Question for all you GIAOT olds

[goldmom]

I go to the store when you losers are at work.
I don’t write checks and I hate standing in line like the rest of you.
OP is a jerk.
Oh and there’s gonna be a problem when I check out. I have most of the stuff from my parents because my siblings didn’t want them and neither do my kids or nephews/nieces. China, silverware, etc. LOL theres a picture of a couple from the 1940’s in one of the storage boxes and none of us has a clue who they are.
They seem nice though. 😳

 

[Jimmy McGill]

The isle cloggers that have no sense of their surroundings can rot in hell.

 

[EasyHawk]

Why do you grocery shop like you have 40 years left? You might be shopping for your last meal, hurry that shit up and get out of my way. It doesn't take 30 min to pick out shredded cheese. Pick one, it all tastes the same to you anyways.

Huh?? Speak up, I can’t hear you!

 

[Rustys Dad]

I’m 53… I’m in out of Fareway in 15 mins tops… people handling 27 different oranges need to die… People at meat counter haggling over 4 too many cheese slices… need to die…

I kid about dying part … (kind of) 😉

 

[The Tradition]

and go grocery shopping during the day when the rest of us are at work. Why the fvck do you go shopping right when people are getting off work and need to pick up stuff before heading home.

Why do you assume that old people don't work?

 

[joelbc1]

You're funny.

Some of us have injuries, like a broken hip.
Some no longer have situational awareness.
Some think they are entitled.
Some do it just to piss off impatient f**kers.

Some of us move skiwky as our bodies are broken down from carrying your dead-assed weight on our backs the past 40 years or so.
Please try and understand. You really weren’t worth it, either.

 

[alaskanseminole]

and get the FVCK out of the center of the aisles!

And take a peripheral glance behind you before you just stop for no apparent reason...unless you like prisonesque surprises.

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

Why do you assume that old people don't work?

Because I like to think that 80 year olds aren’t still having to work. If they are still working because they have nothing else to do, they need to find a hobby and make sure it doesn’t interfere with grocery shopping during the daytime.

 

[GOHOX69]

I will find you, I will wait for you in the grocery store and then I wll make sure to get in front of you at check out. At that point, I am pulling out ALL of my coupons and will deliberately hand them over one at a time. I will also write a check to pay for my puchase, but only to the exact dollar and will then pull out my coin purse to get the exact change.

See you soon!

Don't forget to immediately balance your checkbook by writing it in the ledger behind the checks.

 

[stout1]

My folks were hoarders. When they moved into nursing facilities, I had to clean out their house. This was 2015. They had 3 refrigerators, a stand up commercial freezer, and 3 chest freezers. My mom put up vegetables in quart boxes, and labeled them. I found boxes of corn from 1984.

84 was a damn good year for corn.

 

[Old_wrestling_fan]

True story: both my parents passed in 2018 at 80 and 82 yo. My sister (no pic) JUST opened the last box of Kleenex from the stash they had stockpiled in their basement as of 9/2018.

/csb

Having recently completed the task of clearing my deceased parents house...yeah, I feel you.

They had to have cornered the eastern Iowa market on:

1. Flashlights.
2. Cleaning supplies.
3. Finger nail clippers.

I am sorry that there were NONE of these items available at retail for all of the rest of you over the past decade or two...as they had them ALL.

 

[markfromj]

I’m so old I don’t buy green bananas anymore.

 

[spiderland]

Having recently completed the task of clearing my deceased parents house...yeah, I feel you.

They had to have cornered the eastern Iowa market on:

1. Flashlights.
2. Cleaning supplies.
3. Finger nail clippers.

I am sorry that there were NONE of these items available at retail for all of the rest of you over the past decade or two...as they had them ALL.

Dad commanded the entire NW Iowa supply chain in terms of:

1. Kleenex (already noted)
2. Toilet paper
3. Tide laundry detergent
4. Half a dozen other laundry detergents
5. Plax (that completely ineffective mouth rinse shit—seriously. At times I suspected he may have drank it there was so much on hand)

I think there may have been other dental care products hoarded as well. Along with a few bottles of Vitales hair oil.

 

[goldmom]

Because I like to think that 80 year olds aren’t still having to work. If they are still working because they have nothing else to do, they need to find a hobby and make sure it doesn’t interfere with grocery shopping during the daytime.

But then what would you do when you went to Home Depot and wanted to know where the light bulb aisle is?

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

I’m so old I don’t buy green bananas anymore.

My npwife’s 92 yo grandpa uses that line often. I love it.
My 88 yo grandma said at thanksgiving she hates still being alive☹️ and she’s still going strong, does everything on her own still. Unfortunately for her she’s probably going to live at least another 10 years. She had an aunt live to be 99 and her grandma made it to 101.
CSB

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

But then what would you do when you went to Home Depot and wanted to know where the light bulb aisle is?

I’d look for the sign hanging up that says light bulbs

 

[desihawk]

i was at costco today. spotted a geriatric in a motorized cart with top speed of about 50 yards/hour. walking next to the geriatric was a young lady presumably his helper or family member with a regular cart. blocked off every aisle and path almost completely. everywhere they went, endless lines of pissed off people and their gigantic carts. total comedy show. not sure whom to blame - geriatric or young un.

 

[globalhawk]

My dad died in 2014 and we had to move mom to assisted living after that. My sister (no pic) and I were enlisted to get their house cleaned out. In one afternoon, I filled a 30-yard dumpster just with the stuff that was stockpiled in the garage. There was a small storage room in the back of the basement that was a hoarders delight. They apparently used that room to store the crap gifted from the casino they visited every Tuesday. We found no less than ten sets of dishes, 15 coolers, ten roller bag suitcases and various other items.

It's not as uncommon as people think. I have seen it too many times.

 

[globalhawk]

This old man uses the online/drive up option. Shopping inside is for the yutes.

I always feel I got ripped off on produce when I have done this.

 

[NoWokeBloke]

I hate the old cripples in motorized carts asking me to get something off the top shelf for them. Like I work there or something. I just give them a big push and move on.

 

[auntie_fah]

I hate going to the store aftwr work.

I get mine done as early as i can on saturday morning. As someone who wakes up pretty early or would wake up at 3:30 and couldnt get back to sleep, i would like to just get up and get it done before the stores became too people-y.

Then the 24 hr stores in CR did away with the 24 hrs a month or two before covid

 

[Moral]

I hate going to the store aftwr work.

I get mine done as early as i can on saturday morning. As someone who wakes up pretty early or would wake up at 3:30 and couldnt get back to sleep, i would like to just get up and get it done before the stores became too people-y.

Then the 24 hr stores in CR did away with the 24 hrs a month or two before covid

Why would you bring up 24 hours stores!?!

I miss them terribly. 2am shopping was peak shopping and people watching.

 

[HawkeyeShawn]

I always feel I got ripped off on produce when I have done this.

It’s definitely not perfect. We’ve been lucky so far with produce. Other times an item or two might be missing or what they give us as a substitute might be substandard. But overall, I’ll take that over a trip inside and walking up and down the isles.

 

[globalhawk]

It’s definitely not perfect. We’ve been lucky so far with produce. Other times an item or two might be missing or what they give us as a substitute might be substandard. But overall, I’ll take that over a trip inside and walking up and down the isles.

Are you in a smaller town? It makes a big difference.

 

[auntie_fah]

Why would you bring up 24 hours stores!?!

I miss them terribly. 2am shopping was peak shopping and people watching.

I miss them so

 

[HawkeyeShawn]

Are you in a smaller town? It makes a big difference.

Yep. Either Council Bluffs or Harlan Fareway.

 

[SansAgain]

When I was growing up going to get supplies was a big event. We’d finish our first chores, get cleaned up and head off towards town to the general store. This was a time when people were lucky to even have a phone so our socializing was done face to face, People would come farms as far a 50 miles away to stock up, people you may not have seen in decades and you got to do some catching up. No hurries. If times were good we kids would get some rock candy or maybe new slingshot, ma might find new hat or fabric for a dress and pa always bought tobacco, whiskey and some magazine we never got to look at.

Now when I go out to these superstores I don’t see anyone I know, maybe there just isn’t anyone I know left on this side of the grass. I feel like I’m in a different country and everyone is in a big hurry and impatient. I have punks yelling at me to out of the center of the fvcking aisle, pick a fvcking cheese, or go change your diaper you old fvck. I look at it all now knowing that we are a just financial collapse or a Great War away from these shelves being empty and people standing in line for bread. So I don’t go out anymore, I have nice colored lady that lives across the does my running for me. You can have it.

 

[GOHOX69]

I just wanted to give all of you a shouts out to those that lost their parents. I lost my mom a few years ago and life has never been the same. So, I feel for all of you. And hey, as I see it old shit just becomes modern antiques. I found an old disc film camera from the 80's. Any oldies even remember that shit?

 

[SansAgain]

I just wanted to give all of you a shouts out to those that lost their parents. I lost my mom a few years ago and life has never been the same. So, I feel for all of you. And hey, as I see it old shit just becomes modern antiques. I found an old disc film camera from the 80's. Any oldies even remember that shit?

There’s pain in this this post and I feel for you and everyone that has lost someone close. I had to google the disc camera and somehow I can only vaguely remember it. That felt rudely abrupt on my part.

 

[GOHOX69]

There’s pain in this this post and I feel for you and everyone that has lost someone close. I had to google the disc camera and somehow I can only vaguely remember it. That felt rudely abrupt on my part.

I think anyone who loses a parent loses something substantial but time sadly eases the hurt because eventually you grow old also and face mortality. It's just natural I suppose.

 

[bhawk24bob]

I’m visiting in-laws in Minnesota and had to go to the local grocery store yesterday to get some food made this century - some place called Byerleys, overall a very strange shopping experience for me - carpet in the store, vendors with displays and samples, etc.

I turn the corner into an aisle and some old man in one of those motorized carts took the turn too wide and took out a huge stand of cans of some kind of energy drink. I started helping him get the cans off his cart so he could move his cart when he gets out of his seat and starts yelling at his wife about where the pie filling is, she’s yelling back at him of course. Old man gets back in the cart and peels off down the aisle running over every can he could, and they blew up and were fizzing everywhere.

I just looked at one of my kids and told him that if I ever get to that point, just take the car keys away and tell me I’ve gone senile and gave up driving