"During a recent volunteer situation on a college campus I and another retired friend were not communicating very well with the students. After awhile one of the self-important college students took it upon himself to explain to us why it was impossible for our older generation to understand his younger generation.

"You grew up in a different, actually almost primitive, world," the student said in a condescending manner that was loud enough for most people to hear. I was somewhat surprised and did not know how to respond. The student continued, "We young people today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We even have nuclear energy, electric hybrid cars, rapid communications, computers that process at the speed of light ..... and uh.."

Taking advantage of the pause in the student's outburst, my wise friend calmly said, "You're right son. We didn't have any of those things when we were young so our generation invented them. You arrogant little twerp, what are you doing for the next generation??""