Free Range by Bill Whitehead for March 19, 2025

“Grouch” potatoes.

I guess the hook nose and grouchiness genes are together on the Y chromosome.

Hey, after so many years of putting up with morons, prigs, and a$$holes we have earned the right to be the way we are.

Sign me up!!!

If the group was Anonymous, why’d he give his name?

Curmudgeon is a great word.

I curmudgeonlate, therefore I am…………old.

I’ve never aspired to be a curmudgeon, it just came naturally.

Now repeat after me: “Kids these days …”

We will take a break shortly and all go outside and yell at clouds.

Some mornings, I put the cur in curmudgeon. HEY! Get off my lawn!! (just practicing for when the snow is gone).

You’ve got nothing on us misanthropes!

HEY I resemble that remark……now leave me alone.

Contumacious at that!

I think I’m only an occasional common fudgist at this point in my life.

I am definitely closer to a curmudgeon than a plugger. (As oldpine52 mentioned, I have earned the right to be that way!)

My brother and I went to visit my father one summer after not seeing him for 6-8 months. The first thing he said to us when we opened the door was, “Shut the door! You’re letting all the bugs in!” Love you, too, Dad!

I’m fighting it, some days better than others. So far I’m doing well today, I erased all three of the rants I wrote without posting any (yesterday I didn’t do as well).

I’ve found my people