By no means am I old, hell if I was 80 I still would not be old. But the kids today are soft, my wife wanted to get a bike helmet for our oldest when she started to ride a bike, I was lucky if my bike had brakes and a seat!
Kids now days get a scratch that you need a spoting scope to see and they think the world is ending, the ambulance should be called and rush them to a trama center when I was a kid I was lucky to get a band-aid for a severed limb or finger(came real close a couple of times on the finger)
My 10 year old thinks she needs a cell phone! so she can talk to her friends, I told her try not haveing a phone as a kid, even better try being a teenager and haveing to walk almost a mile to your uncle's house so you can try and get a date.
And seat belt laws? where were they when we were kids? my folks always had old cars that had the good old metal dash you could just wipe the blood of of when they slamed on the brakes and you bounced your head off of it.Then they would get on you for getting blood on the dash becouse you were not sitting in the seat.
As for cranky, I know why men get cranky as we get older.
It's the getting up before the crack of dawn six days a week to go to a job that you dont like to put food on the table, making sure that everyone has all that they need for school,band and any other activety that they do and you pay through the nose for. And do we ever get a thanks dad? or a thanks honey? nope not a one. I would call my Dad now and tell him thanks for all he did and all he gave up for us kids, but he is cranky and would kick my backside if I was to call this late.