Do you think the older you get the more crotchety, cantankerous you get?

Elderly gradually have fewer and fewer relatives and age old friends they grew up with.
Crotchety isn't at all the word. It's mostly more like.

"I am almost all alone and I do not believe your dumb Shit!" ... twtt ... "that's what they think," is probably accurate!
They aren't so far out of it that they say it audibly out loud. But they know it! So they act angry all of the time. a no brainer.
 

I don't look at it as being cranky, or ill-tempered (though I'm sure that's what many think).

As George Carlin famously intoned, "I have a very low tolerance level for stupid bullshit."
 
I would say less likely to put up with peoples nonsense and being more direct when I talk with people. I really don't care what people think and not afraid to express it. I even got a part time job once and wouldn't work OT and didn't care if I got fired. There is certain freedom of telling people to kiss your butt without any consequences. Other than that I am pretty laid back and peaceful.
 
Pain does make a big difference. Yesterday I walked through Kroger instead of using a riding cart and by the time I got done I was limping through the parking lot with my cane. Some woman yelled at me from her truck for "jumping in front of her," so I yelled back that I hadn't jumped anywhere in years. We glared at each other.

Today I took the cart, no pain, plus I managed to get all the way done at the self-check register without getting the dreaded "help is on the way."

I looked up at the 350 pound grizzly bear who is the regular self-check clerk and who usually sighs a lot while fixing my problems.
Me: I got all the way through without having to call you!
Grizzly: Good.
Me: First time ever!
Grizzly: Humph
Me: Don't I get a little prize or something?
Grizzly: (long pause) I'll thank you.
Me: You should be thankful, I didn't lose my temper or try to hit you with my cane.

About this time a young man at another self-check piped up and said something funny I didn't catch. Grizzly said he
was annoying, funny guy said, 'When you say annoying, don't you really mean adorable?"

By then we were all laughing and even Grizzly cracked a smile. Proving if you keep poking the bear you might make him lighten up.

I wouldn't try this in Texas, though.
 
I am aware of humor / sarcastic / tongue in cheek humor.
That seems to loosen me up to.

Spend little time on angry type subjects. Little happiness there.
Basically, few to no one cares anyway!
 
Lately I've been making notes of good insults I've read. Unless I hear some absolute bs, I'm be more inclined to let them stay ignorant.
 
I went through my cantankerous phase. I'm waiting to become crochety but not even sure what that means 😅 Right now I am going through my "I don't give a s#@& phase."

Well, usually I have been a pretty understanding person. In fact almost too much so. If I get dementia who knows what I will behave like!,🙃

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Actually, I think I'm more mellow than I used to be thus easier to get along with. That's probably because I'm much less stressed than when I was younger and recognize that I have so much to be grateful for at my age.
 

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