Generation gap? Are we getting old or what?

[NYlakesider]

I sort of do a cross between cursive and printing. Its more or less readable.

FWIW I have been told that my scribbling is right up there in league with doctors that write prescriptions. In fact I was told my writing was so bad I should be famous cardiologist or brain surgeon.

long live the typewriter/compute keyboard!

 

[Skeet 028]

I went to a Pizza Ranch yesterday and I did a Faulkner to the maybe 20 something gal that kept our table clean. It' a serve your self place otherwise. She actually offered it back to me thinking it was like a 3 dollar bill...a joke. When I told her it was real money she said really? and had to show it to another "waitress"...I'm getting down on 2dollar bills now...maybe about 30 left I hit a double at a race track for 760 bucks years ago. I tool the cash in 6 hundreds and the rest 2 dollar bills. They had a big stack of them. Never went back to a track again...

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

My experience with the fast food chains-in my area, McDonald's, Burger King and the supermarkets is they do a pretty good job of training people, several times I have dealt with a new hire wearing a badge that says "Trainee" with an instructor next to them, when I get a cashier with a trainee's badge who is working solo I show them all courtesies.

 

[tinkerer]

Just think - Awhile back many of us were the "younger generation"...

And with a bit of thought, I could recite the color codes for resistors and capacitors...

And the B+ voltage for vacuum tubes...Along with the 5 grids and bias voltages...

I do know how to set points with a matchbook cover...

Things change...

 

[MaricopaKid]

Just think - Awhile back many of us were the "younger generation"...

And with a bit of thought, I could recite the color codes for resistors and capacitors...

And the B+ voltage for vacuum tubes...Along with the 5 grids and bias voltages...

I do know how to set points with a matchbook cover...

Things change...

I only remember basic electronics because "Bad boys rape our young girls".

 

[ZGrand]

At lunch today, after I paid cash for the pizza and drinks, my change was 37 cents. The young girl running the register, with a drawer full of all denominations of change, gave me 3 dimes and 7 pennies. I started to say something, but I knew it would be a waste of breath.

At least the pizza was good.

You received 37¢. I fail to see the problem.

I was commenting on the math - not the change.

 

[Skeet 028]

I was commenting on the math - not the change.

Well 10 coins rather than the quarter dime and 2 pennies I would have given. When that gal tried to give me the 2 dollar bill back...when she left a younger than me fellow said to me...laughing...I'll bet she can't write her name in cursive either. Speaking of which...is a printed name considered a signature?? Many years ago I did taxes for uneducated people that could neither read or write ...I had to witness them making their mark...usually an X...but I had one lady that just made a check mark. It was not unusual for people not being able to read or write. I had a friend who had been in the army serving in VN...my age that could not read or write. Great welder though.

 

[MJK-MOD-547]

I don't know anyone who, after high school, continued to use cursive. It isn't necessary to communicate. All the important historical documents written in longhand have been transferred to block type. Your legally recognized signature can be almost any scribble you like.

Every cash register and smartphone has a sophisticated calculator built in so making change is not a problem.

My grandfather told my dad that he and his generation were doomed to failure. My dad condemned me to the same fate. I have yet to spew that bilge to my children or grandchildren. They are doing fine, thank you.

When the power is off that gen is toast!

 

[Ματθιας]

My parents are in their 90's, dunno what gen that is. I'm a boomer and my kids are genXers. We are ALL the same. Why? Because we all grew up in the same family and the morals and responsibilities and values were all handed down, and respected by successive generations.

My take on why the X's and Z's and whatever are different is because (some of) the Boomers didn't do a very good job.

Your folks are Silent Generation.

My parents are/were Silent Generation, too. I'm a GenXer - I was adopted, there's 40+ year gap between us. There was a HUGE generation gap. They didn't understand me, and I didn't understand them. It took until I got into my 30's that I began to understand what they were all about and they, me. We're very different people.

I freely admit that I don't relate to the younger GenZers. What they say and how they look a life is foreign to me. I'm sure they think the same of me.

 

[Rustyt1953]

When the power is off that gen is toast!

That is a last resort failed argument.

 

[Muley Gil]

I recall a WWI vet using me as an example of youthful ignorance when I couldn't recite the firing order of a Model T. It's all relative. If he'd asked for a Buick V8 I'd have nailed it.

Buick has V8s now!!?? My 1952 Super had a OHV straight eight!

 

[sigp220.45]

I haven’t paid cash for anything in ten years.

The sooner its gone, the better.

 

[old tanker]

I don't know anyone who, after high school, continued to use cursive...

I took pride in my handwriting. For decades I made logbook entries in cursive with a fountain pen and permanent blue-black ink. I meant for them to be legible until the paper fell apart.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I haven’t paid cash for anything in ten years.

The sooner its gone, the better.

About the only things we use cash for are the shopping cart at ALDI, valet parking at the medical complex and JR's claw machine addiction.

Heck, even Mister Softee takes plastic.

 

[paplinker]

I haven’t paid cash for anything in ten years.

The sooner its gone, the better.

I get great deals for paying cash. Do it all the time.

Not even sure how no cash would go at the gun show.

 

[Krogen]

Your folks are Silent Generation.

My parents are/were Silent Generation, too. I'm a GenXer - I was adopted, there's 40+ year gap between us. There was a HUGE generation gap. They didn't understand me, and I didn't understand them. It took until I got into my 30's that I began to understand what they were all about and they, me. We're very different people.

I freely admit that I don't relate to the younger GenZers. What they say and how they look a life is foreign to me. I'm sure they think the same of me.

I took the liberty of highlighting, what I consider, to be a key part of your post. Not being critical, but it illuminates one of the things I cherish about the gun clubs I belong to. We have people of all walks of life and backgrounds. Ages are all over the map. With a common interest, there's a connection that bridges this so-called generation gap. It's like one big, happy yet quasi-dysfunctional family. By and large, we respect each other and get along despite our multitude of quirks. There's a bond that unites us regardless of our perspectives. I think it just points out that we are really more alike than different.

 

[Skeet 028]

Makes absolutely no sense to use a credit/debit card for a soft drink or say a candybar purchase. I pay cash for guns and usually ammo and reloading. I wrote in cursive legal reports when in the FD. And medical reports as a paramedic. I am proud to be able to sign my name when necessary. I don't scribble and I am proud of my education. I don't choose to ignore what I have learned. If you choose to ignore the lessons you have learned...you wasted your and the teacher's time. I am also proud to know direction NESW without a phone. I also taught my children and grandchildren what I know. My grand daughter knew at age 8 how to make change...without a calculator...something that the average 20 year old these days seem incapable of. To say these things are not important shows no sense of accomplishment

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Skeet 028]

Rusty...since it seems important to you...explain the concept. I learned grammar and spelling while I was learning to write. I was surprised by my former 11th and 12th grade English teacher(not one of my fav teachers) many years after when talking of my daughter's studies. He was lamenting the fact that cursive was said to no longer be necessary. He also said grammar and esp spelling was not thought to be too important any longer. I asked him why he felt it was turning out that way... His answer?? It was no longer important to the teachers organizations and boiled down that the teachers didn't want to do the work any longer....and the parents didn't care. School kid's these days can't seem to start a sentence. with out the words So or Uhhh and Uhm ya know? I don't get it all right and I know that not everything we did in the past was important. I didn't need the trig and Calculus. I've forgotten other things I didn't really use too. I asked a 16 year old...Who won the civil war?..his answer?? We did he said. I asked who we beat...and he said the bad guys. Not in those exact words...but close enough. a 16 year old football star basically uneducated...for no reason other than for him...it didn't matter or wasn't necessary. Makes me cringe when I hear a 20 year old exclaim...Awesome!... when I answer a simple question....So
uhhh uhmm makes me feel so special

 

[waffles]

The cursive argument is always wild to me. We have people all over the world arguing on their phones or computers that teachers should be forced to spend dwindling class time on a second form of handwriting, designed to be more efficient and faster than printing after that's been long supplanted by the same gadgets they're typing out their arguments on.