Boomer guy in Sacramento accused my mom of lying about being a Sacramento Kings fan because she has never lived in that city
So I am traveling with my Gen X mom to southern California for a family gathering this week ,and I drove to the Siskiyou mountains area of CA (very northern part of CA and it is where she was born and has spent about 75 percent of her life ) to pick her up and head south .
We stopped at a burger king in Sacramento for lunch and as we were eating,this boomer couple sits at the both next to us and the man is wearing a Kings shirt and hat. My mom (who has been a kings fan since they moved to the city in 85) told him that she liked his style even though they are back to sucking after a couple of good recent years (which is true lol)
The man gave her a weird look and responded with saying that most women "except for his wife,know nothing about basketball or sports in general "
My mom holds her own all of the time ,and she responded to him in a sassy way that she grew up playing sports and has been a 49ers,Giants and Kings fan for over 40 years and has been to many games of each (all true)
The man looked at her suspiciously and began asking her random trivia questions about each of those teams (mostly on the kings) to which she got about 90 percent of it all right.
Instead of converting like an adult,he asked her where she was from ,and after she told him that she's from Siskiyou county,he asked if she had ever lived in Sacramento to which she answered that she had never done so.
He got this annoying shit eating grin on his face ,and declared that he knew that she wasn't a real kings fan as she has never lived in the city and that proved it.
His wife simply looked down at her tray at that point (never really said anything during the whole conversation tbh)
My mom looked at him with a dumbfounded expression and asked him what that had to do with fandom? He said that "no one is a true fan of a team unless they've lived in the same city as them at some point in their life at least"
My mom asked him how long he had lived in Sacramento and he gave her yet another stupid look and simply said "Long enough"
His wife mumbled something to him and he didn't look or speak to us again
My mom and I laughed about it outside on the way back to the car .
These boomer fools...I swear .