Generations

Yesterday it hit me, the generation gap spread its wings and I felt officially old.  Jack Kevorkian died and I put what I thought was a funny status on my face book page.  My comment was Jack Kevorkian died at 83, Final stats, zero points, zero rebounds, 130 assist.  In my warped mind I thought it was funny, but I realized yesterday that a lot of people that are young or in this generation have no idea who he is or was  I have  two of my Lieuntents (average age 24) that had no idea who I was talking about, One of them thought he was a basketball player after what I wrote.  No he was not a basketball player and frankly it amazed me that Jack was such a big deal back in the day.  I started wondering what else they (The Lts) did not know or were not aware of. I asked them who Susan Day was, one of them said she started in LA Law, the TV Show, I did not have the strength to tell them about the Partridge Family.  I remember a couple of years ago I was training this 2^nd LT and I told him to grab the carbon paper, make some copies of something and I would be back in about 30 minutes.  When I got back I noticed he had not started. He looked very defeated and I asked what was wrong.  He did not know what carbon paper was!  He had never used it.  I had to change my training method to make him understand, but in the back of my mind I was thinking what an idiot.  I realized that he was not the idiot, I was!  I guess I felt I was stuck in a time warp!  I have no clue on the new technologies out.  I called my daughter the other day and my grandson was in the back yelling he wanted his DS.  I actually had to ask what that was.  It was the Nintendo DS game system but good old Ron had no clue.  I thought I was doing pretty well with getting a Nano IPod for myself. I went to Verizon last week and I had a guy try to sell me one of those smart phones.  I just wanted a phone I could call and text, don’t think I need something with Apps.  Yes it hit me yesterday, Next time you are getting discouraged communicating with your kids or younger people remember this.  That is why they call it generations!  We or they are not supposed to understand what we are talking about.  It would help but we usually just get a deer in the headlight look!  Until next time.