There is 'girl math' and 'boy math'...and then there is 'boomer math,' which is its own thing.
Some people get set in their ways as they get older and even become closed-minded. In fact, some become not only very closed-minded but also completely detached from the reality everyone else is living through.The thread got over 2K comments from Gen X'ers and millennials whose boomer parents really have no idea of what it's like for them.
"Of course, everything I sent him was 'unbelievably expensive!' So, I asked him how much he wanted to spend. He said, 'Two or three thousand.' I couldn't even buy a beater as nice as mine for that much. When I explained that to him he thought I was totally ridiculous. So, he pulled his offer back and bought himself a $30K Jeep instead."
"My dad had a great strategy to help me buy a house. He figured that if I listened to him, I might even be able to buy a nicer house, one that was like $100,000. When I showed him actual house prices, he started going on about how if I had listened to him a few years ago, before prices went up, everything would have been fine. No amount of historical data would convince him that the houses he was looking at hadn't cost $100,000 for a very long time.
"So my parents stopped having cable a few years ago to save money, saying they'll just watch the internet. I thought maybe it's a good 'cause they won't have Faux News on 24-7. I went back over Christmas, and they've been watching conspiracy theory bullshit and believed aliens took over the government and whatnot.
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