Generational Change Gifts

'Kids today!'

"Right now, grandmom's bark is definitely worse than her bite!"

"Nice haircut."

"Grandpa, how did you ever survive without apps?"

"I had a great weekend... My Grandpa talked about the war again and my Dad about his most daring facebook comments!"

Pre-Old Blues

'Beware of the teenager.'

"1972: Kim and Doug invited us to their key party... Sounds groovy! 2017: We just got an evite from Kim and Doug to join them on an ayahuasca retreat in Peru... Tommy starts hockey and my father is about to die—no way."

In the not too distant future... "It's a tribal butterfly tramp stamp, honey. Same as yours."

"1971... 2015..."

"Date of birth?" "1989." "In 1989 I couldn't make ice... still can't." "Good lord, she could be my daughter! I'm so #!@* old." "That's the year my wife left me. Now I have a cold and I'm depressed!"

"Gramps, you were alive before everyone knew what you were doing on social media... What was that called?" "Bliss!"

Bubbies and technology

"It's called a mobile... but I've been here an hour and have yet to see it move."

The Ageing Process.

'...and so begins the generation gap.'

"We invented your hair."

T-shirts read: 'Rock against racism' ; 'Classical against antisocial behaviour'

"From rocker to rocker."

"I suppose in your day, you would have called these, 'radio dinners'."

When I was your age, I had to walk five miles through snow to skip school.

"I'm glad you boys let me come along with you...it's nice to see how you kids live life! I mean, with youth on your side, I'm sure you live every moment to the fullest!"

"How long do you think it'll take before he realizes I took his phone away?"

'A few years ago that wouldn't have even sounded like a sentence.'

"I'm Generation Z. Nice to meet you."

"Looks like another case of someone over forty trying to understand Snapchat."

The Crummiest Generation

"Enough with the hard-luck stories about spanking and cursive and appointment television, Dad."

Never Trust Anyone Under Thirty

"In my day men waited till they did some damage to their kidneys before they relieved themselves."

"My dad and I are trading important life skills. He's teaching me how to change the oil in the car."

"My Dad keeps playing the awful originals to my remixes."

'Well, I find it intimidating. I mean, any minute they could fall down completely!'

"No, grandpa...LGBT is not some new kind of bacon, lettuce and tomato snadwich."

"This is a computer problem, Grandpa. I don't think you can help me."