My dad spent 40 years mastering his craft, and last week someone half his age told him how to eat.😠

What is he eating?
Maybe he should have a specific diet?
I had assumed it was a professional who said this.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding here.

Being a professional chef does not necessarily mean you apply your knowledge to your own habits. Im thinking of chefs who maybe overweight, alcoholics even - not suggesting this is your DF, but it doesn't necessarily follow that those who have the expertise put it into practice themselves.

Why do these posts always read like AI wrote them?

I think I know the scene. I feel the same about visits to the GP surgery for the long term condition check when the HCA lectures me about eating healthily when she is at least 4 stone overweight and takes no account of my weight loss journey, my struggles with depression or my background as a highly qualified nurse. I just smile, probably a rictus smile and say I was a nurse.

You do sound dramatic or over invested in the importance of a passi g comment.
Without any context at all it's hard to comment further.

NoraHayes

to Jaxjacky
Letting it wash over you is one way to handle it. But I'd argue that's exactly how it becomes normal. Because everyone lets it wash over them. And then one day you look around and realise an entire generation has been quietly absorbing things they should never have had to absorb in the first place.

Or an entire generation has been too polite to tell some people to mind their own business, and has pointed out that this generation taught them to use a knife and fork!
(Not to mention potty training. )

Usedtobeblonde

Know as how to teach your Grandmother to suck eggs.

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I think it was patronising to tell your dad what he should be eating, especially given the circumstances. That is, unless it was a health professional with good reason to give advice.

Nonetheless, if your dad hadn't said it, I would have - simply pointed out that he was a professional chef.

to Jaxjacky
Letting it wash over you is one way to handle it. But I'd argue that's exactly how it becomes normal. Because everyone lets it wash over them. And then one day you look around and realise an entire generation has been quietly absorbing things they should never have had to absorb in the first place.

To Marg75
I'm not sure the way he dealt with it is best though. I understand why he did it. But I sometimes wonder if the quiet dignity of saying nothing is exactly what makes people think it's acceptable to keep doing it.

I’d just let it wash over me, sounds like the person commenting didn’t know his background and was well meaning.
I’d have said thank you like your Dad and moved on.

It sounds as though you love and admire your Dad very much and I don't think you are being dramatic. The way he dealt with it is best though because he has the memories that the young have yet to experience.

Known !

Know as how to teach your Grandmother to suck eggs.