Last night while having dinner with the subjects we had some interesting conversation. Dinner was roasted chicken and baked potatoes for everyone except DP and Jr. They had sandwiches. DP had a grilled cheese sandwich, while Jr had a ham and cheese. No one eats until we are all at the table and reading to eat. So Jr pipes up before we are all there, that he needs to eat a bite of his sandwich to check to see if it is poisoned. Funny thing is he made his own sandwich. I should have known then that dinner was going to be odd. I asked Lu if she had any homework. To which she replied that she didn't know. At that point I became an old man and said "back in my day, we had to do this thing called write it down and thus when asked if we had homework, we were able to remember if we had written anything down that day". She replied with some voodoo pre-teen comment that got me confused. Any way about five minutes later, she stated that "have you ever noticed that "back in our day" is used a lot by people". Without a reply she then asked some obscure question. To which I replied "they have this thing called Google where you can just type in the question and get the answer. Back in my day, Google was a set of encyclopedias that were ten years out of date because we were too poor to buy new ones". SuperMom then added that they had a set but bought them one per month. so when she had a project like on Presidents, she picked Adams or Carter or someone else in the few books she had at the time. I said, I couldn't do Carter, because my set was before he was president. Lu of course thought this was hilarious. However, SuperMom added that the salesman that sold them their set was very good and did what he called a magic trick with the Atlas. He showed her how you can look up the place in the encyclopedias and it gave you the coordinates and then you could find it on the Atlas. Without blinking, Lu replied "Is that a magic trick for dummies?". Now I think that is hilarious. Oh well the problems of the pre-information highway no smart phone generation.
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