I pulled into the crowded parking lot at the local shopping centre and rolled down the car windows to make sure my Labrador Retriever Pup had fresh air.
She was stretched full-out on the back seat and I wanted to impress upon her that she must remain there.
I walked to the curb backward, pointing my finger at the car and saying emphatically,
"Now you stay. Do you hear me?" "Stay! Stay!"
The driver of a nearby car, a pretty young blonde, gave me a strange look and said, (this is going to hurt read on)
"Why don't you just put the handbrake on?"..................................
...............Okay so the above story is a made up one that my cousin e-mailed to me, however...it brought to mind, a real life example of how times change. A co-worker came back to work after our lunch break. He'd gone to the commissary and then stopped by the gas station to fill up his car. There was a young girl there having trouble at the pump next to him. He noticed and asked her what the problem was, she said that the credit card reader was broken. That's when he noticed that she was inserting it backwards. She was thinking only of the "chip" on the card, but the pumps at our gas station on base are older and use the magnetic strip on the back to "read" the info on the card. Funny thing is, is that there are stickers or signs right next the the credit card slot that illustrate the orientation based on the dark strip on the back of your card. .........Here's another sort of similar thing. One of our daughters came home from school (this was last year when she was a senior and it was just before graduation so she would have been 17)--(she's always pointing out how that "since you're a boomer and old that's why I'm wrong or don't understand") Anyway, she came home one day and asked me to show her how I would signal that there was a phone call by using my hands or hand (not words), so I instinctively raised my right fist to the side of my head with my pinky finger extending towards my mouth & my thumb extended towards my ear. She quickly jumped my shit saying "See!! That proves your old because everybody now holds their hand up like this" and she raised her hand up to the side of her face with her palm pointing towards her cheek & her thumb opposite her four fingers kind of in a "C", as if she were holding a smart phone. Sooo....she's kind of right , I am older and times have changed but the whole "you don't understand - this or that--or I'm intolerant because I'm old" is horseshit.

Dang it, that turned into a bunch of key strokes didn't it!! I'll try and stick to just the joke , in the future. Cj