To the retired square grandparents in our local gourmet grocery store. I may look a bit dumpy on the weekend when I go shopping on the weekend but I am accomplished and understand very well that kids sometimes pick stuff up and walk out of stores with it. I noticed my 5 year old daughter picked up a newspaper at the checkout, but before I had a chance to tell her it belongs to the store, you did it for me. And then you had the nerve, when I said I was about to tell her to put it back, to say “I wasn’t sure” with that snide, judgemental look as though I was a lower class insect who didn’t know right from wrong. Focus on parenting your own grandkids, and keep your rich, entitled, retire out of other peoples business. —Paying Your Pension
This article appears in Oct 5-11, 2017.
One’s personal reflection of oneself can impede one’s perceptions. Who cares what another may think; and why let it bother you?
A snide sarcastic rebuttal in the moment is advisable
No, you are not paying their pensions. They contributed to them. Folks just trying to help, maybe you could cut them some slack.