with at the morning coffee club.
Hmmm.... maybe I am "crotchety"..............