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Are Old People Just Better at Mindless, Repetitive Tasks?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:45 pm
My grandmother used to love to shuck corn and shell peas. She knitted, crocheted and sewed.
My grandfather could whittle for hours with no pause.
Seems Gen X and beyond lost the ability to just focus on a simple, repetitive task without losing their damn minds.
I can't sit still for thirty minutes. I've got to be constantly doing something different.
I wish I had you old timer's focus.
My grandfather could whittle for hours with no pause.
Seems Gen X and beyond lost the ability to just focus on a simple, repetitive task without losing their damn minds.
I can't sit still for thirty minutes. I've got to be constantly doing something different.
I wish I had you old timer's focus.
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Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:46 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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My grandfather could whittle for hours with no pause.
Having kids fries your brain. All you want to do is stare off into the distance and not think.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:46 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
They find things like that therapeutic. Helps when you gotta put up with dipshit kids and grandchildren who can't sit still for 30 minutes.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:48 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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Are Old People Just Better at Mindless, Repetitive Tasks?
Many of them are okay with doing something and not thinking of why they are doing it.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:49 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
They're also really good at taking an eternity in line at the grocery store.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:49 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
As you age, you realize life is a grind. Might as well be good at it.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:51 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
People in those days just were not in such a goddamn hurry.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:51 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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Are Old People Just Better
Until they become senile, yes.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:53 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Was doing some landscaping type work for an uppity old woman between semesters in '91 and she went off on me about how people don't take the time to do things right anymore. Every time I think about cutting a corner I think of her.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:53 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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Are Old People Just Better at Mindless, Repetitive Tasks?
My grandmother used to love to shuck corn and shell peas. She knitted, crocheted and sewed.
My grandfather could whittle for hours with no pause.
Yes, which is why they're so much more willing to work in cubicles doing the same thing all day, every day for decades.
And think that people who don't want to do that are lazy.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:55 pm to cattus
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Every time I think about cutting a corner I think of her.
and then cut that fricking corner and get to happy hour on time?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 2:55 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
No, because those mother frickers take forever at the self-checkout!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 2/15/18 at 3:00 pm to 50_Tiger
I hate the self-checkout machine telling my to collect my change. I got this shite.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 3:06 pm to TheCaterpillar
Yeah, next to millenials my ethic is top notch and the old hag is dead. I win.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 3:08 pm to FightinTigersDammit
They also had much fewer distractions or other things to attend to. No social media, hell no internet, limited tv, go to one store one time per week, limited travel, didn’t get online to pay bills, trusted their employer looked out for their retirement, health insurance was very basic.
I mean stop and think for one minute of every form of just email went away. We didn’t have that technology. I can’t even remember what life was like without it and I’m over 40.
I mean stop and think for one minute of every form of just email went away. We didn’t have that technology. I can’t even remember what life was like without it and I’m over 40.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 3:11 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I would debate shucking corn is no less of a mindless activity as holding a phone looking at pictures with bunny noses on someones face. That whittling takes more talent than texting.
We've all become more mindless than a knitting grandmother, that's for sure.
We've all become more mindless than a knitting grandmother, that's for sure.
This post was edited on 2/15/18 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 2/15/18 at 3:13 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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Are Old People Just Better at Mindless, Repetitive Tasks?
Like responding to your posts? I guess so. I guess so.
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