Not Cranky, Just Experienced

I am becoming more and more cantankerous as I get older, I am blaming it on less patience, but I do not think that is it. I think as we age, we recognize the BS more quickly. Life experiences somehow manage to embed themselves in your brain, and when you hear/see the same BS that you heard in your 30's or 40's, which you may have bought into, now your brain identifies it, analyzes it and labels it BS in a matter of seconds and without even thinking about it forces you to roll your eyes in a way that says, "Are you kidding me?"

So I have decided that I am not cranky, rather, I am just experienced. Things that make me roll my eyes.

• Anyone, (politicians, athletes,celebrities) who claim to have a sex addiction and need to go to rehab for the cure, didn't believe it when I first heard about it as a solution for Red Sox player, Wade Boggs, don't believe it now.


• Health care providers such as Blue Cross who send me colorful brochures telling me they care, they care only if they have to pay, they continually tell me how much $ is left for my lifetime care - when it's gone , it's gone. Yup, they care, sure!


• Beer commercials aimed directly at a young demographic, that add as an afterthought that you should drink responsibly. If that happened, sales would go down, I do not believe that care an iota whether or not you should drink responsibly, they just don't want to look like an irresponsible corporation.


• Any product that says within 30 days you can look like some tall, well toned, tanned, blond beauty, and continue to eat what you want and not exercise, just swallow the magic pill or drink a slimming shake. Right!


• I am skeptical when stores continually run 50% off sales. My instinct tells me that they raised the prices so they could then lower them by 50%, mark a tag and make people think that they are getting a bargain when in reality they are paying full price.


• Anything marked Lite. I am convinced that whatever they did to make it Lite, is going to be declared unhealthy in about 10 years.


• Any self help program that says that it can teach you how to be debt free, pay off your mortgage and get oodles of savings in the bank all within a year....sure!


• Any product that claims to be self cleaning - I have a self cleaning oven, that once it does its thing , I still need to wipe out the crud that is left behind.


• Stain resistant fabrics - I have managed to stain them all


• Auto insurance ads bug me, each one says it can save you more money than the other guy, yeah, if you buy a car and never drive it!


• And the uber expensive face creams that claim that they tighten the skin, firm the old neck wattle and take years off of your appearance, all for just $100/ounce....I'm beginning to get used to the wattle...gobble, gobble, gobble.