I wonder it there really is such a thing as Meldrewism?
Because I really am becoming more like him, what’s more I enjoy it 
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I don’t belieeeve it!!! 
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A moaning old person?
The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
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The amount of cars on the road this morning. Traffic jams everywhere. Remember those heady days when it was one car per family. These days everyone just to have their own car. Dad has one, Mum has one, their 2 point 4 kids have one each. If you’re lucky? enough to have more kids they all get bought one on reaching that fateful age. Those people that have off road parking still park on the road. Those that drive their kids to school must get as close to the school gates as possible, some even stop within the yellow zig zag lines. Ok howz that for a moan? Come on now own up, who agrees with me? 
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Your post does highlight that there is probably more to moan about these days. Cars everywhere, roads packed with cars - driving and parked, bad and thoughtless driving and parking. Yup, a whole bunch to moan about there regardless of your age.
My usual response to a moaner is" Why don’t you go and live somewhere else like Ukraine or Afghanistan or Palestine then ?"
perhaps because this is their country, why shouldnt they moan?..
if no one had ever moaned we would still be working six days a week with no pension, and if you were broke you went to the poor house… moaners changed everything…
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I ain’t buying that, I’m doin seven days a week and never moan.
so who are you ‘working’ for then
Me, nothing more, nothing less.
Simplicity is the way forward.
There’s just moaning and there’s actually doing something about it,big difference.
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if no-one moaned why would anything be changed?
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That’s my theory too and TBH I quite enjoy a frikkin good moan when the blanket adhesive hits the fan. At my advanced years, a good howl in the right direction is about all I can manage exertion wise now 
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Me, I don’t think moaning changes anything, it’s just depressing background noise about cliches and everyone quite rightly just ignores you 
It’s no good moaning and being a downer about things I can’t change or can’t be bothered to try to change
On the other hand, if think I can change them, get on and try, don’t moan
Of course we should speak out if we think something is wrong and try to get it put right.
But I think apathy is a big part of being a moaner
It’s like that old AA prayer…….
“grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”
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Although I love driving and would probably have been one of those drivers contributing to those traffic jams you speak of EZ, it doesn’t take Einstein to figure out that we can’t go on flooding the roads with cars, lorries and delivery drivers much longer, or else nobody will be able to go anywhere due to one massive gridlock…
The problem seems to have developed over the seventy years that I’ve been an observer and a contributor. The condition of the roads is getting worse, and the speed limits are being reduced in the name of cleaner air. Car manufacturers are spewing out vehicles that are bigger, faster and more complex than the last lot, until one day you will be just a passenger in your own car! 
So what can we do? Make it so expensive to own and drive a car that people are priced off the roads seems to be the only option as far as I can see…
The roads are getting so crowded it’s quite hard to go fast anyway .
It takes longer to get anywhere it’s seems .
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The roads are quiet for early risers, it’s the loafers and the faffers that cause congestion 
In my experience moaners enjoy moaning and don’t want anything put right otherwise they wouldn’t have anything to moan about.
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