Grandpa Grumpy's Rants

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Making medical appointments

You must do it weeks in advance, through outsourced call centers, repeating yourself 14 times, and they want your credit card before they even know your name.

Corporate dentists

Check-in kiosks, assembly-line chairs, and a dentist who looks like he still needs a hall pass just to leave the room.

Hidden healthcare costs

It includes surprise bills and the magical mystery pricing system that somehow nobody can explain, even after the bill shows up.

Out-of-network charges

Nobody can explain it, nobody understands it, but somehow it decides what you pay and where you can go.

‘Inconclusive’ medical tests

After four appointments and a pile of tests, somehow I ended up with a prescription for something that was barely wrong.

What happened to paper receipts

What used to be a simple piece of paper to serve as proof of a transaction has turned into endless spam, surveys and marketing messages.

We officially ruined Easter

Easter used to be simple, but now it’s a full-blown production.

Why does everything need an app today?

If something requires an app just to work, it probably didn’t need to exist in the first place.

‘Longer-than average’ wait times

Some of these places have no idea what their “average” even is. If every call takes forever to answer, then that IS your average.