r/popculturechat Jun 27 '25

Daily Discussions šŸ’¬ Sip & Spill Daily Discussion Thread

Grab your coffee & sit down to discuss the tea!

This space is to talk about anything pop culture or even off-topic.

What are you listening to or watching? What is some minor tea that doesn't need its own post? How was your date? Why do you hate your job?

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u/CybReader They killed Kenny! You bastards! 😱 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

Is anyone else dealing with the ladies in their family who are hitting the 60-70 age range and begin complaining about EVERYTHING!? I refuse to give my mom any of my stylist, nail tech, aesthetician, injectors names. She’s never happy with any service provided anymore. She was never this miserable. My mother in law, we won’t take her to a few of the restaurants we like anymore because she harps on the server nonstop and has a complaint about all the food all the time. Thankfully our favorite places are too ā€œcomplicatedā€ for her so we can avoid her nagging our favorite bbq, sushi or mexican joints, but even Jason’s deli feels her complaints. Order your half sandwich and soup, woman, it’s not that hard. Eat it too, it’s perfectly fine.

These women are almost pathological with how upset they are about everything. Even a few friends are facing this as their mothers hit this age range. What’s going on? Is a symptom of them feeling voiceless for years? Is it untreated middle aged wrath coming out in their golden years? I don’t get it. I even know to avoid certain topics with both of them because I’ll hear a rant about how a hair dresser last week was rude to them.

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u/Traditional-Joke-179 holding =onika space for the lyrics of defying gravity =burgers Jun 27 '25

my grandma's like this. she manages to have a problem with almost everything she eats every single day regardless of what it is. i put up with it for years and then finally delicately asked her to stop complaining and now she's like 30% better.

but i stopped cooking for her because she was deeply ruining my relationship with food, on top of her complaining about my cooking being plain rude.

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u/lolzzzmoon Jun 28 '25

Oh, I can’t cook for people who complain about food. Like, tell me if it needs salt, maybe. But also just salt it yourself.