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Do old people always get uptight about rules?

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Blanky

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My parents have gotten worse with age to the point that they obsess over the most absurd minutiae. Their worst offense is always fussing over insurance; i.e. they read literally everything about any insurance policy they are under, interpret it completely incorrectly, and then follow whatever they think it says. But it doesn't stop there; they have this vague sense that they are always just a tiny mistake away from being fined over something and being sued into bankruptcy. I should note they have never been involved in any lawsuit whatsoever in their lives.

I thought it was just them. My parents in law are just as bad, though I should say this is mainly the women in both sides (the men aren't insane). In my PIL case they won't even back a car out of the driveway that is blocking their car because they think insurance doesn't cover them and in those 15 seconds of backing the car out they might get in an accident. No joke, this happened 5 minutes ago. Or, it's refusing to use any ceramic mugs around the pool area at the house we're renting because of HOA rules and they'll be "fined". They heard some fantastical story about a person breaking a glass near a pool of a rented house and the entire thing had to be drained to ensure all the glass was picked up, so now I cannot sit 10 feet away from the pool with a coffee unless it's in a plastic mug!
 
Yes that is partly the issue but also try to understand they have seen a lot of death and major accidents in their lives and are trying to be protective. The best thing is to leave home and lead your own life. I am fifty and yearn for an empty house ... so leave. Works for everyone. Gen y are so clingy ... where did we go wrong? 😉
 
Blanky said:
My parents have gotten worse with age to the point that they obsess over the most absurd minutiae. Their worst offense is always fussing over insurance; i.e. they read literally everything about any insurance policy they are under, interpret it completely incorrectly, and then follow whatever they think it says. But it doesn't stop there; they have this vague sense that they are always just a tiny mistake away from being fined over something and being sued into bankruptcy. I should note they have never been involved in any lawsuit whatsoever in their lives.

I thought it was just them. My parents in law are just as bad, though I should say this is mainly the women in both sides (the men aren't insane). In my PIL case they won't even back a car out of the driveway that is blocking their car because they think insurance doesn't cover them and in those 15 seconds of backing the car out they might get in an accident. No joke, this happened 5 minutes ago. Or, it's refusing to use any ceramic mugs around the pool area at the house we're renting because of HOA rules and they'll be "fined". They heard some fantastical story about a person breaking a glass near a pool of a rented house and the entire thing had to be drained to ensure all the glass was picked up, so now I cannot sit 10 feet away from the pool with a coffee unless it's in a plastic mug!
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My mother suffers this kind of insanity, multiplied a few times over.
 
I'm old, and consider all rules to be rough guidelines that can be ignored when inappropriate. Most rules are meant to keep society's stupidest from killing themselves and others. The rest are meant to generate revenue.
 
In San Diego, I worked for building management at a luxury high-rise condo with two towers connected by a pool on the seventh floor. I enforced the HOA rule about glass or ceramic at the pool. Plastic ONLY for damned good reason. Yes, they have had to drain the pool due to broken glass.

The issue is that people can get cut by invisible glass in the pool and they can't make sure all the glass is gone without draining it. I can't tell you how many drinks[drunks] forget and bring wine glasses or beer bottles to the pool area. They deserve to be fined. Don't like it? Get your own pool and home with no HOA.
 
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I think this happens to old people who retire and do nothing with their lives but sit at home and obsess over this nonsense. My mom has been retired for almost 10 yeas and my dad for 3. They're basically unchanged because they stay busy and therefore entertained.
 
CZroe said:
I can't tell you how many drinks forget and bring wine glasses or beer bottles to the pool area. They deserve to be fined. Don't like it? Get your own pool and home with no HOA.
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That's the worst pejorative term I've ever heard.

CZroe: "Hey you don't be a drink and get your glass out of the pool area!"

Pool area loitering vagrant: "Did...did you just call me a drink?"
 
disappoint said:
That's the worst pejorative term I've ever heard.

CZroe: "Hey you don't be a drink and get your glass out of the pool area!"

Pool area loitering vagrant: "Did...did you just call me a drink?"
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It's just iOS auto-correcting "drunks."
 
Old people are neurotic. I don't know if it's biological or societal. But their behavior isn't logical.

My biggest peeve is retired people who wake up stupid early. I once went to the grocery store at 5am and they have a breakfast restaurant there and it was literally packed with the 70+ crowd. Amazing. What are these people doing up at 5am? The sun wasn't even up, I could see the stars.
 
My grandmother is kind of the same. She's afraid of her own shadow.

She thinks everyone should stay home in bed, so nothing will happen to them.

Anytime I tell her we are going to go to X and do X, her first response, EVERY time is, "aren't you afraid xxxx is going to happen?"
 
JMapleton said:
Old people are neurotic. I don't know if it's biological or societal. But their behavior isn't logical.

My biggest peeve is retired people who wake up stupid early. I once went to the grocery store at 5am and they have a breakfast restaurant there and it was literally packed with the 70+ crowd. Amazing. What are these people doing up at 5am? The sun wasn't even up, I could see the stars.
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Mixolydian said:
Because they have nothing else to do?
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😉
 
JMapleton said:
My biggest peeve is retired people who wake up stupid early. I once went to the grocery store at 5am and they have a breakfast restaurant there and it was literally packed with the 70+ crowd. Amazing. What are these people doing up at 5am? The sun wasn't even up, I could see the stars.
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There's actually a name for that. I forget what it's called but basically the circadian rhythm for old people tends to get screwed up so they go to bed and wake up extremely early.
 
Merad said:
There's actually a name for that. I forget what it's called but basically the circadian rhythm for old people tends to get screwed up so they go to bed and wake up extremely early.
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I think they do this to avoid as many young people as possible, especially on the roads. 😉
 
Merad said:
There's actually a name for that. I forget what it's called but basically the circadian rhythm for old people tends to get screwed up so they go to bed and wake up extremely early.
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Sounds like most of my neighbors. In bed by 9 pm...10 if they're up REALLY late...then up and doing something before 7 am. Why? because it's what they did all their lives.

Me? I'm rarely in bed before 2 am...and usually crawl out by the crack of 10 am or so.
 
CZroe said:
In San Diego, I worked for building management at a luxury high-rise condo with two towers connected by a pool on the seventh floor. I enforced the HOA rule about glass or ceramic at the pool. Plastic ONLY for damned good reason. Yes, they have had to drain the pool due to broken glass.

The issue is that people can get cut by invisible glass in the pool and they can't make sure all the glass is gone without draining it. I can't tell you how many drinks[drunks] forget and bring wine glasses or beer bottles to the pool area. They deserve to be fined. Don't like it? Get your own pool and home with no HOA.
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In case I wasn't clear it is a private pool in a private residence, not a public pool whereby a crazy drunk with beer bottles could ruin everyone's fun. For a large public pool the no glass rule makes sense, but for somebody sitting around their private pool with a ceramic mug surely you appreciate how crazy it sounds!
 
All kids will turn into their parents, so complain away, your children will do the same about you. It's the way of the world kid. Now get off my lawn!! I just swept it...
 
It sounds like they may be getting senile. Paranoia is one of the symptoms that comes before dementia/alzheimer's, my grandmother at 89 was constantly in fear of things that didn't exist.
 
touchstone said:
It sounds like they may be getting senile. Paranoia is one of the symptoms that comes before dementia/alzheimer's, my grandmother at 89 was constantly in fear of things that didn't exist.
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That's funny, so does my 7 year old daughter, must not be the age or Alzheimer's.....:sneaky:
 
Everybody I know remotely connected to litigation reads all the fine print before signing anything.

HOA the great teacher to the naive about what rules mean.
 
They're probably just smarter than you. 😉 Or maybe they're just more experienced. Maybe those examples are excessive, but I find that 20 somethings are far too lax about stuff, and inadequately insured, because they think they're invincible or can get away with anything.

There is a reason it's a LOT easier to rent a car if you're 25 or older, for example. There is also a reason why 35 year olds get cheaper car insurance rates than 22 year olds.
 
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