Carl Tyler's Blog

1 - Hell, #6 is worse when the parents are the same age as you or younger. LOL.

How about:

"What's DOS?"
"They can't imagine a world where 1MB of RAM cost $85"
"To them, PINE and GOPHER are a kind of tree and a killer of golf courses"
"They don't know how to work the TV if they can't find the remote."

Sean---

2 - Well, here's another from my kids - doesn't really fit on the list.

I was watching Citizen Kane a few weeks back. One of my younger kids came in the room, looked at the TV, then turned to me.

"Dad, the TV's broken, don't you see it?"

"How is it broken, son?"

"All the color is gone!!"

I had to explain to him that color was relatively new. He didn't get it - he thought it was harder to make a black and white show than color, since everyone is in color to begin with.

Rock

3 - ** Your intern says you look "Stupid Dope", with a smile. You begin termination paperwork, not knowing it was a compliment.

** Your intern thinks the recent showing of Battlestar Galactica was the original.

** Your intern doesn't believe you when you tell him that women used to swoon for Mick Jagger. Or that Keith Richards actually used to be alive.

Those are a few that came to mind

Rock

4 - Another one from the kids department (soon they'll be interns), a few months ago a friend borroed my car and I was using his VERY old truck. I had my daughter in the front seat and we drove up beside some friends of hers and I told her to roll down the window to which she replied she couldn't because there was not button. I literally spent 5 minutes telling her to use the handle to "roll" down the window and she didn't have a clue what I was talking about !!!

Neil

5 - Trailing off of Rock's theme.....

** Your intern thinks the recent movie of Dukes of Hazzard was the original.

** Your intern thinks the recent Gilligan's Island reality show was the original.

Ok, I guess we could go on for quite a while on 'remakes'.

6 - This wasn't an intern. It was an employee, one year out of college, so about 22-23 years old. It was winter in NH, and it started snowing hard in the early morning. I got on the road early, and although I had one of the longer commutes and it was a pretty brutal drive with a lot of wind and the plows were not keeping up with the snow fall and drifts, but I made it into the office before anyone else. About ten minutes later, I hear someone come in. Our young employee had apparently had a very difficult time with her relatively short commute, but she had made it in. She comes into my office a few minutes later, and here's what she said: "Richard, can I ask you a 'Dad' question? How do you drive on snow? Nobody ever taught me what to do."

Technically, yeah, I was 39 (really), so old enough to be her dad... but just barely.

-rich