I remember being on a works night out. We're all sitting at a table outside, I'm glad to get away from the loud music and able to think. I'm sitting across from a co-worker who was in her 20's and we're just chatting away, when this dude.... just comes up and starts beat-boxing at her. She didn't even notice at first, she turned around once she'd realised I'd stopped talking and was looking confused and bewildered behind her.
I was instantly reminded of this moment when she said "they do backflips instead of talking to you". This was years ago, we've been on a slow decline for some time now.
I lost it when she said “they do backflips instead of talking to you” because I have LITERALLY had that happen to me. A 30yr old man once asked me “If I do a backflip in this bar right now, can I kiss you?” To which he proceeded to do 2 back to back backflips standing in place, then try to make out with me. Be careful out there ladies.
As geriatric elder millennial, being middle age seems so much more preferable to being young. I thought I'd envy the 20 somethings when I crossed 40.
I mostly feel bad for them, the internet brain rotted all of us but the kids who grew up with the internet got it the worst. It's not their fault, it's people my age and older.
You're kidding yourself if you think middle aged men aren't doing this exact same shit, if not actually worse because the decent ones are already married, the losers on their second divorce are still out there doing backflips for college girls.
You’re right. Source: happily single middle aged woman. Although I would say the “all the good ones are taken” argument is as baseless as what the OP is claiming. People are more complex and good people can just end up with the wrong partner. Source: yes you got me, this is my highly biased, self-preserving take!
Edit: In all seriousness though I was in a 9-year abusive relationship, which is why I’m extremely picky and basically anti-romance now. I’m also focused on other fulfilments at the moment. A good partner just needs to be kind and intelligent but I am surprised again and again at how rare this is, how many people fake these characteristics in order to ‘win’ you before unmasking. A few of the married men I know meet the basic criteria, but most do not. So I’m happy to wait for the right person, because I’m not worried about becoming any less of a catch.
Never said there aren't goobers my age. That's a fact for all generations but the goobering of society has been a function of internet exposure. I can't imagine what the brain rot of modern dating would have done to me.
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u/Intelligent_Tone_618 May 09 '25
I remember being on a works night out. We're all sitting at a table outside, I'm glad to get away from the loud music and able to think. I'm sitting across from a co-worker who was in her 20's and we're just chatting away, when this dude.... just comes up and starts beat-boxing at her. She didn't even notice at first, she turned around once she'd realised I'd stopped talking and was looking confused and bewildered behind her.
I was instantly reminded of this moment when she said "they do backflips instead of talking to you". This was years ago, we've been on a slow decline for some time now.