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a friend of my mom from the FSM sent me this, with the best of intentions, I think:
A college student challenged a senior citizen, saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his.
"You grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers..."
Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you doing for the next generation?"
But that wasn't the point the student was making at all...
And also, the complainer is only a college student; the old fogey hadn't accomplished anything so great while still in college.
Understanding is a real issue...can't older folks actually address the issue of the generation gap?
And if we grew up in the world that their generation created and they don't understand us, then it seems to me that's their problem...no?
A college student challenged a senior citizen, saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his.
"You grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers..."
Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you doing for the next generation?"
But that wasn't the point the student was making at all...
And also, the complainer is only a college student; the old fogey hadn't accomplished anything so great while still in college.
Understanding is a real issue...can't older folks actually address the issue of the generation gap?
And if we grew up in the world that their generation created and they don't understand us, then it seems to me that's their problem...no?