I've not fully paid attention, had the OP thanked everyone for their responses?
I’ve not fully paid attention, had the OP thanked everyone for their responses?
I'm quite free with my thanks: people who stop at zebra crossings, bus drivers, the staff at the pool, people who hold doors..., it's spontaneous gratitude. But being forced to sit down and write thank you letters for totally useless Christmas presents I'd never asked for was one of the worst aspects of Christmas.
School milk used to be in glass bottles in steel crates. Many had the silver caps punctured by birds and on cold days the silver cap sat on top of a column of frozen milk. Despite that you had to be quick to get your bottle, there was never any left over.
just an expression of thanks in some form as is totally normal. Its you that is out of step here. Politeness makes the world go round
I thank bus drivers, the postie, waiters and anyone who gives me anything.
So do I. That wasn't what I was saying at all.
Don’t start a thread slagging off an entire generation if you’re not up for a bit of getting slagged off right back.
Their generation is severely screwed mostly thanks to your generation’s massive sense of entitlement which you are demonstrating wonderfully
And how am I demonstrating this? In my second post, l acknowledged that the post title was incorrect and my point is more directed at rude and unappreciative people. Beyond the post title, I haven't slagged off a generation - I couldn't edit the title.
Do you mean my massive sense of entitlement is my hope of a simple thank you or acknowledgement of my messages when someone has put time and effort into a present, or helping somebody out?
I’ve not fully paid attention, had the OP thanked everyone for their responses?
In terms of the bike, I'm not after a thank you, I'm after him replying to my messages so I can give it to him. After he said he wanted it, I bought new parts for it, built it up, don't have space to keep it ( and have said this to him) but I get no replies even when I offer to drive a 60 mile round trip to drop it off.
Is my frustration unreasonable in this situation?
I’m dealing with some older rels and can’t believe what whiny snowflakes they are
Don’t get me started. One of the things I’ve heard most often is shite like ‘I’ve worked my whole life and never had anything back’. Total and utter entitled bollocks. And yet the kids I know never ask for a thing, they just get with it, work bloody hard and do whatever they need to do.
Some folk are piss poor at replying. Older, current and younger generations.
I do think a thank you or a reply should be standard issue. Manners innit
Do you mean my massive sense of entitlement is my hope of a simple thank you or acknowledgement of my messages when someone has put time and effort into a present, or helping somebody out?
You clearly feel like you were entitled to something, otherwise you wouldn't have started the thread.
I don't know why they don't feel the need to acknowledge your efforts. Maybe they are arseholes. Maybe they aren't but they are only arseholes to you.
If they're arseholes to everyone then that's just the way they are. No point in worrying about it.
If it's only you, then you can either decide it's a problem with their generation or maybe you could ask yourself, 'What have I done to make them dislike me'.
It could be they've had to listen to one too many overly generalised rants from you and are sick to death of you.
Why are they so damn rude and unappreciative?
Said every generation about every younger generation. Im a millennial and im pretty sure my parents and parents parents generation said the same thing about me. Just get over it. No ones perfect.
To throw out some fun generalisations boomers are the worst brought several homes for a fiver, sitting on massive pensions moan when the slightest thing hasn't gone your way because everything throughout your life has. My generation "doesn't know how good we got it" because I have a smartphone and spent all my money on smashed avo.
The not thanking for presents thing winds both my wife and I up....when we discussed it, we both had to phone relatives etc within a day or so of receiving birthday/Christmas presents as kids.
As someone doing a climate change related MSc currently, I can sympathise with the environmental damage of a generation arguement (I agree!) I'm not sure that it's strictly related to the op though.
