# Have you got angrier as you've gotten older? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 30, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-got-angrier-as-youve-gotten-older/703069 "2014-10-30T23:45:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-got-angrier-as-youve-gotten-older/703069/41 "2014-10-31T19:10:50Z")
I’m not even 40 yet, so take this with a grain of salt. I don’t feel like I’ve necessarily gotten angrier in the sense the OP describes - that of things annoying me more. However, there are a number of very frustrating problems in my life right now. I have a certain baseline of anger that is with me continually because of these problems, and that is something I didn’t have when I was younger. On the other hand, I am at least dealing with things in a more outwardly calm manner than I did when I was young. One of these ongoing frustrations raised its head yesterday. I thought I’d solved this ongoing problem two months ago, but my solution has proven not to work, yet again, so now I’m back to square one with a problem I’ve been unable to solve despite seven years of trial and error. I’m pretty pissed off about it, but I’ll be able to handle it without raising my voice. (When this same problem failed to be solved four years ago, I let that anger show more than I should have). So, I don’t know… if the trend continued I suppose I’d wind up as the apparently kindly old man who is inwardly seething with rage. That’s obviously not where I intend to end up, but I don’t suppose any crotchety old guy intended it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-got-angrier-as-youve-gotten-older/703069/42 "2014-10-31T19:44:52Z")
I’m mellower, but I do like to ACT angrier. My dad also got much mellower as he aged. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-got-angrier-as-youve-gotten-older/703069/43 "2014-10-31T20:07:02Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > In some ways I am more mellow and understanding of weakness. At the same time I have a clearer picture of what I don’t like and more comfort in speaking my mind. That’s where I feel I am - more patient and understanding of where other people are coming from, and less tolerant of the assholes of the world being assholes. > [@Wallaby](#): > > I hate bloody internet polls. Haven’t you people anything better to do?? I think I know what you voted for. 🙂 > [@Becky2844](#): > > Are you a turkey baby, too? I’m pissed that I spend every birthday cooking Thanksgiving dinner. 😛 I would have been if I was born in the US - end of November. As it is, I’m sometimes a Grey Cup baby. > [@Bouncer](#): > > I’m on the fence. I’m more mellow frequently, but when I’m in a mood I’m like Lewis Black. Just this sputtering uncomprehending fury at just how dumb people are sometimes. 😛 > > Regards, > -Bouncer- That sputtering uncomprehending fury comes from two things, I think - the first is why on earth won’t people JUST USE THEIR FUCKING BRAINS ALREADY AND STOP DOING SUCH STUPID SHIT?!? and the other is, OMFG, this is the five hundredth time I’ve seen this particular stupidity, and why won’t people JUST USE THEIR FUCKING BRAINS ALREADY AND STOP DOING SUCH STUPID SHIT?!? Did I vote for angrier? I forgot already. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-got-angrier-as-youve-gotten-older/703069/44 "2014-10-31T20:35:08Z")
People driving badly and doing other stupid things don’t bother me at all now that I’ve passed 60. Maybe that just means that I drive badly and do other stupid things myself and that smarter people are seething at the things I do. I get stone cold mad, though, at large groups of people who enable institutional inertia. Which is kinda stupid because I probably can’t do anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-got-angrier-as-youve-gotten-older/703069/45 "2014-10-31T20:53:25Z")
Goddamn it, looks like I’m in the minority! This makes me very angry. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-got-angrier-as-youve-gotten-older/703069/46 "2014-10-31T21:05:52Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > This makes me very angry. Not just terribly, terribly hurt? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-got-angrier-as-youve-gotten-older/703069.md?page=2)