Stunning Senior Moment Apparently, a self-important college freshman attending a recent football game took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.
‘You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one’, the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. The young people of today grew up with;
Television
Jet planes
Space travel
Man walking on the moon
Our space probes have visited Mars
We have nuclear energy, ships and electric and hydrogen cars
Cell phones
Computers with light-speed processing...and more.
‘After a brief silence, the senior citizen responded as follows:
‘You’re right, son. We didn’t have those things when we were young ... so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little shit, what are you doing for the next generation?’
The applause was amazing ...
Gosh I am probably in trouble now ... I didn’t write anything in my own blog yesterday! No excuse, I just kept putting it off until I ended up not doing it at all. Oh Well. So here’s a quick rundown of yesterday’s news.
Tracey and I went to breakfast because she didn’t have to go to work until noon. After breakfast we took a little morning nap. I had planned to mow grass but it was so terribly hot and humid I didn’t do it. The temperatures hovered in the mid 90s and the humidity around 80% ... not nice at all.
I called the Piaggio scooter dealership and finally got to talk to Steve the owner. He said he ordered my new headlight assembly right after he got my email with pictures last Friday. That’s a good thing! I was afraid he had been dodging my calls or something. With any luck Tracey’s scooter will be done by next Friday and my parts will be in so we can go up there Friday (Tracey has the day off) and bring her scooter home as well as my parts.
Our motorcycle headsets arrived in the mail so we can hopefully mess with those to see how well they work. I charged them up right after I opened up the packages so they are all ready to go.
It is already storming again this morning so it looks like another unbearable hot and humid day in store again. I am beginning to think our area is turning into a tropical jungle or something!
MjL 05 Aug 2008, 07:00 a.m.
On the bright side, your tropical jungle isn’t 113 degrees in the shade :P
Noah L 05 Aug 2008, 6:32 p.m.
This is true but you don’t have the humidity either. It’s a “pick your poison” sort of difference I guess! What we both need is our temperature with your humidity.
MjL 06 Aug 2008, 05:27 a.m.
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