To The Crotchety Ol' Geezer

[tropicsgoddess]

Dear Mr.Crotchety Ol' Geezer,

I get that you're pissed and that you don't wanna deal with a pissed off wife because you have no sound from your tv home theater systemfor the past four days. However, we would've gone A LOT farther in the call if you just shut the fuck up and at least TRIED to troubleshoot or work with me in some way to resolve your problem. But you didn't. Then you not only kept ranting about how the issue was <satellite company>'s fault and how "people these days are all about taking advantage of seniors" and all that other stereotypical senior citizen rant and raving bullshit. No, we're not all about making seniors the victims and yes it's a business! I have policies and procedures I have to abide by before I can send a tech out or I could lose my job! As annoying as it was to hear how you'd like the country (technologically and otherwise) to be like it was in your young days (what...1951 or something like that), it's not gonna happen. Get over it. Quit your bitching ya old codger!

Sincerely,

Me

P.S. People like you give seniors a bad name.

[Food Lady]

I run into this all. the. time, from complaints about how we count cash, to not having to sign for credit cards, to being ID'd for age-restricted items, etc, etc. There's always something to complain about.

[Teefies2]

[QUOTE=tropicsgoddess;967481]Dear Mr.Crotchety Ol' Geezer,

I get that you're pissed and that you don't wanna deal with a pissed off wife because you have no sound from your tv home theater systemfor the past four days.
As annoying as it was to hear how you'd like the country (technologically and otherwise) to be like it was in your young days (what...1951 or something like that), it's not gonna happen. Get over it. Quit your bitching ya old codger!


AHEM. I was born in 1957 and don't feel like I'm an "old codger", I still have kids at home for gosh sakes! "Old codger" is a state of mind, not a function of birth year


ETA: I also don't bitch at the CSR trying to help me resolve my problem ;-) So I think I'm doubly not an "old codger" :-P

[Mr Hero]

We've also been told to apologize for using the term "geezer." Now, coming up next, the case of the cantankerous old geezer.

[ArcticChicken]

AHEM. I was born in 1957 and don't feel like I'm an "old codger", I still have kids at home for gosh sakes! "Old codger" is a state of mind, not a function of birth year

To be fair, she said his "younger days" were in 1951, so he'd have to have been born in 1945 at the latest in order to fondly remember his younger days.

[Racket_Man]

To be fair, she said his "younger days" were in 1951, so he'd have to have been born in 1945 at the latest in order to fondly remember his younger days.

my brother and 2 sisters were born around that time I DO NOT see them as crotchey old Geezers (at leeast not yet). heck they are in somes way more tech savy than I am in certrain areas.

[Teefies2]

To be fair, she said his "younger days" were in 1951, so he'd have to have been born in 1945 at the latest in order to fondly remember his younger days.

While I agree, Arctic, that I was wrong in taking offense to the years involved, I stand by my original assertion that "old codger" is a state of mind, not a function of birth year. You can be 12 and be an "old codger" if you have certain attitudes

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

We've also been told to apologize for using the term "geezer." Now, coming up next, the case of the cantankerous old geezer.

Drat and tarnation! Beaten to it!

[ArcticChicken]

You can be 12 and be an "old codger" if you have certain attitudes

I know that, I was just being pedantic. I really should remember to use smilies more often, they may not be perfect but they're better than blank text at conveying tone.

Would y'all do me the favor of mentally appending to my previous post?

[Raveni]

So what did the issue end up being? Audio cable unplugged?

[Redbeard]

AHEM. I was born in 1957 and don't feel like I'm an "old codger", I still have kids at home for gosh sakes! "Old codger" is a state of mind, not a function of birth year
:-P

It's true!
My 78 year old father is saving his money and going to move out of the old folks community that he's been living in because "being around all these old farts sitting around wiaitng to die depresses me!"

[tropicsgoddess]

So what did the issue end up being? Audio cable unplugged?

I have a feeling it had to be with the cables but the guy hung up after he finished all his ranting and raving...and it was over a freakin' hour I was on the phone with him! He barely tried to troubleshoot and kept carrying on about how he was technologically challenged (and I was breaking it down to him pre-k style..without being patronizing!)

[dalesys]

So what did the issue end up being? Audio cable unplugged?

Dead hearing aid battery, I'll bet.

[wildman]

Dang young whippersnappers!

[Ironclad Alibi]

As annoying as it was to hear how you'd like the country (technologically and otherwise) to be like it was in your young days (what...1951 or something like that), it's not gonna happen.

What kind of sound did he get from a TV in 1951, if he actually had one?