Posted on 01/07/2015 10:48:32 PM PST by jespasinthru
The Older They Get, The Meaner They Get
I am currently working with a guy like that. Grouchy old phart, always griping about the state of the economy, the state of his health, the price of potatoes in Peoria, whatever. Always has a frown on his face. Walks with a cane, an ugly, hand-carved shillelagh that looks like it was designed for knocking people upside the head. And he has dozens of vulture relatives who can't stand him, but they always put on phony smiles whenever they come to visit him. Even as he insults and belittles them. He knows that they are just waiting for him to kick off so that they can start contesting wills and squabbling over his loot. But he once told me that he has left most of his money to charity. Nobody knows this except his lawyer and the most favorite one of his numerous ex-wives. But he does confide in his caretakers, because he knows that we don't care what he does with his money.
But I do think that it's hilarious that his lawyer will walk away with a nice pot of gold. The vulture relatives will invariably throw piles of money at him in a futile attempt to claw back a few pennies from the Homeless Cat Sanctuary and the Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Brine Shrimp.
All in all, this mean old geezer is the most interesting and least likeable person that I have ever met. And he will be 101 years old if he lives until June of 2015. Listening to him talk about his exploits is an amusing way to pass time at work. He started his life in poverty, has been on the wrong side of the law several times, and he used his own brainpower to amass a lifetime of wealth and knowledge. And if he could, he'd damn sure take it with him. I guess even mean old curmudgeons like him have good qualities. Because he always makes me laugh.
Hey! Watch it! Oh, wait! He’s 100? Never mind. I’m only 71. For a minute there I thought that you were talking about me! ;-)
You kids get off the lawn!
Hey, Humble! You’ve got a fan and long life ahead of you, lmao!
Maybe he is so grumpy because he no longer has the ability to do what he did all his life..make money. I emphathize with him. Busted ass all my life, made it, lost it, and found something I would do for free and never miss the money. It so happened that what I loved to do paid REAL well and afforded me the opportunity to invest and invest well. I miss the job, take part time related work but at 65, find myself grumpier than Hell because I know I can’t do it again.
No.
Based on the supposition that the meaner you are, the longer you live, my opinions about liberals should get me a lifetime that should stretch well into the 22nd century...
Ecclesiastes 9
1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Old, miserable, and damn proud of it!!
Curmudgeons Unite!!
Come on, now. If you were on your deathbed, would you say “I wish I has spent more time at work.” ?
Time goes by, and time is everything.
Posts 4 & 7 make some sense, to me. I just went thru 5 years of this with my folks, both now passed. And an uncle who named me his heir but got conned out of it by his caretaker. $460K poof.
What makes you think you won’t be a crotchety old phart when you are that age or 80% of that age if the government doesn’t demand your early transformation into plant food?
I saw a great sign the other day:
“The older I get, the more everybody can just kiss my ass.”
Looks like I’ll live almost forever!
I yanked the door open and bellowed "Get off my lawn". I slammed the door and went back inside to continue what I was doing and the only thing the 14 year old said was: "Did you really say that?"
/johnny
I find when you open the door with your shoulder holster on, you don’t get many questions, or a very long stay at the door.
No one at my door gets a word out. My speech is to the effect that no one but social visitors is welcome to approach the door. A blinking video camera (real) is capturing the encounter and, sometimes my cc is visible. I haven’t heard a pitch for magazines or lawn care in 15 years.
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