Generation Gap
 

At work this morning and of course being Monday we talk about the weekend. So I mention that I watched an Old Hitchcock movie I hadn't seen in years. As a fan of Hitchcock, it's one of my favorites.

I tell them that I watched the movie "Marnie" last night and they look at me like I have 2 heads. None of them had ever heard of it. Granted, at 59, I'm the oldest person in our company but am I that old? :cryin2:

You sure are----NEXT.

Why are you still working at 59? :loco:

You should be retired and enjoying the good life!

It's all about The Walking Dead right now.

Sounds like when our college age Associates didn't know who
Paul Newman was.

Then one of them asked "oh, is he the guy on the McDonalds
salad dressing?"

I work in a department of 13 nurses with 12 including me ranging in ages from 55-71. Nurse #13 is age 35 and feels as you do except in reverse. The 71 year old can run circles around most of us, and she was just honored for 50 years of service and has no intentions of retiring anytime soon. Age is really just a number.

The last time I worked in the high school library a freshman girl pointed at the contraption on my assistants desk and asked "What is that?". Ann said "It's called a typewriter".

[she still had one for PO's]

My cousin's nine year old son needed his bike tire pumped up on a recent camping trip. I handed him one of these...

http://loofu.en.ecplaza.net/main.jpg

He stared at it for a while and asked, "How do you turn it on?"

that's perfect :)

I was the guy who monitored detention for 36 years. My routine speech began "We get out at a quarter to three............". At some point I changed it to 2:45 so everyone would know what I was talking about.

Not long ago I was reading a movie review for Silence of the Lambs and they wrote, "this movie is old but it's still good, I think it came out around 1990".

How many of the "next generation" think the Beatles were John Lennon's back-up group? Sort of like Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas...

A few years before I retired, I joined a project team responsible for installing an electronic medical record system (all the software and computers) in the hospital where I worked.

One of my tasks was to identify the location in each hospital patient room where an articulated arm would be installed - one holding the computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse. This meant I had to physically visit each patient room - about 200 of them - and mark a spot on the wall for installers who came later.

Most rooms were occupied when I arrived, so I would knock on the door and say, "Pardon me. I'm a computer guy. I need to look at the wall over there."

I will never forget the response from one patient (mid-30s) who was sitting up in the bed: "Aren't you supposed to be 19?"

About 20 years ago Pat Boone was advertised as coming to town at a dinner theater. I was manic, so excited I could hardly contain it as I worried to my coworkers that I might not be able to get tickets. After I got tickets and went in to work rejoicing the six girls in the surrounding desks said they just had one question for me...and you TOTV are way ahead of me...that's right, the question was "who is Pat Boone?"

Good enough for Readers Digest!