1. I'm tired of hearing complaints that young people today are terrible. Didn't you yourselves raise these young people?

2. «Don't believe everything you see on the internet,» my parents told me 30 years ago when I was a teenager. Now I have to say the same thing to them.

3. I'm tired of many older people expecting gratitude for everything they've done, while at the same time refusing to take responsibility for the problems they've left for future generations to deal with.

4. I often hear that young people only spend their time drinking and partying. As if you did anything different at our age.

5. And I'm constantly accused of wasting my feminine purpose because I don't want to have children.

6. I constantly hear that nobody wants to work these days. We do want to work, but not for a pittance. You, Grandpa, worked as a mechanic at a car factory and easily supported Grandma and four children. If I go to work as a mechanic now, I can barely support my wife, maybe a cat too.

7. My parents constantly complain that I can't fix anything. And then they ask me to fix the Wi-Fi, the internet, the computer. We can fix things, but we have different skills. I remember when I was 18, my father and I were driving, and the car had a flat tire. My father asked me to change it, but I had never changed a tire before and asked how to do it. My father suggested I figure it out myself. While I was watching YouTube videos and struggling with the tire, my father's internet went out on his phone. He asked me to look into it, and I told him to figure it out himself, since I had changed the tire myself. Then my father didn't speak to me for a month.

8. «If you want your own house, you just have to work, like I did.» Yes, Dad, I need to work, but nowadays a simple manager, like you were back then, doesn't get paid half the cost of a house in a year.

9. Recently, my mother asked again why I'm not married yet. I replied that if I met someone worth marrying, I would. Mom, you asked me this 15 years ago. Nothing has changed since then.

10. I work in roadside assistance, responding to calls if something happens on the road. Yesterday I went to change a tire. The car belonged to a guy my age. His father was sitting next to him and started complaining to me that his idiot son doesn't even know how to change a tire. I replied, «Well, that's your son. Maybe you should have taught him? And why are you calling us instead of changing the tire yourself?»

11. I'm 32 years old, neither young nor old. But I was struck by the words of my boyfriend's father. I was standing on the porch of the house smoking. He came up and asked where his son was. I said he was in his brother's room drinking tea with him. And the father said, «Tea? I didn't think I raised two women. I was drinking whiskey at their age.» Well, they sometimes drink whiskey too, but what's wrong with tea?

12. They are constantly judgmental and rude. I work in a restaurant and I know what I'm talking about. Young people are much more polite and easygoing. The older generation is impatient, although what's the hurry when you're retired? They often make racist, sexist, and homophobic comments, make remarks about appearance, and behave as if they are better than young people simply because they have lived longer.

13. «You should settle down, start a family, and buy a house.» Grandma, just because you managed to buy a house for 40,000 in the 60s, with Grandpa's money because you stayed home with the children, and now you've sold it for 600,000 and retired, doesn't mean I have the same opportunity. Things are completely different now, so just be quiet.

14. «At your age, I had five children and two grandchildren!» Or: «My granddaughter is your age, and she already has three children. When are you going to give your mother grandchildren?» I'm 30, not old, but not young either. But these kinds of remarks from older people drive me crazy. It seems like they've been saying this to me since I turned 18. The only answer that satisfies them is that my husband and I are working on it. If I say that I'm currently focusing on my career and don't have time for children, they start yelling at me and insisting that children are priceless. But then I resort to rudeness, please forgive me. Although, you don't have to forgive me.

15. My parents constantly ask me to fix their computer. I once told them that computers have been in every home for 30 years, so why haven't you learned the basics in all that time? The only explanation is your own laziness.

16. «Nobody wants to work anymore.» Well, nobody ever wanted to work. That's why work is called work, not fun. Secondly, maybe people don't want to work at your job because your entry-level position requires 10 years of experience and a Nobel laureate's diploma, with a 12-hour workday and minimum wage.

17. I'm tired of hearing them complain that prizes are given out just for participating. I participated in a game, didn't do anything, and I got a prize. My father started laughing at this, and I said that this practice was invented by people of your generation, so laugh at yourselves.

18. «When you get older, you'll agree with me.» Just because you're older doesn't mean you're always right and know everything.