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It's actually amazing what you had to convince people to do. On Youtube is a film from 1940 about how to use these newfangled dials on telephones, framed as a granddaughter teaching her grandfather because she's the only one he won't curmudgeon.
There was something of a rebellion against the Zone Improvement Plan, that using ZIP codes would somehow drain the humanity out of the country instead of, you know, making mail easier to sort.
I had to look up curmudgeon, and then niggard
what whild ride that was
Yeah I was trying to be creative there.
A "curmudgeon" is a stubborn, cranky, usually old person. The word bears some resemblance to "bludgeon", which is both a noun meaning a blunt force weapon, a club or cudgel, OR a verb meaning to attack or hit someone with such a weapon. Thus treating "curmudgeon" as a verb should mean to cantankerously complain about/at/to someone. "I asked grampa if he remembered to take his life alert pendant with him and I got curmudgeoned."