Actually, the reason people get crankier as we get older is a lifetime of accumulated frustration & discovery that the world sucks. I have LS-120 disk drive that I hadn’t used for high capacity disks in a long time. It works ok with std floppies. Now, for no apparent reason, it won’t read the LS-120 disks. When I tell my antivirus program not to scan Word or Excel templates, it does it anyway. The roof in my breezeway leaks. The light switch in my bathroom doesn’t work & the sink leaks.

I owe the gubmint a total of $900 because my employer screwed up my withholding (didn’t withhold, actually). The contractor who was supposed to bury the wire in the backyard 18”deep underground actually buried it 1”. The backhoe operator from another company discovered it when he was prepping the area for a pole barn foundation. I got Voip (telephone over the internet); now the Internet “goes out” frequently, something like 33 times since April, taking my phone with it. (These are only the ones I remembered to record.)

After 55 years of frustration, I am a grumpy old man. I could go on & on about it, but it would take another 55 years to explain it. Now, I have diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic pain and several other disorders, plus operations on my back, both knees, & wrist. When I was a lad, I was led to believe that no matter what was wrong with you, doctors could fix it. Now, I find out that it is a miracle if they can fix anything.

There are older people who are not cranky, grumpy & permanently pissed off. The only explanation I have for that is that they must be brain dead.