Generational Interactions Gifts

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

"These are my fish cymbalta, otezla, skyrizi, vraylar and stelara!"

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

"Nice haircut."

Pre-Old Blues

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

'Beware of the teenager.'

"1971... 2015..."

"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."

'You may disagree with me now, Son, but when you're 500 years old, you'll understand.'

"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!"

'You're lucky you're just a kid and don't have to worry about things like going out and getting a job when you're supposed to be retired.'

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

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

The Ageing Process.

"Don't tell grandmom about your computer's virus. She'll just tell you to download chicken soup."

So this is what civilization has come to at the dawn of the new millennium. Impressive, huh? What are you looking at? Nothing mother! Sigh! How come you get along better with my child than I do? We trade. She shows me all the crucial elements of pop culture. And I show her ... A life without Lady Gaga is still worth living! Phizzz.

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

Contest time. Mort and Sadie, our ornery octogenarians, have decided to rename Rudy's generation. Mort favors Generation I - for impatient. Sadie prefers Generation V - for virtual. Or vapid! What do you think? Please send your own ideas to asksadieshow@gmail.com. C'mon people, get thinkin'!

"Too bad we only see each other when we're hungry! I know! Let's go on a date, a real date!"

"Tell us another story where you interject with a reminder that nobody had cell phones then."

'I spent lots of time on line when I was your age... hanging clothes in the back yard!'

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

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

'Glastonbury? You've been up to no good in some young man's bedsit, haven't you! Mud sticks, y'know.'

"Grandpa, how old were you when you learned how to velcro your sneakers?"

'Sorry, I only do traditional handshakes.'

Old Ringed Planet: '( Humph! ) Teenagers.'

"I worry about Gramma. What if I decide to have kids when I grow up? Will she still be there to raise them?"

Cup of tea. You always order that. Why not try something else? Because unlike you and your entire generation, I don

Generation-I. Generation-V. What're you old folks doing? Renaming your generation. I'm thinking Generation I - 'cause you're living virtual lives. Where'd he go? Got bored after 10 seconds and left to send an instant message to someone across the room.

Bring Grandpa to Work Day: 'I'm just sayin', that' s not the way we did it in my day!'

Who is that teenager giving an interview in an old t-shirt and jeans? The guy who founded Facebook. He's way cool! Too cool to put on a shirt? Look on the bright side, Nana. Even I can dress like a billionaire!

"You know the employees are getting younger when they give a lecture on the dangers of acne."