Interesting & Happy Morning!

ClassicRockr

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Yesterday morning, I decided to wear my team roping trophy buckle and black felt hat to breakfast. Also, had my Wrangler jeans on and a descent long-sleeve shirt. At the restaurant we went to, a lot of Seniors go to. Well, I was actually a "Hit" at the restaurant, due to my hat. These Seniors were glad to see someone wearing a cowboy hat! "Nice to see a cowboy in town", one Senior man said. Gave them some faith that the "big city" type Millennials and Gen X folks haven't completely taken over the city. One Senior lady looked at me and said "I like the hat!"

Don't bother me being noticed. I was happy about it!

Actually, wearing my hat and that is just one of the reasons we left northeastern Florida and moved back to Colorado. Couldn't wear my hat in Florida, unless we were going to the equestrian center for something. Just certain places in the U.S. you don't want to look like a cowboy...…….like downtown Los Angeles, Chicago, NYC and others.

Wonder how many nice comments my wife will get when she wears her hat to breakfast or wherever.
 

FYI .. We are getting ready for our yearly Livestock and Rodeo Show in Houston, starting March 3rd. .. Trail riders come into town on stage coaches and horse caravans the week before.
Everyone gets out their cowboy gear, and its BBQ cookoff time.
It all lasts a few weeks.
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Even though I didn't do Houston, I know guys that do. Funny thing is, the rodeo cowboys at this rodeo don't "get out their cowboy gear", they wear it all of the time.
Do you go to this rodeo, Bonnie?
 

This thread isn’t about rodeo, it’s about how happy local Seniors were to see someone in a cowboy hat. This means that they are happy to see that the area hasn’t become totally “big city”, like the Millennials and Generation X are trying to do.

Yes, there is a big conflict between the Senios here and a lot of those two Generations. Nothing criminal, but a lot of bad-mouthing towards the groups.
 
This thread isn’t about rodeo, it’s about how happy local Seniors were to see someone in a cowboy hat. This means that they are happy to see that the area hasn’t become totally “big city”, like the Millennials and Generation X are trying to do.

Yes, there is a big conflict between the Senios here and a lot of those two Generations. Nothing criminal, but a lot of bad-mouthing towards the groups.
I'm kinda confused about this Cody. Since moving to Colorado you've sung from the same hymn sheet about Seniors despising the younger generation who've 'moved in''... could it not be that these millenials and generations X's are the products of these very seniors...?.. their adult children . grandchildren?

Do they really want to see their own kids having to move to another city because they can't afford to live where they were born and raised rather than have younger folks in Loveland?..or is it just other peoples' adult kids they don't want moving in? ... Are they saying that they'd prefer it if there was no-one younger there to look after them as they age, carers and doctors, because they happen to be younger?.. are, they living in the hope that all millennials and Gen X's will move out, so the seniors can die aged, uncared for, and the area unkempt because no-one young can live there to maintain it?... and once these retirees die do they leave Loveland a ghost town ?... ...

Doesn't sound like there's a lot of Love in Loveland to me....
 
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This is about the fourth time you've started a thread about your clothes, hat etc. People get tired of the same old thing, over and over.

I even knew, this would be next on your same old list. Next, it will be tattoos and piercings. Cody, maybe get off the stage for awhile, or perhaps have a memory test done?

So what if you wear a cowboy hat? Who really cares?
 
This is about the fourth time you've started a thread about your clothes, hat etc. People get tired of the same old thing, over and over.

I even knew, this would be next on your same old list. Next, it will be tattoos and piercings. Cody, maybe get off the stage for awhile, or perhaps have a memory test done?

So what if you wear a cowboy hat? Who really cares?

Yesterday, the Seniors definitely cared here! They loved seeing someone in a cowboy hat!! And, yes, the 5 tattoo/piercing parlors are one of the major problems of the Seniors that live here. The Seniors here can't do anything about the "progress" of this city, they just don't care for the type of "progress" that has happened.

RadishRose, cowboy hats and western clothes may not be a big deal to you, but you aren't from an area that was most farms and ranching before. The Seniors here miss them old days and they will tell anyone just that.
 
Holly, all the Seniors we have talked to just tell us how the Millennials and Gen X have ruined their nice, "family oriented" city. They see no need for tattoo/piercing parlors, smoke shops and massage parlors...…….of all in this city. All of the Seniors we have talked to, wouldn't even think of going to the other end of this city to where Best Buy, Macy's, a big theater, Ultra Beauty Supply and a whole lot of upper-scale restaurants are. And, those Seniors know that there will be many, many more Millennials and Gen X folks moving in, due to all of the new apartments being built at the end where Macy's and other "big box" stores are.

The Millennials and Gen X folks here are always, and I do mean always, complaining about the Senior drivers here. "They drive to damn slow", one Millennial told local newspaper in an article about the city. "We need to close the city to all of these Baby Boomers and earlier thinking about moving here and make the ones that are here, sell their houses and move out" another Millennial stated to the newspaper.

So, yes there is a problem.
 
Ok, what long-time residential Seniors here are seeing is, the "cowboy" thing disappearing and a Los Angeles and/or Denver thing happening....…….exactly what they don't want to see happen.

Not to be off topic, but a Senior, that was a member of the church we attended in Jacksonville, Florida, wanted the Praise Band to lower the sound of their speakers. She requested this at Bible Study when we were in there. The teacher told her, "this church doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the young folks that attend. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. You can either put up with it or find another church to attend."
The same Senior also complained about the yearly budget that called for the Senior Pastor to receive 1 million dollars a year as salary. She told wife and I, when we stopped by her house, "that's outrageous for a salary". Unfortunately for her, the budget did pass.
 
I don't want anyone here to get me wrong, the city we live in is nice, it's just that there are some-to-many Millennials and Gen X folks that have a hard time understanding and getting along with Baby Boomers and earlier age. The Millennials and Gen X want to say "this is our town now" and the Baby Boomers say back, "Not totally. We live here as well and you must understand how we feel about what's happened here. Many of us drive the speed limit and you call us fools for that. You folks want to drive 10 to15 mph over and we just won't do that. There are other changes to this city that you folks like that we don't and wasn't here before."
 
Yesterday morning, I decided to wear my team roping trophy buckle and black felt hat to breakfast. Also, had my Wrangler jeans on and a descent long-sleeve shirt. At the restaurant we went to, a lot of Seniors go to. Well, I was actually a "Hit" at the restaurant, due to my hat.

Don't bother me being noticed. I was happy about it!

Wonder how many nice comments my wife will get when she wears her hat to breakfast or wherever.
If that’s all it takes for an ‘interesting and happy morning’, CR, I better reassess my wardrobe !
 
Holly, all the Seniors we have talked to just tell us how the Millennials and Gen X have ruined their nice, "family oriented" city. They see no need for tattoo/piercing parlors, smoke shops and massage parlors...…….of all in this city. All of the Seniors we have talked to, wouldn't even think of going to the other end of this city to where Best Buy, Macy's, a big theater, Ultra Beauty Supply and a whole lot of upper-scale restaurants are. And, those Seniors know that there will be many, many more Millennials and Gen X folks moving in, due to all of the new apartments being built at the end where Macy's and other "big box" stores are.

The Millennials and Gen X folks here are always, and I do mean always, complaining about the Senior drivers here. "They drive to damn slow", one Millennial told local newspaper in an article about the city. "We need to close the city to all of these Baby Boomers and earlier thinking about moving here and make the ones that are here, sell their houses and move out" another Millennial stated to the newspaper.

So, yes there is a problem.
I know what you're trying to say Cody, but this happens everywhere...all our towns and cities change over time, the young move in, and want change, those from the cities move into the countryside and want to change everything.. it happens, it's annoying at times, but we have to go with change or everything would remain staid..

That's not to say long time residents shouldn't feel hurt or annoyed if parts of their city or town is being destroyed with negative aspects... that would probably annoy most of us, ..but tell your friends that they should be thankful their town is thriving, that new stores, albeit tattoo parlours, massage parlours big box stores, etc... are opening, because today in 2020 around the western world we're losing the ''high street' to the internet, and here in parts of the uk at least it's very noticeable.. I just wonder how long it will be before there's nothing but houses and apartments with no stores, no restaurants, and everyone sitting at home with only internet friends simply because no-one wanted anything new in their town... just a thought
 
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sheesh....the town I moved to has the opposite problem, they are desperate to keep the younger crowd from moving out as the population was dwindling since the young folks do not want to stay, they want to head to the bigger cities nearby.

So the council is brainstorming to come up with new ideas to keep the young folks here such as new casino, a new store that caters to young and old alike as it features chefs walking around to offer advice, food from around the world, wifi bistro etc......I must still be young at heart, I love it.

And they still have Ontario's largest senior centre here with upwards of 1500 members, so there is something for everyone here.
 
Sorry, but the Seniors we've talked to, just don't like what they've seen happen. I figure I wouldn't have got the nice compliments from Seniors I did, about wearing a cowboy hat, if more folks here wore them.

Wife and I talked to a Brand Inspector at local livestock auction and he told us "when I retire in another year, I'm out of here. I can see what's happened to the area and I don't like it either."

Thing is, some like "progress" more than others and there are even those that don't like seeing "progress" at all. Young folks who like-to-love tattoos, body piercings, numerous upper-scale restaurants and big-box stores, would love it here. None of those things are at the end of town we live in...…….yet. It's like two different cities here. One end, pretty much "old fashion" and the other, pretty much wild.
 
Dylan sang it best:

"Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'"

Change is inevitable. Parroting the same old stuff, ad infinitum, gets old, very, very old........
 
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Sorry, but the Seniors we've talked to, just don't like what they've seen happen. I figure I wouldn't have got the nice compliments from Seniors I did, about wearing a cowboy hat, if more folks here wore them.

Wife and I talked to a Brand Inspector at local livestock auction and he told us "when I retire in another year, I'm out of here. I can see what's happened to the area and I don't like it either."

Thing is, some like "progress" more than others and there are even those that don't like seeing "progress" at all. Young folks who like-to-love tattoos, body piercings, numerous upper-scale restaurants and big-box stores, would love it here. None of those things are at the end of town we live in...…….yet. It's like two different cities here. One end, pretty much "old fashion" and the other, pretty much wild.
Just be glad you have a choice....some people have to live in towns and cities where everything is awful ...
 

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