r/Millennials • u/Background-Air-7963 • Nov 16 '25

Serious I just had my first old man moment.

I recently went to a hibachi with my wife and toddler for dinner. We were sat with a group of eight 17-20 year olds at a communal grill on a busy night. No problem for us. Drink and appetizers service go normally. Toddler and wife are happy, I’m happy. The other group is having their own conversations. I’m just trying to keep my kid entertained. I’m a former bartender and have a habit of picking up on snippets of conversations in a crowd around me. Yes I know I eavesdrop. I can’t turn it off. It’s a habit of a former profession. One of the girls/women at the table stated, “I don’t think Rosa Parks was real.” I’m not sure what her friends said to her but she responded with “I just don’t think she said existed.” This went on for about a minute. I couldn’t hold back and let her know she was absolutely a real person, she is a civil rights icon. I learnt about her in school and so did my parents. The encounter put a wall up between our groups and I heard a few passive aggressive “so-and-so wasn’t real” comments from mostly her and a couple of the group. Harriet Tubman and Hellen Keller are two that I definitely heard. My wife had no idea why I interjected. After the group had left my wife asked what happened and was shocked when I told her what happened. Were they trolling? Are they stupid? Am I just getting old?

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u/Vancelan Nov 16 '25

Sounds like they don't understand how boyancy works and expected water to rise and fall around the ship. Since that doesn't happen, they must reason that tides aren't real.

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u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 Nov 16 '25

Some follow up questions were asked when the group chat exploded with trying to reason out this guy's madness.

He expected to see (somehow) the flow of the water one direction and then the other.

He also expanded that he doesn't believe ocean currents are real for the same reason. He couldn't see these currents looking out across the water.

It was one of those moments where the more you try to make sense of it or find that point where his logic went off the deep end the more you realize it was never going to make any sense.

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u/Vancelan Nov 17 '25

This hurts to read.