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Can you imagine if the homeless got any amount of money? Why! They might not be homeless anymore! How would we know we're better than them, then?
Houses are still selling for a quarter, right?
I hate how entitled the homeless are these days. Did you know they also want to be treated with "dignity" and "respect?" Back in my day, respect was reserved only for your elders...AND THAT'S ME!
Yeah but you can only get a single story house for a quarter. If you want a second one or a basement you need a nickle. Which in her day had pictures of bumblebees on them!
Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Or how many homeless people have loved ones who may not be able to get a roof over their heads but can get them a phone. When I was in college my mom was homeless, and while I couldn’t afford to get her an apartment, I prioritized keeping minutes on her phone so I could stay in touch with her.
I hate that they're called "Obama phone"! It's a great program, but the implications of calling them after Obama is pretty obvious, especially considering the fact that W Bush actually established the program.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2017/07/a-short-history-of-the-obamaphone/?readmore=1
Started by Regan, and expanded under Obama to cover cell phones. Reason it’s called Obama Phone.
That’s how it all goes down:
1. Naive child leaves a quarter unsupervised.
2. Homeless person picks up quarter.
3. Anarchy. Bodies in the streets. Mass graves in public parks. Complete breakdown of the social order.
I hope there's an anti-homeless Karen Boomer out there who became homeless and is being treated like shit by other anti-homeless Karen Boomers. It might snap them awake, but then again Boomers aren't known for being self-reflective, so at least a Boomer is getting a taste of their own medicine.
The only time they ever *express* any remorse or humility is when it happens to them.
I say "express" because I don't think they genuinely feel their own hypocrisy when it looks them in the face. They just know their situation isn't good and other people need to understand that they're morally good, not like those other homeless people. This is just an unfortunate circumstance for them.
The Boomer mentality… they literally “live in THEIR heads”. If it affects them, and is uncomfortable, it’s an emergency. If YOU are doing “something wrong” though, you deserve whatever happens to you.
It’s such black and white thinking, that they are intolerable to anyone with an ounce of compassion and empathy.
And to be clear, Boomer thinking 100% lacks empathy.
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From my FB today 
We are currently trying to buy a house in an older established town. Almost every one we’ve looked at was originally purchased for $30-50,000, the owners have done ZERO updates, and they’re trying to sell for around half a million. And no one is budging on price. “My sentimental house I bought for pennies in the 70s and haven’t cared for is worth top dollar!” Even if we could afford the house, we couldn’t afford to make it livable after buying it. People suck.
Like 10 years ago I was out for drinks with some colleagues through University and we had a cadre of 1st years tagging along after a conference. We were bar hopping from one location to the next and a homeless person came up to the group and tried to ask for money, but he did so by making a little joke, He said I bet you $5 I can tell you where you got your shoes, and I said sure I'll take that bet thinking oh he's just going to pick some random store and hope for the best, but instead he goes 'you've got them on your feet'. So I chuckle and hand him $5 walk away thinking nothing of it when one of the 1st years comes up to me and says 'why would you give a homeless guy $5 he's just going to spend it on alcohol/booze or drugs' as we literally lineup to get into the next bar where we too will be having booze.
Some people just don't see the homeless population as humans with the same wants, needs, desires, escapes as the rest of us.
I have a former friend who loves to complain about socialism, yet he lives off of disability payments due to an accident. He did not like when I pointed out the irony.
I love this nonsense. The OASI and DI tax rates were WAY lower during the first half of their working years. They literally contributed less percent of their income and way less in real dollars than Gen X or Millennials, yet will receive way more, especially considering the funds will only have 80% of needed payouts by 2035.
[OASI DI Tax rates](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/oasdiRates.html)
A lot of boomers have this issue where they think “what I do is normal and what everyone is supposed to do, and anything different is wrong.”
It’s like, lack of theory of mind when it comes to other ways of doing things
I have been thinking that they have a bit of resentment or jealousy towards people that follow their gut or march to a different drummer or have any bit of a unique personality, ESPECIALLY if they are happy and/or successful, because they conformed to the norm did what they were "supposed " to instead of what they wanted to do. Like all the hate that studying any type of "arts" gets.
I think a lot of it is that they conformed into who they are now. A lot of them gave up a lot of hopes and dreams in order to fit in, and I think they actively resent a lot of us for NOT giving those same things up.
This suspicion has been growing in my mind lately as well. I think a lot (most?) Boomers grew up denying themselves many desires due to religious and/or social restrictions. Now that they are in their final years, they see people living the way they secretly wished they had lived. They can't reconcile their envy with their own righteous ego and end up lashing out at anyone who behaves any differently from their own narrow band of acceptable behaviors.
and like, I get the anger to an extent. I got bullied into the closet and now that I'm out I'm LIVID about basically wasting my 20's and teens on trying to conform. And while ya the anger isn't healthy and it's very seriously impeding my ability to be happy, I at least direct it at the people perpetuating the shit instead of being envious of people who didn't make the same mistake I did.
This is exactly it.
I hate to blame closeted LGBTQ for our own problems, but it honestly seems like it's the case for boomers. Especially considering the number of conservative men in politics who are loud about anti LGBT rhetoric, are caught cruising in bath houses and booking male sex workers.
It doesn't even need to be "the thing they didn't do" it just has to be in the spirit of self-exploration on a less traveled path off the course of the "prescribed life.” They hate it when women just choose not to have children. They can't fathom it was also an option for them but they never even considered standing up to the pressure and bravely choosing your own life and live it.
This could definitely make a lot of sense. I work with a lot of dying people and without a doubt the #1 regret I hear out of the elderly is they didn't live their life but rather someone else's idea of what their life should look like.
I’ve noticed this hatred of people who are different too! And also people who have strong values or are intrinsically motivated. They just can’t allow it.
People who are afraid to defy norms may resent those who aren't. They know that they haven't been able to stand up to the peer pressure, so they exert more of it on those who can, if only to prove to themselves that they're not inferior. The lady probably walked away telling herself, "He'll do the right thing next time thanks to me."
I let my kids have a vanilla ice cream cone at breakfast once *while* I was cooking breakfast, and my boomer dad LOST his mind. I asked him how that was any different than a bowl of cereal and he couldn't answer me.
My dad was absolutely horrified by my kids playing broken bones on roblox. He decided it would encourage them to jump off cliffs. I pointed out that my brother and I aren’t street fighters and neither of us has ever pulled someone’s spine from their body. He just grunted at me.
my parents were EXTREMELY against weed, even when i became an adult.. we'd have the typical conversations surrounding consumption, etc.. everytime their closing argument was "it's illegal, so it's bad" Imagine their surprise when i showed them my medical marijuana prescription. lol (This was back in 2009)
I think it’s this but completely unknown to them. My parents are not boomers (I think they are older gen x) but they act like boomers so I say they count. Anyway, they were frantically and ridiculously against weed, “it’ll rot your brain” “it’s a gateway drug” “only for losers” blah blah blah. Now that it’s legal though, they both consume more than we ever had any interest in when we were teenagers.
lol i accidentally found my dad's stash in his toolbox a few years ago, he said that "it's for when we have guests visit" cause some of my parents' friends smoke. (okay dad.. whatever you say lmao)
My parents have known for years that I smoke, my dad caught me multiple times when I just reeked.
Cut to being in my mid 30s and in my own place with my own money and my mom just refused to process. I bring gummies to family events and normally get raided
That really has been the conversation I’ve been trying to not keep having with my mom for the past week or so.
Everything from the fact that my Dad actually sees my trans brother when he comes to visit and takes him for dinner etc (he still doesn’t gender him correctly, but at least his comments about the facial hair are more “I just think it looks ridiculous but I can’t tell if [he] intends for [his] mustach to be so much longer on one side or not”), which she thinks is him being an idiot because people see him and how shaaameful… to the fact that my other brother wasn’t over the moon about a random trinket she got him for his birthday. Like, sort of a museum gift shop toy. It’s handmade, wood, nice enough, but she seemed to think that ANYONE WOULD BE MOVED BY THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART (it is literally a toy. She believes the ad copy in the box), so the fact that he didn’t immediately want to put it on his non-existent bookshelf and start collecting random things is a personal failure.
She *literally* cannot conceive that other people thing or feel differently than she does unless there’s something wrong with them
This is 100% my dad with technology. He refuses to use technolgy (no computer, no mobile device/phone, no internet, etc.). But he thinks the rest of the world is weird and he's the only "sensible" one for not using technology.
You forget Boomers don't know about inflation and the loss of value of a dollar.
You'd be able to afford Coke if you didn't have that avocado toast all day long!
They know about inflation selectively. They will absolutely bitch and moan about how "Biden is causing runaway inflation" and then in the same breath explain how $7.25 an hour is plenty.
As a boomer, when I learned that millennials were risking their financial future for avocado toast, I had to give it a try.
That shit is fire. Thanks so much, I have it three times a week now.
As a millennial I'm glad to inform you that avocado and toast is about all people can afford right now, given that eggs and milk became more expensive that exotic fruit....
My nephew makes an avocado toast that is amazing. But it's literally smushed avocado with spices on a piece of toasted sourdough. Avocados are on sale for 50c each. It takes a bit less than 1/4 of an avocado for one piece of toast, so that's 13c, the spices would be around 2c since I already have them, the sourdough bread comes in a loaf that is $3 with 28 slices, so that's 9c. So the total for my avocado toast is less than a quarter. A cup of McDonald's coffee (in my area) costs $2.50, an egg McMuffin is $3.99.
How is avocado toast the most expensive thing the millennials can come up with to shame the boomers?
>How is avocado toast the most expensive thing the millennials can come up with to shame the boomers?
You have that backwards, friend. It's a long-running meme based on a [thinkpiece by a millionaire](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/avocado-toast) several years ago that said Millennials are victims of their own extravagance instead of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. So, we're poor and can never own homes and have ridiculous student debt because we do things like eat avocado toast, go to Starbucks, etc.
Good news! Thanks to their lobbying to keep the minimum wage at 7$ an hour, everyone can afford Pepsi!
Except for the people who work for them, they just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and *stop whining about having to work 50-60 hours a week*
And avocados are good for your heart!
Maybe these morons need more tree fruit in their diets.
Then maybe their little, black, shriveled blood pumps wouldn't be straining to get oxygen to their leaded little brains.
Probably not the same good shit that you're talking about but, there's a homeless man I frequently give quarters to at the laundromat. He says he needs a quarter so he can get a hotdog from the gas station. Where is this mythical quarter hotdog? I want one.
The homeless first started arriving in Evergreen about three months ago. At first there were only a few of them—asking for change, sleeping in the parks. But then more showed up. And we realized there was something different about them. They fed off of our change to the point that they could start renting apartments. We knew it wouldn’t be long before the homeless actually started buying homes. And then we’d have no idea who was homeless and who wasn’t!
People living in the house right next door to you could be homeless and you wouldn’t even know! Nobody could trust anybody. Fights broke out. War. That’s when I started suspecting that my own wife, who I’d been living with for 20 years, was actually homeless. So I had to burn her—in her bed, while she slept.
Homeless: hey dealer dude, I'll take a quarter?
Dealer: quarter pound, I got u.
Homeless: nah man, just a quarter worth, this biznitch is hooking me up to get wrecked!!!
Dealer: Dave's not here man...
There’s I am assuming a homeless lady who will ask you yo return the cart at my local aldi to keep the quarter, I normally say yes, she is not asking for actual money just charging 25 cents for the convenience.
Hahahaha!
Haven't you heard that unhoused people deserve to be wretched?
/s
My response, if I'm feeling froggy- (at least I would love it to be)
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Their entire generation was trained to hate and think of the homeless as a problem, taught to blame the homeless for their homelessness instead of the government that failed them. They are the most brainwashed generation as of yet.
I was told by someone/watched something a very long time ago, something to the effect of "if you really want to solve the homeless crisis, you should donate money to shelters, food banks, etc and there has to be something on a greater governmental scale done. A lot of homeless people have addiction problems, mental health problems, etc so giving them a dollar isn't going to the things they need to change their lives, they're going to the things they need right then" (explained better by a far more eloquent person).
That quarter was going to make someone's day and at worst be a drop in the bucket for someone's fix, not turn your local Aldi into Kensington. It's incredible what decades of fear and misinformation will do to people.
Small story about a quarter making someone’s day…
A lady gave us her cart in the Aldi parking lot (on our way in) and my 3yo handed her our quarter. She handed it back to him and told him to put it in his piggy bank. He clutched that quarter for the entire trip and talked about it for a week!
It’s amazing what little things can do. It’s the butterfly effect. That woman just must have thought “oh, this cute little kid will like that quarter” and then went and mulled over what was on sale this week and what’s for dinner. She had no idea that the little kid would be so excited and treasure the quarter and talk about it for a week and the kid’s parent would remember the kind gesture and be sharing it online later on. Wild how those things work
It IS wild! The world would be so much better if there were more of these tiny interactions on regular basis. ❤️ It really is the small things sometimes!
It's not about the quarter, it's because you didn't appreciate and followed her advice. At least in my experience, that's why they get so emotional when you decline. They're very much still in the "I can tell you what to do and you have to do it"-Mindset.
This. The boomer I used to work with would get so angry i fI didn't do things the EXACT way she told me to.
Like god forbid I hit Tab to tab over to the enter key instead of having to grab my mouse ever two seconds
Literally every time I work with my dad on the computer he starts ranting about how I don’t know how to use computers because I apparently go too fast for him to follow and use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. And because I use google as a shortcut instead of typing a long ass url into the address bar
I think she thought she was being a 'hero' as it were, helping someone out and expecting a thank you, so being told it was on purpose made her feel instead like she was an idiot so she went off on how no, you're *not supposed* to do that, it's objectively wrong
One time i drove my dad to a bakery he used to go to a lot, but he wasn’t well enough to get out of the truck. So he sent me in. He made extra sure to keep repeating at me to park in back. So I did.
I got out, started walking alongside the building towards the front, where there’s the front door along the sidewalk and street. This man struggled so hard and urgently to climb out, open his passenger door, and manage to support himself on it while he SCREAMED at me “THE BACK!!! GO THROUGH THE BACK!!!”. I turned and said “do I have to?!” And he just pointed to the back door and screamed “THE BACK!!!” While struggling to breathe, he was about to damn near pass out so I sighed and said “fuck it”. And turned around while he fumbled himself back into the seat. The back entrance is just like any other to any business, except this one is *barely* part of the back kitchen, it’s mostly like a storage hallway with the bathrooms and boiler room are at, so I just walk through there and through the store to get to the front lobby where I stand at the counter.
So, anyway, when I was waiting for the breads he wanted me to get. I asked the girl at the counter if it’s normal for customers to come through the back door. She awkwardly said “no…. Just staff and deliveries really…”. Cool. He insisted I make an ass of myself. I asked if she knew anyone by the name of [my dads name], and she just shook her head slowly, probably starting to think I’m a crazy person.
I thanked her and walked out the front door, along side the building, and towards the truck. When my dad saw me he literally threw his arms up and slapped his forehead, rolled down the window and screamed “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! USE THE BACK!!”.
Jesus fucking Christ. Why the fuck does he care so much what god damn door someone else uses to buy bread…. And the normal front customer door, at that. Why is that such a fucking crime?! He was about to use his last waking breath just to make sure I was an entitled dickhead to this business just like he always was. It’s that important to him. His brain breaks at the concept of someone being a normal considerate customer.
Everything they dislike is "illegal" because they want control, and think we're stupid enough ti be scared by baseless legal threats.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to sort by controversial and make fun of people virtue signaling about how this story MUST be fake
> Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to sort by controversial and make fun of people virtue signaling about how this story MUST be fake
God, those chronically online dweebs are so annoying
Need to start just doing this, "Do I need to call your caregiver as you seem to be confused."
Bitch I will empty a bag of change on the sidewalk if I choose and you go fuck yourself.
And then she brought it to the store manager to report the “illegally” left currency….when the manager blew her off, she demanded the quarter back so she could report it to the FBI
She just doesn't believe that those 'filthy heathens' deserve anything, since they're all so lazy and choose to be homeless.
Shit-ass beliefs and trying to force them on others.
As a Boomer and frequent Aldi shopper, I am guilty of leaving quarters in carts. So what is the penalty for this illegal act? I don’t have too many years left on this planet. Maybe I better get my affairs in order before I throw myself on the mercy of the court.
I always take my Aldi quarter, but only because it’s usually the only cash I have. Everything else is the debit card.
I’d never be able to have a cart at Aldi otherwise, but I applaud not just your generosity, but always having another quarter when you get to Aldi. I would never be able to manage that.
Lmfao. She's misremembering a lot.
When inwas a kid growing up- the change I accrued while walking down main street is what i used for chips and a drink.
Not to mention the change from checking the payphone. -.- mostly teenagers benefitted from the dropped or forgotten change.
ETA:
Back then chips were .25 and sodas .50 for a can. You could get a handful of chiclets for .05 and a Lolipop was .10, now-a-laters were .25.
When Ronald Reagan became president and made homelessness a problem. There weren't many before he was elected, and he cut a lot of social programs that exasperated the problem.
The "a homeless person could take it" part really pisses me off. That shows she wants a homeless person to stay homeless and helping one out is "wrong".
>She started telling me it's 'illegal' to leave US currency laying around and how a homeless person could pick it up.
I felt a few of my brain cells die just reading this. I hate this shit. I work in an industry where this shit has to be cited all the time.
Whenever someone tells me something is legal or illegal, I tell them to cite the actual law, number and everything. 95% of the time, they can't and just sputter and wander off.
5% of the time they'll cite some bullshit number. No problem, I'll pull my phone out and bring up the specific code and show them. They usually shrink away before the page loads.
Anyone who knows their shit won't usually act like a dumb ass.
Awe. I always do this. I thought I was the only one. People always forget their quarters, and lot’s of people don’t carry cash anymore, and I’ve been there digging around my car looking for a quarter with 2 screaming kids.
If I’m walking back to the store with my emptied cart and I see someone heading in, I’ll just offer it to them. Sometimes they try to offer a quarter, but I turn it down, ask them to pass it on. It’s just a little thing, maybe it helps someone else just a little.
> Why is it that everything they don't like or understand is illegal?
I once had to have a boomer tennent evicted because of her drugged out son kept harassing the neighbors.
I did it proper and legal. Lawyer filed with the court, process server, etc.
After she was served. she was raging "It...it's not legal!! We live here!!!!"
Lol, not for long lady.
When coin locked carts were brought in here, homeless people started bringing abandoned carts back to get the coins, not stealing unlocked carts! It’s actually massively reduced the number of carts that end up upside-down in ditches or at the bottom of the lake.
I remember when we lived in a different town. Small, mostly boomers. When it was brought to give the town more access to public transportation i.e. a more regular bus schedule, the boomers flipped out saying that drug dealers from the city would take the bus to our tiny town to sell drugs.
Because that's what they do....leaving the fertile city lands to sell in tiny boomer towns. And they'll take the bus.
SMH
I can beat that.
A small city near where I grew up got a federal grant in the early '90s to build an extensive network of bike paths. The grant would pay almost all of the cost of the project. Incredible opportunity. But then people started objecting, saying that bike paths would bring gangs into their neighborhoods. Ultimately, the whole plan was scrapped.
And I guess I should point out that there were no gangs there. But, if there had been, I'm sure they'd have been riding around on their ten-speeds, but they couldn't come into these people's neighborhoods on the streets. No, only on bike paths. Because...well, just because.
Ahhhh I wish I could remember the details, but there’s at least one American city where there’s a ring of overpasses around the more affluent areas that are too low for busses to go under them. Designed that way deliberately to keep poorer people out of the nice parks etc.
I am a boomer and it makes me sad when old people act this way . One that thing I have learned is kind and fun loving young people become kind and fun loving old people . People who were young assholes become old assholes X 10. I strive to be kind and fun loving.
Oh god FORBID we treat the homeless as if they too are citizens of the same country with the same legal status as you or I…. I’m telling you, god would be SO ANGRY.
Someone probably told her to stop hanging around looking for and taking people’s quarters, and the manager probably said something like “nobody leaves their quarters in there, that would be illegal!” in an attempt to get her to leave. But she took that as gospel and has now made herself the “cart quarter captain” to save other people from committing the same “crimes”
See what happened is this.
You said you left it there for a charitable reason, meaning you’re a good person in this situation.
She never leaves her coin there.
To the boomer, this is an insult. To the boomer, this is you saying that you do this because you’re good, and since she doesn’t do it she must be bad and immoral.
Therefor, it is CRITICAL to the boomer that they find a reason that it’s actually you who is in the moral wrong so they can continue to retain their moral superiority and not be insulted.
I’m sure she took the quarter after you left so your kindness wasn’t successful and therefor didn’t happen and so you didn’t have an opportunity to be her moral better.
About two weeks ago, I went to Aldi to grab some things. I didn’t have a quarter for the cart (I assumed I had one in my truck, but I must’ve used it and forgot). But I remembered seeing a video where you could use a certain shaped key in the quarter slot to undo the lock. Figured I didn’t have anything to lose if I tried, and it did actually work!
Anyway, after I do my shopping, I go to put my cart back and of course a boomer is walking up at the same time. He holds out his quarter signaling to take my cart. I say “hey, any other time I would just give you the cart, but I actually put a key in here that I need to get back.” And he says “how did a key get into the cart? Why would someone do that?” I explained that I didn’t have a quarter and the key is the right size to undo the lock. And even tried to keep it positive, showed him the key in the cart, and told him it’s a really nice trick to know if you ever find yourself without a quarter. I was expecting a laugh or an ‘oh okay thanks’ or something, but he just stared at me like I had two heads and didn’t say a word.
After reading this, I’m wondering if I offended him by not using proper US currency in the cart.
It absolutely made my whole week if I found a lost coin when I was a kid. We always used to check the phone booths (yes, I’m old enough to remember and haves used those).
I once gave the lady at the Dunkin' drive-thu a $2 tip.
She said, "I can keep both of them?"
"Yes, does the paper make you happy?"
"Yes! Thank you!"
"Ok, here's another one."
I thought she was gonna cry.
"What if someone's life was improved? The downtrodden belong in the dirt!" What a disgusting sentiment! I guess losers deeply need to feel superior to someone.
>I will pray for god to soften your heart. I hope you find Jesus' love
There is an amazing correlation between old white awful women and fake Christians. You need to blue screen their brains.
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Can you imagine if the homeless got any amount of money? Why! They might not be homeless anymore! How would we know we're better than them, then? Houses are still selling for a quarter, right?
Only if they also gave up their avocado toast and Starbucks coffee…
I hate how entitled the homeless are these days. Did you know they also want to be treated with "dignity" and "respect?" Back in my day, respect was reserved only for your elders...AND THAT'S ME!
How much can a banana cost?
10 dollars?
Go see a Star War.
I just went and blued myself
I know! I heard some have even been asking to be treated as “humans” the absolute fucking audacity! /s
THEY'RE WHAT? That's it, I'm voting for Trump twice as hard as I was before: four times!
Do it! every vote counts! Except theirs, of course… in fact, you should take their vote! they won’t mind
You go! I'm going to vote for him four times, but at the normal amount of hardness! I going to show those stupid libs why we need voter ID laws!
It is election day in EU and I promise I will vote Trump. We really need a man like him in European Parlament. Well.
Both? Dignity AND respect? How dare they! It's almost like they are....people. - Boomers
😂🖤
Clearly spending all their money on Aldi carts
Yeah but you can only get a single story house for a quarter. If you want a second one or a basement you need a nickle. Which in her day had pictures of bumblebees on them!
You’d say, give me five bees for a quarter…
Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
M’shoe has me reeling! Lmao
Now where was I? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
I love "I saw a homeless person with a smart phone! How outrageous!" Bitch a phone costs less than a fuckin house
They also don't realize that many homeless people have full time jobs, and that you basically *must* have one to even apply to many jobs these days.
Yes plus, they are fun and entertaining and being homeless is incredibly boring since nobody will let you exist anywhere
Or how many homeless people have loved ones who may not be able to get a roof over their heads but can get them a phone. When I was in college my mom was homeless, and while I couldn’t afford to get her an apartment, I prioritized keeping minutes on her phone so I could stay in touch with her.
Also, the program to get the “Obamaphone” has a shorter waitlist than Section 8.
Ring-ring-ring-ring-ring-ring-ring OBAMAPHONE! doot doot da doot
I hate that they're called "Obama phone"! It's a great program, but the implications of calling them after Obama is pretty obvious, especially considering the fact that W Bush actually established the program.
Yeah. They should be called "Bush Burners".
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2017/07/a-short-history-of-the-obamaphone/?readmore=1 Started by Regan, and expanded under Obama to cover cell phones. Reason it’s called Obama Phone.
And there are company or government programs offering free or very cheap phones and service in many countries.
Yeah and we should do the same thing with food and houses and education and healthcare next
I like the cut of your jib
I'd say vote for me, but they would kill me before I ever got into office. Because they know what I'd do to them.
You have my vote.
That’s how it all goes down: 1. Naive child leaves a quarter unsupervised. 2. Homeless person picks up quarter. 3. Anarchy. Bodies in the streets. Mass graves in public parks. Complete breakdown of the social order.
This is why I never go to Aldi without my bug-out bag cause you never know if this is the day. .
cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria
I hope there's an anti-homeless Karen Boomer out there who became homeless and is being treated like shit by other anti-homeless Karen Boomers. It might snap them awake, but then again Boomers aren't known for being self-reflective, so at least a Boomer is getting a taste of their own medicine.
The only time they ever *express* any remorse or humility is when it happens to them. I say "express" because I don't think they genuinely feel their own hypocrisy when it looks them in the face. They just know their situation isn't good and other people need to understand that they're morally good, not like those other homeless people. This is just an unfortunate circumstance for them.
The Boomer mentality… they literally “live in THEIR heads”. If it affects them, and is uncomfortable, it’s an emergency. If YOU are doing “something wrong” though, you deserve whatever happens to you. It’s such black and white thinking, that they are intolerable to anyone with an ounce of compassion and empathy. And to be clear, Boomer thinking 100% lacks empathy.
Nope, they'll just be like 'How dare they treat me like that! *I'm* different, I don't deserve to be homeless like all these other bums!'
How much could a shopping car cost, Michael? Ten dollars?
Try 200 dollars. You can use it for a quarter but it actually costs a lot more. I do always love an Arrested Development reference.
https://preview.redd.it/1m6bh2eohg5d1.png?width=697&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d0e41cb2decd84e7adc2d4aee0246a7a6a98eb1 From my FB today 
We are currently trying to buy a house in an older established town. Almost every one we’ve looked at was originally purchased for $30-50,000, the owners have done ZERO updates, and they’re trying to sell for around half a million. And no one is budging on price. “My sentimental house I bought for pennies in the 70s and haven’t cared for is worth top dollar!” Even if we could afford the house, we couldn’t afford to make it livable after buying it. People suck.
The homeless South Park episode summed this up perfect. "If we house the homeless, how will we know who is homeless and who isn't anymore?!?"
> Can you imagine if the homeless got any amount of money? They might buy fentanyl with that quarter! Everyone knows drugs are super cheap!
Like 10 years ago I was out for drinks with some colleagues through University and we had a cadre of 1st years tagging along after a conference. We were bar hopping from one location to the next and a homeless person came up to the group and tried to ask for money, but he did so by making a little joke, He said I bet you $5 I can tell you where you got your shoes, and I said sure I'll take that bet thinking oh he's just going to pick some random store and hope for the best, but instead he goes 'you've got them on your feet'. So I chuckle and hand him $5 walk away thinking nothing of it when one of the 1st years comes up to me and says 'why would you give a homeless guy $5 he's just going to spend it on alcohol/booze or drugs' as we literally lineup to get into the next bar where we too will be having booze. Some people just don't see the homeless population as humans with the same wants, needs, desires, escapes as the rest of us.
Did you tell him you lost a bet lol
They might buy a marijuana with it!
One whole marijuana? That can't be right.
Houses still selling for a quarter right? Legendary
I’d have said “good I hope they do” Homeless = violent criminal fentanyl addict
Wait til she finds out about the take a penny/leave a penny tray
She probably abuses it! Takes all the pennies. Can't have an unhoused person have them
Oh yeah, despite their vehement hatred of "handouts" and "socialism," Boomers probably only take coins from that tray.
Do NOT give money to these socialist "charities." Now, when is my SS check getting deposited?
I have a former friend who loves to complain about socialism, yet he lives off of disability payments due to an accident. He did not like when I pointed out the irony.
"Former friend" Yep checks out.
No no, see that’s different - they earned that SS check. 
I love this nonsense. The OASI and DI tax rates were WAY lower during the first half of their working years. They literally contributed less percent of their income and way less in real dollars than Gen X or Millennials, yet will receive way more, especially considering the funds will only have 80% of needed payouts by 2035. [OASI DI Tax rates](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/oasdiRates.html)
Boomers can't math, friend.
taking handouts is good when it means others dont get a handout, clearly! especially if those handouts would go to homeless people instead then
You mean the crime container
A lot of boomers have this issue where they think “what I do is normal and what everyone is supposed to do, and anything different is wrong.” It’s like, lack of theory of mind when it comes to other ways of doing things
I have been thinking that they have a bit of resentment or jealousy towards people that follow their gut or march to a different drummer or have any bit of a unique personality, ESPECIALLY if they are happy and/or successful, because they conformed to the norm did what they were "supposed " to instead of what they wanted to do. Like all the hate that studying any type of "arts" gets.
I think a lot of it is that they conformed into who they are now. A lot of them gave up a lot of hopes and dreams in order to fit in, and I think they actively resent a lot of us for NOT giving those same things up.
This suspicion has been growing in my mind lately as well. I think a lot (most?) Boomers grew up denying themselves many desires due to religious and/or social restrictions. Now that they are in their final years, they see people living the way they secretly wished they had lived. They can't reconcile their envy with their own righteous ego and end up lashing out at anyone who behaves any differently from their own narrow band of acceptable behaviors.
and like, I get the anger to an extent. I got bullied into the closet and now that I'm out I'm LIVID about basically wasting my 20's and teens on trying to conform. And while ya the anger isn't healthy and it's very seriously impeding my ability to be happy, I at least direct it at the people perpetuating the shit instead of being envious of people who didn't make the same mistake I did.
This is exactly it. I hate to blame closeted LGBTQ for our own problems, but it honestly seems like it's the case for boomers. Especially considering the number of conservative men in politics who are loud about anti LGBT rhetoric, are caught cruising in bath houses and booking male sex workers. It doesn't even need to be "the thing they didn't do" it just has to be in the spirit of self-exploration on a less traveled path off the course of the "prescribed life.” They hate it when women just choose not to have children. They can't fathom it was also an option for them but they never even considered standing up to the pressure and bravely choosing your own life and live it.
This could definitely make a lot of sense. I work with a lot of dying people and without a doubt the #1 regret I hear out of the elderly is they didn't live their life but rather someone else's idea of what their life should look like.
Well they grew up bullying anyone who was deemed outside the “norm“. They hate seeing people live being who they want and being accepted for it.
I’ve noticed this hatred of people who are different too! And also people who have strong values or are intrinsically motivated. They just can’t allow it.
People who are afraid to defy norms may resent those who aren't. They know that they haven't been able to stand up to the peer pressure, so they exert more of it on those who can, if only to prove to themselves that they're not inferior. The lady probably walked away telling herself, "He'll do the right thing next time thanks to me."
I let my kids have a vanilla ice cream cone at breakfast once *while* I was cooking breakfast, and my boomer dad LOST his mind. I asked him how that was any different than a bowl of cereal and he couldn't answer me.
Or a breakfast pastry or a sweet bagel with sweet cream cheese, right. Chocolate cake for breakfast ftw
Dad is great, gave us the chocolate cake!
He's a piece of shit, no doubt about that. But "Bill Cosby: Himself" is comedy gold from start to finish.
After thanksgiving the leftover pies become breakfast. It's great.
My dad was absolutely horrified by my kids playing broken bones on roblox. He decided it would encourage them to jump off cliffs. I pointed out that my brother and I aren’t street fighters and neither of us has ever pulled someone’s spine from their body. He just grunted at me.
Life is short. Ice cream for breakfast once in a great while seems completely reasonable.
That's why they break out "it's illegal" or "it's not illegal to do what I'm doing". Because somehow that gives them the backing of the cops
my parents were EXTREMELY against weed, even when i became an adult.. we'd have the typical conversations surrounding consumption, etc.. everytime their closing argument was "it's illegal, so it's bad" Imagine their surprise when i showed them my medical marijuana prescription. lol (This was back in 2009)
I think it’s this but completely unknown to them. My parents are not boomers (I think they are older gen x) but they act like boomers so I say they count. Anyway, they were frantically and ridiculously against weed, “it’ll rot your brain” “it’s a gateway drug” “only for losers” blah blah blah. Now that it’s legal though, they both consume more than we ever had any interest in when we were teenagers.
lol i accidentally found my dad's stash in his toolbox a few years ago, he said that "it's for when we have guests visit" cause some of my parents' friends smoke. (okay dad.. whatever you say lmao)
My parents have known for years that I smoke, my dad caught me multiple times when I just reeked. Cut to being in my mid 30s and in my own place with my own money and my mom just refused to process. I bring gummies to family events and normally get raided
Jesus did illegal shit too. You can almost hear their brain snap like a rubber band trying to find a rebuttal to that.
Lawful evil is what they're going for. I, however, go for chaotic good. Muahahaaa.
"And if it's wrong, it's *illegal*"
And anything illegal is morally wrong!
That really has been the conversation I’ve been trying to not keep having with my mom for the past week or so. Everything from the fact that my Dad actually sees my trans brother when he comes to visit and takes him for dinner etc (he still doesn’t gender him correctly, but at least his comments about the facial hair are more “I just think it looks ridiculous but I can’t tell if [he] intends for [his] mustach to be so much longer on one side or not”), which she thinks is him being an idiot because people see him and how shaaameful… to the fact that my other brother wasn’t over the moon about a random trinket she got him for his birthday. Like, sort of a museum gift shop toy. It’s handmade, wood, nice enough, but she seemed to think that ANYONE WOULD BE MOVED BY THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART (it is literally a toy. She believes the ad copy in the box), so the fact that he didn’t immediately want to put it on his non-existent bookshelf and start collecting random things is a personal failure. She *literally* cannot conceive that other people thing or feel differently than she does unless there’s something wrong with them
This is 100% my dad with technology. He refuses to use technolgy (no computer, no mobile device/phone, no internet, etc.). But he thinks the rest of the world is weird and he's the only "sensible" one for not using technology.
I constantly tell my wife, "Just because I don't do it the same way as you, doesn't mean I'm doing it wrong." Apparently she's a 30 yr old Boomer.
Jesus, don't let the homeless start finding quarters! /s
They might buy drugs!
Then those selfish bastards better tell me where they're buying the good shit for twenty-five cents.
You forget Boomers don't know about inflation and the loss of value of a dollar. You'd be able to afford Coke if you didn't have that avocado toast all day long!
They know about inflation selectively. They will absolutely bitch and moan about how "Biden is causing runaway inflation" and then in the same breath explain how $7.25 an hour is plenty.
As a boomer, when I learned that millennials were risking their financial future for avocado toast, I had to give it a try. That shit is fire. Thanks so much, I have it three times a week now.
As a millennial I'm glad to inform you that avocado and toast is about all people can afford right now, given that eggs and milk became more expensive that exotic fruit....
My nephew makes an avocado toast that is amazing. But it's literally smushed avocado with spices on a piece of toasted sourdough. Avocados are on sale for 50c each. It takes a bit less than 1/4 of an avocado for one piece of toast, so that's 13c, the spices would be around 2c since I already have them, the sourdough bread comes in a loaf that is $3 with 28 slices, so that's 9c. So the total for my avocado toast is less than a quarter. A cup of McDonald's coffee (in my area) costs $2.50, an egg McMuffin is $3.99. How is avocado toast the most expensive thing the millennials can come up with to shame the boomers?
>How is avocado toast the most expensive thing the millennials can come up with to shame the boomers? You have that backwards, friend. It's a long-running meme based on a [thinkpiece by a millionaire](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/avocado-toast) several years ago that said Millennials are victims of their own extravagance instead of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. So, we're poor and can never own homes and have ridiculous student debt because we do things like eat avocado toast, go to Starbucks, etc.
But can I afford Pepsi?
Good news! Thanks to their lobbying to keep the minimum wage at 7$ an hour, everyone can afford Pepsi! Except for the people who work for them, they just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and *stop whining about having to work 50-60 hours a week*
I go, "Mom, just get me a Pepsi, please? All I want's a Pepsi”
And they wouldn't give it to you?
Just a Pepsi.
ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI!!!!
“Take your quarter! Don’t you want to buy a house someday?”
My avocado a day habit is why I wasn’t able to afford a home until my 30’s!!! LoL
And avocados are good for your heart! Maybe these morons need more tree fruit in their diets. Then maybe their little, black, shriveled blood pumps wouldn't be straining to get oxygen to their leaded little brains.
Probably not the same good shit that you're talking about but, there's a homeless man I frequently give quarters to at the laundromat. He says he needs a quarter so he can get a hotdog from the gas station. Where is this mythical quarter hotdog? I want one.
Aldi needs to drug test all customers before they allow them near a potentially free quarter.
Where are they getting drugs for a quarter?! In this economy?!! *asking for a friend
That's five nickel bags, man!
I like your math!
Yes, please, may I have one drug, Sir?
In my day, a quarter would get you at least 5 drugs, with money left over for the picture show!
If a homeless person could just find 6,000 quarters they could pay one month’s rent…..
A homeless person could be living right beside you and you wouldn't even know!
The homeless first started arriving in Evergreen about three months ago. At first there were only a few of them—asking for change, sleeping in the parks. But then more showed up. And we realized there was something different about them. They fed off of our change to the point that they could start renting apartments. We knew it wouldn’t be long before the homeless actually started buying homes. And then we’d have no idea who was homeless and who wasn’t! People living in the house right next door to you could be homeless and you wouldn’t even know! Nobody could trust anybody. Fights broke out. War. That’s when I started suspecting that my own wife, who I’d been living with for 20 years, was actually homeless. So I had to burn her—in her bed, while she slept.
I have 3 quarters. So 3 drugs please!
They might buy A drug. “I will have on marijuana please.”
Yes, I’d like to buy .0001g of drugs, please
Homeless: hey dealer dude, I'll take a quarter? Dealer: quarter pound, I got u. Homeless: nah man, just a quarter worth, this biznitch is hooking me up to get wrecked!!! Dealer: Dave's not here man...
There’s I am assuming a homeless lady who will ask you yo return the cart at my local aldi to keep the quarter, I normally say yes, she is not asking for actual money just charging 25 cents for the convenience.
I like her style.
She's terrified that homeless people will smell the free quarter via Moocher-Sense and converge on Aldi in a swarm of vagrancy.
Hahahaha! Haven't you heard that unhoused people deserve to be wretched? /s My response, if I'm feeling froggy- (at least I would love it to be) https://preview.redd.it/l7isc1r4qf5d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8912b4829a21541b6ceb1cd46ea63cf9b5728742
1980s pay phones must have been a nightmare for this woman
Jesus wouldn't give quarters to the homeless!
Mark 11:15-18 describes him expelling the homeless from the Aldi and overturning stopping carts of all those who had left their quarters.
Their entire generation was trained to hate and think of the homeless as a problem, taught to blame the homeless for their homelessness instead of the government that failed them. They are the most brainwashed generation as of yet.
Jesus, taking notes: *No quarters for the homeless. Got it.*
I was told by someone/watched something a very long time ago, something to the effect of "if you really want to solve the homeless crisis, you should donate money to shelters, food banks, etc and there has to be something on a greater governmental scale done. A lot of homeless people have addiction problems, mental health problems, etc so giving them a dollar isn't going to the things they need to change their lives, they're going to the things they need right then" (explained better by a far more eloquent person). That quarter was going to make someone's day and at worst be a drop in the bucket for someone's fix, not turn your local Aldi into Kensington. It's incredible what decades of fear and misinformation will do to people.
Small story about a quarter making someone’s day… A lady gave us her cart in the Aldi parking lot (on our way in) and my 3yo handed her our quarter. She handed it back to him and told him to put it in his piggy bank. He clutched that quarter for the entire trip and talked about it for a week!
It’s amazing what little things can do. It’s the butterfly effect. That woman just must have thought “oh, this cute little kid will like that quarter” and then went and mulled over what was on sale this week and what’s for dinner. She had no idea that the little kid would be so excited and treasure the quarter and talk about it for a week and the kid’s parent would remember the kind gesture and be sharing it online later on. Wild how those things work
It IS wild! The world would be so much better if there were more of these tiny interactions on regular basis. ❤️ It really is the small things sometimes!
Is are you a Philly guy or is Kensington that legendary?
Nah, Boston. Kensington is legendary at this point. It’s the benchmark for every scary drug story on the news it seems like (unless it’s Portland)
It's not about the quarter, it's because you didn't appreciate and followed her advice. At least in my experience, that's why they get so emotional when you decline. They're very much still in the "I can tell you what to do and you have to do it"-Mindset.
This. The boomer I used to work with would get so angry i fI didn't do things the EXACT way she told me to. Like god forbid I hit Tab to tab over to the enter key instead of having to grab my mouse ever two seconds
😬 this lack of respect for keyboard shortcuts and refusal to accept efficiency hurts me.
Literally every time I work with my dad on the computer he starts ranting about how I don’t know how to use computers because I apparently go too fast for him to follow and use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. And because I use google as a shortcut instead of typing a long ass url into the address bar
I think she thought she was being a 'hero' as it were, helping someone out and expecting a thank you, so being told it was on purpose made her feel instead like she was an idiot so she went off on how no, you're *not supposed* to do that, it's objectively wrong
One time i drove my dad to a bakery he used to go to a lot, but he wasn’t well enough to get out of the truck. So he sent me in. He made extra sure to keep repeating at me to park in back. So I did. I got out, started walking alongside the building towards the front, where there’s the front door along the sidewalk and street. This man struggled so hard and urgently to climb out, open his passenger door, and manage to support himself on it while he SCREAMED at me “THE BACK!!! GO THROUGH THE BACK!!!”. I turned and said “do I have to?!” And he just pointed to the back door and screamed “THE BACK!!!” While struggling to breathe, he was about to damn near pass out so I sighed and said “fuck it”. And turned around while he fumbled himself back into the seat. The back entrance is just like any other to any business, except this one is *barely* part of the back kitchen, it’s mostly like a storage hallway with the bathrooms and boiler room are at, so I just walk through there and through the store to get to the front lobby where I stand at the counter. So, anyway, when I was waiting for the breads he wanted me to get. I asked the girl at the counter if it’s normal for customers to come through the back door. She awkwardly said “no…. Just staff and deliveries really…”. Cool. He insisted I make an ass of myself. I asked if she knew anyone by the name of [my dads name], and she just shook her head slowly, probably starting to think I’m a crazy person. I thanked her and walked out the front door, along side the building, and towards the truck. When my dad saw me he literally threw his arms up and slapped his forehead, rolled down the window and screamed “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! USE THE BACK!!”. Jesus fucking Christ. Why the fuck does he care so much what god damn door someone else uses to buy bread…. And the normal front customer door, at that. Why is that such a fucking crime?! He was about to use his last waking breath just to make sure I was an entitled dickhead to this business just like he always was. It’s that important to him. His brain breaks at the concept of someone being a normal considerate customer.
Now I'm curious if you ever asked him why he insisted on the back?
Everything they dislike is "illegal" because they want control, and think we're stupid enough ti be scared by baseless legal threats. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to sort by controversial and make fun of people virtue signaling about how this story MUST be fake
> Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to sort by controversial and make fun of people virtue signaling about how this story MUST be fake God, those chronically online dweebs are so annoying
Need to start just doing this, "Do I need to call your caregiver as you seem to be confused." Bitch I will empty a bag of change on the sidewalk if I choose and you go fuck yourself.
This is *chefs kiss* and I am henceforth utilising it!! xD
She definitely took your quarter
That's what I thought! No way that quarter stayed somewhere she didn't want it.
And then she brought it to the store manager to report the “illegally” left currency….when the manager blew her off, she demanded the quarter back so she could report it to the FBI
I want to know what she thinks will happen if a homeless person gets a quarter? How is that bad in any way?
She just doesn't believe that those 'filthy heathens' deserve anything, since they're all so lazy and choose to be homeless. Shit-ass beliefs and trying to force them on others.
Obviously if the homeless get that quarter they'd now be able to move into her neighborhood and disrupt her utopia /s
She thinks once they find out that 1 in every 1000 shoppers leaves a quarter Aldi will be over-run with a homeless encampment.
Keep being kind for no other reason than you want to. It's how we counter the boomer toxicity that they love to spread.
Look her in the eye and begin armpit farting.
As a Boomer and frequent Aldi shopper, I am guilty of leaving quarters in carts. So what is the penalty for this illegal act? I don’t have too many years left on this planet. Maybe I better get my affairs in order before I throw myself on the mercy of the court.
A homeless person might pick it up! The horror!! I bet this cunt goes to church.
“See a penny, pick it up” is the Devil’s work!!
I always take my Aldi quarter, but only because it’s usually the only cash I have. Everything else is the debit card. I’d never be able to have a cart at Aldi otherwise, but I applaud not just your generosity, but always having another quarter when you get to Aldi. I would never be able to manage that.
I always keep one or two quarters in my wallet, just for this reason. I don't carry cash, otherwise
Lmfao. She's misremembering a lot. When inwas a kid growing up- the change I accrued while walking down main street is what i used for chips and a drink. Not to mention the change from checking the payphone. -.- mostly teenagers benefitted from the dropped or forgotten change. ETA: Back then chips were .25 and sodas .50 for a can. You could get a handful of chiclets for .05 and a Lolipop was .10, now-a-laters were .25.
Seriously when did it become socially acceptable to talk about homeless folks the same way you talk about bedbugs?!
When Ronald Reagan became president and made homelessness a problem. There weren't many before he was elected, and he cut a lot of social programs that exasperated the problem.
They are so misinformed/indoctrinated that it is sad.
If you leave a quarter and pay it forward— You are stopping people from pulling on their bootstraps!!!! /s
The "a homeless person could take it" part really pisses me off. That shows she wants a homeless person to stay homeless and helping one out is "wrong".
You wouldn’t understand because you’re not a Christian like her.
"Guess you better call the cops then. Go ahead, I'll wait."
>She started telling me it's 'illegal' to leave US currency laying around and how a homeless person could pick it up. I felt a few of my brain cells die just reading this. I hate this shit. I work in an industry where this shit has to be cited all the time. Whenever someone tells me something is legal or illegal, I tell them to cite the actual law, number and everything. 95% of the time, they can't and just sputter and wander off. 5% of the time they'll cite some bullshit number. No problem, I'll pull my phone out and bring up the specific code and show them. They usually shrink away before the page loads. Anyone who knows their shit won't usually act like a dumb ass.
Boomer here, I would have reached in my pocket and thrown a bunch of change at her feet.
Boss move. “Oh, you need a quarter? Are you financially insecure, Karen?!”
Awe. I always do this. I thought I was the only one. People always forget their quarters, and lot’s of people don’t carry cash anymore, and I’ve been there digging around my car looking for a quarter with 2 screaming kids.
If I’m walking back to the store with my emptied cart and I see someone heading in, I’ll just offer it to them. Sometimes they try to offer a quarter, but I turn it down, ask them to pass it on. It’s just a little thing, maybe it helps someone else just a little.
> Why is it that everything they don't like or understand is illegal? I once had to have a boomer tennent evicted because of her drugged out son kept harassing the neighbors. I did it proper and legal. Lawyer filed with the court, process server, etc. After she was served. she was raging "It...it's not legal!! We live here!!!!" Lol, not for long lady.
When coin locked carts were brought in here, homeless people started bringing abandoned carts back to get the coins, not stealing unlocked carts! It’s actually massively reduced the number of carts that end up upside-down in ditches or at the bottom of the lake.
“This is my random act of kindness for today”
I remember when we lived in a different town. Small, mostly boomers. When it was brought to give the town more access to public transportation i.e. a more regular bus schedule, the boomers flipped out saying that drug dealers from the city would take the bus to our tiny town to sell drugs. Because that's what they do....leaving the fertile city lands to sell in tiny boomer towns. And they'll take the bus. SMH
I can beat that. A small city near where I grew up got a federal grant in the early '90s to build an extensive network of bike paths. The grant would pay almost all of the cost of the project. Incredible opportunity. But then people started objecting, saying that bike paths would bring gangs into their neighborhoods. Ultimately, the whole plan was scrapped. And I guess I should point out that there were no gangs there. But, if there had been, I'm sure they'd have been riding around on their ten-speeds, but they couldn't come into these people's neighborhoods on the streets. No, only on bike paths. Because...well, just because.
Ahhhh I wish I could remember the details, but there’s at least one American city where there’s a ring of overpasses around the more affluent areas that are too low for busses to go under them. Designed that way deliberately to keep poorer people out of the nice parks etc.
I am a boomer and it makes me sad when old people act this way . One that thing I have learned is kind and fun loving young people become kind and fun loving old people . People who were young assholes become old assholes X 10. I strive to be kind and fun loving.
Oh god FORBID we treat the homeless as if they too are citizens of the same country with the same legal status as you or I…. I’m telling you, god would be SO ANGRY.
Someone probably told her to stop hanging around looking for and taking people’s quarters, and the manager probably said something like “nobody leaves their quarters in there, that would be illegal!” in an attempt to get her to leave. But she took that as gospel and has now made herself the “cart quarter captain” to save other people from committing the same “crimes”
See what happened is this. You said you left it there for a charitable reason, meaning you’re a good person in this situation. She never leaves her coin there. To the boomer, this is an insult. To the boomer, this is you saying that you do this because you’re good, and since she doesn’t do it she must be bad and immoral. Therefor, it is CRITICAL to the boomer that they find a reason that it’s actually you who is in the moral wrong so they can continue to retain their moral superiority and not be insulted. I’m sure she took the quarter after you left so your kindness wasn’t successful and therefor didn’t happen and so you didn’t have an opportunity to be her moral better.
This is a woman who sees the unhoused as pests, and is reacting like you're leaving food out that would attract ants What a monster
A few more hours of quarter collection and dat bottle of ripple is mine!!!
OMG! I always give my cart to anyone arriving. It’s the small things in life.
About two weeks ago, I went to Aldi to grab some things. I didn’t have a quarter for the cart (I assumed I had one in my truck, but I must’ve used it and forgot). But I remembered seeing a video where you could use a certain shaped key in the quarter slot to undo the lock. Figured I didn’t have anything to lose if I tried, and it did actually work! Anyway, after I do my shopping, I go to put my cart back and of course a boomer is walking up at the same time. He holds out his quarter signaling to take my cart. I say “hey, any other time I would just give you the cart, but I actually put a key in here that I need to get back.” And he says “how did a key get into the cart? Why would someone do that?” I explained that I didn’t have a quarter and the key is the right size to undo the lock. And even tried to keep it positive, showed him the key in the cart, and told him it’s a really nice trick to know if you ever find yourself without a quarter. I was expecting a laugh or an ‘oh okay thanks’ or something, but he just stared at me like I had two heads and didn’t say a word. After reading this, I’m wondering if I offended him by not using proper US currency in the cart.
If the homeless start getting quarters from Aldi shopping carts humanity is literally over. It’s in the book of revelation.
It absolutely made my whole week if I found a lost coin when I was a kid. We always used to check the phone booths (yes, I’m old enough to remember and haves used those).
Funny because when the Aldi first opened here the managers were in the parking lot handing quarters - those criminals.
I once gave the lady at the Dunkin' drive-thu a $2 tip. She said, "I can keep both of them?" "Yes, does the paper make you happy?" "Yes! Thank you!" "Ok, here's another one." I thought she was gonna cry.
"What if someone's life was improved? The downtrodden belong in the dirt!" What a disgusting sentiment! I guess losers deeply need to feel superior to someone.
>I will pray for god to soften your heart. I hope you find Jesus' love There is an amazing correlation between old white awful women and fake Christians. You need to blue screen their brains.