Generation X knows all about the breakfast club, but it’s the boomers who say “hold my coffee” and then do it correctly. At least, that’s the experience of Monday morning breakfast with members of Retired Old Men Eating Out.

Calling themselves the ROMEOs (Jetty even made hats up for the group), they meet Monday mornings at 8 a.m. for an hour of table talk and, as seen on a recent spring Monday at LBI Table in Ship Bottom, playful verbal jabs that end in laughter.

“We rarely miss a Monday,” said Vince Farias, a retired teacher and businessman.