Balls and Walnuts
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Generation gap
Jake had to hang out in my office after work yesterday, so he spent his time (as usual) surfing the net. Nope, no games on my computer. One of the float nurses chatted him up. She wanted to know what he was doing.
He was reading mspaintadventures and had the unpleasant task of trying to explain this to someone who probably knows how to google and that’s about it.
“How did that go?” I asked him later.
“Not well.” (The kid is a stickler for proper usage of “good” versus “well.” I have trained him good 😉 ). “How do you explain something that’s a serial cartoon satirizing text adventures?”
“To someone who doesn’t know what a text adventure is?”
“Right.”
“Whereupon you told her, ‘You know, like Zork,’ and she met that with a blank stare.”
He narrowed his eyes at me. “Were you listening in?”
I wasn’t. Really!
D.
