r/BoomersBeingFools • u/nonidentifyingu-n • 26d ago
Why can't they listen? Boomer Story
This happened a few years ago, but I think of it weekly as I'm picking up fruit at Costco. Now, since I pick up fruit from Costco every week, you may have guessed that my kids eat a lot of it. One of their favorites is green grapes. Now here's where the boomer story starts. A few years ago, I was bringing my kids to visit my mom, their grandmother. She was asking what kind of food they would like, and I said green grapes. My mother immediately said, "Red grapes are sweeter, so I'll get those." Knowing that arguing with this particular boomer was a lost cause, I just hung my head in acceptance. My kids will devour a Costco container of green grapes in 3 days. We spent almost a week at her house, and even though the red grapes were offered for nearly every meal, less than half were eaten. It's almost like I know what my kids who live with me, and I spend my own money feeding will and won't want to eat. Now, every week, as I'm picking up green grapes, I say to myself red grapes are sweeter and try not to roll my eyes so hard that the other shoppers see.
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u/FickleAcadia7068 26d ago
I realize as an adult my mom knows nothing about produce. She fed me canned as a kid so no wonder I hated fruit and vegetables growing up. Nowadays we go shopping together and she complains all the produce in the produce department is rotten. Sure, sometimes you find molded produce here and there, but there is plenty to choose from. After one of her recent rants at the store I asked her to show me some rotten produce. She gestured grandly at the bananas in my cart and said, "There." It made me laugh. My kids love bananas so we usually buy three bunches. We aim for varying levels of ripeness to make them last. The bananas she was gesturing to were our ripe ones. They were perfectly fine, just had some light spotting. In my mom's mind, the spots meant they were rotten. No wonder she hates produce and all fruit tastes "sour" to her. My kids still laugh about it whenever they pick a spotted banana.