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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

10 Signs That You're A Curmudgeon

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Miles, I never formally wished you a happy birthday, sir. Oh, thank you, brother. Appreciate you, man.

0:03.9

Do you also know, fittingly enough, what holiday it is? I do not. It's National Kermudgeon's Day.

0:09.1

Oh! The Mintsrup Top 10!

0:17.8

Yes, National Kermudgeon's Day, but therein lies the big, big question. You know, we're all getting up there an agent. At some point, we all make the turn. But how do we know if we are indeed a curmudgeon? I find it's easy. Everyone keeps telling me. That is one of the signs, but it's not on this list. But I do have the signs of different ways to tell if you are in fact a curmudgeon. So number one on this list, you're impossible in restaurants. When eating out, you are certain that the portions are either too small, they're too big, the print on the menu is unreadable, it's too dark, it's too bright, it's too noisy, it's like a tomb. It's too cold. Why are they serving everything on slates?

0:55.2

I like going out.

0:56.1

Yeah.

0:56.7

I enjoy it.

0:57.4

Why did you go to a restaurant? So I struggled with this last week. I was in a bar. And I finally turned two of my friends. One is older, one younger. And I said, is it me? or is the decibel this music just like a little bit too loud.

1:11.4

So, of course, my older buddy was like, it's way too loud.

1:13.5

And my other buddy was like, it's just, Is it me or is the decibel of this music just like a little bit too loud?

1:13.4

So, of course, my older buddy was like, it's way too loud.

1:25.7

Then my other buddy was like, it's just a little bit too loud. So I was like, all right, it made me feel a little bit better. But I was like, I wasn't going to ask the bartender to turn it down. That's when you're a combustion. Yeah. Like, I'll be in a bar of my wife like, God, this music is loud.

1:30.8

But I'm like, but the minute we ask the bartender to turn it down, that's when we become old people.

1:31.5

Correct.

1:32.0

And there was like groups of 20 some people in there.

1:34.4

So I ain't asking.

1:35.4

Right.

1:36.4

They know who asked.

1:37.9

I straight up had to refuse to ever go out to eat with a friend ever again just because no

1:43.1

matter what, any time we went out to a restaurant

1:45.6

they found something was wrong the service was too slow the food didn't look right they didn't

1:52.2

put this on there i call that matter what there was always something wrong that was my marriage

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