Maybe a boomer can relate to this.

[zanana1]

Let me start off by saying I'm 69, have grey hair and walk with a cane. A few days ago, I took a cab. When the cabbie called in to dispatch, he said "I just picked up a Boomerang".
I have a question; would you be insulted by being referred to as a "Boomerang"? The cabbie was surprised that I was. What do you think?

[ret5hd]

1. At least he thought...

you were gonna live long enough to return?

[Scrivener7]

2. That's just rude.

[Harker]

3. Round trip? n/t

[Hoyt]

14. That's what I think too.

[OLDMDDEM]

4. I've been called worse.

No, I wouldn't have been insulted. I'm 73.

[secondwind]

7. Same here.... if we were to get upset at every little comment, we's all be basket cases.

[OLDMDDEM]

18. I agree with you

If I were to be upset over every time I heard a comment like that, I would be in therapy. It isn't worth the effort.

[Scrivener7]

25. On the other hand, if we don't like what someone has called us, and we calmly say, "that

isn't very polite," we are likely not to be called it again.

Why is it a problem to do that?

[unweird]

5. Better than being called a yo-yo

If you were doing a round trip somewhere and back seems like an easy slang term for the fare. Save the umbrage for things that matter.

[Goonch]

6. Are you talkin' to me, hack-driver?

[ret5hd]

19. "Talkin' 'bout ya, not to ya.

[SamKnause]

8. I'm 68.

I wouldn't give a shit.

[Walleye]

9. I would think that our generation is beyond being insulted by cute nicknames

We are still being called communist and anarchist and lazy good-for-nothings. Boomerang sounds kind of cute but I don’t think it was really meant as an insult to us.

[hlthe2b]

10. Were you not taking a round-trip? Seems a normal slang for "there and back" to me?

after all, that is what boomerangs do.

Not sure I'd take any offense...

[Clash City Rocker]

11. Honestly, my first thought was that you must have lived a pretty carefree life if that bothers you

I assume he just meant that he was taking you somewhere and then taking you back. If he said that every time he did it, it would be rather time-consuming. In every business, people develop shorthand terms for people and for things, to save time. He wasn’t claiming you were literally a curved stick, nor was the term a personal insult to you. I’ve probably been called a million things worse than that.

[zanana1]

12. It was a one way trip. nt

[Piasladic]

15. overthinking it, friend

I get that being in a car with someone you don't know is awkward. Being called a boomerang is nothing like what have been called for just not shaving. Jeees... the privilege

[zanana1]

17. OKAY. I get it.

I guess I was being just a tad sensitive.

[Scrivener7]

24. I disagree. Did it bother you? If so, you have the right to say, "That's not very polite" or

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something of the sort.

What are these people saying? We aren't allowed to express our opinions? Screw that! From your reaction here, I'm sure you would not have been dopey about it, but you are allowed to express your preference.

And why did the cabbie feel the need to refer to your age anyway? If he referred to your race or gender, it would have been weird. This was weird too.

[Scrivener7]

23. So, if someone is called something that bothers them, they should call you and find out

if you have been called worse. If you have, they need to just shut up. If you haven't, they are free to express their objection to being called what they have been called.

That makes total sense.

PS: Jeez. The privilege on YOU to tell someone they are not allowed to express their preference to a cab driver.

[hunter]

13. He could have called you an old hippie.

Alas my hair got too thin for a ponytail.

[zanana1]

16. I AM an old hippie.

That would have made me happy.

[mockmonkey]

20. I'm 61

The first time I heard "Ok, Boomer!" I laughed my ass off. I wouldn't have known what a Boomerang was and maybe I would have thought it was a rider that goes round trip in the cab. I probably would have laughed at the cabbies answer as well.

[sanatanadharma]

21. At 75 years I am/was too young and too old too

It was decades ago when the amusement-ride operator asked me, as I stepped off the ride, "Are you all right Pops?"

At 75 years I am/was, one too young to be a beatnik and two, too old to be a hippie.
Too lazy to be a lover, I became a philosopher.
Too old to be young, I am left being the wise-old-pops having a second childhood, to get it right.

As a devotee of the Vedic understanding, I have every intention of completing this life such that "my boomerang won't come back".

[malthaussen]

22. Nope. I don't insult that easily. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

26. Never heard Boomerang used for someone of the boomer generation

Boomerangs are things that return to the sender. Were you on a return trip? Or did you ask the driver to both pick you up and return you?
Why get insulted when you don't even know what was meant?

[Phentex]

27. Not sure how I would have felt but I think it's rude...

I think I might have pretended to have an Australian accent and ask him all kinds of personal questions and also pretend to be hard of hearing.