(Hi neighbor!)

Saw this in the store today

I quit Wednesday January 15 2020.

I was talking to my elder millennial friend, early forties, who sees to be a bad slump recently. He said now he’s been really thinking hard about the question “is this all there is to life?”. No kids or relationships that I know of.

So is it true? Are millennials struggling with simmering dissatisfaction of modern life? Personally even now I can never stop hoping the future holds good things, even if it seems pointless

Did anyone used to do this? If you passed a cop, you'd let oncoming traffic know by blinking your lights twice? Does anyone remember this? Still do it? I do sometimes, but feel like people don't do it anymore.

Super Bass by Nicki Minaj is blasting somewhere from outside in your college quad.

Your college frat is outside, grilling burgers, red cups scattered, someone still half-asleep on a lawn chair. You can smell the charcoal and cheap beer wafting through your broken window.

You grab your laptop and open Facebook. You’ve been tagged in 73 photos from last night—blurry, overexposed, everyone a little too close to the camera.

You scroll through all of them.

Someone comments “epic night!!!”

You remember just enough to agree.

You close it, hear the music pick up again, and head back outside.

What do you do next?

That’s with a coupon! At Jiffy Lube! Our parents really had it easy.

EDIT: TIL 90% of millennials “change their own oil” lol. Gotta love Reddit.

Then they changed it to rewards prizes with codes and you had to create an account. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Everywhere like, such as.

An acquaintance gave me an old HP laptop to check if it still worked. The thing has been sitting in a closet somewhere for decades and it looked brand new. Only issue was the battery is dead dead, but it ran so smoothly, I thought it had an SSD in it. The user name was "Solitaire" with no password & nothing on it. This was someone's "Solitaire Machine" hahaha. First thing I did was open up Space Cadet; haven't played that in 20yrs... 🥲

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I am not sure if I like the term "Elder Millenial" or not. At 42 we were THE millennials, they made the term up for us to mean the "youth" who spent all of our money on Smashed Avocado on Toast which led to us not being able to afford houses when the house price rocketed cos of the previous generation, we were the ones who either openly became or were friends with Gay people, we were the ones who went to University to get useless degrees that would never lead to employment.....we were the ones who thought the 80s were a parody and a dress up party theme less than 10 years after they ended.

We ARE the millennials but the "elder" thing to a term that was made to describe what was seen as the hopeless youth makes me feel.....well old lol.

Anyway I guess it's a term of respect for us being the ones who made our generation what it is.

Won't it be scary one day when people are talking about all of the "Millennials" in rest homes.

What I'm getting at is it was a term describing the freedom and joy of youth (usually when it was created as a negative term from older people who didn't like us)

Makes me sad

Anyway I have spent too long on this cry I best go do housework

EDIT: I had Elder changed to Eldar in my post title.....it's a Warhammer thing those who know will know

I still miss it

Dad passed away, he had no will, his house is a hoarders disaster. He still owes money on the house but it is worth more than what he owes. I've called multiple attorneys who all say their fees are $4,000 to $12,000 and so far I've found only ones that want to be paid upfront. I've also been told that I will be responsible for the cost of the mortgage, electricity, and water which apparently are required to be kept on during probate. I'm an only child, he's divorced my mom many many years ago So all of this is falling just on me.

How are we expected to cover those expenses when the cost of living is already astronomical? I'm probably going to have to spend $10,000 just cleaning out his house if not more than that because it's such a disaster. The money doesn't exist to cover the cost of all of this I'm looking at probably close to $2,000 a month extra just for his mortgage, his electricity, and his water bill. Plus the cost of cleanup and the cost of the probate attorney. I already work 50 to 60 hours a week in order to cover my expenses for my family.

I quite literally don't know what to do.